The Mob, were an anarcho-punk band originally from Yeovil, Somerset, UK during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The band featured singer/guitarist Marc Mob and - in the beginning - Josef Porta - drums (of British Anarcho-Punk-Bands Zounds and Null and Void, now singer/drummer with Blyth Power), and Curtis - Bass they hailed from Yeovil, Somerset, England before relocating to Islington, London where they lived in a house run by the Black Sheep housing co-op. They were quite popular with the English and especially London Peace Punks, some of their audience running the Community-Squats "Peace Centre" (Rosebery Avenue 99-110, Islington, today the residence of Amnesty International GB, where The Mob once played a benefit-show in the basement) and the "Ambulance Station" (Old Kent Road) in South London.

The Mob were also popular in America, although a New York hardcore band of the same name pre-existed their notoriety in the US.

Sleeve of "No Doves Fly Here" by The Mob, sleeve designed by Gee Vaucher and Twisted Image Graphix

Mob put out their first single "Crying Again"/"Youth" on their own label All the Madmen, this was followed by "Witchhunt"/Shuffling Souls" and the "Ching" cassette, both on All the Madmen. These were followed by"No Doves Fly Here" on the Crass Records label. They later recorded an LP (Let The Tribe Increase), followed by another single ("Mirror Breaks"/"Stay") again on All the Madmen.

Marc Mob was the bands centre of attention with colourful (red) dreadlocks and an angelic face. On the contrary his voice sounded doomed, his lyrics featuring topics such as nuclear bombs, war, wastelands, death and doom in general.

Josef Porta famously quit the band by saying, that he was sick of singing about children being slaughtered.

Lyric sample from "No Doves Fly here":

 The sky is empty and is turning different shades of colour it never did before and we never asked for war 

The band broke up in December 1983. Marc Mob, who once had a fire engine for carrying his tipi poles, is now probably living with his many children somewhere in the English countryside.