Supported by Subway Sect
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with Paul and Mick. At 41.45 mins they talk about this ICA gig and the "Canabilism at Clash gig". Patty Smith jumped on stage.
Poster - ICA - A Night of Pure Energy
The Institute of Contempary Arts
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2nd October 1976,
23rd October 1976 at the ICA
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA contains galleries, a theatre, two cinemas, a bookshop and a bar. Wiki.
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ISBN 178323489X
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On Saturday, 23 October 1976, The Clash headlined a show at London's ICA, the Institute for Contemporary Arts. Also on the bill were Subway Sect and Snatch, ...
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David Hayward - Yes, I was there! Patti Smith was there too. Astonishing Gig
Danny Sabella - This flyer was up on the wall of Manitobas, a bar in Manhattan owned by Handsome Dick of The Dictators.
Craig Royle - Im sure i was there. It was cold and raining. Joe had problems with mic i recall.
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The Clash: Konkrete Klockwork
April 1977
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AT THE MOMENT there isn't a group in the New Wave that comes within spitting distance of The Clash, live or on record. Within a year ...
MELODY MAKER: "The ICA, home of lively..."
The Clash: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Caroline Coon, Melody Maker,
30 October 1976
THE ICA, that home of lively experiment in London's Mall, is fast becoming the badly needed workshop-cum-watering hole for the growing number of jolly ravers following the rise and rise of the new-wave punk-rock bands.
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NME 'Cannibalism at Clash Gig'
Live Review by Miles, NME, April 1977
A ROW OF PARKED Vivas, Consuls and Zephyrs indicated that the ICA had an audience a little different to the usual. It was "A Night Of Pure Energy'; with Subway Sect, who were terrible, Snatch Sounds, who I missed, and The Clash.
The Clash were real good. I enjoyed them a lot more than the Patti Smith Band the night before. They were not poseurs. They are everything that Sniffin' Glue magazine promised they would be ...
Shane MacGowan perpetrates
'Cannibalism at Clash gig,' 1976 ...
https://dangerousminds.net/
2 Jan 2016
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1 Feb 2016 - On Saturday, October 23, 1976, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London ... At that point the Clash and the Sex Pistols were in a category of two in ... her way to the ICA so that she could dance onstage to "I'm So Bored with ...
Shane MacGowan attends a Clash concert at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts
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Shane McGowan at a Clash gig at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, October 1976.
— PuNk and Stuff (@PunKandStuff) May 11, 2023
Photo by Chalkie Davies. pic.twitter.com/ErhS7I3kVu
MELODY MAKER: Down And Out And Proud
Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 13 Nov 76
following the ICA gig
THREE WEEKS AGO at London's ICA, Jane and Shane, regulars on the new-wave punk rock scene, were sprawled at the edge of the stage. Blood ..
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Photographer Shelia Rock recalls, "I met them at their ICA gig in 1976 and went to Chalk Farm to photograph them soon afterwards. They look cool and lean and hungry. They had iconic status even then."
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... and the Clash, invited me to see his bands perform at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) at a gig billed as 'A Night of Pure Energy' on 23 October 1976.
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