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Carbon/Silicon: Inn on the Green, London

Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 14 January 2008

IT IS HUGELY IRONIC that Mick Jones was fired from the Clash for "betraying the spirit of punk" as, three decades on, he has stayed truest of all to its ideals and DIY sensibilities. Carbon/Silicon, his band with former Generation X/Sigue Sigue Sputnik member Tony James, was recording albums and giving them away free on the web a full five years before Radiohead began gaining plaudits for their philanthropic gambit.

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