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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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