The Good the Bad & the Queen is a new project featuring Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz) Paul Simonon (The Clash) Tony Allen (Fela Kuti/Africa 70) and Simon Tong (The Verve).THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE QUEEN traces a journey from the English music hall tradition over to West Africa for Afrobeat zigzagging through the West Indies and it s reggae and dub back to England and London s punk scene all the while taking in a strand of British beat music from the 50s right through to Britpop.