McFaull Promotions Presents – The The Raga Drop
Raising funds in aid of Strummerville.
Line up will be:
Middle Finger Salute
The Jons
Loudmouth Eddi
and special guest DJ:
Traycee Oi! Town
Thursday 25th March 2010
The Gaff
382 Holloway Road
London, N7 6PN
http://www.myspace.com/thegaffclub
Tickets are £5
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/72826
THE YALLA YALLAS are a fantastic punk rock ‘n’ roll band from Leeds. Their name was carefully and deliberately chosen as a rallying call to unify. “So long liberty, lets forget you didn’t show. Not in my time” a sentiment expressed on an early Joe Strummer recording, one which spurned him on to form The Mescaleros, and one which struck a chord with the band and their audience.. Some members have appeared in other Leeds based punk rock bands The Dead Pets, 3milehigh and The Gushers. Others have built up a solid reputation as solo performers. All of them now share a common goal to bring anthemic mayhem to wherever they play.
http://www.myspace.com/theyallayallas
THE TAGNUTS Cambridge “Gimp-Core” ska punkers are back! After almost a year away The Tagnuts are ready to do it again. This is the hometown night of a UK tour for The Tagnuts that sees them playing across the country. Their unique and energetic live shows have been sadly missed! Good to have you back!!
http://www.myspace.com/thetagnuts
THE TEN-O-SEVENS are real punk rock’n’roll! These four lads combine elements of early punk rock with the sound and attitude of the most obnoxious of garage punk bands. Their songs are fast, loud, nasty, snotty, catchy and sweaty simple chord tight style tunes that will stick to your head like cheap superglue!
http://www.myspace.com/krummylanky
THE DEAD BATTERIES return to the Moon as part of their winter tour with local legends the Tagnuts. They are fast, they have a lot to say, and they say it with venom! Great anarcho punx from Ipswich, don’t miss them!
http://www.myspace.com/thedeadbatteries
There are plenty of great Strummer/Clash related Prizes to be won, as well as the usual stalls selling merchandise and maybe even some late Christmas Prezzies!
Expect punky xmas décor, Last Gang In Town DJ’s playing punk and ska, drink promotions and maybe even a mince pie or two, it’s a Strummerville Benefit and Last Gang Xmas Party/ 6th Birthday all rolled into one! What more could you want for Christmas!!!?
Saturday 19th December
@Man on the Moon, 2 Norfolk Street, Cambridge
£5 adv / £6 door
Doors 7:30pm
Ticket reservations email lastgangintownuk@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/thelastgangintownuk
Heads up people – its on again in 2010
The Annual Joe Strummer Tribute With The Death Or Glory Sound System, Take The 5th and Havana-a-go-go doing their Ramones thing. Profit to Stummerville & Once again at the Komedia Brighton 44 Gardner Street, Brighton, BN1 1UN.
This, for us has been a highlight of the year since Dan and Gordon put on the first gig celebrating Joe’s life in 2003. a fantastic event last year – It was great to meet up again with people who have similarly supported the event along the way.
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Müllerstraße 42
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Telefon 0 89 / 23 68 41 71
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Thanks again to our great friends in San Francisco for planning another benefit for us this year.
More info:
http://www.myspace.com/sfstrummer
On Saturday 3rd January another great benefit for Strummerville at Komedia, Brighton …
Thanks for your support
The 7th annual Clash tribute night at the Mohawk place.
I love this gig because I get to play really loud punk rock, reggae and dub music… just like Joe would have liked! This is always one of my favorite gigs, especially for the fact that I LOVE spinning discs at the Mohawk Place. For you name droppers, I will be playing tunes by the likes of: The Selector, X-Ray Specs, Special AKA. Stiff Little Finger, Stooges, Mickey Dread, Desmond Dekker, the Exploited, Sex Pistols, Bad Manners, the Damned and more! I better start sifting through the CD collection and get prepared, sort of…
The bands (Rebel Waltz & more) consists of various Buffalo musical greats doing sets of Clash sounds which are usually great! Lotsa fun! Hope to see you there. Drink a Pabst! Musicians include John Lombardo, Chris Malachowski and Jimy Chambers to name a few.
“Come out of the cupboards, you boys and girls,” said the invite. Just a handful of revellers turned up to toast Joe Strummer and support Strummerville (the charity set up by his family and friends), but for those lucky few that packed into The Tabernacle on Sunday night, it was an evening to cherish.
Among those who filled the intimate venue were filmmaker Julien Temple, Carbon Silicon bassist Leo Williams, the Rude Boy movie’s Ray Gange and infamous Clash mate Robin Banks. All were set to enjoy performances from three bands connected with the Strummerville cause. First up were the Savage Nomads, fronted by Cole Salewicz, son of veteran journo and Strummer biographer Chris. It could have been disconcerting playing to an empty dancefloor, but the group piled into their angular psych-flavoured post-punk commentaries with disarming confidence. These Arctic Monkeys-esque rascals were followed by Dan Smith‘s one-man band routine. An electric piano, assorted percussion, surreal lyrics and a homemade instrument fashioned from what looked like a detergent bottle were all used to bizarre effect.
Before taking the stage, Alex Thompson of The Riff Raff was basking in semi-disbelief that Mick Jones had borrowed his guitar for tonight’s gig. He talked of how his band had come on leaps and bounds since Strummerville had secured them rehearsal time at Camden’s Roundhouse and studio slots at Notting Hill’s Sarm West. Onstage, the six-piece group, including a besuited cellist, whipped up a joyous storm shot with the kind of diverse musical strains which seem integral to artists affliated with the Strummer camp.
The Rotten Hill Gang were something of a revelation, coming on like Dickensian wide boys transplanted into Notting Hill’s yuppie-besieged artists’ community, flying the neighbourhood’s tattered flag with a splash of old school South Bronx vigour. Bassist Gary Stonadge and guitarist Andre Shapps were in later incarnations of Mick Jones’ post-Clash sonic foragers Big Audio Dynamite, but it still must have come as a bit of shock to see their old boss saunter onstage with a beer and a Telecaster, primed and ready to play. Fronted by rabble-rousing street rapper Reds and propelled by the stunning operatic range of Krystin Cummins, the group powered through a fearsome hybrid of thunderous hip-hop-funk grooves, scathing guitar racket and ingenious vocal interplay (think everything from P-Funk chorale to Music Hall).
In 32 years of seeing Mick Jones take stages everywhere, from New York’s Roseland Ballroom to London’s Roxy, I’ve rarely seen him look so relaxed as he did tonight. Swapping his old Clash strut for a relaxed, syncopated stroll, he smiled his way through the set. I first encountered Mick in Mott The Hoople’s dressing rooms and here he is, 37 years later, joining in a raucous update of Mott anthem All The Young Dudes (‘If Beyoncé can do it…’, he reasoned afterwards). For the finale, the ex-Clash man brought out a guest whose reaction mirrored that of the very surprised crowd. Fun Lovin’ Criminals’ Huey Morgan, in town following a tour of Russia and now roped into a take on Andy Williams’ Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, tore the roof off as The Tabernacle was suddenly gripped by that indefinable, electric Strummer vibe, the atmosphere redolent of Joe’s legendary camp fire singalongs.
The festivities were set to continue through the night at the nearby Globe, another old Strummer haunt, at which point MOJO made its excuses and skipped jauntily into the night, bathed in the sort of positive energy glow that came with every one of those old Strummer encounters. You really should have been there.
The Tabernacle, London
Sunday, December 21
http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2008/12/strummerville_christmas_benefi.html
THE ITALIAN TRIBUTE TO JOE STRUMMER 2008 5th EDITION
10.000 Days of Rock’n'Roll
SATURDAY DECEMBER 13th 2008 @ESTRAGON Via Stalingrado 83 BOLOGNA (ITALY)
Joe Strummer was the voice, the soul, the political conscience of the Clash, the greatest rebel rock band of all time. Joe Strummer, like few other rock musicians, understood the social function of the music, his capacity to express a popular language, to become an extraordinary communicative vehicle for the young people.
Through his lyrics, with his music, with his contagious spirit, with his social commitment and his sensitivity, Joe Strummer touched millions around the world. From The Clash to The Mescaleros he always tried to find truth and justice, he always worked for a multicultural and multiracial society.
His life remains an enduring legacy of radicalism, defiance, and resistance.
For these reasons he’ll never be forgotten.
Following the great success of the previous year, The Italian Tribute To Joe Strummer returns with the same characteristic of benefit concert, with more bands and more Clash’s song to play. The tribute takes place again in Bologna, the town in which The Clash had their first Italian concert on June 1st 1980.
We want to give a big thanks to all the bands for their great sense of willingness, and we hope to remember Joe Strummer with the highest passion and affection.
On the Estragon stage we are going to listen to :
A.T.A.M.
GAVROCHE
GUACAMAYA
LA GHENGA DEL FIL DI FERRO
LOS FASTIDIOS
MALAGANG
MODENA CITY RAMBLERS
LOS MONDO BONGOS (Special guest from UK)
PEAWEES
PUNKREAS
RADIO BRIXTON
RAPPRESAGLIA
THE ONE DROPPERS
Very special guest at the tribute is Pablo Cook with Los Mondo Bongo’s. Pablo was Joes close friend and founding member of The Mescaleros, the latest Joe’s Strummer band.
From 4 PM opening with a DJ set Clash oriented, from 5.30 PM beginning of the concert.
Admission : 13 Euro plus a gadget of the Tribute
Also for this year the proceeds will be donated to Strummerville, the association founded by the family and Joe Strummers closest friends.
We are really waiting for you. The organizer : www.radioclash.it www.punkadeka.it
My space page : www.myspace.com/tributojoestrummeritalia
VIVA JOE STRUMMER !!
A Christmas benefit gig for the charity Strummerville is to be staged in London this December.
Strummerville Does Christmas takes place at west London venue The Tabernacle on December 21, the eve of the anniversary of Joe Strummer’s death.
The iconic Clash frontman died unexpectedly on December 22, 2002, of heart complications.
The Christmas gig features live performances from The Rotten Hill Gang, The Riff-Raff, Dan Smith and The Savage Nomads.
Strummerville was founded by Joe Strummer’s widow Lucinda shortly after his death.
The group says it “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”.
Delighted to announce the third annual benefit organised by our good friends in Portsmouth …
Featuring The Racheteers, The Good Charlies, Archive 45, Time Action and DJ Rob Moore on the ones and twos …
Endless Strummer is a tribute to Joe Strummer of The Clash and a benefit for Strummerville, a foundation that creates new opportunities for aspiring musicians. It takes place this Saturday, September 1st at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco.
