IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE A GROWN CLASH FAN MAN CRY and probably a few girls too ...
What's in the Box?
Although I have never been a die-hard Clash fan myself, I can't fail to
be impressed with this beautiful intimate lovingly put together memorial
to Joe Strummer for a life that has left such a mark on so many young
punks and those that followed that might not, and now won't get, the
chance to see him perform live.
You have Joe Strummer's notebook faithfully reproduced and there are his lyrics in his own handwriting.
And a cassette tape with Joe's original demo made back in the days when people made recordings and posted them off to record companies, one at a time ... or copied them on their boom boxes .... recorded from his London squat ...
And you get a little badge too. They've even kept in his cigarette that was airbrushed out of so many photographs.
Let's not go to Amazon. I'm sure Joe would hate the sweat shop that Amazon is.
You can of course get a more expensive one from whatever shifty character is already charging loads more on Ebay, or you can order from here. it costs £94.99 and is available (free shipping) from HMV
Humber
Street Gallery presents Reid’s first major retrospective in the UK
“XXXXX: FIFTY YEARS OF SUBVERSION AND THE SPIRIT”
64 Humber Street
Hull
HU1 1TU
Gallery Hours:
Tue - Sun, 10.00 - 18.00.
The exhibition will
showcase a variety of material spanning several decades from the 1970’s
to the present - collage work, drawings, paintings, prints,
poster editions and photographs, demonstrating Reid’s witty delivery and
continued dedication in making a statement through art. He returns to
symbols such as Boudicca, the Oak Leaf, and Delacroix’s Liberty Leading
the People, presenting them in new contexts relating to current issues,
whilst his recent paintings reflect his later embrace of spirituality
and nature.
Jamie Reid lives and works in Liverpool and
is represented by John Marchant Gallery, Brighton. “XXXXX” will be
co-curated by John Marchant and David
Sinclair.
I got a text from Bruce in America. "You can apply for free tickets. BBC Radio 4 is inviting ELVIS COSTELLO on their Mastertapes show."
The BBC said in order to be guaranteed entry you needed to submit a question for the audience participation spot. Eddie suggested, "Elvis, Are you a secret lemonade drinker?" cos his dad, who he talks about a lot on stage, was the man who sang that commercial back in the day. Someone at the BBC thought this was a good question and I got two guaranteed-entry tickets.
Lovely Liverpool lady, me, Rev Green (we had questions)
In the queue I stood behind Andy Greene from Cheshire. His mate wasn't coming. They'd been at Lords Cricket Ground round the corner because England were doing very well. So he had a spare ticket. I turned round to see a vicar standing solo against the wall. Andy asked him if he wanted the spare.
"No thanks," he said. "I have a guaranteed ticket cos my question was chosen to be asked."
"Have you got a spare ticket?" I asked him.
"Yes," he said, "Do you want it, Andy?" He asked.
Andy's ticket wasn't guaranteed so he said he would like that very much.
Turned out the Reverend was Reverend Green. Been to hundreds of Elvis gigs. He was also from Cheshire.
Time came, and we were shown our seats.
It was a very cosy studio.
Lots of history to the place of course, but then there's the asbestos problem. So they're going to close down and move.
We were lucky to get Steve Naive joining Elvis on piano. They bantered together and Elvis sang and played and directed him, just like you were eavesdropping in the recording studio with them.
Which of course, we were. But recording for the radio.
At question time, Elvis was so very generous with his answers.
Guitars belonging to Elvis
The fact that his dad has made the commercial was already mentioned so I was off the hook. People had flown in from SF, and Germany to be there. There had been a question about his health hanging in the air since he'd come off tour under doctor's directions. He did mention his health scare and how lucky he had been. His humble gratitude was felt in the room. He was emotional. And of course he got up and sang - especially into the old-fashioned standing microphone. He enjoyed that. He sounded great.
He's been part of the soundtrack to my life and it felt like a real privilege to be in the room with him.
I'll find out when the show is broadcast and post a reminder to listen.
Till then ...
Mega-Elvis Fan Rev Green and Andy Greene from Up North
Elvis started to sing, and then explained a bit ... and then sang... this...
So Dick O'Dell and I sat down at brunch for the most perfect eggs benedict in West
London yesterday and I was telling him that I transcribed an interview with Iggy Pop yesterday. (That's my day job.)
I was just saying that I particularly liked the bit where Iggy Pop was living
with David Bowie on Hauptstrasse in Berlin and they decided to go shopping for art supplies together and do a bit of painting. I could just imagine what fun it would have been to have hung out with Iggy Pop if I was David Bowie and the ting a ling of the shop door and the paint supplies and Iggy looking through the "How to Paint like Frank Foster" or someone ... when .... I KID YOU NOT the song that started to play in the restaurant was WHERE ARE WE NOW? The very song that Bowie wrote remembering his time in Berlin. Brought tears to my eyes. "Steady," said Dick. What are the chances? Anyway - this is just the sort of thing that's happening on Dick's Soho Radio Show.
He's produced four wonderful episodes so far, talking about his
adventures and his life and playing songs that bring the past to the
current ... It's his world and you're invited. Today he is going to record the Fifth 'chapter' as it were and I do believe it goes out on Saturday. Dick is just about to move into his 1974 chapter ... YES Roxy Music. NO Rod Stewart (and so on :) ... what will he play? You can catch up here .... Dick O'Dell's Soho Radio Show
Tim Broun tells me about this collaboration with Marc Ribot ... It has something of Fellini's Amarcord movie about it ... something sinister but also very very beautiful, don't you think?
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Tickets £15 in advance from WE GOT TICKETS
£20 on the door
£10 NUS / JSA / OAP
Expect:
* Delicious hot food and cakes.
* Stalls with zines and goodies.
* The best damn day/night out of the year.
Applications from stallholders and zine sellers, other kinds of
performers that we haven’t even thought of yet, and any other enquiries
to loudwomenclub@gmail.com
The
Festival will showcase DIY punk, pop and
indie music, led by women and gender non-conforming folk.
Salty Dog No-Stars live at Electric Picnic 1/9/2018.
John Perry in blue shirt and dapper panama hat...
also up there ...
Liam Mulvaney Daniel Fitzpatrick Daniel Fox RÃan Trench Conor Paxton
Lorna Whittington Brian Whittington James O'Leary Dara Kiely John Butler
Lar Fraser Liam Ryan Luke Byrne Ol Padge Stuart Doyle Elvera Butler et
al.
Jessie Mallin played Dingwalls, Camden, early Clash rehearsal territory,
with specials guests to celebrate our Joe Strummer. The show felt like
NYC had come to visit to say thanks to Joe Strummer for coming to visit
them ... Hands across the ocean ... Audience crossed generations from
current sixth form to dads from back in the day ... special guests who got up to sing with him included Charlie Harper from UK Subs... Mark Stewart from the Pop Group.
Audience included girls and boys ... Joe Strummer's wife was there ...
Jessie sang White Riot for Grenfell; Catherine Pepper sang Hitsville UK;
Rat Boy Spanish Bombs; Also classics like White Man in Hammersmith,
Combat Rock ... It was hot in there. and outside in Camden a road was
blocked by police and ambulances ... a dark black SUV had been pulled
over ... didn't look good for someone out there
Celebrate the publication of great weather for MEDIA’s latest
anthology, Suitcase of Chrysanthemums - a fearless and dynamic
collection of poetry and short fiction from writers across the world.
Join
us for readings by UK and NYC contributors and special guests Martin
Ouvry, Puma Perl, Mary Raffaele, Gayle Richardson, Joolz Sparkes, Chris
Stewart, and Roddy Williams.
Hosted by Jane Ormerod.
£5/£3 concessions on the door
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Puma
Perl is a New York performer, producer, and a widely published poet /
writer. She’s the author of two chapbooks, Belinda and Her Friends and
Ruby True, and two full-length collections, Retrograde (great weather
for MEDIA, 2014) and knuckle tattoos. She is the creator and curator of
Puma Perl’s Pandemonium, which merges poetry with rock and roll; as Puma
Perl and Friends, she performs with some of NYC’s best musicians. Puma
is a recipient of a 2016 Acker Award in the category of writing, and of
three New York Press Association awards (2015-2017 ) in recognition of
her journalism.
Mary Raffaele: Rock and Roll Juggernaut, Writer,
Animal Lover, Friend, Sister, Daughter, Ex-Girlfriend, Nerd, Fagwoman.
"My name is Mary but everyone calls me Raff or Raffaele. Raised in
Michigan, moved to New York in the 80's. I'm a former metal queen and
used to sing for Cycle Sluts from Hell. I've slung drinks, managed
clubs, wrangled fashion numbers, now I manage a promotion company with a
store and art gallery attached. And of course write."
Gayle
Richardson has appeared in the great weather for MEDIA anthologies, I
Let Go of the Stars in My Hand and The Careless Embrace of the
Boneshaker. Some of her recent work can be found in the Australian
poetry journal, Uneven Floor. Originally from Kent, Gayle currently
lives in Suffolk. During the day, she is a freelance writer. By night,
she is mostly wine or vodka.
Joolz Sparkes is published in Magma,
Brittle Star, South Bank Poetry, Persister’s Zine, Loose Muse, and
Paper Swans Press. She was Poet-in -Residence at Leicester Square tube
station, shortlisted for Bridport Poetry Prize and featured at Ledbury
Poetry Festival. In 2018 she was awarded Arts Council funding for
Research and Development of London Undercurrents – a joint project with
the poet Hilaire, which uncovers the voices of women, real and imagined,
who have lived in Battersea and Islington over many centuries.
Chris
Stewart: His
poems, film / poems, and stories have appeared in Freak Circus, Atticus
Review, Outdoor Photography, and Bop Dead City amongst others. Chris
lives in Yorkshire and—as seen on television—owns a marble bust that
looks just like him.
Roddy Williams
now lives in London. His poetry has appeared in 'The North', 'The
Frogmore Papers', 'Magma', ... Winner of the Bruce Brown Poetry
Trophy, he was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in recent years. He's
had two plays performed in London, is currently working on his first
novel and is a keen surrealist photographer, printmaker and painter.
Martin
Ouvry lives in London. A writer, musician, and teacher, Martin is a
Wingate Scholar in literature and was a Hawthornden Fellow. His work has
been published in a range of anthologies and magazines including
Esquire, New Writing (Picador, London), and The London Magazine. He is
writing a novel with the generous support of Arts Council England.
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