London Calling the Clash Back
There are few cities in the world that offer the mystique, and carry the history behind it, to continue attracting the world’s best minds like London. It’s a truly splendid place, with many layers, and many aspects. It would take a lifetime to get to know even a small part of it, but every trip here offers an adventure, and even the planning alone can invoke a pleasant daydream. When you start your daydream about London, hotel accommodations will surely come to mind, and there are many fantastic options here. We’ve helped to minimize your guesswork by selecting a splendid array of hotels that will suit every taste and every budget.
Our hotels are selected for their excellence in comfort and design, so that no matter what your pleasure is while you’re in London, you’ll be able to rest in a place with a gracious sense of hospitality and style that is nothing less than world class. London is a spectacular place, having made countless contributions to contemporary world culture. In terms of music, it could be argued that punk rock started here with the Sex Pistols, although their contemporaries, the Ramones in the U.S., make this a hard claim to settle definitively. The culture of punk caused controversy in its heyday, and is a great topic of conversation – and commerce – today. But there is no doubt that the scene here was something that caused a rough vibration on the cultural fabric that is still being felt.
In recent years it has undergone more scrutiny by critics and fans, and the Clash has always withstood the test of time with amazing fortitude. It is, perhaps, for this reason, that Mick Jones, former Clash guitarist opened his Clash Museum here. It was intended to be a permanent museum, or at least a permanent installation in another museum, but so far has moved around a bit. That doesn’t detract from its interest. Mick Jones’ Clash Museum is a collection of thousands of pieces of ephemera from the time of the band’s best years. There are photographs and posters that will no doubt appeal to the diehard fans, and, in perfect punk rock style, old pizza boxes from their tours. It could be a means of reframing the idea of the museum and the collection, in reference to contemporary art theory, or it could just be what’s left. Either way, it’s still Punk Rock, and we like it.
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