Entertainment For Lively Minds
Mick Jones' Lockup
Here's Mick Jones' lock-up, where the former Clash man stores the paraphernalia he's accumulated during thirty-plus years in rock and pop.
Zoom in on the picture and see if you can spot the following:
1) A copy of Len Deighton's 1981 novel XPD
2) A plastic duty-free shopping bag from Vienna Airport
3) A poster advertising the original 'Punk Special' at the 100 Club
4) A 2000 AD album from 1984
5) Some kind of stealth bomber thing made of foam

You can use the controls at the foot of the image to navigate around - if something appears blurry, zoom out and it should snap back into focus. Please leave a comment below if you find anything particularly interesting.
A larger version of this picture, with many extra shelves to explore, can be found in the April edition of Word Magazine (right).









George and Mildred?
A book? A script, clearly stating G&M, with sufficient a picture to show Yootha Joyce, far L upper corner.
What hidden depths of depravity this way lie?
Marvel A-Z box 5
I wanna live there for a month or so.
what was Rockin' On?
A history of the SOE in Yugoslavia?
Looks like the roof leaks, mind, if that crate on the floor is anything to go by? Fascinating - do one of the office!
Just one thing...
Where's Wally?
dunno
is Jonesy still producing Doherty?
Material World
Is conspicuous materialism ok as long as it's obscure books, magazines, records, clothes and memorabilia? Strikes me it's similar to the *fact* that driving an old VW camper van/ancient Golf/SAAB/Volvo is more ethically acceptable than their far cleaner and more efficient 21st century counterparts.
I'm all for materialism by the way, I just don't see the moral difference between Mick Jones hoarding or Paul Weller needing to own a rare Small Faces EP and a WAG's equally fierce longing for Jimmy Choos.
Vety good point
I suppose the only difference is people like Mick Jones (and I'm a bit this way myself) don't accummulate stuff in order to show other people that they've got it. They do it because they've never overcome the desire for stuff that they had as a child. You tend to treat things as if they're as rare and precious as they once were, even when you've got too many of them. I don't know if we'll see this kind of scene in the future because the teenagers of today don't seem to have the same need to hoard things.
Doctor Who magazines
With the toy still unopened. Don't look. Don't even point.
Nappies...
sheets of miniature NME and Rockin' On covers, sandbags, a biography of Dean Martin by Nick Tosches, a Lord Snooty book and 'Ambition' by Julie Burchill.
A treaure trove.
DINO
Hey pallie Patrick, like thanks so much for sharin' 'bout Tosches' stellar Dinobio bein' part of Mick's treasure....never was, never will be anyone as cool as the King of Cool...oh, to return to the days when Dino walked the earth....go to
http://ilovedinomartin.blogspot.com
Amoeba Records
I see a bag from Amoeba Records, possibly the original store in Berkeley CA. Probably the best record store in the whole US. I salute your good taste, Mick.
TV21
Surprised no one's mentioned it but perhaps I'm the oldest geezer here. Also surprised it was still running when Joe 90 came around, which, in Gerry Anderson years, is about five minutes ago.
My neighbour George and I both bought issue 1 and sent each other TV21 code messages for what frail memory recalls as a long, hot summer.
Winniemania
A whole row of books by Winston the S.
I might be riding on the Candyman's coat tails
but doesn't "Mick Jone's Lockup" sound like a bit of song maybe readers could work it into the lyrics of famous tune.....
I can’t be the only one
feeling slightly less sheepish about my loft having seen this.
Baltimore
Orioles fan? (big orange hand, top left) - spot of 'Wire tourism', perhaps?
It's like looking into my own home
I think we've easily got this much stuff. Not saying it's as interesting though.
One's man's trash, etc.
Anybody else going to have a look round?
It's this Saturday's afternoon treat for the family. A visit to see Mick's detritus. They can't wait.
http://www.chelseaspace.org/index.html
I do like Zoomify very good fun.
I went on Saturday Morning....
Spent well over an hour there, and really enjoyed it. In fact I did'nt stop grinning for at least 2 hours after i'd left.
I have to admit that I am more of a Big Audio Dynamite fan than Clash, but there is something for everyone there. From original copies of Sniffing Glue to the beatbox on the reverse cover of Tighten up 88.
Well worth a visit - I might even go back for another look !
I went on Saturday as well
As you say it is brilliant, I had a great time. My favourite was the note from Joe...
"It's Joe OK I give up - you win. Call me. Love Joe"
Let your imagination do the rest.
More pics here...
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/mick-jones-rock-roll-public-librar...
A Silver Age Issue of The Flash
The covers and ideas were brilliant, the stories were wooden. Barry Allen returns (properly in his own series)as The Flash in April after being dead for 24 years, should be better this time round.
Every man's dream, this is.
... and every woman's nightmare.
Getting rid of stuff...
Me, I tend to feel a bit oppressed by an accumulation of 'stuff'. It does me good to get rid of things - charity shops and even dumping. Not that one loses the childlike desire, as David H mentioned, to own things that seem rare and precious and connected with better times in one's life. I've been ruminating for a while, for instance, on whether to purchase a not inexpensive Noggin The Nog ornament - which I don't NEED, obviously, but which looks nice on a shelf and resonates enormously for me, while having the luxury of taking up a very small amount of space. Whereas the vast runs of Mojo and Record Collector magazines I own take up too much space and are of no conceivable value to me. I think I'd rather see a bare wall, to be honest (though one hates to simply throw things out - I'm awaiting my town's main library getting back to me on whether they'll accept them as a donation).