‘Bowie compared us to T Rex. Couldn’t get any better’ : the Mekons on how they made Where Were You ?

‘It’s about loneliness, really. It was the total opposite of that “It’s Friday night, let’s have sex” macho mentality that was in most rock music at the time’ Most of the people who started the Mekons and Gang of Four were on the same fine art course at Leeds University. In December 1976 we went (…)