Nacional and Kids Love Lies will both feature on a new download album Breaking Rocks being released on Silver Door Records, as part of the Jail Guitar Doors initiative.
Founded by Billy Bragg, Jail Guitar Doors is an independent organisation which aims to provide instruments to those who are using music as a means of achieving the rehabilitation of prison inmates, taking its name from the b-side of The Clash’s 1978 single Clash City Rockers.
The initiative has been operating since 2007 and is ever progressing. All money raised from this download album will be used to fund return visits into UK prisons by the Jail Guitar Doors graduates such as Leon Walker and Jonny Neesom, and funding for more instruments.
Musicians already involved with the initiative include Wayne Kramer (MC5), Mick Jones (The Clash), Chris Shiflett (Foo Fighters) and Sam Duckworth (Get Cape Wear Cape Fly) and a Jail Guitar Doors U.S. is also taking shape. The initiative is supported by Strummerville, The Joe Strummer Foundation For New Music and has been visually documented by director Alan Miles in Breaking Rocks - recently premiered at Raindance Film Festival.
Billy Bragg has personally reviewed the album and has also written a 1000 word feature to be published in the 100th issue of Artrocker Magazine (April). Billy also has a track on the album which was recorded inside one of Her Majestys Prisons.
Other artists featured on the album include: Televised Crimewave, The Mighty Roars, The Kabeedies, Billy Bragg (Live from HMP), Wild Palms, Dead Kids, Pete & The Pirates, Baddies, My Tiger My Timing, Kids Love Lies Victorian English Gentlemens Club, The Ruling Class, David Cronenbergs Wife, The Arcadian Kicks, Nacional, These Monsters, Leon Walker (Jail Guitar Doors Graduate), Jonny Neesom (Jail Guitar Doors Graduate), The Lucky Face, LR Rockets, Violet Violet, Castrovalva, Version88, Islington Boys Club, Raven beats Crow, Kaputt, Dolly & The Clothespegs, Oh! Qunquit, The Neat, William, Phantom. The ABC Club. The Brownies and Shock Defeat!
For more information about the initiative, check out the following sites: