The Clash that is, sex, style and subversion
Monday 16 June 2014

Joe Strummer, or Mellor if you prefer, 32 years old born in Ankara, is one of the great generation myths that the punk movement has produced. In contrarlo in the Cavese changing rooms, while a radio hidden who knows where, transmits a strange sound mixture of gaudy orchestras and mariachi, can be very stimulating. Above all, I know the interview, started in the most conventional of ways, turns into an informal chat. Checked on sight by his trusted manager Cosmo Vinyl and in the absence of cameras. Joe Strummer did not perform you us usual "unscheduled" shows. for the use and consumption of the journalist, but he responded with full availability to our questions.

The portrait emerged and somewhat complex, it often seemed to us that Strummer wanted to be ironic, and some statements did not surprise us. One thing is sure the Clash and for them Joe Strummer, they are not embalmed caryatids. Their sound, as in their philosophy, is constantly evolving. Today Joe Strummer is a much less romantically revolutionary rocker and much more concretely capable of making an impact, in a revolutionary sense if you like, in the daily lives of those who listen to him. For some it will be yet another myth that collapses, for us it is only a matter of acknowledging that the Clash, despite having lost Mick Jones, still have something to say.

The Interview starts on the usual tracks of the schographic activity:

House of Ju-Ju Queen a record that you recorded with Janie Jones (the breastfeeding protagonist of the magnificent athem) contained in your first 33 rpm) with which you collaborated as soon as the blonde queen of perversion. (one of the many names I invent of the.

What we are doing. Anyway it's not even worth mentioning, it was raw, unfinished demo-tape.

Continuing to talk about mysterious records, it is true that the Clash would hide behind the Souck brothors theme and that Harem girl…

I assume you are trinating some speculation on Radio Clash.

- Let's now talk about the new album and the new songs, some of which, already performed live in Milan, were not in the lineup tonight

St. Intact we have ...

... mind for the new album: when you hear it you will be very surprised. you will snap your fingers and scream in wonder. It will be something profoundly different from what you have heard tonight. Maybe it will be pop. at least in part. Women like it too (???)