Clash Day
Would you Adam & Eve it? The Clash was released 30 years ago today?
Man, I was probably still building Lego and scribbling pictures of volcanoes, dinosaurs and world warfare when this star of an LP came out, so it unearths sunny snapshots of the Spring of ‘77 and knowing that 30 years ago is when it all started… sitting on the playing field of an East Anglian school in a Union Jack hat whilst Jonny Rotten growled “God Save the Queen, She ain’t no human being.”
I mean it man.
Then moving to Essex… concrete jungles, new towns and drab cities, the Harlow glue sniffers, the Chelmsford Skinheads, Punks, Scooterboys, Rockers, the Oi Boys, 9 Below Zero…
But I digress, this is a day to remember Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Terry Chimes, this is a day to remember The Clash and their first LP, a true and genuine punk gem of shiny new black vinyl.
BBC Radio 6 are supposed to be playing plenty of Clash this morning, but if they don’t give us a good run for our money there’s plenty of Clash on my iTunes… oh wait… oh bollocks! Wrong PC… all my Clash is on my home machine not on my laptop. Sod it!
Now I’m annoyed. I need my Clash fix.
me too! and i dont think they’ll take kindly to it in my new office. yet.
and way to change the subject, dillweed.
so what was the green thing eh?
Nine Below Zero. Superb band saw em a couple of years ago.
Rebekah: Pah. Offices. Lucily I got headphones!
What green thing? what you talking about Willis?
Brom: Yeah, their name was sprayed down the side of the building at the park in Springfield… Be nice to catch up with them again.
brilliant – i’ve just done clash day too, but a bit late.
there’s stay free and armagideon time up if you still need a listen.
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