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Idiot Strength performance<\/a><\/p>\n The Mob performance part one<\/a><\/p>\n The Mob performance part two<\/a> (track 11 – I Wish is performed after track 15 –\u00a0No Doves Fly Here)<\/p>\n How did this gig come about so suddenly and with no notice to the public? Well…Mark and Leah were contacted by Allison of The Kills two weeks ago. Allison was organising fellow Kills member Jamie Hince’s stag night before he is wed to the Croydon supermodel Kate Moss.\u00a0Allison\u00a0inquired whether Jamie’s favourite ever band and main inspiration in his teenage years\u00a0could perform at a (then unspecified) venue in London. Mark asked the other band members and it was agreed to perform in London at a free party organised by Allison.<\/p>\n Allison got busy organising a suitable venue whilst Leah, Tess, Steve Corr, Mick Lugworm and myself (Penguin) sought out suitable guests to invite. The band had been given permission to invite 150 guests and the logistics should have been a nightmare. Happily though almost all the people invited were old Mob followers who jumped at the opportunity to see this band perform for the first time in London since late on in 1983. The few old faces that unfortunately could not attend were quickly and easily\u00a0replaced with other willing souls.<\/p>\n All the invited guests were asked to\u00a0agree to\u00a0the one demand placed on them for the eventual entrance to this gig. The guests were asked to remain silent about this gig on any blogs, facebook\u00a0or\u00a0any other online forum. After all it was meant to be a surprise\u00a0for the happy groom to be, and no one wanted to spoil the surprise, least of all the organisers! To the joy of everyone involved in setting this event up, this one demand was met with total agreement and was respected throughout.<\/p>\n Below: The guest list for the night, not including Jamie Hince’s entourage of twenty or so.<\/p>\n 1. Mark Wilson<\/p>\n 2. Graham Fallows<\/p>\n 3. Curtis Youe<\/p>\n 4. Leah Wild<\/p>\n 5. Jackie Fallows<\/p>\n 6. Mary Youe<\/p>\n 7. Tess Wilson<\/p>\n 8. Chris Stanley<\/p>\n 9. Mickey Penguin<\/p>\n 10. Steve Corr<\/p>\n 11. Claire Wilson<\/p>\n 12. Rosie Wilson<\/p>\n 13. Madeline Dring<\/p>\n 14. Alex Dring<\/p>\n 15. Nav Sabet<\/p>\n 16. Shane Sealey<\/p>\n 17. Ella Sheehan<\/p>\n 18. Min<\/p>\n 19. Rowan<\/p>\n 20. Phil Ritchie<\/p>\n 21. Jodie<\/p>\n 22. Max<\/p>\n 23. Justine Butler<\/p>\n 24. Marc Adams<\/p>\n 25. Ian Harris (Ebo)<\/p>\n 26. Peter Russel (Lumpy)<\/p>\n 27. Ben Corrigan<\/p>\n 28. Mick Luggy<\/p>\n 29. Bob Buttler<\/p>\n 30. Andy Tuck<\/p>\n 31. Ian Glasper<\/p>\n 32. Andy T<\/p>\n 33. Pid Sensa Yuma<\/p>\n 34. Beki Teeth<\/p>\n 35. Kim Holmes<\/p>\n 36. Bristol Blue<\/p>\n 37. Tony Tsuk<\/p>\n 38. Fran Tsuks<\/p>\n 39. Hugh Murray Marine<\/p>\n 40. Paul Light<\/p>\n 41. Conchita<\/p>\n 42. Duna<\/p>\n 43. Ian<\/p>\n 44. Sid Rubella<\/p>\n 45. Zillah Rubella<\/p>\n 46. Ian Aitch<\/p>\n 47. Shane Dabineti<\/p>\n 48. Chris Low<\/p>\n 49. Romina Loi<\/p>\n 50. Gita Malhotra<\/p>\n 51. Paul Shrapnel<\/p>\n 52. Liz Rowland<\/p>\n 53. Mark Palmer<\/p>\n 54. Micheal Victor<\/p>\n 55. Pauline Victor<\/p>\n 56. Richard Percy<\/p>\n 57. Elaine Seymour<\/p>\n 58. Andy Barker<\/p>\n 59. John Turner<\/p>\n 60. Nick Hydra<\/p>\n 61. Paul Venables<\/p>\n 62. Del Blyben<\/p>\n 63. Jim Wafford<\/p>\n 64. Sean Forbes<\/p>\n 65. Rob Challice<\/p>\n 66. Kate Riddihough<\/p>\n 67. Andrew Rawlings<\/p>\n 68. Tinsal<\/p>\n 69. Tony Woodrow<\/p>\n 70. Pete Alberto<\/p>\n 71. Tony D<\/p>\n 72. Des Hoskins<\/p>\n 73. Jaz Wiseman<\/p>\n 74. Deb Googe<\/p>\n 75. Kath Gifford<\/p>\n 76. Keith Reynolds<\/p>\n 77. Alex Reynolds<\/p>\n 78. Simon Rix<\/p>\n 79. Christine Moeller<\/p>\n 80. Val Drayton<\/p>\n 81. Tex Rockerfella<\/p>\n 82. Rachel<\/p>\n 83. Steve<\/p>\n 84. Gary DIRT<\/p>\n 85. Rona DIRT<\/p>\n 86. Paris<\/p>\n 87. Peter<\/p>\n 88. Lee Dalby<\/p>\n 89. Lee Gibson<\/p>\n 90. Deep Sea Dave<\/p>\n 91. New Zealand Darren<\/p>\n 92. Neil Keenan<\/p>\n 93. Rosy Hayward<\/p>\n 94. Shaun McLoughlin<\/p>\n 95. Neale Williams<\/p>\n 96. Gordan Wilkins<\/p>\n 97. Nick Wilkins<\/p>\n 98. Aithche Smyth<\/p>\n 99. Chris Hunyh<\/p>\n 100. Vicky Ridley<\/p>\n 101. Spencer Kelly<\/p>\n 102. Charles Loft<\/p>\n 103. Stephen Spencer-Fleet<\/p>\n 104. Gayle Colyer<\/p>\n 105. Martin Manners<\/p>\n 106. Shay<\/p>\n 107. Guillaume Ruffat<\/p>\n 108. Marie Berjon<\/p>\n 109. Mark Ripper<\/p>\n 110. Alastair McCaughtrie<\/p>\n 111. Yasuyo Hosoi<\/p>\n 112. Hooch<\/p>\n 113. Simon Hobbs<\/p>\n 114. Satu Salonpaa<\/p>\n 115. Andrea Jameson<\/p>\n 116. Paul Forder<\/p>\n 117. Annie D\u2019arcy<\/p>\n 118. Pete Webb<\/p>\n 119. Grant Showbiz<\/p>\n 120. Ian Moss<\/p>\n 121. Carl Kirton<\/p>\n 122. Mark Astronaut<\/p>\n 123. Kate Riddihough<\/p>\n 124. Ban<\/p>\n 125. Terry Dwyer<\/p>\n 126. Dion Bunting<\/p>\n 127. Spencer Batiste<\/p>\n 128. Janice Tripney<\/p>\n 129. Peck Woodrow<\/p>\n 130. Gail Thibert<\/p>\n 131. Cheryl Barclay<\/p>\n 141. Harry<\/p>\n 142. Karen Lack Of Knowledge<\/p>\n 143. Boo Dendy<\/p>\n 144. Chris Mortimer<\/p>\n 145. Tom Fallows<\/p>\n 146. Sylviane Decroliere<\/p>\n 148. Geoff Collis<\/p>\n 148. Giff<\/p>\n 149. Laverne<\/p>\n 150. Shaun<\/p>\n Allison found a venue, The Macbeth in deepest Hoxton, East London,\u00a0and with the date of the stag night coming up fast, The Kills on their short tour\u00a0entered Bristol to perform a gig there. Mark, Steve Corr and Leah plus assorted family members all went along to the gig and managed to speak to Jamie afterwards. Steve Corr was Jamie’s band mate in the third line up of Blyth Power, a band with strong Mob connections,\u00a0 so he knew Jamie well. This was the excuse to introduce Mark from The Mob to Jamie. Jamie was overjoyed on meeting Mark for the first time and the\u00a0night was finished off nicely with no one\u00a0letting on to knowing \u00a0anything about a party a couple of days later. It must have been a strange moment as Allison had obviously been in touch via the phone and via email several times a day for almost two weeks\u00a0with both Mark and Leah and then had to sit there pretending not to know or care too much about the guests\u00a0backstage that night.<\/p>\n On\u00a0the Saturday morning,\u00a0during one of\u00a0the finest and hottest days of the year so far the various members of the bands performing on the night travelled down from South Wales, Yeovil and Bristol.<\/p>\n The Mob and Idiot Strength arrived at the Macbeth around four in the afternoon, the sound check was completed courtesy of Grant Showbiz and with Harvey, the engineer from the venue.\u00a0Grant Showbiz had been asked to work the mixing desk for The Mob on this hot June night. Grant had engineered the first two singles by The Mob ‘Crying Again’ recorded in 1979 and ‘Witch Hunt’ recorded in 1980. Grant had also done most of the live sound engineering on many of the early gigs performed by the band. The very last time Grant Showbiz would\u00a0have engineered a Mob gig would have been the last time the band had performed at the Meanwhile Gardens all day\u00a0free festival\u00a0in Westbourne Park back in August 1983.<\/p>\n I had lugged\u00a0my superb Denon\u00a0cassette deck all the way from North London to record the performances through the PA, this also was set up through the sound desk with the help of Harvey. The Mob stage banners were placed up and I sorted out the DVDR of KYPP images that were\u00a0now safely inside\u00a0the Macbeth’s DVD player ready to go…A small merchandise stall was also made ready for the guests of this private party. Now all that was needed was the guests.<\/p>\n Around seven thirty, guests had started to arrive, by eight thirty just about all the invited guests were in the pub either at the stage area or up on the outside terrace a floor above happily being reunited in some cases after an absence of thirty years.<\/p>\n Idiot Strength, originally Yeovil based and old Mob followers, started off the night with a brilliant set. I have witnessed this band many times over the years and have always enjoyed the occasions. This performance was no exception. The band started off with ‘Rather Nice Pheasant’, which is one of my favorite songs of the mid 1980’s period. The band only performed six tracks and had only one rehearsal for this gig. They sounded tight enough\u00a0although the tape of this performance I recorded off the desk\u00a0seems to be missing the loud guitar that the spectators of the gig heard front of stage, but never the less a blinding performance by the band and the tape recording is fine, just a little light on the guitar sound.<\/p>\n The Mob milled around the guests throughout the night (some of which had not crossed paths for twenty five or thirty years) until\u00a0Allison phoned through to advise that the first part of Jamie’s stag night was finished, and that Jamie and his entourage were on route from the resturant and heading towards the venue. The resturant part of the evening had overrun by around thirty minutes but none of the crowd were restless as there were too many old faces to reconnect to in the audience. The Mob placed themselves onto the stage ready to start off at the thumbs up signal from Tess on the door.<\/p>\n The thumb went up just after ten and giving a few seconds to ensure Jamie and his entourage were in the pub, The Mob then blasted off with ‘Youth’, Grant Showbiz on the sound desk wrestling with some small feedback issues at the very first few bars of the track. Jamie sussed the\u00a0track immediately and after recognising Mark from the\u00a0Thursday night meeting in Bristol, he then\u00a0realised that this was the real band not just some cover band performing Mob classics! I was next to Grant at the time, pressing the play \/ record button on my tape deck\u00a0and saw Jamie’s overjoyed face around the door way. He let out a\u00a0yelp and went straight down the front and remained there throughout the set. He left\u00a0some of his party to enjoy the band from a distance. Some notables in Jamie’s party were Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream and Mick Jones from The Clash.<\/p>\n The Mob performed one of the best gigs I had ever heard or witnessed. Listening to the tapes above will verify this. Perhaps it was the tiny venue, perhaps the free entry to the guests (donations were gratefully recieved near the front door), perhaps it was the amount of old Mob followers, All The Madmen records operatives, Puppies and other ex squatter types in the audience.\u00a0It was more than likely a blistering combination of all these factors, The Mob relaxed after ‘Youth’ and went onto to ‘What’s Going On’ straight into ‘Shuffling Souls’ not missing a beat, and hitting the absolute minimum of bum notes for the whole set. The performance had energy and power, The Mob were at there absolute best throwing out classic song after classic song…<\/p>\n Jamie sweated\u00a0every last beat of the drum and downward strum of the guitar, all throughout the set.<\/p>\n The Macbeth staff were all helpful and busy. The invited guests came from far and wide to witness The Mob, many tales of travelling were told throughout the night but by far the most cherished in my memory must be Hugh ex of the Brougham Road co op who spent twelve hours hitching from Penzance, I felt slightly ashamed at just coming from north London with my Denon cassette deck in a hessian bag for weight hassle!<\/p>\n After the performance the band milled around upstairs and were in the company of Jamie Hince and some of his entourage including the great Mick Jones from The Clash. The Clash were always a favorite to the members of The Mob, although it must be stated here on KYPP that Mark Mob did give The Clash a little bit of a slag off when he wrote a review of a gig he attended in Plymouth which was published in All The Madmen fanzine number one way back in 1978! This was not mentioned to Mike Jones on the night though…!<\/p>\n I got a big sweaty hug from Jamie before he left to attend the third section of his stag night and he told me that he was absolutely chuffed with the effort that everyone had made to make this second part of his stag night so special. I knew Jamie quite well from the mid to late 1980’s and it was a joy to see him so excited after a couple of decades of not seeing him. I was now in charge of taking a rather drunk Tony D home in a cab with my trusty cassette deck and\u00a0the only audio archive of this magnificent gig on two tapes that I held onto very very tightly throughout the cab ride.<\/p>\n I hope all the guests enjoyed The Mob’s triumphant return to the capital after twenty eight years and the next one of course is with Zounds, The Astronauts and The Hamsters (from Manchester) at the Jamm in Brixton on 18 November 2011. The Mob and these three other bands all went around the country in 1979 and 1980 on the Jonathan Barnett inspired Weird Tales tours. This event in November 2011\u00a0is the first time all these bands have performed together since 1980. Hopefully Grant Showbiz will do the sound for that gig, like he did on the original Weird Tales tours.<\/p>\n The Mob’s support slot at the Steve Ignorant Shepherds Bush Empire on the 19 November 2011 that was going to happen the night after the band’s self promoted gig, has been cancelled due to the ‘well established’ music business rules and regulations written within the contract which The Mob were not comfortable\u00a0with…<\/p>\n Mickey ‘Penguin’<\/strong><\/p>\n Above: Mark Mob, Rosie, Jamie Hince, Mick Jones, Leah, Lee and KYPP’s Tony D after the Mob’s performance (all photographs from Mickey Penguin’s collection)<\/p>\n Thanks to Allison from The Kills for making this performance happen and to Leah and Tess for all the grafting\u00a0that made\u00a0it a success. Good luck to Jamie Hince for the wedding in a few weeks and also for the future from Mickey Penguin and all at KYPP. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Steve Lamacq’s Radio 6 piece on the stag night broadcast on 06\/06\/11<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/225113.jpg\")
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