Please do not deface the Joe Strummer mural

Thank you.



On 7th and A.

Previously

Joe Strummer and Father's Day

The Joe Strummer mural on the side of Niagara on East Seventh Street and Avenue A looked quite vibrant in the morning light today…

And being Father's Day, I was reminded of this video of Joe Strummer's daughters, Jazz and Lola, talking about being … well, the daughters of Joe Strummer…



And now… if your daddy was a bank robber…

Strummer through the snow

The Joe Stummer mural on the side of Niagara on East Seventh Street and Avenue A provides a beacon through the whiteout today in Tompkins Square Park... photo by William Klayer

Strummer's Greetings

Looking festive here on East 7th and Avenue A…

At the unveiling of the new Joe Strummer mural

[Photo by Shawn Chittle]

Last night, Niagara officially unveiled the new Joe Strummer mural on East Seventh Street...


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[Dave on 7th]

Mick Jones of the Clash was on hand... (as was Strummer friend Jim Jarmusch)...


[Photo by @GreggGreenwood]

Slum Goddess shot this video ... (she has more photos and video here)...



...and Shawn Chittle shot this video...



Welcome back.

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The Joe Strummer mural will return

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Watch the Joe Strummer mural come back to life in 12-plus minutes

[This morning]

Legendary graffiti artist Dr. Revolt started work on the new Joe Strummer mural outside Niagara on East Seventh Street and Avenue A back on Sunday... he put the finishing touches on it yesterday afternoon for last night's official unveiling ...

And now, through the magic of time-lapse video... here's Revolt (who is not Chico!) creating the whole thing in a mere 12-plus minutes... video by Adam Yellin.



Revolt and Zephyr created the original mural back in 2003... after the Clash frontman's untimely death in December 2002.

[Via TruthIsCoolVideo on YouTube]

East Seventh Street, 4:31 p.m., Sept. 19

The new mural makes its debut tonight...

More details on the 'unveiling and rebirth of the Joe Strummer mural'

As for the mural on the side of Niagara on East Seventh Street at Avenue A... here's how it was looking last evening around 5:30 or so...



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Happening now: The Joe Strummer mural is returning! The Joe Strummer mural is returning!

Waiting for the rest of Joe Strummer

On Friday, workers removed the remaining sidewalk bridge and scaffolding from 132 E. Seventh St. at Avenue A ... where, you know, the 10-year-old Joe Strummer mural got blasted away... (We heard from Niagara insiders that the mural would return, we just didn't have the confirmation from ownership at the time.)

Well, workers repaired the crumbling wall where the Strummer mural lived...



By Saturday, the wall was being prepped...



And yesterday, as first noted, Dr. Revolt, the original artist, started work on the new mural.





According to a tweet from Malin, there will be a celebration party for the mural at Niagara on Thursday evening.

All photos by Bobby Williams.

Happening now: The Joe Strummer mural is returning! The Joe Strummer mural is returning!

As we first reported on Aug. 19, workers blasted away the 10-year-old Joe Strummer mural outside Niagara on Avenue A and East Seventh Street as part of ongoing exterior renovations at 132 E. Seventh St. As promised, though, the mural was to return... and it's starting to happen right now with the original artist Dr. Revolt ...

Thanks to @gaminette for the photo!

The magnificent 7th

Here's how the wall that was home to the Joe Strummer mural for 10 years is looking now on East Seventh Street at Avenue A...

As you probably heard, workers wiped out the mural honoring the Clash frontman outside Niagara last Monday ... the underlying brick here at 132 E. Seventh St. is crumbling, so workers are replacing that wall, as DNAinfo noted.

After the brick restoration, artists Zephyr and Dr. Revolt will recreate the tribute in the coming weeks ...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Joe Strummer gets a splash of Niagara

Joe Strummer gets a new look, skyline

Headline h/t

The Joe Strummer mural will return

As noted last night, workers blasted away the 10-year-old Joe Strummer mural outside Niagara on Avenue A and East Seventh Street as part of ongoing exterior renovations at 132 E. Seventh St.

And the good news: A Strummer mural will return, per Niagara's Jesse Malin...

Joe Will be back on the niagara ( east 7 th st.wall) in the EV NYC . In a few weeks Rastas ! pic.twitter.com/iIBKJL6QGx
— Jesse Malin (@jesse_malin) August 20, 2013

And now, until then, various photos of the mural since 2009... (I have some photos from 2003-2008 on film stored conveniently where I can't find them...)

[Via ‏@NYbillbell]

[Bobby Williams]

[BW]

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And here's a repost from May 18, 2012... So I guess this is my fault.

I had a dream recently that someone painted over the Joe Strummer mural on the side of Niagara. And when I saw it — while inexplicably riding a bike the wrong direction on Seventh Street (no comments! This was a dream!) — a new mural was in progress. It was black and purple and looked like a bruise.

And it was going to be Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones.

I took photos and rushed home to post the photos. (Traveling now with the traffic, harumpf!) I was in such a hurry, I didn't stop at the site of a construction accident. (No one was injured.)

As far as I can remember, this was my first blog-related dream.

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[Updated] The Joe Strummer mural is gone

[Bobby Williams]


[Via an EVG reader]

The iconic Joe Strummer mural that has graced the side of Niagara on East Seventh Street and Avenue A since the spring of 2003 is gone. Workers renovating 132 E. Seventh St. blasted the mural into oblivion today.

Graffiti artists Zephyr and Dr. Revolt created the mural several months after the Clash singer's untimely death in late 2002.



The mural originally looked like this...


Dr. Revolt updated the mural in February 2009...


Lately, Joe wasn't looking so good. And workers told residents that they'd have to wipe out the mural while restoring the building...



Still.

Here's my last photo of it from Saturday night...



I've heard that the folks at Niagara plan to have Dr. Revolt recreate the mural as it originally looked, though there hasn't been any official confirmation of that.

Updated:
A mural will return.

RIP.

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Joe Strummer gets a new look, skyline

[Updated] Joe Strummer would have been 60 today

Corner soul

Checking in on the façade repair at 112 Avenue A at East Seventh Street... the Joe Strummer mural should come out of all this OK...

Straight to hell: Keeping a watchful eye on the Joe Strummer mural

Workers continued putting up the scaffolding and construction netting at 112 Avenue A and East Seventh Street yesterday ...


[Bobby Williams]

DOB permits point to "facade repair" on the building.

As long as that doesn't turn into "oh, we accidentally painted over the Joe Strummer mural."



And we're off to a fine start... Per Dave on 7th, the workers "ran the conduit for the scaffold lights uncaringly across Joe's face. Prophetic?"

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Joe Strummer gets a splash of Niagara

Joe Strummer gets a new look, skyline

[Updated] Joe Strummer would have been 60 today

Don't fuck with Joe

Workers erected a sidewalk shed around 112 Avenue A at East Seventh Street yesterday... look for the construction netting to go up today... DOB permits point to "facade repair" on the building.



And, hopefully, the Joe Strummer mural will come out of this unscathed...



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Joe Strummer gets a splash of Niagara

Joe Strummer gets a new look, skyline

[Updated] Joe Strummer would have been 60 today

Candles for Joe Strummer

Candles remain at the Joe Strummer mural on East Seventh Street at Avenue A... yesterday marked the 10-year anniversary of the Clash co-founder's death... and I'm happy that people take the time to leave the tributes...

Joe Strummer died 10 years ago today

[Bobby Williams]

And cutting and pasting essentially Tony Parsons' entire column from the UK Mirror today:

Joe was not the most famous rock star – but he was the best.

If you came of age in the Seventies, his death meant as much as losing John Lennon – an unbearable loss, leaving a gap that would never be filled.

Because Joe was unique.

Punk’s great humanitarian, he never stopped believing that the music had the power to change individual lives, and that those lives had the power to change the world.

As he got older, his idealism only increased, and his fire burned still brighter.

I knew him before he had a record deal and I saw him just before he died.

And in my entire life I never met anyone with a bigger heart than Joe Strummer.

“Without people, you’re nothing,” he once said.

May bloggers (or whatever they will be called) write about this mural on Seventh Street and Avenue A years and years from now... Meanwhile, Alex has this to say today about Joe at Flaming Pablum.

Also, East Village Radio has a great archived two-hour program on the co-founder of The Clash. Find East Village Radio here.

And a favorite, circa 1982...

'The future is unironed'

Photo from this afternoon on East Seventh Street and Avenue A... headline courtesy of Shawn Chittle via Facebook.

[Updated] Joe Strummer would have been 60 today

John Graham Mellor, better known by his stage name Joe Strummer, was born on this date in 1952.

Updated: Today at 4, East Village Radio has a special Strummer birthday tribute, hosted by Jesse Malin. Details here.

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And now... an EVG repost from Dec. 22, 2011...

Joe Strummer died on this date in 2002. He reportedly had an undiagnosed congenital heart defect. He was 50.

In November 2003, REVOLT painted a mural in honor of the former Clash frontman on the side of Niagara on Seventh Street at Avenue A ... seen here in this video featuring Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros singing "Redemption Song."




Since then, I've taken far too many photos of the mural, which REVOLT updated in February 2009...


Look, Smokin' Joe! (Eh, sorry...)



There's always something comforting about seeing the mural there... looking rather calm about anything going on around it...




Let's end this with a Strummer solo number from Aki Kaurismäki's "I Hired a Contract Killer" from 1990...



Previously on EV Grieve:
Joe Strummer gets a splash of Niagara

Joe Strummer gets a new look, skyline