Supported by Subway Sect

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BBC Radio London radio interview (2003)

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

Extensive photos in Bob Gruens book:
The Clash 'Photograghs by Bob Gruen'.

Bob Gruen - 2015 - ‎Music
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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The Clash: Konkrete Klockwork

April 1977

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Report and Interview by
Kris Needs

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

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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.

Photo by Chalkie Davies. pic.twitter.com/ErhS7I3kVu

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MELODY MAKER: Down And Out And Proud

Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 13 Nov 76
following the ICA gig

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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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Shelia Rock recalls

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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The Clash hold A Night Of Pure Energy at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

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An original poster for the Night of Pure Energy gig held at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts

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In The Seventies:
Adventures in the Counter-Culture

ISBN 1847654940
Barry Miles - 2011 - ‎Music

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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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