SQUAT CITY ROCKS
Wednesday 15 April 2015
Friday 10 April 2015
ROUGH TRADE WEST. BOOK SIGNING + 101'ERS GIG
SQUAT CITY ROCKS.....BOOK SIGNING. Record Store Day. Sat 18 AprilI'll be signing copies of the book from 11am and later in afternoon playing a short set of 101ers songs with:Clive Timperley: original 101'ers guitarist on lead guitarGiggs Nother: my son! on bassTodd Sharpville: lead vocals and guitar. Playing times as follows:Jeb Loy Nichols 1pm101ers 1.45 pmRyley Walker 2.30 pmPalma Violets 3.15 pm
Tuesday 10 March 2015
Wednesday 4 February 2015
REVIEW OF "SQUAT CITY ROCKS" AND OTHER INFO ON PRESENT DAY LONDON SQUATTING ISSUES....
This taken from a 1975 edition of "Squatters' handbook". Author unknown.
Wednesday 31 December 2014
Kris Needs review in January edition of "SHINDIG MAGAZINE"
“ SQUAT CITY
ROCKS: proto-punk and beyond. a musical memoir from
the margins.
RichardDudanski
RichardDudanski
Having experienced punk’s hurricane
(particularly The Clash) at very close range, I find most stuff trotted out
about it and them in recent years superficial and irritating, but this is one
of the good ones, guaranteed to raise a smile. Richard Dudanski was drummer
with The 101ers, the high-octane London pub-rock band fronted by Joe Strummer,
so obviously his book is of special interest to Clash fans. But it’s much more
than that, particularly the accounts of life they shared in Maida Vale’s
pre-gentrification squat land, with all the characters, DIY electrics, survival
techniques and sinister Special Patrol Group elevated into the realms of fascinating
historical document by his acute eye for detail.
Crucially writing without bitterness
or self-aggrandisement, Dudanski gives a fascinating account of Woody Mellor’s
transformation into Joe Strummer and the full-blown conversion to punk’s
manifesto which broke The 101ers and drove him to become the movement’s most
revered figurehead. Dudanski’s colourful life after The 101ers provides further
engrossing reading as he goes on to play with Metal Box-era PiL, doomed punky
reggae pioneers Basement Five, Tymon Dogg, The Raincoats and assorted
subterranean London underground outfits, before locating to Granada with
long-time partner Esperanza
Concluding with reuniting with
Strummer before his still-shocking death in 2002, the book stands as a rare
glimpse into a little-documented aspect of a lost London and a poignant tribute
to his old friend Joe, further enlivened by Esperanza’s illustrations, often
executed back then.
Kris Needs “
Kris Needs “
Saturday 20 December 2014
Dudanski interview with Robert Elms. BBC Radio London, 25th October
Friday 19 December 2014
Page 38 of UNCUT
Page 38 of UNCUT
Chosen as one of TOP TEN books of 2014 by UK music monthly "UNCUT" in current edition.
Chosen as one of TOP TEN books of 2014 by UK music monthly "UNCUT" in current edition.
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