Stumbled across this interesting article about King Mob by Hari Kunzru in Tate magazine. Kunzru writes about how King Mob developed "an interest in the disruptive anti-art potential of Dada and Surrealism and a hard-edged politics partly derived from nineteenth-century Russian Nihilism. In texts such as Pisarev’s The Destruction of Aesthetics, they found fundamental questions being asked about value, politics and the (lack of ) social function of art."
Well worth reading the rest of the article here
Although it's unclear what became of King Mob there is an audiobook version of Iain Sinclair's Downriver
released by a label using the King Mob moniker.
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Hello John,
Most of the King Mob publications were reprinted by Dark Star and (Tom) Vague in 'King Mob' (available from Housmans bookshop!). Also it is with regret that we hear that Chris Gray, who compiled 'Leaving the 20th Century' and was involved with Heatwave and King Mob, died last month. He will be sorely missed.
Malcolm (Housmans)
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