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“Nobody was like him” ANDY GILL | 1956-2020

“I REMEMBER going into the rehearsal room that we shared with Gang Of Four, sometime in 1976,” remembers Kevin Lycett of the Mekons, who came up alongside them in the incendiary late-’70s Leeds post-punk scene.

“I had no idea whatsoever how to process what they were doing. I had heard nothing like it, ever. It may as well have

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