Dark Horse Records Releases Joe Strummer's Iconic London Benefit Concert and Unexpected Last Reunion With Mick Jones Of The Clash With Live At Acton Town Hall Remastered CD and 2LP

 

Dark Horse Records is reissuing Joe Strummer’s iconic London benefit show for striking firefighters with the physical release of Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros: Live at Acton Town Hall on CD and special edition 2LP Clear vinyl. Pre-order NOW from Joe’s official online store and receive an exclusive print of the original set list from the show, whilst stocks last. The show saw Strummer reunite on stage with Mick Jones of The Clash for the first time in almost two decades. As well as being the closest The Clash ever came to reuniting, this monumental show was also Strummer’s final London show, one of his last ever live performances before his passing in 2002, and the final time the historic pairing of Strummer and Jones played together on stage. PRE-ORDER HERE

The vinyl is packaged in a gatefold sleeve featuring never-before-seen photos from the show, plus new liner notes. This will be the first time the concert has been properly released with full packaging on vinyl, with its extremely limited previous incarnation as a Record Store Day exclusive in 2012 featuring just a DIY-inspired clear sleeve, and the first time it has ever been released on CD.

As rumors of massive paydays from festivals and promoters for a possible reunion of The Clash circulated ahead of the band’s pending induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the unplanned reunion of Strummer and Jones playing out at a benefit show for striking firefighters proved to be an appropriate backdrop for the closest the world got to seeing The Clash reform. Jones spontaneously jumped on stage and joined Strummer and the band for the last three songs of the set for The Clash classics, “Bankrobber,” “White Riot” and “London’s Burning”.

Remastered by three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer Paul Hicks (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison), other highlights of the show include early versions of “Coma Girl” and “Get Down Moses”, which later appeared on the posthumous Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros album, Streetcore, and as previously unreleased outtakes from Strummer’s final recording sessions on last year’s Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years box set release.


JOE STRUMMER
LIVE AT ACTON TOWN HALL
(Dark Horse/BMG)
Release Date: Friday, August 18th, 2023

TRACKLISTING

  1. Shaktar Donetsk

  2. Bhindee Bhagee

  3. Rudie Can’t Fail

  4. Tony Adams

  5. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais

  6. Mega Bottle Ride

  7. Get Down Moses

  8. Police and Thieves

  9. Cool 'N' Out

  10. Police On My Back

  11. Johnny Appleseed

  12. Coma Girl

  13. I Fought The Law

  14. Bankrobber (featuring Mick Jones)

  15. White Riot (featuring Mick Jones)

  16. London’s Burning (featuring Mick Jones)

 
Spencer Ramsey