Joe Strummer 003: The 101'ers Years 3CD Box Set

Pre-order Date: October 8th, 2026
Release Date: November 20th, 2026

Dark Horse Records is proud to release Joe Strummer 003: The 101'ers Years, bringing together studio and live recordings from Joe Strummer’s pre-Clash band, The 101'ers.

The 3CD deluxe edition features 48 tracks and is housed in a 48-page hardback book with slipcase. The book includes a foreword by Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock, a history of The 101'ers written by band member Richard Nother Dudanski, and illustrations & writings by Joe Strummer rom the Strummer archive.

Disc 1 collects the band’s studio recordings, Disc 2 features basement tapes and demos, and Disc 3 is dedicated to live recordings.

The 101'ers took their name from 101 Walterton Road in Maida Vale, where the band lived together in a squat, and became regulars on London’s mid-’70s pub rock scene. Their sound mixed rock &roll, R&B and rockabilly, just as punk was beginning to emerge.

After the Sex Pistols opened for the band in 1976, Strummer was drawn to the new punk movement and soon left to join The Clash. The 101'ers brief run captures an important moment just before British punk changed everything.

Tracklisting:

3CD

CD1: Studio Recordings

1. Letsagetabitarockin’
2. Silent Telephone
3. Keys To Your Heart (2026 Mix)
4. Rabies (From the Dogs of Love) (2026 Mix)
5. Sweet Revenge
6. Motor Boys Motor
7. Steamgauge 99
8. 5 Star R’n’R (2026 Mix)
9. Surf City (2026 Mix)
10. Keys To Your Heart (Single Version)
11. Sweety of the St. Moritz
12. Hideaway

CD2: Basement Tapes / Demos

1. Motor Boys Motor
2. Green Love
3. Keys To Your Heart
4. Gyrate To The Rhythm
5. Sweety of the St. Moritz
   
6. Bo Diddley 6 Gun Blues
7. Silent Telephone
8. Boo The Goose
9. Sha-La-La-La-Lee
   
10. Letsagetabitarockin’
11. Full Moon
12. Sweet Revenge
13. Smokin’ & Jokin’
14. Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
15. Sweet Revenge (Acoustic)

CD3: Live

1. Letsagetabitarockin’
2. Shake Your Hips
3. Back In The U.S.S.R.
4. Lonely Mother’s Son (Jail Guitar Doors)
5. Don’t Let It Go (Hold On To What You Got)
6. Motor Boys Motor
7. Keys To Your Heart
8. Boppin’ The Blues
9. Surf City
10. 5 Star R’n’R
11. Too Much Monkey Business
12. Willie And The Hand Jive
13. Junco Partner
14. Silent Telephone
15. Promised Land
16. Rabies (From the Dogs of Love)
17. Keep Taking The Tablets
18. Steamgauge 99
19. Roll Over Beethoven
20. Gloria
21. Maybellene