The Good, The Bad & The Queen's Paul Simonon has revealed that the band is over, and that they are only reforming to headline this weekend's Love Music Hate Racism Carnival.
The former Clash bassist told NME that his project with Damon Albarn effectively finished last year after the release of their self-titled album, but they felt compelled to reform for the anti-racism event: "I think because of the subject matter and what this event entails and stands for we all decided it was definitely a worthy cause to get us back together for a few tracks and possibly some new ones."
The free festival takes place in London's Victoria Park on Sunday 27th April, and also features Hard-Fi, Patrck Wolf and Jerry Dammers. Simonon went on to speak about The Clash's involvement in the original Rock Against Racism carnival in 1978: "I played one of these with The Clash called Rock Against Racism, I don't know why they changed the name, but this is the updated version and the problems are still there. You would have thought that we wouldn't need another one in this country. I went to school when the first of West Indian people and their families were invited over, so I went to school with first generation you could say and you would have thought over the years there would have been some integration, and that BNP tendency would have died down. This country has always had immigrations, we've have Vikings here, you name it and it's people working together that's what our country is about."
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