Unheard Clash songs aired by BBC

by pat c Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:22

Unseen photos of former Clash singer Joe Strummer have gone on display in an exhibition which explores his personal archive of band memorabilia. Dozens of handwritten lyrics, concert setlists, jottings, drawings and tour mementoes have been brought together in London to celebrate Strummer's legacy.

They had been kept in storage by the artist at his West Country home in the years leading up to his untimely death in 2002 at the age of 50. Photographs of Strummer during his pre-Clash days as singer of pub-rockers The 101ers are also included in the exhibition at the London Print Studio in Harrow Road, west London.

The premises lie at the heart of a district which is still synonymous with Strummer's formative days as an artist.

It was there he refined his ambitions of stardom in the mid-1970s, as well as honing his skills as a political activist, as a squatter at 101 Walterton Road (giving rise to the 101ers).

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 101ers' first concert at local pub The Chippenham. The pictures were taken by Julian Yewdall, a founder member of The 101ers who squatted with Strummer.

by janie jones Tue Sep 07, 2004 09:50

Don't think he had a mansion when he wrote White Riot. Anyway, so what. They were a band not a fucking political party so get over it.

by Janie Jones Jnr Mon Sep 06, 2004 22:30 jamjo2001 at mindspring dot net

I can't believe people are falling for this "discovered missing tracks" ruse - it's all part of a forthcoming release:

http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000616378

Still, strummer, the white "bloke" who sang about white riots from his white mansion would have been proud of yet another con.

by Fergal Mon Sep 06, 2004 16:50

No thank God it's from well before Cut The Crap. It's stuff from the London Calling sessions, including a version of Bob Dylan's "The Man In Me", which I'm dying to hear. The original is lovely and featured on the Big Lebowski soundtrack (the scene where the Dude gets knocked out, and dreams he's floating down a bowling lane).

Mind you, if it wasn't good enough to go on the album back then......
They're using this archive material as an excuse to sell us London Calling again, in deluxe re-mastered blah blah edition. So long as you have a CD burner and a single friend gullible enough to fork out for it, you'll be ok.

by marina Mon Sep 06, 2004 16:23

If its anything like their last album "Cut the Crap" I wont be holding my breath.

Liked some of their stuff though. Think their first album sound a bit silly now though. Trying too hard to be 'punk'.

by Punk Mon Sep 06, 2004 13:23

They made some great music though. People who make political criticisms of music aren't music fans. I once met a bloke who only listened to music he considered politically acceptable (lots of punk, reggae and early hip-hop). Need less to say he was an unleasant, preachy, humourless shithead.

This is for the same reason that all politicians are philistines. They see art as a waste of time if it doesn't serve political ends.

by STRUMMER wasn't a bank robber Sun Sep 05, 2004 22:41 dumbstrum at rte dot ie

Oh yeah, they're so great aren't they?

FACT: Jaguar cars use London Calling in their ads: http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/000003.html
FACT: Should I Stay Or Should I Go" was used in a TV advert for Levi's jeans

by janie jones Sun Sep 05, 2004 19:25

The reason the Clash are so good has nothing to do with "workers struggles" and all that bollix. They were a brilliant rock and roll band. Billy Bragg makes a great virtue of all that but no-one will remember him in 20 years because he was/is a mediocrity despite and indeed partly because of his tediously right on views

by pat c Sun Sep 05, 2004 15:40

I really doubt that you are ignorant of the role that Joe Strummer played in suporting workers struggles. Therefore I can only presume that you are a sad lonely troll.

by gb Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:56 gb_evox at yahoo dot ie

What's inspiring about it? Inspiring me to laugh at the po-faced polemics of these bunters. Joe Strummer was the son of a Brit Diplomat who pretended to have street cred. The BBC? Aren't they corporate media? Didn't the clash take money from the nasty Levi's people.

Want to remove this post? Bring it On...

by Rock Da - Casbah Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:23

The idea of new Clash mucic! Inspiring!