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Bernie Rhodes, former manager of punk legends The Clash, caused uproar at an arts event in London last night, prompting organisers to bring the event to an abrupt finish.
Branding The Future Is Unwritten – the hotly-awaited new movie about the life of Clash singer Joe Strummer which premiers next week – as "boring, they’ve turned Joe into a hippie", Rhodes sparked a walk-out among audience members from the Cochrane Theatre when he said' If you want to sort out crime in London, sort out the niggers in Peckham.' in a rant about the government instituting a call-up in the wake of the decision to send Prince Harry to Iraq.
Rhodes had been invited to participate in Clash Culture, an event for art
students organised by style bible The Look and Central Saint Martins Art
college. Among the punk luminaries, fashionistas and journalists attending were Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, style writer Peter York and one time Clash roadie turned industrial designer Sebastian Conran, son of Sir Terence.
Self-styled "punk philosopher" Bernie Rhodes, 63, described Julien Temple’s biopic of Strummer as "crap - a film made by a public school boy about another public school boy". He added: "They’ve
turned Joe into a hippie because they want another John Lennon."
When Rhodes used the N word, several members of the audience walked out in disgust as he was bombarded with catcalls. Theatre managers then brought the event to a close.
Clash Culture was organized to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Clash’s historic White Riot tour with a fashion show and presentations by the band’s designers Conran, Alex Michon and Krystyna Kolowskas, all of whom attended Saint Martins.
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