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Infobox musical artist| name = The 101ers| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| origin = London , UK | genre = Pub rock (UK)|Pub rock , protopunk | years_active = 1974& ndash;1976, 2003 (tribute concert for Joe)| label = Chiswick Andalucia Astralwerks EMI| associated_acts = The Clash The Passions The Raincoats Public Image Ltd Basement 5 The Latino Rockabilly War The Pogues The Mescaleros | Also Known As =| website =| past_members = Joe Strummer|John "Woody" Mellor The Passions|Clive Timperley Dan Kelleher Richard Dudanski Simon Cassell Alvaro Peña-Rojas Antonio Narvaez Julian Yewdall Tymon Dogg Marwood Chesterton aka " Mole" Patrick Nother Martin Stone (guitarist)|Martin Stone The 101ers were a Pub rock (UK)|pub rock band from the 1970s, notable as being the band that Joe Strummer left to join The Clash .Sfn|Westway 2001 Formed in London in May 1974, the 101ers made their performing debut on 7 September at the Telegraph pub in Brixton ,Sfn|Strong|2003|p=109 under the name El Huaso and the 101 All Stars . The name would later be shortened to the 101 All Stars and finally just the 101ers . The group played at free festivals such as Stonehenge Free Festival|Stonehenge , and established itself on the London pub rock circuit prior to the advent of punk rock|punk .
History
The group was named for the squatting|squat where they lived together: 101 Walterton Road , Maida Vale , although it was for a time rumoured that they were named for "Room 101", the infamous torture room in George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four .
The 101ers were supported by the Sex Pistols at the Nashville Room on 3 April 1976, and this is when Strummer claimed he saw the light and got involved in the punk scene.Sfn|Westway 2001 Joe Strummer commented on this event in the Don Letts documentary Westway to the World on the end of the 101ers by saying "5 seconds into their (the Pistols') first song, I knew we were like yesterday's paper, we were over."Sfn|Westway 2001 By the time their debut single, "Keys to Your Heart", was released, Joe Strummer was in The Clash and the band were no more.Sfn|Strong|2003|p=109 Clive Timperley later joined The Passions , Dan Kelleher went to Martian Schoolgirls and The Derelicts .Sfn|Strong|2003|p=109 Richard Dudanski went on to work with The Raincoats , Basement 5 and Public Image Ltd .Sfn|Strong|2003|p=109 Tymon Dogg worked with Joe Strummer|Strummer briefly in The Clash , playing fiddle and singing his original song, "Lose This Skin," on Sandinista! , and later in The Mescaleros .
Quote|text=I know the 101'ers were good. In fact, as far as sound and excitement went we were much better than Eddie and the Hot Rods. The other guys in the group were twenty-five and twenty-six and they played good because they'd spent a few years getting that far. But they were just too old. What I really wanted was to get in with some young yobbo's who I was more in tune with.|sign= Joe Strummersfn|Coon|1977 The 101ers' recorded output was initially limited to one Single (music)|single . However, by 1981, interest in The Clash was at its height and a second Single (music)|single and a compilation album Elgin Avenue Breakdown was released.Sfn|Strong|2003|p=109 Several of the tracks on the latter album were live recordings, and there is no evidence that the band ever conceived of these recordings as a full length album.
Until his death in 2002, Joe Strummer had been planning to re-release Elgin Avenue Breakdown , complete with previously unreleased tracks that would encompass everything the band ever recorded.Citation needed|date=September 2008 The project was completed with the help of Strummer's widow Lucinda Tait and former drummer Richard Dudanski, and released in May 2005 as Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited via Astralwerks in the US and EMI in Europe.
Covers
The Clash have played "Keys to Your Heart" live at around the same time it was reissued as a single. The Hypertonics have also covered this song. http://www.thehypertonics.com/mp3/The_Hypertonics_57_Cover_Keys_To_Your_Heart_Joe_Strummer_101'ers_The_Clash.mp3 The Hypertonics cover of Keys To Your Heart.
Band line-up
John "Woody" Mellor aka Joe Strummer – Guitar, vocals
Cite book |ref=harv |last1=Coon |first1=Caroline |authorlink1=Caroline Coon |title=1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion |url= http://homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/Clash%20gigography/1976%20DATES.html |accessdate=2011-09-21 |year=1977 |publisher=Hawthorn |location= London |isbn=0-8015-6129-9 |oclc=79262599
Cite book |ref=harv |last1=Strong |first1=Martin C. |authorlink1=Martin C. Strong |title=The Great Indie Discography |url= |accessdate= |edition=Revised and enlarged |year=2003 |origyear=1999 |publisher= Canongate Books|Canongate |location= Edinburgh |isbn=1-84195-335-0 |oclc=52530784 |page=109 |chapter=101'ers'
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cite video |ref=sfnRef|Westway 2001 |people= Don Letts|Letts Don ; Rick Elgood, Joe Strummer , Mick Jones (The Clash)|Mick Jones , Paul Simonon , Topper Headon , Terry Chimes , The Clash |date=2001 |title= The Clash: Westway to the World |medium=DVD |publisher= Sony Music Entertainment ; Dorismo; Uptown Films |location=New York, NY |accessdate=2011-09-21 |time=8:40–11:40 |isbn=0-7389-0082-6 |oclc=49798077
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Further reading
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cite book |last=D'Ambrosio |first=Antonino |title=Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer |date=2004-10-13 |publisher=Nation Books |location=New York |isbn=1-56025-625-7 |oclc=56988650 |quote=Edited with an Introduction by Antonino D'Ambrosio.
cite journal |last=DeCurtis |first=Anthony |authorlink=Anthony DeCurtis |year=2003 |title=1952–2002 Joe Strummer – A tribute to the late Clash singer and songwriter, plus his final remarks on the rise and fall of the legendary punk band |journal=Rolling Stone |volume=914 |issue=27 |publisher=Straight Arrow |location=San Francisco, CA |issn=0035-791X |oclc=96002520
cite journal |last=Matula |first=Theodore |year=2003 |month=12 |title=Joe Strummer, 1952–2002 |journal=Popular Music and Society |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=pp. 523–525 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=Bowling Green, Ohio |issn=0300-7766 |oclc=89586252 |doi=10.1080/0300776032000144968
cite book |last=Salewicz |first=Chris |title= Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer |edition=1st American |date=2007-05-15 |publisher=Faber and Faber |location=New York |isbn=0-571-21178-X |oclc=76794852
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