Talk:Jail Guitar Doors

Jail Guitar Doors Campaign and more
Some interesting news and articles related to "Jail Guitar Doors" and to the Billy Bragg's initiative with the same name.


 * "Yesterday Jones joined Billy Bragg at the west London prison to hand over five guitars as part of Bragg's Jail Guitar Doors campaign to provide instruments for inmates. "We all believe people have to be punished for their crimes," said Bragg. "I support punishment. But I also believe in rehabilitation. The question is, do we want to help people not to re-offend and to contribute to society? Getting them involved in music is one way we can try to do that." - Rock stars urge prisoners to escape through music - www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2120853,00.html


 * "The Jail Guitar Doors Festival Reading 2007 is a high profile music festival being held at Reading's Fez Club on Saturday June 16th 2007 in conjunction with Billy Bragg's Jail Guitar Doors Campaign, named after the Clash song of the same name. This event is expected to raise several thousands of pounds to buy musical instruments for inmates at Reading Young Offenders Institute." - Jail Guitar Doors - www.last.fm/event/242059


 * "Jail Guitar Doors is an independent initiative set up by Billy Bragg with the aim of providing musical equipment for the use of inmates serving time in Her Majesty’s prisons. It takes its name from the b-side of the Clash’s 1978 single “Clash City Rockers”." - jailguitardoors.org.uk/ and First Jail Guitar Doors festival kicks off in Reading - www.billybragg.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=382


 * "Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg today visited Wandsworth Prison to launch a new initiative to provide guitars and instruments to inmates" - Billy Bragg does the jailhouse rock - www.braggtopia.com/Timeline/articles/2007-09-07-wimbledonguardian.pdf


 * "Reading will be the first to host a Jail Guitar Doors Campaign gig on Saturday 16 June at the Fez Club. Linda Serck chats to the campaign's founder Billy Bragg about why raising cash to give guitars to Reading's prison inmates is a good idea." - www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2007/06/08/billy_bragg_interview_feature.shtml


 * "The shirts feature designs inspired by images such as Paul Simonon smashing his guitar, the Hate and War slogan sprayed on Joe Strummer's boiler suit, the words from Garageland, and the song English Civil War." - Clash Shirts To Support Jail Guitar Doors - www.billybragg.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=4643&mode=threaded


 * "As any aging punk rocker will be able to tell you 'Jail Guitar Doors' was the the b side the the Clash's 4th single 'Clash City Rockers', those were the days when singles really meant something, yes we would be waiting there as the record shop opened to buy our copy, and their flip sides were every bit essential as the tune the other side was." ... - sound of the suburbs: Jail Guitar Doors - soundofthesuburb.blogspot.com/2007/05/jail-guitar-doors.html —P Joe F. (talk • contribs) 20:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * "Whether he's mocking the welfare state in "Career Opportunities," reaching out for solidarity in "Police & Thieves" (the Clash's tribute to reggae as punk politics) only to abandon all hope of it in the Hammersmith Palais, or finding his old mates all dead or in jail in the ringing "Jail Guitar Doors," the hero's anger, his rough, deflating wit and his defiant spirit remain uniquely his own. The force of character and the epic in the band's songs, for all their topical urgency, have a grandeur that's almost Shakespearean." - The Clash: street-fighting men - www.londonsburning.org/art_rolling_stone_10_18_79.html


 * Duff McKagan', Gilby Clarke and ex-Pixie Frank Black on a cover of The Clash's "Jail Guitar Doors." - Jail Guitar Doors - www.frankblack.net/songs/Default.asp?mode=index&songID=167 —P Joe F. (talk • contribs) 20:15, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * "The fantastically catchy 'Hammersmith Palais' is one of the defining moments of the band's career, a sunny slice of speed-fueled surf rock that just might be the best single The Clash ever released. The melodic 'Jail Guitar Doors' is similar in style, and nearly as good as well." - The Clash - www.iansmusicreviews.com/clash/clash.htm

—P Joe F. (talk • contribs) 19:16, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

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Separate topics
The initiative seems a separate topic possibly marginally related to the song. Wouldn't this mean a separate article? Widefox ; talk 20:47, 6 February 2014 (UTC)