35mm slide of Big Audio Dynamite playing live published in CHELSEA space's Rock & Roll Public Library catalogue

Mick Jones is currently on tour with the original line up of his innovative post-Clash band, Big Audio Dynamite, who last weekend played close to home at the Shepherds Bush Empire. The tour will now take in Nottingham, Leeds, Manchester and Exeter, before heading off to America for dates in New York and the Coachella Festival where last year Mick was reunited with Clash bassist Paul Simonon when both were playing alongside Lou Reed, … Continue Reading

box lid for the Rock Against Racism archive of Syd Shelton and Ruth Gregory

Curator and writer Carol Tulloch and CHELSEA space’s Donald Smith were invited to talk on 16. 03.11 as part of the ‘Graduate Encounters’ series chaired by Prof. Hayley Newman at Chelsea College of Art and Design. The two chose the form of a ‘show and tell’ using selected artefacts from their personal archives with the intention of giving insights into their individual approaches to research and curating. The title,’ The Raw and the Cooked’, was … Continue Reading

Rabble Rouser - Mick Jones with Subway Gallery's Gordon McHarg and Jane Ashley protest against the threatened closure of Kensal Rise Library

People across the UK gathered this weekend to protest against the potential closure of public libraries and in west London, musician and cultural icon Mick Jones evoked his Rock & Roll Public Library to add weight to the protests to save Kensal Rise Library and highlight the plight of libraries generally.

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Mick Jones plays 'Should I Stay or Should I Go' at CHELSEA space

Paul Gorman in conversation with Mick Jones at Tate Britain

After helping CHELSEA space at the opening for Shelagh Cluett: Sculpture 1977-1980, Ade Sabini will now be looking forward to getting back to Mick Jones who will be performing with the Gorillaz at London’s O2 on 14th and 16th November as part of a world tour which … Continue Reading

Nobby Graham and Virginia Whiles

The private view for the late Shelagh Cluett was held on the same night as the opening of ‘Le Cabinet de Curiosites de Mademoiselle Clouette’ - objects collected by Shelagh Cluett on her travels, particularly in the Far East. The ‘Cabinet’ was curated by Shelagh’s friend and Trustee of the Shelagh Cluett Trust, Virginia Whiles.