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Thursday, Feb 7 2019, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, good afternoon London, HELLO WORLD! It's officially International Clash Day, and you are hearing Goat Girl kick things off LIVE from Studio 9294 in London. Stream this performance on Youtube: www.youtube.com
Wanna find out more about Goat Girl? Check out our interview with this London four-piece here: bit.ly
"...we see a lot of ourselves in The Clash. They weren’t afraid to make banging pop tunes in a sea of aggressive willy rock, which we appreciate and aspire to do. They were supporters of rock against racism and used their platform as artists to raise awareness of injustice. Other bands involved at that time have been very inspiring to us too, like the Slits and X-Ray Spex." bit.ly
You're listening to Goat Girl LIVE from London on KEXP for International Clash Day! Find their music and more here: goatgirl.co.uk
Don't forget you can stream all our live performances from London today from YouTube! We've got Queen Zee, Soviet Soviet, IDLES, and Heavy Lungs still to come - www.youtube.com
Happy International Clash Day everyone! You're hearing Goat Girl LIVE from London here on KEXP www.kexp.org
Goat Girl is vocalist/guitarist Clottie Cream (Lottie), bassist/vocalist Naima Jelly (Naima), guitarist/vocalist L.E.D. (Ellie), and drummer Rosy Bones (Rosy). Stream this performance live here: www.youtube.com
Settle down and drink your joe, Enjoy the scene before it implodes | Watch the official video for "Cracker Drool" here: www.youtube.com
See all upcoming tour dates for this London four-piece here: goatgirl.co.uk
This is Radio Clash. This is KEXP. This is International Clash Day! Buy Clash Music
Jamaican reggae musician Willie Williams first recorded "Armagideon Time" in 1977. The Clash covered it and used it as a B-side for their 1979 "London Calling" single | Buy Clash Music
Recorded at Jamaica Recording Studio by Willie Williams in Kingston, Jamaica in 1977
This second track off of London Calling is a cover of the 1959 song by Vince Taylor, a British rockabilly singer. (It was also the first song The Clash recorded for London Calling)| Buy Clash Music
British rock and roller Vince Taylor, and his song that was famously covered by The Clash for London Calling. Taylor was also known for being the inspiration for David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust
The Specials are a ska band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England and "Too Much Too Young" can be found on their debut self-titled album
The Pretenders are a band that formed in England in 1978, fronted by the Ohio-born Chrissie Hynde. Hynde moved to London in 1973. While there, she worked for NME and attempted to start a group with The Clash's Mick Jones at one point
Third track off London Calling. You're tuned into the 7th annual International Clash Day here at KEXP, where we're celebrating the 40th anniversary of this album all the way in London! | Buy Clash Music
Satta Massagana is reggae band The Abyssinians 1976 album that was referenced lyrically in The Clash's "Jimmy Jazz" song
Track #4 off of London Calling! (Yes, we're going in order today) We've got more in store for you celebrating the 40th anniversary of this iconic album and the 7th annual International Clash Day | Buy Clash Music
"We tried our holiday in the sun in the isle of Jersey and that didn't work. They threw us out." - The Sex Pistols everyone!
The song the Sex Pistols took the chord pattern from and then turned into "Holidays in the Sun"
Track #5 off of London Calling! This one has Joe Strummer and Mick Jones singing together as a duet, and applauds the Jamaican rude boys of the 60's | Buy Clash Music
Found on the 1967 album of the same name from Jamaican band Desmond Dekker & The Aces. Dekker wrote the song about a student protest he watched on the news: "The students had a demonstration and it went all the way around to Four Shore Road and down to Shanty Town. You got wildlife and thing like that because it down near the beach. And the higher ones wanted to bulldoze the whole thing down and do their own thing and the students said no way. And it just get out of control...Is just a typical riot 'cause I say - Them a loot, them a shoot, them a wail."
"New wave, new wave, new rave - Wailers be there - The Dammed, The Jam, The Clash - Maytals will be there - Doctor Feelgood too, ooh"
Song from Toots and the Maytals that would later be covered by The Clash. Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert told The Guardian in a 2016 interview about this song: "It’s a song about revenge, but in the form of karma: if you do bad things to innocent people, then bad things will happen to you. The title was a phrase I used to say. If someone done me wrong, rather than fight them like a warrior, I’d say: “The pressure’s going to drop on you.”
Another song that would later be covered by The Clash for their 1979 album London Calling
"Police and Thieves" was originally written and released by Junior Murvin in 1976. Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon's involvement in the Notting Hill Carnival riot in 1976 inspired them to cover this song for their first album
Track #6 on the album that we're celebrating today as part of International Clash Day. Strummer wrote this song after hearing a radio report of terror bombings of hotels on a coastal region of Catalonia in northeastern Spain | Buy Clash Music
Cover of The Clash song done by Tijuana No, a Mexican band that formed in the late 80's. Just announced today, KEXP is heading to Mexico City in partnership with NRMAL music festival and Panoram Studios in Mexico City to celebrate one of the most diverse, supportive, and dynamic music cities in the world: bit.ly
From the liner notes of this 1993 release from La Furia: "We believe that the messages the Clash and other punk, launched in the late 70's are now more than force. For this and because we love your music, is why we took almost 2 years mulling over the idea of recording a tape versions of the Clash in Spanish. Now that the opportunity has been presented we could not resist the temptation."
Join us tonight in Seattle to celebrate International Clash Day at Washington Hall for a night of Clash covers by Hotels, Mirrorgloss, Guayaba, and Dark Smith! Find more info here: bit.ly | Buy Clash Music
You're listening to Queen Zee, LIVE on KEXP for International Clash Day at Studio 9294 in London! Watch this live stream right here: www.youtube.com
Queen Zee to KEXP on what The Clash means to them: "They're one of our all-time favourite bands. As a band, we have such varied tastes but The Clash are one of the few artists that transcend those boundaries. They captured what was happening in youth culture at the time immensely and weren't afraid to experiment, push the boundaries of what was possible. It's something I would like to think we do in our own way. I want to reflect what is happening right now in 2019, culturally, musically and politically." | bit.ly
Queen Zee's debut self-titled album is out TOMORROW, February 8th via Sasstone Records! Watch this space: queenzeeuk.weebly.com
"Sissy Fists" is the first single released from Queen Zee, and you can watch the video for it here: bit.ly
Keep up with tour dates, releases (debut album is out tomorrow!), merch and more from this Liverpool band here: queenzeeuk.weebly.com
We've still got performances from Soviet Soviet, IDLES, and Heavy Lungs to come for International Clash Day, live from London! Stay tuned to our YouTube channel to watch the live stream, or come join us here in Seattle at the Gathering Space to watch | Buy Clash Music
Check out all the other cities and radio stations involved in International Clash Day today, free poster downloads, and more here: internationalclashday.com | Buy Clash Music
Track #7 on London Calling! "The Right Profile" is about actor Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun, From Here to Eternity) and his troubled life. In 1956, after he fell asleep behind the wheel and his car crashed into a tree he became addicted to alcohol and pills for relief and slowly killed himself via addiction. It was called the "longest suicide in Hollywood history." After the accident, his face was mangled and he needed plastic surgery for a broken jaw and more. He continued to make movies, but had to be shot from "The Right Profile" to look good, hence the name of the song. | Buy Clash Music
Track #8 from London Calling! (And apparently, the supermarket Joe Strummer found himself lost in before he wrote this song was the International, located at 471-473 Kings Road) | Buy Clash Music
And now for some anti-consumerism songs! "Price Tag" is found on Sleater-Kinney's eighth studio album No Cities to Love, released in 2015 (which came ten years after the release of The Woods)
The bassline Tina Weymouth created for this song was apparently inspired by drummer Chris Frantz's yelling during a jam, and David Byrne wrote the lyrics after disappearing from the band for two months.
The first single released from the Canadian band's fifth album of the same name. Watch the video for it here: bit.ly
Found on the 1999 release Burning London: The Clash Tribute which also featured Moby, Cracker, No Doubt, and more doing covers in tribute to The Clash
And now for track #9 off of London Calling, which we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of on International Clash Day today! | Buy Clash Music
Cover of The Clash song done by the Tucson, Arizona band that formed in 1996
Folks, you've been tuned in to the 7th annual International Clash Day here at KEXP. (Broadcasting from London!) We've got Soviet Soviet up next for a live performance, check out the full lineup here: bit.ly | Buy Clash Music
The song features lyrics that celebrate his African-American heritage, and "tackles hatred, racism, and hypocrisy head on."