Comeback gigs & Glastonbury Warm Up

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
Joe Strummer: Vocals and Rhythm Guitar
Martyn Slattery: Lead Guitar, Keyboards et al
Anthony Genn: Guitar
Scott Shields: Bass Guitar
Pablo Cook: Percussion
Smiley: Drums

Audio recording - broadcast?
cdr - excellent pro sound + intvw
Sound 5
55min+ 5mins interview + 4mins Ishen from unknown venue
Very low
13 songs / 15 tracks

Audio recording - official release
7" bootleg - Bankrobber 99
Sound 5
- min
2 tracks
c/w White Riot

Straight to Hell

This has a great sound. Probably an FM radio source as you can hear the announcer just prior to the first song.

Interview at concert
Video CD (388x284)
Interview with Joe Strummer - size 320x240 - fps 24.989 - time 00_04_14
Interview with Joe Strummer - size 352x576 - fps 25 - time 00_04_21

Joe interview on a balcony
DV (SD)
From Scandinavia, SwedishTV Musicbyran
SwedishTV Musicbyran - size 352x576 - *fps 24.999 - time 00_06_04

JUNE 20 AT HULTSFREDFESTIVALEN, SWEDEN (Night Performance).

Joe performing at Hultsfred - note he's still got what it takes to look good on stage!

by Wilhelm Eliasson

The Hultsfred Festival..30 000 visitors (in a town of 7 000 inhabitants), one of them our hero Joe Strummer. It had been a fantastic festival, the biggest in its history, and according to many its best. In the festival programme was among others Suede, Marilyn Manson, Manic Street Preachers, Hole, Placebo, Sick Of It All and Atari Teenage Riot, but the band i was there to see was the punkbands Skitsystem (Shit System), The Kristet Utseende (The Chrisitan Look :D ), the old swedish punkhero Stefan Sundstr m, Dropkick Murphy’s and the synthbands Statemachine and S.P.O.C.K.

On the last day of the festival (Sunday the 20th of june) Joe Strummer was supposed to play at the largest stage at the festival at 10 p.m. I arrivied there a half hour earlier. I’d planned to see the swedish folkrockband Garmarna (The Guards At The Gates of Hell :) ) at 9 p.m. but the persons i shared tent with screwed up, and i ended up running a whole kilometre, and that’s a lot for the lazy me. I arrivied at the Garmarna Show, and saw one song, my favourite, and started running towards Joe Strummer.

Me and my friend Miikka arrivied at the stage 9.30 and situated ourselves on a hill about a hundred metres from the stage to ensure ourself to actually see the guy...this was because swedish people generally are pretty tall, and I’m not...altough I’m swedish :).

At, should we say, 10.30 Joe arrived at stage, picked up his guitar and started playing "London Calling", and it sounded absolutely fantastic. I ran down the hill and jumped right down the mosh-pit, jumping around just 2 metres from Joe...and he looked in great condition playing his guitar and screaming out the sounds of London Calling.

One of the nicest things about the concert was that it was such a mixed audience: 40yrs old ex-punks, indiegirls, young punks, crusties...and everybody was in complete extasy. I especially remember an old guy standing completely still, in tears, saying: -fan vad bra, fan vad bra, fan vad bra (fucking great, fucking great, fucking great).

After London Calling, he did a new song...a kind of a reggae-folkrock thing, which i enjoyed pretty much, because I’m a big Pogues and Levellers-fan. He continued with "I Fought The Law" and followed in a orgy of old Clash-hits and some new material. According to my large amount of alcohol intake I have it a bit hard to remember exactly which songs he played, but i seem to recall, English Civil War, Rock The Casbah, Brand New Cadillac, Straight To Hell, and White Man in Hammersmith Palais.

The concert closed with Bankrobber, and Joe left the stage. Alltough no one wanted to leave, and a big singalong of bankrobber started, but after awhile the Suede fans arrived to see their favourite band, and the whole thing was over. I left the area with a huge smile on my lips.

Well, what grades can I give the concert? 10 out of 10, I must say...fantastic...

Is there any more to say? Well, after the show I went back to my tent, which i shared with 9 friends... and what did i see?!!...the swedish rap-star Markoolio, sat in our tent drinking our gin..fuck, i hate him!...it was my friend Marias fault. She had picked him up somewhere...he asked me if i were a Clash-fan...YES! I replied with a big smile on my face..I am!...

Did you go? What do you remember?
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