All time favourite band

“All over the world people are oppressed and in London there were the dreads and there were punks and we had an alliance. England is a very repressive country. Immigrants were treated badly. So these people had a sense of pride and dignity, and when we went into their concerts, where we should have had the grace to have left them alone, they didn’t jump us, they didn’t stomp us, they didn’t beat the seven shades of you know what out of us. They understood that maybe we needed a drop of this roots culture. And ‘White Man in Hammersmith Palais’ is a song that was going through my mind while I was standing in the middle of the Hammersmith Palais in a sea of thousands of rastas and dreads and natty rebels. That song was trying to say something realistic.”

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Joe Strummer, 1981

I love The Clash. But I was born too late for them. My WIP is an inspiration from them. I hope I can see that WIP through.