Clash Blog interview coming up
Hello all and a happy Sunday to you. I’ve got a lot of bits and pieces scattered about due to a lack of posts the last few days sorry about that. I’ll work to get current and reply to your emails and posts in the days ahead. I will try and review Clash stories from around the net Monday though there was nothing major over the weekend. Just one quick piece of news this evening; I’m 
excited to announce that I’m scheduled to have a short phone interview with Alan Miles, the Director of Breaking Rocks (the Jail Guitar Doors film) this week. Entirely worth being aware of is that Alan also was behind (accidentally) ‘The Last Night London Burned’ the short documentary that captured the night that Mick Jones joined Joe Strummer (Nov 2002) onstage in unplanned fashion shortly before Joe’s death. This famous event in Acton (Acton Town Hall pictured right) was captured by Miles and given the historic nature received great plaudits upon release. If anyone reading the blog has a question they’d like me to offer to Alan Miles I’d be happy to try and include it when we speak. Breaking Rocks of course has been formed in a far more natural style and I look forward to seeing the finished product. Please email me or leave comments before Tuesday evening with ideas.
Lastly, have a look at this article from Wonkavision and help me determine if they are being serious or not. I thought it was a joke but I’m not certain, I think it might be legitimate stab at the moral fibre of ‘punk rock’ in which case…come off it! Not much else, sorry for lack of news – I’ll make up for it next week. Cheers – Tim
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Oh yeah I think they’re serious Tim,but not worth taking as so.Sounds like a complete twat wrote it.I hate that now frequently used line “Joe’s priviliged upbringing”,what’s priviliged about being shunted all round the globe with your fathers work and then your brother commit suicide.The only privilige Joe had was a good education,which should be a basic human right anyway.The whole PUNK thing was a load of bollocks anyway it was Rock n Roll with no rules.It was the media who created all the punk credentials shit,if some of these people had 1% of Joe’s intelligence/talent/compassion/humour they might achieve something worthwhile and not just write a load of negative crap nobody is interested in.I bet the idiot who wrote that never went to a CLASH gig and probably worships at the alter of the Gallagher brothers-PRICK,ah feel better now DAVE
That’s what I needed to hear Dave!!
If a ‘privileged upbringing’ means being intelligent, well-educated, creative and learning to be a free-thinking individual then count me in.
Late seventies and early eighties journalism meticulously ascribed what ‘PUNK’ was meant to be, narrow and blinkered, pogoing in ever-decreasing circles, dressed in a uniform of out-dated, mail order bondage trousers and the obligatory tartan bumflap. Mainly, they demanded to classify and categorise everything.
For anyone who hasn’t yet seen it then PLEASE watch Henry Rollins in Don Letts’ excellent ‘Punk:Attitude’ documentary. That’s what PUNK was about…. “Wake up ! Open your eyes and do YOUR OWN THING !!”
One of my favourite quotes from Joe is “I think people ought to know that we’re anti-fascist, we’re anti-violence, we’re anti-racist and we’re pro-creative. We’re against ignorance !”
Nothing I can add here really, is there ?
Pete,
Acton