{"id":2235,"date":"2009-04-06T00:04:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T23:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2009-04-06T00:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T23:53:00","slug":"happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative TV – Deptford City Fun Records – 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Release The Natives \/ Serpentine Gallery \/ Poor Association \/ The Radio Story \/ Facing Up To The Facts<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0The Good Missionary \/ Graves Of Delux Green \/ Smile In The Day<\/a><\/p>\n

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Uploaded today is Alternative TV\u2019s\u00a0moody and atmospheric\u00a0second LP, which I\u00a0think\u00a0is rather wonderful\u00a0and is\u00a0dedicated to Mark Wilson, late of The Mob whose birthday it is today.\u00a0Happy birthday to him.<\/p>\n

Photo above showing Mark Wilson in his favoured \u2018Vibing Up The Senile Man\u2019 shirt performing with The Mob at Meanwhile Gardens in 1983. Photo\u00a0from\u00a0Mark Palmer collection.<\/p>\n

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Mark and Claire Wilson \u2013 Photo from Claire Wilson collection<\/p>\n

In a strange twist of fate, not only does the Alternative TV \u2018Vibing Up The Senile Man\u2019\u00a0artwork share similarities with the artwork on The Mob\u2019s \u2018Let The Tribe Increase\u2019 LP, but the official remastered re-release CD of \u2018Let The Tribe Increase\u2019 is available in stores (and\u00a0via Overground Records) from today.\u00a0 A day\u00a0which, as I have just mentioned, just happens to be the writer, guitarist\u00a0and vocalist birthday. This release date was certainly not planned by the record label to coincide with Mark\u2019s birthday. The label had no idea!\u00a0The release date\u00a0for this excellent CD is a very nice coincidence\u2026Great stuff.<\/p>\n

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THE MOB
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\n\u2018Let The Tribe Increase\u2019<\/p>\n

14 track CD: 49 minutes:<\/p>\n

Label: Overground<\/p>\n

Cat. No. OVER 122VP CD<\/p>\n

Barcode: 604388719020<\/p>\n

Release Date: 6th April 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

In many ways The Mob were the archetypal anarcho punk band. Formed in Yeovil, Somerset in 1979 the band soon spent their time permanently on the road in a convoy of trucks before squatting in Brougham Road, Hackney \u2013 a street of houses that accommodated many punk and counter-culture types. Until their demise in 1983 they remained an integral part and a huge influence on the anarcho, traveller and free festival scenes.<\/p>\n

Their first release was the 1979 \u2018Crying Again\u2019 single on their own All The Madmen label. 1980 saw another single the hugely popular and haunting \u2018Witch Hunt\u2019, followed later in 1981 by the \u2018Ching\u2019 cassette, soon followed by their now legendary Crass single \u2018No Doves Fly Here\u2019, both taking anarcho punk into new musically unchartered waters.<\/p>\n

1983 saw the release of their now legendary album \u2018Let The Tribe Increase\u2019, an album that saw them moving away from the constraints of the punk sound as they continued to push the musical boundaries. This trend continued in their epic single \u2018The Mirror Breaks\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Mob\u2019s involvement with the counterculture saw them playing gigs with archetypal hippies Here & Now and Androids of Mu as well as being actively involved in the Persons Unknown and Centro Iberico anarchist centres and the Black Sheep Housing Co-operative.<\/p>\n

Eventually The Mob dissolved with Joseph Porter and Curtis founding Blyth Power.<\/p>\n

\u2018Let The Tribe Increase\u2019 includes the full album, both tracks from the \u2018Mirror Breaks\u2019 7\u201d and a previously unheard demo version of \u2018Stay\u2019, all professionally remastered. Packaged in a 12-page booklet it contains a band history and the events that surrounded the recording of the album by Kill Your Pet Puppy fanzine editor Alistair Livingston.<\/p>\n

Track Listing:
\nAnother Day, Another Death\/ Cry Of A Morning\/ Dance On (You Fool)\/ Prison\/ Slayed\/ Our Life Our World\/ Gates Of Hell\/ I Wish\/ Never Understood\/ Roger\/ Witch Hunt\/ Stay (demo)\/ The Mirror Breaks\/ Stay<\/p>\n

Go on, bag yourself\u00a0this classic\u00a0album\u00a0from your local High Street store, Amazon, Play.com or here<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Even more news for this great day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This day\u00a0is not only a day where the new tax year begins, The Mob CD is finally released, and Mark Wilson from that very band has his umpteenth birthday to celebrate.<\/p>\n

This day\u00a0is also the day that my little\u00a0boy Aaron celebrates his very first birthday!<\/p>\n

Happy Birthday (and much hugging) to my special little man for this day also\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Release The Natives \/ Serpentine Gallery \/ Poor Association \/ The Radio Story \/ Facing Up To The Facts \u00a0The Good Missionary \/ Graves Of Delux Green \/ Smile In The Day Uploaded today is Alternative TV\u2019s\u00a0moody and atmospheric\u00a0second LP, which I\u00a0think\u00a0is rather wonderful\u00a0and is\u00a0dedicated to Mark Wilson, late of The Mob whose birthday it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}