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JOE STRUMMER
GLASTONBURY 1999

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Item no. : YS033
Artist : JOE STRUMMER
Product type : Compact Disc
Label : YARD STICK
Release Date : 02 August 2024

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Following the disbandment of The Clash in the mid-1980s, for almost a decade (a period which Strummer himself described as the ‘wilderness years’) not much occurred in Joe Strummer’s career.  A handful of appearances in certain cult movies was augmented by some soundtrack work, and Joe even joined The Pogues for a year. 
But in the mid-to-late 1990s, Strummer gathered top-flight musicians into a backing band he called The Mescaleros. Strummer and the band signed with Mercury Records, and released their first album in 1999, Rock Art and the X-Ray Style. A tour of England, Europe, and North America soon followed. Joe was later to comment; ‘This is my Indian summer ... I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all’. 
One of the finest live appearances The Mescaleros made during their ’99 tour took place on June 26th at that year’s Glastonbury Festival. Playing a set just short of an hour’s duration, the band performed a tight mix of new tracks mixed with Clash classics, which delighted an expectant crowd of fans, festival eccentrics and almost everyone in-between.
Just over a month after Glastonbury, The Mescaleros were in Japan, and on 1st August played a stunning set at the Fuji Rock Festival in Yuzawa, Nigata. With both these appearances recorded for live FM radio broadcast, they now feature on this superb new CD.

1 Techno D-Day  5:55
2 London Calling  3:35
3 X-Ray Style  4:29
4 White Man In Hammersmith Palais 4:06
5 Tony Adams  6:55
6 Rock The Casbah  4:29
7 Yalla Yalla  6:48
8 Brand New Cadillac  1:54
9 I Fought The Law  2:28
10 Diggin’ The New  2:45
11 Tommy Gun  3:11
12 Bankrobber  5:06
13 Diggin’ The New  3:35
14 London Calling  3:57
15 White Man In Hammersmith Palais  4:02
16 Straight To Hell  6:16
17 Rock The Casbah  4:32
18 Brand New Cadillac  1:58
19 I Fought The Law  1:13
20 Tommy Gun  3:48 

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