Band formed by University of Leeds art students

The band was formed in 1976 by a group of University of Leeds art students: Jon Langford , Kevin Lycett, Mark White, Ros Allen, Andy Corrigan and Tom Greenhalgh — Gang of Four and Delta 5 formed from the same group of students. They took the band’s name from the Mekon , an evil, super-intelligent Venusian featured in the British 1950s–1960s comic Dan Dare (printed in the Eagle ). mekons were described as a more chaotic version of Gang of Four; Lycett stated the band operated on the principle that “anybody could do it … anybody could get up and join in and instruments could be swapped around; that there’d be no distance between the audience and the band.”