Joe Strummer - Walker On The Wild Side

What happened when the singer/songwriter joined Alex Cox to make a movie in war-torn 1980s Nicaragua...

A companion piece to a recent Alex Cox article (I appreciate there’ve been rather a lot of them). Here Joe Strummer explains to Uncut magazine what it was like shooting and composing the music for Walker…

On the perils of making a period epic in a difficult place with difficult people…
I don’t know much about films but I would think that a historical war epic would have to rank as one of the hardest categories. And I thought Alex handled it pretty well. Rows would break out all over the shop, though. You had someone standing behind the director who’s taken out an insurance bond, so he’s going to make sure that you come in under budget, whether they break you or not. There was almost open war sometimes.