The Clash played 'a local pub-come-disco'
Updated July 2022, Terry Chimes comment
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Not a lot is know about this gig but it is referenced by several band members.
UNKNOWN / 'a local pub-come-disco'
From Terry Chimes autobiography, Chapter 2
'The Strange Case of Dr Terry and Mr Chimes'
TERRY CHIMES
Another time we played a gig in a basement in Guildford. During this show the audience started to reduce in number until there were only a few people left. That was definitely not what normally happened. We finished our set and sat there somewhat bewildered.
The manager of the club came over and explained that there had been a battle in the bar upstairs between the punks and the off-duty soldiers (there is a garrison in the town) and then hundreds of policemen arrived to make it a 3-way war.
When we came upstairs the place was totally empty and absolutely wrecked. During 1)76 there were punks springing up all over the place and at the same time there was a Teddy Boy revival. Unfortunately, we started hearing about clashes (no pun intended) between Punks and Teddy Boys somewhat similar to the battles between Mods and Rockers in the sixties.
NBC TV Interview, 1982
In an NBC 'Live at 5' Interview early 1982, Paul & Joe refer to this gig and the fact there was only 1 member in the audience.
RETURN OF THE LAST GANG IN TOWN
MARCUS GREIL, Page 156
The band's second trip out on their own, not long afterwards on some forgotten date in October, was to a pub-cum-disco in Guildford, Surrey, run by Marmalade's ex-bass player.
In February 1980, Joe informed Sounds' Robbi Millar that it was the smallest venue the band had ever played. The audience had consisted of ‘one lone drunk refugee from the club/disco below, where the bouncers were having the shit kicked out of them by a bunch of squaddies'.
Terry remembers that the Marmalade man came upstairs while this fracas was taking place and apologised to the band for the low turnout.
PASSION IS A FASHION
PAT GILBERT
After the Punk Festival, The Clash emerged from under the wing of The Pistols to headline their own gigs and to support other acts. There were a few unremarkable out-of-town shows - Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre in Leighton Buzzard, Lacy Lady's in Ilford and a half-remembered gig in Guildford, which, the story goes, was attended by just one bloke while a fight between squaddies and bouncers raged downstairs.
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