Tim

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….