Mini-Mekons / Hammered Hulls

An Evening With Mini-Mekons and Hammered Hulls

Start the night out with Mini-Mekons AKA Timms Langford Overdrive, a highly compact and mobile slice of the venerable Leeds UK year zero punk band Mekons. A coalition of the willing and available; its line-up can be fluid but in this case it is not. Sally Timms and Jon Langford (Mekon lifers) are joined by John Szymanski and Martin "BLUESHAMMER" Billheimer for a set of acoustic Mekon material and much more.

Next we will transition into Hammered Hulls, a new(ish) band of long-time players. Hammered Hulls’ music hews close to some of their early influences. Alec MacKaye (Faith Ignition Warmers) is the voice, Mark Cisneros (Des Demonas Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds The Make-Up) is the guitarist, Brendan Canty (Fugazi Rites of Spring Messthetics) is on bass, and Chris Wilson (Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Titus Andronicus Open City) commands the drums. Each of them brings their individual imprint to the total sound. This concussion of strength upon strength, unified by vulnerable songs, only barely contained, is the signature sound of Hammered Hulls.