Big Audio Dynamite – review

Academy, LiverpoolJoe Strummer's 2002 demise put paid to any lingering talk of a Clash reunion, so it was perhaps inevitable that Mick Jones would eventually bow to nostalgia and reform his other famous group. Indeed, some argue that Big Audio Dynamite's 1980s-1990s stew of pop, rock, reggae, acid house and sampling was at least as ground-breaking. They are wrong, of course: others beat them to it. And in 2011, sampling Tarzan's howl in the middle of a pop song sounds superfluous, like window...

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