The Specials Fans Paul Simenon, The Clash Limited edition archival prints Coventry 1981 RAR Carnival 1 Victoria Park, All the photographs in the exhibition are archival Giclée prints printed on Hahnemuhle acid 30 April London 1978 free photo rag paper. They are available to purchase in a signed and numbered limited edition of 75 @ unframed, at £250 each. T. 0207 739 5060 E. [email protected] Ranking Roger, The Beat Mick Jones, The Clash Coventry 1981 Southall Kids are Innocent gig , The Rainbow All photographs © Syd Shelton 2008 London 1979 John Segs Jennings, The Ruts bass player Paul Simenon, The Clash T shirts A limited edition of 50 of each t-shirts in 3 different designs, Bradford 1979 Southall Kids are Innocent gig , The Rainbow available in medium and XL. £25 each. London 1979 Malcolm Owen and John Segs Jennings of the The Ruts Jo Strummer, The Clash Design 1 Punk girls Bradford 1979 Southall Kids are Innocent gig, The Rainbow London 1979 Tony James of Generation X playing with Sham 69 Feargal Sharkey, The Undertones Design 2 Temporary Hoarding, ‘Rocks Against Racism’ Central London Polytechnic 1978 Warrington 1981 A RIOT OF Tom Robinson, RAR Carnival 1, Victoria Park, London, April 1978. Southgate Design 3 Joe Strummer, The Clash 1979 “There was a certain sense of solidarity among groups like London 1980 X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and my own band TRB, who’d all been OUR OWN playing RAR gigs since the early days, before any of us were famous”. TR 2008 Manchester 1978 Brinsley Ford, Aswad Southall Kids are Innocent gig, The Rainbow London 1979 Lower Falls Dennis Brown, Berry Street Studios Belfast 1979 London 1979 Falls Road Neville Staple and Terry Hall, The Specials Belfast 1979 Carnival Against the Nazis CHELSEA space Leeds 1981 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU. Director: Donald Smith, [email protected] www.chelseaspace.org Bagga, vocalist with Matumbi, Hackney Majestic Sounds London 1978 Leeds 1979 Jubilee Street, Stepney RAR stickers 1977 RAR gig, West Runton Pavilion Specials fans, Carnival Against the Nazis London 1977 Cromer, Norfolk 1979 Leeds 1981 Lewisham 1977 Flyer for Roundhouse gig , Chalk Farm Jubilee Mansions, Stepney Barry Forde Band and the Leighton Buzzards, jamming. Our roots in underground-press psychedelic leftism came in London 1st May 1976 London 1977 Alexandra Palace handy when it was time to propagandise our opposition to the London 1979 swastika tendency in punk, and the National Front’s attempt to The final gig of the Militant Entertainment Tour. infiltrate punk in order to recruit amongst disaffected white youth. I went on the Lewisham counter-demo against the NF, and Logo artwork for the ‘Letters Page’ of ‘Tempory Hoarding’ Tulse Hill School, Brixton Misty in Roots and Tom Robinson narrowly avoided getting my skull kicked in by a police horse; 1978 London 1976 Alexandra Palace judging by the steaming turds they left behind, the police horses London 1979 were even more scared than we were. Fortunately the NF were so obviously stupid and brutal that their recruitment was confined to stupid brutes, and the likes of Rock Rough design for RAR membership card Linda, Cambridge Heath Jimmy Percy, RAR Carnival 2, Brockwell Park, Brixton 1978. Against Racism and the Anti Nazi League– fronted by The Clash 1977 London 1980 ‘Last night I wasn't going to come. Then this little kid said to me, and The Tom Robinson band – together with the steadfastness of "You're not doing it because all your fans are NF." They said I ain't the black community, soon chased them back to the peripheries.’ got no bottle. But I'm here. I'm here because I support Rock Charles Shaar Murray, The Independent Newspaper, 2005. Against Racism’. Jimmy Percy Contact Sheets 1976-1981 Spreads from Ruth’s diaries 1978 and 1979 Anti-racist skinheads, Hoxton Mick Jones and Paul Simenon ‘They have assumed a new meaning for me, charged with 30 ‘Reading them now I’m struck by the sheer weight of activity London 1978 London 1977 years of personal and political history. The discovery of crammed into each hour of the day and night’. RG images on the contacts, has shed light on forgotten moments’. Syd Shelton The flag design is inspired by 'There ain't no black in the Union Jack' Edinburgh Carnival Against the Nazi’s 1978 East London 1981 Red Saunders, right by Paul Gilroy. The process of making the flag and choosing the Remnant of a poster for the carnival. Militant Entertainment Tour badges turned into an emotional journey, irretrievably stitched and We have no idea where this came from. On the back is a poster West Runton Pavilion pinned into it are memories of one man. We shared our battles, our for an Angelic Upstarts RAR gig Cromer Norfolk 1979 badges and our love. Wish you were here, Dave’. Ruth Gregory This Rock Against Racism roundal was stapled to a wooden Letter from Irish Republican prisoner, Felim O’Hagan who was Petticoat Lane Militant Entertainment Tour handle and carried at anti-racist demonstrations and RAR held at H-Block 4, Long Kesh, Northern Ireland. It was sent to London 1979 West Runton Pavilion Carnivals. It is an adaptation of the original RAR Star designed RAR on 19 March 1981. The tiny document is a 70mm square Cromer Norfolk 1979 by David King in 1976, plus one of RAR’s slogan. cigarette paper. This leaflet was produced to raise funds after a firebomb attack Camera ready artwork for ’ Temporary Hoarding’ No8 Misty in Roots, Militant Entertainment Tour Sheffield RAR gig 1979 on the Albany Empire Theatre, Deptford 1978, a regular RAR March/April 1979. Leicester 1979 venue. ‘The day after it was burnt out, a note was passed through ‘The basis of this was a photograph I found in ‘ID’ magazine. I what remained of its letterbox. In cut out newspaper lettering a saw it as a piece of art waiting to happen. I admired their message read - “Got You.”‘ Les Back ‘Written in Stone’. freedom of expression.’ RG Artwork montage of newspaper cutting of anti-abortion Angelic Upstarts fan, Spitalfields Misty in Roots outside the Dominion Cinema, Southhall Barry Forde Band and the Leighton Buzzards backstage campaigner, Liberal MP William Benyon, and pro-abortion London 1979 London 1980. Militant Entertinment Tour sticker. The idea was created for the RAR paper ‘Temporary Leeds 1979 Hoarding’. Stickers produced for RAR’s Militant Entertainment tour Paradise Row, Bethnal Green Militant Entertinment Tour The TH Table 1979 London 1978 Leeds 1979 Pages from RAR’s paper ‘Temporary Hoarding’.