Meeting Joe Strummer, Lighthouse, Poole
Thirty years after the wail of brilliant, beautiful protest that was punk awakened a disaffected generation, the garageland rebels live on.
Granted, they're in their forties and fifties now, a little mellower perhaps, but still out in force to celebrate the iconic power of the late Joe Strummer.
This award-winning two hander from writer, director and Clash nut Paul Hodson tells the story of two men - one middle class, one working class - and the galvanising effect that punk's never-to-be-forgotten hero Strummer has on their lives.
Actors Huw Higginson, best known as PC George Garfield in The Bill, and Steve North from London's Burning (how handy is that?) play Nick and Steve.
The play traces their lives over a 24-year period from The Clash's legendary 1978 Rock Against Racism gig at Victoria Park to a final Mescalaros concert in 2002 just a few weeks before Strummer's tragic early death.
This is a story of hopes, aspirations, triumphs, failures, and missed opportunities.
It's also a story of how you shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you and, if you're going to meet your hero and tell him that he's changed your life, it's really best not to do it with a head full of the wrong sort of drugs.
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