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DVDfever.co.uk – Press release: Mick Jones at Chelsea Space
The Rock & Roll Public Library 
The Essential Clash: 
Posted: February 9th, 2009.
Where: CHELSEA SPACE, 16 John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU
When: 18th March 18th April 2009
(Private View: Tuesday 17th March 6-8:30pm)
Mick Jones, guitarist and songwriter with The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, and Carbon Silicon, takes on the corporate might of the 02 with his take on the British Music experience The Rock & Roll Public Library. Jones has amassed a legendary collection of the paraphernalia of performance and marketing materials of the bands he has worked with.
This archive sits alongside a parallel general collection of books, magazines, videos, ephemera, toys and games which mark out his life, times, and influences. In his west London recording studio and adjoining store, customised stage clothes, instruments, flight cases, records, amplifiers and recording gear, posters, books, boxes of correspondence, photographs and song lyrics, etc all vie for attention in a kind of Aladdins cave of popular culture.
In this exhibition, as much of the contents of his west London archive as possible will be transported lock, stock, and barrel to CHELSEA space. The installation of this material will create a remarkable visual spectacle that raises questions about the act of collecting and offers some small insight into the influences and interests of a musician and cultural icon.
For Mick Jones, this will represent a first attempt to unpack, look at, and think about a small proportion of the mass of material he has accumulated and decide what to do next. He envisages this collection one day becoming a freely available resource a Rock & Roll Public Library
For further information please contact:
Tony Linkin / Coalition PR
tony@coalitiongroup.co.uk
020 8987 0123
carbonsiliconinc.com
chelseaspace.org
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