The Clash Honored in Nine Cities With 'International Clash Day'

[jpak]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-clash-honored-in-9-cities-with-international-clash-day-w465435

On Tuesday, nine city and state governments will unite with 23 radio stations to honor punk band the Clash's legacy. "International Clash Day ensures new generations are aware that the band, through Joe's snarling lyrics, called out the conspirators and united the people to stand up and be counted," Steve Mullen of the Joe Strummer Foundation said. "As Joe Strummer once said: 'Without people, you're nothing' and never a true enough phrase has been spoken."

Austin, Ithaca, Kent, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson, Vancouver B.C., Bridgwater (UK), Washington D.C. and the State of Washington will all be participating in the fifth annual celebration. These cities will be joined by radio stations, notably Seattle's KEXP, which will focus on Clash-centric programming. Starting at 6 a.m. PST, KEXP will play 12 hours of Clash-themed music, illustrating the ways that "protest was central to their message of hope and change."

Event organizer and KEXP host John Richards said the band is still relevant today. "The message of the Clash, so influenced by the international sounds they grew up with, is both powerful and uplifting especially now in this time of struggle," he said.

The Strummer Foundation's Mullen put it more simply: "Anyone with a modicum of humanity can appreciate the Clash."

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[johnp3907]

1. That's so Punk!

[central scrutinizer]

2. Rock the Casbah!

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[cojoel]

4. Shareef don't like it

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. K&Fuckin'R

[sl8]

5. London has not been heard from.

London Calling:

London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growin' thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river

London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, you can go it alone
London calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out and draw another breath
London calling and I don't want to shout
But when we were talking I saw you nodding out
London calling, see we ain't got no high
Except for that one with the yellowy eye

The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin
A nuclear era, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river

The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin
A nuclear era, but I have no fear
London is drowning, and I, I live by the river

Now get this

London calling, yes, I was there, too
An' you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!
London calling at the top of the dial
And after all this, won't you give me a smile?

I never felt so much a' like a'like a'like

Written by Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon • Copyright © Universal Music Publishing Group

[SecularMotion]

6. I met Joe Strummer after a show in CT on the Combat Rock tour.

[enough]

7. Thanks for posting this. Glad to be thinking about the Clash right now. NT

[cemaphonic]

8. I've been listening to KEXP all day

Some great stuff.