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Strummerville- The Joe Strummer Foundation For New Music has added a video to their home page promoting the Foundation and the things they do for kids and music. Strummerville is really like the 'Music is Art of England' set up in Mr Clash, Joe Strummer's name.

What I like about this video is that they have a quick montage of Joe Strummer tribute concert posters, like the ones we do for the annual event that happens at the Mohawk Place (7 years running). Well the top of the heap of the montage in this video is a Take The Fifth poster that we did for the 5 ft annual rock show here in 2006! Wolf Tickets leader and Strummerville concert organized Chris Malachowski gave me the heads ups. See the link below.

>> Check out the video on the Strumerville site, here.

>> See all our Joe Strummer tribute rock poster collection here.
Click on image to go back in time thru all 7.

I like to reinterpret the same gig every year in this poster. It's a lot of fun and challenging designwisz to keep coming up with something fresh & punk rock for this every year. A few years back, the Strummerville site used one of our posters as a link on their home page to their 'Events' section and that was quite an honor.

I just watched The Last Testament- the making of London Calling by Don Letts-- with all it's fuzzy black and white footage of producer Guy Stevens throwing chairs and swinging a ladder. He wasn't drunk and obnoxious, he was just insane! Good stuff. And when I saw this, hmmmm.. design karma perhaps.....

As a poster guy, I can only hope that remaining Clash members Mick Jones, Topper Headon or Paul Simonon might have caught a glimpse of some OtherWisz graphics. Or maybe Joe is smiling down and saying "rock."

THE STRUMMERVILLE MISSION: for those of who who want to know....
Strummerville is a registered charity that aims to create new opportunities for aspiring musicians. Set up by the friends and family of Joe Strummer in the year after his death, the charity 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.

Kick Out The Jams

Happy Holidays to U!

I wanted to post the photos the girls and I took at The Broadway Market on Christmas Eve day. The market was dead and Santa Claus paid us a lot of mind-- we had his utmost attention. He told us that Mrs. Claus didn't want him to eat too many cookies this year and he seemed a bit large! I think he was sober....

So it was a great holiday in retrospective. The family came over and I got a lot a great gifts. The girls had a good time and got pretty much everything on their lists. J. bought me a lot of cool PUNK gifts including the the new Cobain book, the new pink Clash book (which seems awesome) and the soundtrack to the Strummer bio The Future is Unwritten. I also got a cool PUNK illustrated encyclopedia of sorts full of photos and more! Oi! You would think she was really gearing me up for the Strummer Tribute event I am DJing tomorrow night, eh?

Anyway, I hope to see you all tomorrow at the Mohawk Place-- Happy Holidays to you all, faithful readers. All three girls are sleeping and I am going to enjoy my scotch & water and delve into the pink Clash book a bit. Rock on in 2009.


Fruits and such....


Breads and more!


Waiting for sausage.


Platzec (Polish spellcheck help me..)


More.


A bit of Crystal Beach memories.


Empty Deli.

Clash City Rockers

The Magnificent Seven! 7th Annual Tribute to Joe Strummer and The Clash! Friday, December 26th!

Ring! ring! its 7:00 a.m.!
Move yself to go again
Cold water in the face
Brings you back to this awful place.
-- The Clash

Come on out the day after Christmas for some post holiday cheer and rock!

This friday I will be DJ'ing before, between and after rock band sets during the 7th annual Clash tribute night at the Mohawk place. Join us as we pay tribute to the late, great Joe Strummer.

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. 

>> The proceeds benefit STRUMMERVILLE- The Joe Strummer Foundation For New Music

>> This is my 7th poster in a row for this event, click here to see them all.

What do we have for entertainment?
Cops kickin' gypsies on the pavement!
-- The Clash