{"id":940,"date":"2019-04-13T07:05:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T06:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/?p=940"},"modified":"2021-08-19T19:56:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T18:56:51","slug":"mekons-calgary-folk-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Mekons @ Calgary Folk Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Truly a nice read. So I thought you <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"should have it (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.calgaryfolkfest.com\/festival\/artist\/mekons?\" target=\"_blank\">should have <\/a>it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unbound. Unfound, though not for lack of trying. After all, this is the band that gave high-priest critics like Greil Marcus (\u201cthey still play as if they are discovering their music\u201d) and Lester Bangs (\u201cthe most revolutionary group in the history of rock and roll\u201d) wet dreams.<br> Formed in 1977 as a self-described art project by Leeds university students, the Mekons suckled punk\u2019s nipple while members stumbled in and out of the collective, taking winking jabs at the bands like The Clash while dancing on, and often tripping over, sumptuous chaos. Following their hearts rather than trends with members dispersed across continents, they drank mescal dreams of Hank Williams, took day jobs and bought third-hand touring vans to create a whole damn mud, spit and dirt superhighway, which major label deals unsuccessfully tried to pave. The Mekons\u2019 bottomless rampancy is occasionally acknowledged by the mainstream, like when the documentary Revenge of The Mekons was worshipped by big media outlets in 2013, or when one of their oldest songs \u201cWhere Were You?\u201d turned up in a car commercial in 2016.<br> Many of their catchy, anthemic songs sound like natural-born hits, but they spring from a band that doesn\u2019t follow formulas or colour inside the lines \u2014 they do whatever they want, following a thread of passion, humour and love of the underdog. Flowing from rousing, can\u2019t-shut-my-mouth sing-along choruses to spare and emotional musical moments in a single verse, the Mekons go wherever they want in their quest to uncover the prosaic poetry of our lives. Do yourself a favour \u2014 go with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truly a nice read. So I thought you should have it Unbound. Unfound, though not for lack of trying. After<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}