NEWPORT'S Riverfront theatre will host a month-long tribute to Clash frontman Joe Strummer.
Strummer month will kick-off with the passionate punk comedy Meeting Joe Strummer between November 1 and 3 at 8pm.
The show, written and directed by Paul Hodson and Huw Higginson, received huge critical acclaim at last year's Edinburgh Festival.
In the early 70's Joe Strummer ended up in Newport while hitch-hiking back to London following a summer spent on a farm in Wales. He began to hang out with the influential art college crowd and joined his first band The Vultures. Legend has it he learned to play the guitar in the city. The house where he lived in Pentonville is marked with a plaque.
The show comes to Newport as the fifth anniversary of Strummer's death approaches in December.
It follows the lives of two young men from adolescence in 1977 to middle-age as they are transformed by the music and rebel politics of The Clash.
Further Joe Strummer events are planned for later in the month.
For more information, contact the The Riverfront on 01633656679 or visit www.newport.gov.uk/riverfront.
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