Out On Blue Six: The Clash

This suitably apt song is going out to our alleged Prime Minister, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, pictured above with his pet polecat Dominic Cummings. Sadly those aren't prison bars they're behind...not yet. 

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Out On Blue Six: The Clash - Good Luck Lionesses!

I've also been remiss in not mentioning England Lionesses excellent performance thus far in the She Believes Cup out in the US. So far they've won one game (Brazil) and drew another (the US), and tonight they play Japan - which you can watch, from 10pm, on BBC4. I'm hoping for another win and a glorious goal (or goals) from Ellen White, who drew first blood scoring against Brazil last week. 

So here's a suitable track for her and the rest of the squad, to wish them well tonight. The Clash and White Riot!

Good luck ladies!

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The Clash : New Year's Day '77

Julien Temple's latest, screened on BBC4 appropriately enough on New Year's Day, mixes archive footage from a rather long forgotten home movie of The Clash on New Year's Day, 1977 with fascinating national and regional news, current affairs and light entertainment footage from that period. This could so easily have been called 'A Warning From History; Welcome to the Second Winter of Discontent' instead. 

The punk credo may have been 'No Future' but, as we're currently experiencing and as Temple wishes to point out, we have had a future; it's just that, right now here in the UK, it is one of history repeating itself. Only trouble is, we don't have a rising disaffected youth movement getting up and screaming about it this time around, just utterly dormant, cowed and compliant apathy - and that really is 'No Future'.

Out On Blue Six : The Clash

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Out On Blue Six : The Clash

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RIP Junior Murvin

Another sad loss has been brought to my attention; Junior Murvin the celebrated reggae artist, has died on Monday in Jamaica aged 67 following difficulties with hypertension and diabetes.

Junior's biggest hit was of course Police and Thieves from 1976. Produced by the legendary Lee Scratch Perry, the song transcended the niche reggae market to become an anthem for the late 1970s with its allusions to taking up arms against the state. It came to the attention of The Clash's bassist Paul Simonen and the punk rock group covered it on their debut LP. The song is perhaps most associated with the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival, which ended in riots.

RIP Junior

Out On Blue Six : The Clash

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Out On Blue Six : The Ruts

Love this one. For a long time as a teen I thought it was by The Clash. Which is as good a compliment as you can probably get eh?

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Out On Blue Six : The Clash

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One Way Or Another - Debbie Harry Picspam

Hey Joe

Where you going with that gun in your hand?

Some fan art I made of Joe Strummer taken from the hilariously surreal mock Spaghetti Western Alex Cox film Straight To Hell (a film Tarantino totally stole from)

Here's the original screen shot