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Went to see the Joe Strummer biopic last night. It was excellent :D Loads of great footage put together with animations and film clips from around the time, tons and tons of great stuff all thrown together into a huge audio visual scrapbook, lots of it narrated by the man himself. And there was no trying to make a martyr of the guy - it was warts and all, it was just a brilliant piece of film making through and through, and I would recommend it to everyone even if they had never heard of him. 10/10 :)

Posted on Wed, 23 May 2007 at 10:32

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Dennis wrote:

I wanna see it I wanna see it!

Glad to hear he narrates lots of it - He had one of the coolest voices ever, although that makes me sound very weird for saying that but ahem..

Is it better than the Clash Westway To The World film..?

Posted on Wed, 23 May 2007 at 10:37

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mrs h wrote:

I saw a Clash film in the 80’s that was the biggest pile of intolerable tripe I have ever seen. It was a kind of fly on the wall documentary and they were stoned of their tits and just threw up and swore all the way through it as far as I recall. Is that the one you mean?

It doesn’t actually matter because the answer would be yes anyway :)

Posted on Wed, 23 May 2007 at 10:41

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Dennis wrote:

“Westway To The World” is a documentary that was made by Donn Letts in 2000 with a mix of Clash footage and modern-day interviews with the band members.

Got it on DVD very cheap not long back - definitely worth seeking out if you are a Clash/ Strummer fan, especially as you can usually find it for under a fiver, but I would imagine this new film has kind of usurped it - it sounds like it is more in depth, as it isn’t solely concentrated on the Clash.

EDIT: Come to think of it, one of the extras on the DVD is a very dodgy, grainy 80’s fly-on-the-wall film of them all stoned and dribbling, so I think that is probably the one you saw!

Posted on Wed, 23 May 2007 at 10:49

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mrs h wrote:

I will definitely keep my eye out for it. Is there any way you can delete the extras so you never accidentally sit through that crap again? :D

TFIU wasn’t really ‘about’ the Clash at all - it was about Joe Strummer and the effect that he had on the people around him and the effect the Clash had on him, so there is stuff about the 101ers and the Mescaleros too but mainly it was about his life, and like I say, it was all thrown together into a sort of scrapbook style so that Clash footage wasn’t really in any chronological order, it was just whatever was relevant to what was being said.

I should warn you that one of the celebrity fans was Bono, but he wasn’t in it much and he didn’t talk about himself at all :)

Posted on Wed, 23 May 2007 at 11:04

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buffalo-boy wrote:

Who is Joe Strummer? ?

Posted on Wed, 23 May 2007 at 11:13

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Dennis wrote:

:eek:

He is best known for being frontman with The Clash, who were knocking about in the late 70’s/ early 80’s.

Died in 2002 from a heart attack.

Quite the hero to many people.

Posted on Wed, 23 May 2007 at 11:16

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Cuchulain wrote:

buffalo-boy wrote:

Who is Joe Strummer? ?

If that’s not a wind-up , then shame on you !

Posted on Wed, 23 May 2007 at 12:23

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30 secs max wrote:

i saw joe at t in the park about 10 years ago. cant remember what his band was called but they played all the old clash classics which was nice. bankrobber, what a fucking tune!!:D

Posted on Wed, 23 May 2007 at 15:48

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mrs h wrote:

buffalo-boy wrote:

Who is Joe Strummer? ?

John Mellor :)

@3SM - You are not wrong. A fine song indeed :D

Posted on Wed, 23 May 2007 at 18:31

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Muskeg (T.M. O.M) wrote:

Me when Kurt Cobain died : :rolleyes: meh

Me when Joe Strummer died :( Shit

Posted on Wed, 23 May 2007 at 19:11

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Dennis wrote:

Who is Kurt Cobain??

Posted on Fri, 25 May 2007 at 09:21

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mrs h wrote:

LOL :D

Posted on Fri, 25 May 2007 at 10:11

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zipless wrote:

Dennis wrote:

Who is Kurt Cobain??

Courtney’s EX-husband, s’pose we are too young to have known him…

Posted on Fri, 25 May 2007 at 12:30

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