THE ROAD WARRIOR

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From day one the band have been working with sound engineer Rob Muir – and since he was sound engineer for Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros on many tours right up till Joe’s sudden death, there’s no one better placed to capture the authentic Clash sound. In fact, shortly after Joe’s sad loss, his wife Lucinda got in touch with Rob to ask him and the Trash’s Kev Saunders to help realise one of Strummer’s last wishes. 

 

As Glastonbury regulars will know, Joe always had a camp fire backstage around which the bands would congregate and bash out tunes on acoustic guitars and generally. What bugged him, though, was the lack of amplification. What Lucinda had found was an A4 plan of a giant ghetto blaster with a mixing desk, CD and record decks, headlights and monster speakers. He called it THE ROAD WARRIOR

 

Rob immediately built it and Kev plastered it with stickers and Strummeresque slogans including, ‘IGNORE ALIEN ORDERS’ – as seen on Joe’s battered Telecaster, and which Kev last saw adorning Joe’s coffin.

 

The Road Warrior’s been round the world a few times since, appearing at festivals such as Glastonbury, FUJI Rock in Japan and V2004 as a mobile – and moving – monument to the great man. At V2004 Kev Saunders hooked up with Strummerville (The Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music) and used the Road Warrior to DJ constantly throughout the festival weekend, playing Clash, ska, rockabilly and reggae to the bands in the main stage VIP area.

 

The Trash are happy to play headlines or supports and can come complete with one Rob Muir’s monstrous PA systems ranging from 1000 to 50,000 watts of punk power. For a little more money, you can also have Kev and The Road Warrior, pumping out ska, punk and reggae the way Strummer would have wanted it. 

 

As Joe says at the end of Revolution Rock: Weddings, parties, anything…And bongo jazz a speciality!