The Clash and Converse are collaborating together to produce a new collection of shoes. Leading the collection is a special tribute version of the Chuck Taylor All Star shoe in white, which marks the 20th anniversary of the album London Calling. The album cover graphics are reproduced in rubber. Combat rock references abound on fresh high-tops with clean Clash skull and cross bones logos. An All Star Outsider has the look of legitimate military gear and a simple version of the classic Chuck in olive drab punctuates the band’s revolutionary style with campaign badges fastened to military drab uppers. The collection will be available in the shops from December 2009. More designs to follow check back here for updates.
Classic Album Covers - The Clash - London Calling
Great music and great art – Royal Mail will launch its 2010 Special Stamps programme with ten iconic album covers from the past four decades.
Classic Album Covers, released on 7 January, features some of the greatest examples of album design, created for UK music artists and brought to life on ten First Class stamps.
The design of each stamp shows a classic album cover, but with a musical twist – an arc of vinyl emerges outside the die-cut of the stamp.
For decades the album sleeve has been the canvas for some of the most imaginative graphic artists in the world, and this issue celebrates this unique art form and some of its greatest examples.
There will be a range of stamp products, including an illustrated Presentation Pack, a First Day Cover, and a unique stamp book.
More information will be available closer to the issue date from www.royalmail.com/stamps
2 ACKLAM ROAD, Portobello Green,
London, W10 5XL, (02077929626.)
Ladbroke Grove Underground.
18th July to 25th August 2009,
11am-7pm. Wednesday-Sunday (free.)
‘Rock n Roll’ and ‘Public Library’ shouldn’t mix, one phrase is brash, loud the other sedate and quiet. Yet these two cultures are about to collide. For the first time since the 1850 Library Act that much loved British institution the public library is about gain a loud, revolutionary 21st Century companion.
The Rock n Roll Public Library is Mick Jones’s (The Clash, B.A.D, Carbon Silicon) direct artistic challenge to the likes of the corporate 02 British Music Experience. Rather than let his creative legacy atrophy Jones is ’transforming’ his own archive of near 10.000 artefacts into one unique ‘guerrilla-library.’ Set under the Westway motorway in 3000 sq.ft of former office space, Jones’s five-week civic endeavour will also encourage visitors to enrol, interact with the archive-exhibition (Jones began collecting well before he formed The Clash in 1976 to eventual international success, as such it forms an invaluable guide to the influences that informed Jones as a pop-artist). Also uniquely by request users will be able to scan (courtesy Genus, U.K distributor of the Book2net Kiosk) certain objects and via memory stick carry them away. Please note visitors to the world’s first, resolutely alternative, Rock n Roll Public Library shouldn’t expect peace and quiet.
Legendary Clash drummer TOPPER HEADON has donated his Mini Cooper to be raffled for Strummerville. Starting May 30th
Topper’s Red 2-Tone customized Mini Cooper is going up for raffle on May the 30th, with all proceeds going to the charity Strummerville Joe Strummer’s New Music Foundation.
Strummerville is a registered charity that aims to create new opportunities for aspiring musicians.
Set up by the friends and family of Joe Strummer in the year after his death, the charity seeks to reflect Joe’s unique contribution to the music world by offering support, resources and performance opportunities to artists who would not normally have access to them.
“This car has been my pride and joy. I had it two tone customized and it was the first car I drove when I got clean, so you can imagine I’ve been attached to it and have loved it a lot. But, I so love the great work that Strummerville are doing so am delighted to donate the car to be raffled and I hope it will make a fortune for the charity. Giving kids a chance is such a good cause.” Love Topper
If you would like to win the legendary Clash drummer’s near perfect condition Mini, you can enter via the strummerville www.strummerville.com website from May 30th, with the raffle running for six weeks.
Partizan, the production company behind award-winning music videos for The White Stripes, Katy Perry, Beyonce, Madonna, Take That, U2 and Foo Fighters, have teamed up with MTV to find the ultimate superfan.
Mick Jones and Lily Allen cover “Straight to Hell” for Warchild - listen to it now on Myspace From Today, Tuesday 10th Feb, MySpace are featuring the War Child “Heroes” album in full as a global exclusive, ahead of its UK release on 16th Feb,and its US release on 24th Feb, Canada 2nd March.
The Heroes album features an exclusive version of “Straight To Hell” by Lily Allen & Mick Jones.
To listen to the track please head over to: http://www.myspace.com/warchildheroes
Mick Jones Presents his alternative to the British Music Experience ”The Rock & Roll Public Library”
CHELSEA SPACE
16 John Islip Street
London
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18th March - 18th April 2009
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We came across this demo of Rock the Casbah :
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