MEKONS DUB REMIX ALBUM HORRORble (MEKONS VS. TONY MAIMONE IN DUB CONFERENCE) OUT TODAY FROM FIRE RECORDS

Advance and Upcoming Press Set for HORRORble in Diverse Outlets Like The Guardian, TalkshopLive, The Vinyl Guide, Record Store Day Podcast, Outside Left, Magnet, WXPN and Others

Currently in the Midst of a U.S. Tour, mekons Will Be in the U.K. in October with European Dates to be Confirmed

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOS ANGELES, CA & LONDON (FRIDAY JUNE 5, 2026). – Legendary post punk band mekons announced today that their new album HORRORble (mekons Vs. Tony Maimone In Dub Conference) by Pere Ubu’s Tony Maimone via Fire Records is out today on 2xCD, white vinyl and digital configurations and can be ordered here.

Press for the new mekons album, which comes on the heels of 2025’s HORROR, has been varied with confirmed press in print, podcasts, radio and online outlets. These include The Guardian, TalkShopLive, Outside Left, Brooklyn Vegan, The Vinyl Guide, WXPN (which airs an interview and live acoustic set today) as well as upcoming coverage in the Record Store Day Podcast, Magnet, The Big Takeover, R2, The Wire, Midland Rocks, The Creative Asylum podcast, Second Scene, the Watt from Pedro Show, Revolutions Per Movie podcast and NPR affiliates: KMUW, WRUW & WUOB among others.

In support of the new HORRORble (mekons Vs. Tony Maimone In Dub Conference) album, mekons are currently on the road in the United States. The tour began May 30 in Chicago for their mekons Over America tour and continues through the middle of the month. U.S. and U.K dates below with more to be added:

United States:

6/05: Latvian Society, Philadelphia, PA.

6/06: Mercury Lounge, New York, NY. (Two Sets)

6/07: Old Franklin Schoolhouse, Metuchen, NJ. (Two Sets)

6/09: Bearsville Theater, Woodstock, NY. (w/ The Sadies)

6/10: Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA. 

6/11: SPACE, Portland, ME.

6/12: Sinclair, Cambridge, MA. (w/ The Sadies)

6/13 Swamp Stomp, West Kingston, RI (w/ The Sadies)

Europe:

10/16/17/18 @ Mekonville Festival, Portmeirion, Wales UK

10/23 @ The Garage, London UK

*Additional shows to be added

Formed in Leeds U.K. long, long ago in the olden days of ye punke the good ship mekon has sailed the seven seas of musical mishaps releasing 40 or 50 albums and countless singles on one fantastic record label after another. The mekons maintain a collective approach to their art. They are not beholden to the whims and niceties of fashion or even nice sounding tunes – they do what they want to do and mostly have a good time doing it and encourage you to have a good time too. With band members currently spread thinly across the imperial core they are planning to relocate to Greenland in 2027. Back in the day ‘The personal is political’ was their motto and while that still holds true it morphed into ‘The political is political’ Now along with everyone else it’s: ’organize and resist’.

While mixing and editing the batch of tunes that became HORROR (2025), mekons had a feeling they might have some sort of secret double life. So much potential, so many layers and forks in the road, so many split decisions that could’ve gone either way. Tony Maiimone was the man to get his tools out and see what lurked beneath the hood and make it truly HORRORble. 

So how did HORRORble (mekons Vs. Tony Maimone  In Dub Conference) come about? Well, according to the mekons….”We first met Tony Maimone when we opened for Cleveland’s darkest art rockers Pere Ubu on a long, weird tour of the UK tour in 1988. By 1991 he was somehow playing bass for a newly fractured mekons on a longer weirder tour of Europe bashing out songs from the Curse album which never saw the light of day in the US – we’d been freshly dumped by our US label A&M.”

Today, asteroids are falling in between the blows of the policeman’s truncheon. “Before the Ice Age” which opens HORRORble, Tony Maimone’s reimagining of the mekons’ HORROR album and features a brutally honest commentary on the current state of human affairs whispered into your ear by mekons vocalist Sally Timms.

HORRORble (mekons Vs. Tony Maimone In Dub Conference)

1. Before The Ice Age (Version)
2. Sad and Sad and Sad (Version)
3. War Economy (Version)
4. A Horse Has Escaped (Version)
5. The Western Design (Version)
6. Glasgow (Version)
7. You’re Not Singing Anymore (Version)
8. Private Defense Contractor (Version)
9. Sanctuary (Version)
10. Surrender (Version)
11. Mudcrawlers Ft. Benjo Webbe (Version)
12. Fallen leaves (Version)
13. Dub Crawlers (Version) (Bonus track)

mekons are Jon Langford, Sally Timms, Tom Greenhalgh, Dave Trumfio, Susie Honeyman, Rico Bell, Steve Goulding, and Lu Edmonds.

About the mekons

mekons, formed in 1977 Leeds, England, have an improbable history – a surprising & influential embrace of folk & country music; with occasional forays into the art world. They work collaboratively & collectively with everything credited to the band, never to individuals. Their mind-boggling output blurs the lines between high & low art while remaining bold, unpredictable & true to the punk ethos.

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Photo Courtesy of mekons