A very special pop-up store will appear in London next month to celebrate the work of The Clash.
The ‘Black Market Clash’ store will help to mark the re-release of the band’s back catalogue in fully remastered form on September 9th, and is to open its doors from September 7th-22nd in Soho with instruments, stagewear, rare memorabilia and original manuscripts all on display.
“Remastering’s a really amazing thing. That was the musical point of it all, because there’s so much there that you wouldn’t have heard before,” Mick Jones has remarked. “It was like discovering stuff, because the advances in mastering are so immense since the last time. We had to bake the tapes beforehand – the oxide on them is where the music is, so if you don’t put them in the oven and bake them, that all falls off, because they’re so old.”
Jones, along with his fellow surviving Clash members Paul Simonon and Topper Headon, has agreed to a rare interview with the BBC which is due to air later this year.