Archive: The Mekons Tapes

Actually there are no tapes available and never will be (those days are over), but you can download a whole bunch of shows by your fav artists right now, for free.

Thanks to www.archive.org Club Mekon has uploaded 59 great sounding shows and make them available for everybody.

 

Chose your shows! Right now we have online:

MEKONS:
1980-09-xx. Wuppertal, GER
1983-xx-xx, Den Haag NL (?)
1985-09-11, unknown place
1986-06-20, Maxwell's Hoboken
1986-0629 Chicago
1987-03-35 Cubby Bear
1987-04-24 9:30 Club Washington DC
1987-05-01, University of Chicago
1987-05-15 Boston
1987-09-18, Markthalle Hamburg
1988-07-07 Hoboken
1988-07-08 9:30 Club Washington
1988-07-15 Cabaret Metro Chicago
1988-09-15 Berlin Loft, FM radio
1988-11-18 Richmond
1988-11-19, Cabaret Metro Chicago
1989-04-10, Fabrik Hamburg

1989-04-16 Frankfurt Cooky
1989-11-17, 9:30 Club Washington DC
1989-11-28, Nungatuck CT
1989-11-29, Nightstage Cambridge MA
1989-12-01, Knitting Factory NYC
1989-12-02 Metro Chicago

1991-04-24, Rose Club Köln
1991-05-11, Zürich

1992-05-26, Maxwell's Hoboken
1992-06-14, Lounge Ax Chicago
1993-08-27, NYC
1993-11-10, Maxwell's Hoboken
1994-04-22, Lounge Ax Chicago
1994-07-04, Cat's Cradle Carrboro NC
1994-07-22, Lounge Ax Chicago
1994-08-08, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco
1995-10-15, Mercury Lounge New York City
1995-10-17, Maxwell's Hoboken
199-08-26 Loung Ax Chicago
1996-09-03, Schubas Chicago
1997-09-12 Mercury Lounge NYC
1997-09-13, East Orange, NJ, WFMU-FM
1997-09-20, Museum of Contemporary Art, afternoon show with KathyAcker

1997-09-20, Museum of Contemporary Art, evening show
1998-11-03 Baltimore
1998-07-13, Great American Music Hall San Francisco
1998-07-16 Fitzgerald's


2000-03-07, Mohawk Place, Buffalo
2000-03-08 Cambridge Middle East
2000-03-09 Bowery Ballroom
2000-04-18 Middle East Cambridge
2000-07-13 Hideout Chicago
2000-11-10 Spitz London
2000-11-11 Leicester
2000-11-22 Lounge Ax Chicago
2001-04-18 Middle East Cambridge
2001-04-21 Double Door
2001-10-14 Hideout Chicago
2001-10-14 Hideout Chicago, alternative tape

2002-03-04 Fitzgerald's Berwyn
Chicago 25 th anniversary concerts:
2002-09-02 Seattle Bumbershoot Festival
2002-09-12, Fireside Bowl, punk part of the anniversary series
2002-09-13, Chicago Cultural Center, reading in the afternoon
2002-09-13, Abbey Pub Chicago, 80s concert
2002-09-14, Fitzgerald's Berwyn IL, 'last decade'
2002-09-17 XRT FM
2002-09-18 Cambridge
2002-09-19, CBGB's, New York
2002-09-21 Mercury Lounge early show
2002-09-21 Mercury Lounge NYC late show
2002-09-23 Cleveland
2002-11-08, Crossing Border Festival, Melkweg, Oude Zaal
2002-11-08 Crossing Border Festival Filmzaal
2002-11-19 Chelsea Wien
2002-11-23 Borderline London
2003-07-11, Martyr's Chicago
2004-03-12, Bowery Ballroom NYC
2004-03-16, Atlanta
2004-03-21, McCabe's Record Shop, Los Angeles
2004-03-23, Starry Plough Berkely
2004-03-24 Fitzgerald's Berwyn
2004-03-27 Double Door Chicago
2006-08-01 Luminaire London
2006-09-02 Windmill Brixton London
2007-10-03: Gramercy Theater
2007-10-05: Swedish American Hall
2007-10-12: The Hideout
2008-02-15: The Musician
2008-02-16: Hare & Hounds
2008-02-21: St. Bonaventure's Parish Social Club
2008-02-22: Exeter Phoenix
2008-02-23: The Railway
2008-02-24: The 100 Club
2008-02-25: Komedia
2009-04-02 Windmill Brixton
2009-04-03 Bull and Gate London
2009-07-28: Great American Music Hall
2009-07-31: The Bell House
2009-08-01: Mercury Lounge

2002-09-02 KEXP

2010-07-25 Bull & Gate London

2010-08-06: Klangbad Festival, Scheer

2011-05-20 Islington UK
2011-09-30: Swedish American Hall
2011-10-08: City Winery
2011-11-07 Fabrik Hamburg

2011-11-10 Wien Chelsea
2013-05-22: Aces & Eights Saloon Bar
2013-05-24: Korks Wine Bar & Brasserie
2014-08-06: Brudenell Social Club
2014-08-07: Cluny 2
2014-08-13: Jura Hall
2014-08-14: Aros Centre
2014-08-15: Victoria Hall
2014-08-16: Stromness Town Hall
2014-08-17: Gable End Theatre
2014-08-19: Clarks on Lindsay Street
2016-09-17 Horseshow Tavern
2016-09-18 Garrison Common
2016-09-13 Bottom of the hill

2016-09-17 Horseshoe Tavern Toronto soundboatrd
2016-09-17 Horseshoe Tavern Toronto aud
2016-09-18 Fort York
2016-09-19 Hideout Chicago
2016-09-22 Pappy and Harriett's
2016-09-25 Ship in the woods
2016-09-30 Bottom of the hill


2019-04-02 Le Public
2019-04-03 Brudenell Club
2019-04-04 Patterns
2019-04-05 100 Club
2019-04-07 Musik und Frieden Berlin
2019-07-12 Hideout Chicago
2019-07-18 Philadelphia




The following lists will be updated soon. In the meantoime got archive.org and look around all by youirself.

JON LANGFORD:


1996-05-10, with friends, Lounge Ax Chicago, Lounge Ax Benefit
1997-08-07, Newport Kentucky, solo
1999-03-21, Jon Langford & Pine Valley Cosmonauts, La Zona Rosa Austin SXWS, Bob Wills tribuite cd performance
2000-01-01, Chicago (actually it's a mix from some kids shows Jon did)
2003-07-11, Martyrs Chicago
2003-12-05, with Ship and Pilot @ Southpaw, Brooklyn NY
2004-04-23, Starry Plough
2004-10-15, Southpaw (with Ship and Pilot)
2005-02-03, Fitzgerald's
2005-02-25, Joe's Pub
2005-04-15, Magnet Theatre
2005-06-05, Maxwell's

WACO BROTHERS:
1997-03-01, World Cafe (via Bad Livers!)
1999-05-25, Middle Earth Cambridge
2001-02-03, Abbey Pub, Chicago
2001-12-31, Metro Chicago
2003-01-23, Abbey Pub Chicago
2003-03-16, Mother Egan's
2004-07-04, Fitzgerald's
2005-03-16, Hideout

RICO BELL:
San Francisco Cafe du Nord, 31-07-2000

THREE JOHNS: (via Langford)
London, 1987-03-02

SALLY TIMMSs:
2000-07-30, Cafe du Nord, San Francisco
2001-09-15, Abbey Pub Chicago
2003-07-11, Martyrs Chicago
2004-03-19, Chicago
2004-03-23, Starry Plough
2004-11-10, Joe's Pub
2004-11-20, Chicago
2004-12-04 , Starry Plough