JOE STRUMMER'S LONDON CALLING

EIGHT-PART RADIO SERIES HOSTED BY JON LANGFORD - THE US PREMIERE OF JOE STRUMMER'S LEGENDARY BBC RADIO SHOWS

Eight one-hour episodes feature Clash frontman Joe Strummer spinning his favorite tracks from around the globe. Programs include the 14 original half-hour episodes Strummer hosted for the BBC World Service between 1998-2001 plus two new half-hour segments about Strummer's life and his diverse interests. Jon Langford (The Mekons / Waco Brothers) introduces Joe before each hour and also narrates the new content created for US radio.

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Joe Strummer, the legendary gravel-voiced punk-poet from The Clash, loved to listen to music on the radio. Even as he toured the world with "the only band that matters," he still had a dream to one day spin records for the BBC World Service, where he heard the latest UK hits over the shortwave band as a teenager in Africa.

He finally got his wish in 1999, when BBC World Service premiered Joe Strummer's London Calling. Between then and 2002, Strummer hosted a series of programs with a simple format - one man and his eclectic record collection. His globe spanning playlists included many of the rock, reggae and folk artists that inspired the Clash, plus many surprises.

These radio broadcasts inspired many listeners around the world, including film director Julien Temple, who prominently features these programs in his new documentary, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten.

"Joe was the ultimate communicator," says Temple. "He made his global audience feel they knew him on a uniquely personal level?intimate, irreverent and inspirational at the same time."

Joe Strummer's London Calling is now available for broadcast on radio stations throughout the USA as eight one-hour episodes. Distribution will begin in July 2008, timely for the US DVD of Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten on Sony BMG Legacy Recordings.

The 14 original half-hour episodes have been edited for broadcast in the US as 8 one-hour programs. Interview clips featuring Joe Strummer, himself, his former Clash bandmates, Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine / Audioslave), film-maker Julien Temple and others have been added to create two new 30-minute introduction and epilogue features. Jon Langford (Mekons, Waco Brothers) hosts these new segments and also introduces Joe before each of his original programs.



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KBBI  Homer, AK
KHNS  Haines, AK
WALW  Moulton, AL
KXCI  Tucson, AZ
KALW  San Francisco, CA (Tues 10pm-Mid, all July)
KFCF  Fresno, CA
KFOK  Georgetown, CA
KFSC  Visalia-Tulare-Hanford, CA
KMUD  Redding, CA
KOCP  Oxnard-Ventura, CA
KRCB  Santa Rosa, CA
KRSH  Santa Rosa, CA
KSCU  Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, CA
KUSF  San Francisco, CA
KVMR  Chico, CA
KWMR  San Francisco, CA
KZYX  Ukiah/Ft. Bragg, CA
KDNK  Glenwood Springs-Aspen, CO
KVCU  Denver-Boulder, CO
KYSL  Breckenridge, CO
KDUR  Durango-Farmington, CO-NM
WECS  Hartford-New Britain-Middletown, CT
WRTC  Hartford-New Britain-Middletown, CT
WFIT  Melbourne-Titusville-Cocoa, FL
WMNF  Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL  (maybe Fridays 9am)
WTZB  Sarasota-Bradenton, FL
WHCJ  Savannah, GA
KFMG  Des Moines, IA
KUNI  Cedar Falls, IA
KXGE  Dubuque, IA
WLUW  Chicago, IL
WQUB  Quincy, IL
WRRG  River Grove, IL 
WWHP  Champaign, IL
WXRT  Chicago, IL  (Tues 9pm, starting mid-July)
KMUW  Wichita, KS
WRFL  Lexington-Fayette, KY  (Tuesdays 11am July/Aug)
KRVS  Lafayette, LA
KSCL  Shreveport, LA
WTUL  New Orleans, LA
WWOZ  New Orleans, LA
WCFM  Northampton, MA
WCHC  Worcester, MA
WERS  Boston, MA
WRSI  Northampton, MA
WRNR  Baltimore, MD
WTMD  Baltimore, MD
WSYC  Hagerstown-Chambersburg-Waynesboro, MD-PA
WBLM  Portland, ME
WCYY  Portland, ME
WNMC  Traverse City-Petoskey, MI
WOBE  Marquette, MI
WXOU  Detroit, MI
KCMP  Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (July 4 Noon-8pm)
kmsu  Mankato-New Ulm-St. Peter, MN
KSRQ  Thief River Falls, MN
KWUR  St. Louis, MO
KDTR Missoula, MT
WSGE  Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC
KGMT  FAIRBURY, NE
KUCV  Lincoln, NE
KWBE  Beatrice, NE
WBJB  Monmouth-Ocean, NJ
WNTI  Morristown, NJ  (Fridays July/Aug)
KVSF  Santa Fe, NM
KTHX  Reno, NV
KUNV  Las Vegas, NV
WBER  Rochester, NY
WCDB  Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
WEXT  Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
WFDU  New York, NY
WICB  Ithaca, NY
WUSB  Nassau-Suffolk (Long Island), NY  (Fridays 9am - all July/Aug)
WBWC  Cleveland, OH
WCBE  Columbus, OH
WRUW  Cleveland, OH
KEIF  Enid, OK
KNRK  Portland, OR
KPUR-2  Portland, OR
KRXF  Bend, OR
WBZC Philadelphia, PA
WXAC  Reading, PA
WXPN  Philadelphia, PA  (Tues 8pm - all July/Aug)
WYEP  Pittsburgh, PA
WKZQ  Myrtle Beach, SC
WAWL  Chattanooga, TN
WAYA  Chattanooga, TN
WRFN  Nashville, TN
WSDQ  Dunlap, TN
WUTK  Knoxville, TN
KPFT  Houston-Galveston, TX
KQBR  Lubbock, TX
KTXT  Lubbock, TX
WCNR  Charlottesville, VA
WRRW  Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA
KEXP  Seattle-Tacoma, WA
KPND  Spokane, WA
WBSD  Milwaukee-Racine, WI
WMSE  Milwaukee-Racine, WI
WOJB  HAYWARD, WI
WORT  Madison, WI
WRNC  Ashland, WI
WUWM  Milwaukee-Racine, WI