Terry Chimes & Mick Jones exclusive from Rock n Roll Library
Huge gratitude once more to Peter Stevens who brings us another great image and a story. I want him to sit and write the blog and for me get to these great events, I also wanted to run a record label when I was young so there you go.
The event of course is the new run of Mick Jones Rock n Roll public library which I’ve written about a few times prior, if you missed those posts please look back a few days but details are at the bottom of this post. The new exhibition is right under the Westway and runs until August 25th. Pete was kind enough to forward the image below of Mick, Terry Chimes and an as yet unknown third party Clive Banks (manager of Mick/CSi)
Terry Chimes - Clive Banks - Mick Jones
Pete told me the event was well attended and he had a chance to talk to Terry Chimes and also author Chris Salewicz (author of the great Joe Strummer biography), Pat Gilbert (Passion is a Fashion author) and John Robb (author of Punk Rock- An Oral History). I can vouch for the first two being very important books to read for all Clash fans.
Also in attendance were Robin Banks, Glen Matlock (he should read my post about the Pistols reforming) Gary Stonadge (B.A.D.) and Mr Ian Brown formerly of the Stone Roses.
I hope those in and around London are able to get to the exhibition as I’d love to hear your impressions of it. Thanks again to Pete for emailing me during the wee hours in London so I can post this for everyone.
Cheers – Tim
ROCK N ROLL PUBLIC LIBRARY:
2 ACKLAM ROAD, Portobello Green,
London, W10 5XL
(Ladbroke Grove Underground)
18th July to 25th August 2009,
11am-7pm. Wednesday-Sunday
That’s Clive Banks, Mick’s manager
Thank you – I’ll update…
Also seen: Leo Williams, Gina Birch from The Raincoats, Tessa from The Slits, Gaz Mayall, Lucinda Mellor,Kiera Knightley and more…it spilled out of the actual Library & into an open space under the Westway next door where there were bands playing, beer to be drunk & jerk chicken to be eaten; nothing better on a hot muggy night in Ladbroke Grove.
It was a top event, & the actual installation is brilliant – bigger & better than the previous version. It’s taken over a suite of offices right under the Westway. The rooms are divided up thematically – there’s a DVD room (playing Westway To The World last night), a video room (where you can pick any of Mick’s tapes to play; my 14 year old son enjoyed “Killer Clowns From Outer Space”), a magazine room, a book room, Mick’s office, a working studio, a kind of games room, an American themed room and evrywhere you look tons of, well, stuff…
It’s not all Clash/BAD/CS related although a lot of it is – Mick’s mum’s scrapbook, assorted stage wear, hats, t-shirts, shoes, toys, memorabilia of all sorts. There’s signed books from Allen Ginsberg, fanzines, magazines, comics, records, tapes, music stuff, football stuff, London stuff, cinema stuff, school atlases, some of those old Cinemascope viewers – literally thousands of objects, often displyed on the actual shelves from Mick’s Acton lock-up.
And one of the really cool things about it is that it’s (nearly) all hands-on. You can play with the toys, read the books & magazines, poke around in Mick’s tape boxes, try on the hats, play the fruit machines and take a digital photocopy of anything you like & put it on a memory stick to take away with you (I think you have to supply the stick though!)
If it’s at all possible if you can go then you should – and you should set aside a couple of hours at least to take it all in….
I didn’t know it was being shown again, i missed it the chelsea space, once i saw the photos from the exhibition i knew that was a mistake.Thanks for letting us know about the new run , and may i add what a fine blog this is.
Ta cat
Glad I helped – I hope you can get along as I can’t !! Thanks for the feedback – hope you become a regular.
Tim