Who is Jon Langford?

Let me start by saying, I’m biting off a bit more than I can chew with this one, so I’m going to try to distill it for you, dear readers, like a fine whiskey.

Jon Langford grew up in Wales, but emerged from the same hotbed of political punk as Gang of Four, the Leeds music scene of the late 1970s. He started out as the drummer in the Mekons, one of the …