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Punk icon and singer with The Clash Joe Strummer is set to be honoured with a new Christmas card - which he designed before his death. Real name John Mellor, Joe Strummer was a walking contradiction. The son of a former diplomat the college drop out turned into a squat rocker, before becoming a ferocious punk rocker battling for peace and love. The Clash emerged from the Westway with a furious energy. Their debut album blended the anger of The Sex Pistols with a rare humanity, giving the band a political edge that helped define a generation. Speaking out against racism and prejudice, The Clash blended this with expertly picked influences. The band's tour bus rocked to the sounds of dub reggae, classic rockabilly, soul and even the odd slice of Captain Beefheart. Continually re-inventing themselves, the band would eventually splinter after the departure of songwriting partner Mick Jones. Joe Strummer picked himself up and engaged in a lingering career that would stretch from cinema to art until he eventually found his way back to the music scene. Dying in 2002, the punk icon was on the verge of an unlikely revival. Joe Strummer was playing to packed out crowds and, just weeks before his death, the singer would be re-united with Mick Jones at an impromptu performance for striking firemen. Now Joe Strummer is to be remembered with a new Christmas card. The songwriter was also a keen artist, and designed his own cards to be sent to friends and family. One design which was never used will now be released in aid of the charity Strummerville, set up after his death. In addition to this the charity are set to release the new record 'Winter Sessions Showcase Album 2009' featuring a range of up and coming acts. Check out the Strummerville website for more details.
Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has criticised world leaders for failing to reach agreement at the recent Copenhagen conference on global warming. Global warming is one of the biggest problems facing humanity. Rising sea levels, severe weather patterns and shifts in temperature have all conspired to make life on planet Earth more dangerous than ever. A recent conference in Copenhagen saw world leaders descend on the Danish capital to thrash out a potentially historic deal on climate change. However in a series of scattered debates no consensus emerged. Radiohead singer Thom Yorke gatecrashed the event after gaining advantage of a press pass, and in a new statement reported by the BBC has revealed his disgust with world leaders. "I think that western governments have come here expecting to go around this like business as usual" blasted the Radiohead frontman. "They're not interested in what you think. They are interested in covering themselves. They've walked into this negotiation and operated utterly cynically." "They deserve all they get. All of them, including Obama, were put in power on the basis that they would change the climate change issue. Obama has done something, I'll give him that. I'll give him that it's not easy. But if you’re American you should be utterly ashamed of your president right now." "If you were going to be really open hearted about it you could say, well maybe there was a practical element to it, maybe they were trying to move things forward. But actually, I think it's far more distressing than that. You have governments who don’t really see how it's going to happen. A lot of them are men and a lot of them are middle aged. They have a lot of friends around them who basically want to keep this ticking over as it is." "They've come away with nothing here and it's really, really disturbing. This is the time, this is the hour, this is the day it was supposed to happen and it's not happened."
Leicester indie giants Kasabian have spoken about their new grunge influenced material. With Oasis out of action a number of groups are attempting to seize their throne. Close friends and fellow British rockers Kasabian could yet emerge as potential replacements, with the rowdy Leicester lads recently completing a massive arena tour. Celebrating the success of their third album 'West Ryder Pauper Asylum' the band were keen to see out the year in style. Set to take a short break Kasabian have signalled their intentions to return with new material in 2010. Speaking to BBC 6Music the band's singer Tom Meighan claimed that a variety of garage and psych groups inspired 'West Ryder Pauper Asylum'. Asked what was fuelling current writing sessions the singer claimed that Nirvana and Pink Floyd were big influences. "Sergio Pizzorno (guitarist) has got a body of songs that are sounding great," he explained. "It’s nothing like what we’ve done on this record it’s really old school grunge. There’s a lot of Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon, piano-based songs at the minute." Continuing, the singer outlined the band's plans to return with a quick-fire fourth album. "I think we’ll do it a bit quicker this time," he said. "We took a good three months off last time, because we toured for about four years and that’s the only reason we took that amount of time off, because we toured like crazy." "I think this time we’ll have a few weeks off or a month off, then we’ll go into the studio and record the new record. Hopefully we won’t wait around so much this time." Elsewhere, the Kasabian frontman also recalled meeting Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant. "I just told him how much I loved him" the singer laughed. "I called him 'Mr Plant'. He was like, 'Don’t call me Mr Plant, call me Robert and I brought your record and it’s great', is what he said. He was wonderful."
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