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4 unusual facts about Meeting Joe Strummer


Meeting Joe Strummer

Fortysomethings Nick and Steve meet again for the first time in years at a gig by Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros.

It subsequently toured the UK in Autumn 2007 with Steve North and Huw Higginson taking the role of 'Nick' and in March/April 2010 with Steve North playing 'Steve' and Jason Pitt playing 'Nick', produced by The Future is Unwritten Theatre Company and directed by Paul Hodson.

They have seen a lot since they first met as teenagers watching The Clash play the Rock Against Racism rally at Victoria Park in 1978: divorce, class warfare, acid house, the bleak Thatcher years and even soap stardom, but the flame of punk idealism – what they describe as the “inner Strummer” – has never quite gone out.

Stephen North

North also played one of the two lead roles in the award winning stage play Meeting Joe Strummer with Emmerdale actor Nick Miles.



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