Actions
King Mob appreciated pop culture and distributed their ideas and political ideas through various posters and through their publication King Mob Echo, which provoked reaction by celebrating killers like Jack the Ripper, Mary Bell, and John Christie. One flyer in particular celebrated Valerie Solanas' 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol and included a hit-list of: Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Richard Hamilton, Mario Amaya (who was also shot by Solanas), David Hockney, Mary Quant, Twiggy, Marianne Faithfull, and IT editor Barry Miles.
The King Mob group allegedly planned a series of audacious actions, including blowing up a waterfall in England's Lake District, painting the poet Wordsworth's house with the words "Coleridge Lives", and hanging peacocks in London's Holland Park. However, none of the aforementioned plans were executed. An action that was carried out, inspired by the New York-based Black Mask's "mill-in at Macy's", involved King Mob appearing at the Selfridges store in London, with one member, dressed as Father Christmas, attempting to distribute all of the store's toys to children. Members of the London constabulary subsequently forced the children to return the toys.
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In fragile bark o’er a tempestuous sea
The common harbor, where must rendered be
Account for all the actions of the past.”
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