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Left to Right - Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of The Clash, are photographed just prior to the bands induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
It would have been good to find a wall with miraculously preserved posters of these 80's shows, but this is part of the street dressing for the Sam Mendes film, Empire of Light, being filmed at Margate.
Really struggled with this one. The first song I came up with was "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs" From 1992. Which was inspired by the artist L S Lowry. But they did not quite fit together. So I had to go hunting around for a song with matchbooks in the lyrics. It appears that there are quite a few out there.
Then I found a song by Joe Strummer from "The Clash" which worked for me. So Sleepwalk from the album Earthquake Weather is the song that goes best with this picture.
This work is derived from the cover of the album London Calling by The Clash.
Design by Ray Lowry, photo by Pennie Smith. Album produced by Guy Stevens and Mick Jones. CBS 1979 (UK), Epic 1979 (US), Legacy 2005 (25th Anniversary)
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Should I stay or should I blow?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
and if I stay there will be double?
- The Clash
Vendredi 1er Juin 2018 – Nous n’en sommes pas « à la milice qui passe 4 par 4, armée jusqu'aux dents, prête à bondir ». Alors on se calme.
Spinadisc was a much loved record shop on Abington Street (and previously Abington Square) Northampton. They also had branches in Rugby and Coventry, both of which I often visited, but he Northampton store will always hold special memories for me. Sadly it closed in 2005. The shop front has been recreated here in Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, as part of the Punk - Rage and Revolution exhibition which I visited on the 21st of February 2024.
By way of a personal history project, a scan of the back pages of my adolescent diary, where I wrote down, how did I put it, "All the groups I've every seen." Apologies for my, um, iconoclastic spelling.
The first concert (or gig, as I might have said) was at the Rainbow in Finsbury Park, on Dec 17, 1977 (Yachts Blast Furnace and the Heatwaves The Boomtown Rats (I saw the Boomtown Rats the following year too. Too embarassed to write it down?). Lots of pogoing, not much gobbing, but the Boomtown Rats didn't really inspire that sort of thing. There were real punks in the audience, but the Boomtown Rats had appeared on Top of the Pops, and there were Rats' fans too - girls wearing school uniforms (after their hit "Mary of the Fourth Form") and boys wearing pajamas ('cause Johnny Fingers their keyboard player wore pajamas).
1978: The Jolt Reggae Regular Generation X The Mickey Jupp BandWhirlwind Elvis Costello (2 times) Queen The BannedThe Strangeways Radio Stars The Young Ones The Boyfriends Blondie Fusion Black Slate Penetration Subway Sect Buzzcocks Humphrey Ocean Misty Ian Dury and the Blockheads John Cooper Clarke Richard Hell and the Voidoids The Innocents The Slits (3 times) The Clash
1979: Hazel and the Unknowns Fischer Z Delta 5 The Specials The Mekons (2 times) The Gang of Four (3 times) The Girls The Maps (twice) Delex Sally, Dick and Jane The Distractions Joy Division The Teardrop Explodes (3 times) Echo and The Bunnymen The Flowers The Beat (2 times) The Human League (2 times) The Pop Group3 times The Books A Certain Ratio(3) The Talking Heads UB40 The Selecter The Portraits Simple Minds(2) Manufactured Romance The Mo-dettes (4 times) The 45s Toyah Blood Doner The Acryllics The Nips Dexy's Midnight Runners English Subtitles Classix Nouveux Ultravox The Cliches This Heat The Raincoats (2) Martha and the Muffins The Only Ones The Plain Characters The Cure Margot and the Space Virgins The Q-Tips The Patrick Fitzgerald Group The Vs (The Maps Someone and the Somebodies Count Viglioni Mission of Burma Modern Theatre, rock against the Draft, 3/30/1980) Ten Pole Tudor Spizz Energi The Au-pairs(2) The Piranhas Red Beans and Rices The Scars Boots for Dancing The Opposition X-Odus Essential Logic
Sometime in 1980 or early 1981 I stopped writing down the bands I went to see. Probably because it started to seem a bit trainspotterish, or I'd started having beers at concerts and couldn't be bothered to write things up when I came home, or I misplaced this notebook. So there's no record of seeing U2 two or three times (serious chaps with mullets), or the Birthday Party (who out of all these bands, and the competition is fierce, probably were the most extraordinary act live). I saw most of these bands in London, a few in Boston.
Note on the links: I've linked to All Music a lot, hope that works. If not I'll go through at some point and find better links. Only Joy Division and Mission of Burma seem to have fans obsessive enough to list every performance of those bands. I'm not surprised, I've met some of those fans. There are a number of bands I saw which seem to have left no trace, (and I don't remember a thing about them). If any of these names are familiar to you (in the context of the late 70's), let me know.
A picture of me in 1980.
Mural dedicated to Joe Strummer of The Clash. Details are in notes with links to the photos. This is located on Avenue A and 7th Street outside of the Avalanche bar in the East Village, NYC.
Work nearing completion on Brian's next book 'Gary', due for release later this year.
LR4216 © Joe O'Malley 2022
mr.jones - photo : piotr obal ©
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Beyond the Pale
by (Jones/Strummer)
If you don`t know where I come from
You better stear clear of my trail
From the dark side of London
And that`s way beyond the pale
My grandpa came from Russia
Stowed away hidden in some bales
And he took my grandma dancing
To the air raid sirens hail
Saint George used his sword
On the immigrant poor
`Cos he can`t kill no dragon
If I was in those shoes
I`d say Soweto`s gonna happen here too
I gotta get a message through
Tell everybody the news
And with the winter coming...
Crossing all the borders
Through the smoke of war and rain
Papers out of order
On a military train
A coat a bag a baby
Status: refugee
These are the people of my family
Don`t anybody know that
This city was made
Of immigrant blood and money
If I was in those shoes
A blackshirt with the playboy blues
I gotta get a message through
Tell everybody the news
And with the winter coming...
Now there`s a rocker in Vladivostok
Got every side by Jerry Lee
But for accidents of disorder
That guy could well be me
I want everybody to know this
I want everyone to hear
Immigration built the nation
You got a bloodclaat standing here
Saint George used his sword
On the immigrant poor
`Cos he can`t kill no dragon
If I was in those shoes
I`d say Soweto`s gonna happen here too
I gotta get a message through
Tell everybody the news
And with the winter coming...
Don`t anybody know that
This city was made
Of immigrant blood and money
If I was in those shoes
A blackshirt with the playboy blues
I gotta get a message through
Tell everybody the news
The Clash, ‘Complete Control’, 1978. The Clash were a great ‘singles’ band with good cover sleeves. This ditty is a rant against the record company, the Man, obstacles in the way, the usual. It has my fave Strummer line; ‘You’re my geetar hero!’, snarled at Mick Jones. A tight fierce blast with classic Clash guitar sound and Topper’s propulsive drums kicking like thunder (recorded in one take, that’s how good he was). The cover is of a pink painted amp that the Clash used onstage. It didn’t work but looked cool. Little details make the difference. The only band that mattered, still…
pretty much as it was in december - watchung lake, nj
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A photograph of Johnny Green I took in 2024. Johnny was tour manager of the Clash and poet John Cooper Clarke as well as been an author. He passed awag early March this year.
The 2nd half was a complete turn around from the first. Whatever Bath had in their half time cup of tea seemed to work as they ran out 27-21 winners thanks to two late tries.
That's it from The Clash - a great day out for my first trip to Twickenham.
I'm going to take a break now - Happy Easter everyone!
Happy birthday to punk legend Mick Jones of the CLASH!!!, Big Audio Dynamite, Gorillaz, and many more!!!
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