'Sire's idea to promote the LP was to send us on a tour of England opening for The Clash. We would play twenty-one dates in twenty-three days in twenty cities. It was the first time I'd ever left the United States and the first time the band ever played outsode of New York.
England made a bad impression. It seemed defeated and ashamed. Its more priveleged youth manifested this in continuous cynical, self depreciating irony. Oder people were still fixated amazingly on World War II, which was apparently the most recent moment un whuch they could take any pride.Everybidystill seemed psychologically crushed b the collapse of the empire fifty years before.
Physically it was mire of the same.. The streets of the East Village were burned out and lawless., but they were Joyland compared to the death row oppressiveness of urban Britain. A lot of its streets were ugly fir having been cheaply and tastelessly rebuilt after the World War II blitz bombings, but even the ninettenth-century blocks were endlessly monotpnous lie mishappen penitentaries.
For food there were fried potatoes,, and potatoes and beans, and potatoes and eggs, and meat potato pies and boiled potatoes.'
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