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Rock Against Racism 2024

30.04.78 Victoria Park, Hackney, London. The Clash, Tom Robinson Band, X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse, Patrik Fitzgerald. The first Rock against Racism Carnival in glorious dayglo.  The Nazis? No Freedom, N…

Oasis 1994

THEY'RE BACK, TOGETHER! Fergie's United do the double, but no England at the USA World Cup, never mind Big Jack's Green Army are there. Some bloke called Blair we'd never heard of becomes Labo…

Fairytale of New York T-shirt

"And the boys from the NYPD Choir were singing Galway Bay and the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day." Macgowan. MacColl, Finer, Trench. 25.12.1987

Christmas 1987.The Pogues, with Shane MacGowan joined on vocals by the sublime Kirsty MacColl, release surely the definitive alternative Christmas anthem Fairytale of New York For many a raucousl…

Fairytale of New York hoodie

Christmas 1987.The Pogues, with Shane MacGowan joined on vocals by the sublime Kirsty MacColl, release surely the definitive alternative Christmas anthem Fairytale of New York For many a raucousl…

Fairytale of New York tote bag

For many a raucously tuneles rendition a Christmas tradition ever since. Shane, and Kirsty, we can assure you, and for ever more. In NYPD navy blue, with the authors of the track Shane MacGowa…

Clash City Rocker T-shirt

"Rock rock Clash city rockers" sounds just like yesterday? Still "Want to move the town to the Clash City Rockers"? "You need a little jump of electrical shockers" if we were there the first t…

Clash City Rocker zip-up

"Rock rock Clash city rockers" sounds just like yesterday? Still "Want to move the town to the Clash City Rockers"? "You need a little jump of electrical shockers" if we were there the first t…

London Calling T-shirt

On 14 December 1979, The Clash's third album London Calling was released. The double album catapulted The Clash from punk originals to the frontline of a generation's cultural resistance against al…

London Calling hoodie

On 14 December 1979, The Clash's third album London Calling was released. The double album catapulted The Clash from punk originals to the frontline of a generation's cultural resistance against al…

London Calling tote bag

On 14 December 1979, The Clash's third album London Calling was released. The double album catapulted The Clash from punk originals to the frontline of a generation's cultural resistance against al…

London Calling print

 560 x 560mm Highly-collectable large hand-stenciled six-process print on heavyweight archival paper, the unique effect is completed with Harwich beach sand.  Strictly unoffical, art inspir…

Clash 1977 T-shirt

In April 1977 The Clash released their debut album, with Strummer, Jones, Simonon and Chimes kick-starting the punk'n'politics mix that in a short time they turned into Revolution Rock, to become for …

Clash 1977 hoodie

In April 1977 The Clash released their debut album, with Strummer, Jones, Simonon and Chimes kick-starting the punk'n'politics mix that in a short time they turned into Revolution Rock, to become for …

Clash 1977 tote bag

In April 1977 The Clash released their debut album, with Strummer, Jones, Simonon and Chimes kick-starting the punk'n'politics mix that in a short time they turned into Revolution Rock, to become for …

The Clash 1976-82 T-shirt

17 September 1982. Should I Stay or Should I Go released. The final release by Strummer, Jones, Simonon and Headon. The end. Our T-shirt celebrates The Clash 1976-82, front and back. Unise…

The Clash 1976-82 zip up sweatshirt

17 September 1982. Should I Stay or Should I Go released. The final release by Strummer, Jones, Simonon and Headon. The end. Our new style zip-up sweatshirt with collar celebrates The Clash …

Tommy Gun

November '78. The Clash release their second album, Give 'Em Enough Rope. For those who heard it back then and can stil hum the tune to 'Tommy Gun’ it seems just like yesterday.  Unisex size …

Garageland T-shirt

"I don't want to hear about what the rich are doing, I don't want to go to where, where the rich are going." Strummer's words match our sentiments exactly. Imagine the type of people you would meet…

Garageland print

"I don't want to hear about what the rich are doing. I don't want to go where, where the rich are going."

Print framed 760 x 560mm. Strictly unoffical, art inspired by the words of the Clash's 1977 track Garageland that sum up why punk was against the celeb-obsession culture of being famous for being …

Give Em Enough Rope

Inspired by the original Give 'Em Enough Rope album cover artwork, our unique design features the song 'English Civil War' - a dystopian view of England more relevant than ever with the resurgence of …

Brand New Cadillac

14.12.79. The Clash's third album London Calling is released. The double-album catapulted The Clash from punk originals to the frontline of a generation's cultural resistance against all that Thatche…

Joe Strummer The Future is Unwritten

On 22 December 2002 a generation of Clash City Rockers lost Joe Strummer. His final gig, typically, a benefit for striking firefighters. Our 20th anniversary design combines Joe's portrait wi…

The Jam 1977-82 zip-up sweatshirt

Three 1970s secondary schoolkids from Woking had a dream. To form a band, to play a gig, to release a single. 1977 their first, In The City, an album too. For five short years, tens of thousands …

The Jam 1977-82 T-shirt

Three 1970s secondary schoolkids from Woking had a dream. To form a band, to play a gig, to release a single. 1977 their first, In The City, an album too. For five short years, tens of thousands …

Jam Albums

Sleeveprint: Buckler, Foxton & Weller 1977-1982 The Jam played their last live performance on 11 December 1982. The explosive mix of Weller's lyrics wth Foxton and Buckler driving the rhythms rema…

Pistols EMI Anarchy in the UK

  26 November 1976 - The Sex Pistols' debut single Anarchy in the UK is released on EMI. Less than two months later EMI drop the Pistols after their infamous swearing while being interviewed by…

Pistols Holiday in the Sun

The fourth and final Sex Pistols single, Holidays in the Sun, by the original line up (Sid having replaced Matlock) sums up with wry observation what at the time was the New World Order, but now is d…

Pistols Flowers in the Dustbin print

Perhaps the Pistols' most infamous release, coinciding with the '77 Royal Silver Jubilee, was God Save the Queen. Inspired by the most poignant line in the song, 'We're the Flowers in the Dustbin', a…

Specials Gangsters record label T-shirt

On Friday 4th May '79 the release of the debut single from The Specials 'Gangsters'  and the first from the brand new independent record label Coventry-based 2 Tone, TT1. Our design uses the original…

Specials Ghost Town T-shirt

12th June '81 The Specials released Ghost Town, within a month it was both number one and an anthemic commentary as inner-city England erupted. ' Do you remember the good old days before the Gho…

Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary

1st March 1973,for a generation of a certain musical, taste the release of an album Dark Side of the Moon, complete with iconic cover design, that came to define those times.  In our unique …

Billy Bragg Revolution

"The Revolution is just a T-shirt away" Billy Bragg

Featuring the line from ' Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards' which launched a million T-shirts to bring capitalism to the spin-cycle if not to its knees. And unlike all our other shirts, this one's…

Road to Nowhere shirt

It's 1985 and Talking Heads release Road to Nowhere. It's 2022 and Liz Truss at the helm, energy price rises out of control,  Putin's warpath and the climate emergency. 'We're on a road to…

Ian Dury Sex & Drugs T-shirt

 Poetic, humorous, romantic 'I had a love affair with Nina, in the back of my Cortina' from late 1970's to 2000 Ian Dury hit us with his rhythm stick.  His '77 debut Stiff single, predictably …

Ian Dury portrait print

A limited edition framed print, measuring 400mm x 400 mm, individually numbered /50 each hand signed by the artist. Brilliantly re-created by Philosophy Football's Hugh Tisdale our Ian Dury po…

Bob Dylan A-Changin T-shirt (ash grey)

Arguably Dylan's greatest of greatest hits. His '64 song was destined to become an anthem of the 1960's youth revolt for civil rights against war. The times didn't change as much as Dylan and the revo…

Bob Dylan Fifty Songs framed print

On the 24th of May Bob Dylan is 80, and to celebrate a back catalogue stretching back some six decades, Philosophy Football co-founder and massive Dylan fan Hugh Tisdale has designed a unique commem…

Ian Dury Sex & Drugs badges set

Poetic, humorous, romantic 'I had a love affair with Nina, in the back of my Cortina' from late 1970s to 2000 Ian Dury hit us with his rhythm stick.  His '77 debut Stiff single, predictably ban…

Ian Dury Sex & Drugs tote bag

Give any shopping trip a bit of extra spice Ian Dury's not to forget list Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll  handily itemised on our tote bag . Gift Wrap Service  Philosophy Football gift wrap serv…