― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link
I also recently caught most of Don Letts' Clash documentary "Westway to the World and was quite impressed. There is some really amazing footage of The Clash in this one that reminded me how much I loved that band at one time. It is one of the best biographical films I have ever seen on a band.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Poly Styrene in her interview bits = k-rowr
If you read the "Where are They Now?" section on her, it says she went Krishna ffs! (meanwhile, Ray Cappo has "distanced himself" from the religion lol)
― Q('.'Q) (eman), Saturday, 3 June 2006 02:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyone got any idea what point Don Letts is trying to make here? Is in fact just about whether the Clash could have recorded "Police and Thieves" in 2021, as I suspect?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/16/woke-culture-is-threat-to-protest-songs-says-don-letts
― Woke For Luck (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:31 (three years ago) link
I don't think there's any value in trying to divine his point from dozens of sentence fragments scissored out of something else that he wrote himself.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:43 (three years ago) link
It's usually about the Clash with Don Letts, so I'll stick to my original theory.
― Woke For Luck (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:45 (three years ago) link
Probably, but it's a chance to use the phrase "woke culture" in a headline I guess. Don's appearance on Gardeners' World last summer was a cultureal highlight of 2020 for me.
― mahb, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:45 (three years ago) link
I really hate his voice.
He does a show on 6music.
Idk what point hes naming except that white artists would be criticised for doing black mysic today. Not sure where protest music and cultural appropriation align though.
― candyman, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 10:40 (three years ago) link
Not familiar with Letts recent work on Brit BBC radio 6 music, but just enjoyed 2022 Rebel Dread doc about his life ( was directed by William E. Badgley , best known for music documentary Here to Be Heard: The Story of The Slits, and is executive produced by Letts himself ). Some good super 8 footage from late 70s, and some interesting interview bits from Letts himself as well as Mick Jones, Paul Simonon (The Clash), John Lydon (Sex Pistols, PiL), and Jazzy B (Soul II Soul) among others.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 May 2023 04:46 (ten months ago) link
Dennis Bovell and others interviewed too. Brit history that some non- Brits might not know included too- Notting Hill Riots, Enoch Powell ugliness and how it all related to Letts . Young white punk future stars hanging at Letts place after Roxy shows footage. Later , Letts in NYC
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 May 2023 19:13 (ten months ago) link
Letts was hired by Chris Blackwell of Island to direct "Good to Go" the film intended to make dc go-go a worldwide genre, but then Letts was fired halfway into it. That was good for Letts long term as the film was a disaster.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 May 2023 14:43 (ten months ago) link
https://www.donletts.com/film-qe1gl
Letts did a Sun Ra doc and a Gil Scott-Heron one
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 04:49 (ten months ago) link
The Letts bio doc is so good. Love the footage of Strummer/Jones making the second BAD album.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 09:07 (ten months ago) link
Yes!
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 13:02 (ten months ago) link