A Night of Treason:
supported by Subway Sect, The Jam and The Rockets
updated 22 January 2022 - added ticket
updated August 2022 added photo
two sources
There may be two sources for this (or they may be the same source) but neither are in ciculation.
Audio 1 (in circulation) -
Janie Jones
Source
This source is probably a different source to the one below? This one may possibly have been taped by Jonh Ingham which he refers to his book Englands Dreaming.
Jons photo below which can be found here London Calling, rare photos.
Source 2 - Jordi Valls Punk Tapes book
During 1976 and 1977 Jordi Valls recorded live on nine audio cassettes some of the early punk gigs in London. These tapes, featuring The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, Subway Sect, Billy Idol & Generation X, The Slits and Buzzcocks, capture the true sound of punk - raw, countercultural and subversive - as a phenomenon that had a radical impact on popular music and fashion, first in Britain and America, and then worldwide.
Arguably the most interesting aspect of punk is its vital, visceral energy, and the demonstration that the only thing that really matters is the intention, the power of the imagination, and nothing more.
This book is a witness of this movement. With substantial graphic material such as photographs, newspapers, cuttings, gig tickets, make up this big and valuable archive on a movement so intense as self-destructive.
The Clash. 20.9.1976 100 Club Oxford Street, London (punk festival).
The Clash. 16.10.1976, University of London.
The Clash. 29.10.1976, Fulham Old Town Hall, London.
The Clash. 5.11.1976, Royal College of Art, London.
The Clash 11.3.77 The Coliseum, Harlesden, London.
The Clash. 1.5-1977. Civic Hall, Guildford.
BBC Radio London radio interview (2003)
With Paul and Mick.
At 40mins they talk about the chaos, bottle throwing at the RCA gig.
'A Night Of Treason'
The Royal College of Art is best known as a centre of British art [Hockney, Kitaj, Conran] but on November 5, 1976 it hosted A Night Of Treason, starring The Clash.
Punk was going overground and the place was full of punks, the interested and students. The stage door policy was loose and backstage was as crowded as out front. The dressing rooms and corridors were seething with talent. Siouxsie Sioux was gathering her tribe to follow up the Punk Festival appearance. Billy Idol and Tony James were about to leave Chelsea (one time on stage) and start a band called Generation X. Adrian Thrills was starting a fanzine. Mark P was working on the next issue of Sniffin' Glue.
If Punk was an attitude then Subway Sect was as Punk as it got. They didn't look or sound like anything else on a stage [before or since]. Their complete lack of showmanship and off-centre music really made you feel you were seeing something new. Then The Jam came on, all two-tone shoes and Shepherds Bush riffs. Somehow the sharp suits and Rickenbackers were at odds with the homemade fashions and Fenders of the Pistols and the Clash and backstage they sat apart from the other bands.
The Clash were incendiary. The sound was big and loud and they climbed all over their brace of songs like kids on a building site, crashing guitars and a rabble-rousing Joe. Then a student threw a beer glass. [Depressingly, it was always students who threw glasses and bottles.] Joe threw his arms above his head and shouted ‘Under heavy manners!' He sought out the perpetrator, who got on stage. Joe questioned him and the guy looked sheepish. Then Sid Vicious got on stage, muttering into the mic and looking well-named. A few minutes later and they got back to the wonderful racket.
People used to say their life changed the first time they saw The Clash. This was the night when that scenario began.
POSTER, A NIGHT OF TREASON
Jonh Ingham, Mick Jones and Joe Strummer at The Royal College Of Art, London, 1976. "That was the first time The Clash had a big stage, and they went crazy. There was a saying at the time, 'If you see The Clash, it will change your life.' And that was true of that night ñ they were spectacular. If they ran fast enough they would defy gravity; if they played fast enough they would be in another dimension."
An original Ticket from the gig
Royal College of Art London
The building where The Clash performed at the Royal College of Art in London was not actually built by the college. It was originally built by Henry VIII in the year 1522. The building was initially constructed for the reception of Charles V of Spain.
It was later presented to the City of London by King Edward VI and repurposed as a workhouse for the poor and a house of correction.
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The Clash, Royal College of Art,
Nov. 5, 1976 Jonh Ingham
"On the bill it was the Clash, Subway Sect and the Jam, and it was called the Night of Treason because it was on the fifth of November, Guy Fawkes night.
"The audience was very much a mix of the original punk fans, about 100 to 150 people, then there was a large group who had just come to see what the fuss was all about, and then there was a large group of the Art College students. For the Clash, that was the biggest stage they had been on at that point and they just grabbed it, they just stamped their authority all over the place that night. I've heard people say, 'I saw the Clash that night and they changed my life.'
"Somewhere in the middle of the set this beer glass came flying to the stage and smashed across it. Joe Strummer wanted none of that so he just stopped it and said, 'Who threw that?' Some guy put up his hand, so Strummer singled him out and said, 'If you got something to say, come up here and say it.' So this guy got up on stage and they started having this conversation, it was very odd. Weirdly, these university students, who were supposed to be the smart ones, were actually the dumb ones in this whole movement, they were the ones throwing beer glasses and acting like idiots."
Support bands
The Royal College Of Art show on 5 November 1976. My recollection is that four groups performed - two punk and two non-punk, and to a very divided audience? First up was one of the non-punk groups, whose name I don't remember, Second was The Subway Sect, then The Rockets and finally The Clash.
This Long Century: THE CLASH
JON SAVAGE
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The Clash live at the Royal College of Art on 5 November 1976 (© Jonh Ingham). The show ended when Joe Strummer dropped his guitar, leapt off the stage and attacked the long-haired students who had been pelting them with beer mugs. They were rolling around in front of me while the Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Dog sucked in all the air -- a synaesthesia of violent confrontation.
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The Clash at the Royal College of Art, November 5, 1976. Photos © John Ingham.
The show ended when Joe Strummer dropped his guitar, leap off the stage and attacked the long-haired students who had been pelting them with beer mugs.
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'The Clash, A Night of Treason, Royal College of Art', 1976, taken on Olympus OM1 with a 35mm lens with Tri-X film. Nick Knight interviews writer and photographer Jonh Ingham about his photograph of The Clash at their explosive gig at the RCA in 1976.
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The Clash's "A Night of Treason", at Royal College of Art
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The Clash: Royal College of Art, London 5 Nov 1976. Photo by John Ingham
Poster for the Night Of Treason headline gig at the Royal College of Art
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The Clash's "A Night of Treason", at Royal College of Art
Steven Walsh - Funny, I was at that gig with Sid. A bunch of students (I presume) who looked not unlike the bloke on the left, were throwing plastic glasses and other projectiles at the stage.
A partially full pint pot hit Joe straight in the temple. He carried on and finished the song, then put down his guitar as calm as you like and waded into the crowd to sort out the person who threw it.
Sid must have followed.
It all kicked off from then on and a bunch of us steamed in. I followed instantly, Joe had a real ‘leader of men' quality to him like some Boys Own hero. I would have followed him anywhere! I wound up on the back of some large bloke in a leather coat boxing his ears like he was a big brother giving me a piggy back, while my friend Kenny Morris kicked the geezer with his winkle pickers.
It was kind of comic book, but those pointy shoes Must have hurt somewhat. Eventually I was hauled off by some big bouncer who I knew from Camberwell. We all got a cab back to the Davis Road squat afterwards and some guys in a white VW followed us and lobbed a bottle and sped off up the Uxbridge Road. Must have upset someone.
Paul Alexander Evans - Sid wasn't singing, someone threw a glass and Joe complained about it, Sid got onstage and spoke through the mic, the whole gig is on YouTube in audio, check it out
Photos: RCA, 5 November 1976
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Mick Jones and Paul Simonon backstage in London, 1977.
Photographer Syd Shelton recalls, "This was taken at a gig in London but I canít remember the venue, nor can Mick Jones. It ís really early Clash. I managed to blag my way backstage and take that picture. There ís something very raw about it: it ís straight-on flash, 35mm, black and white, grainy... Theyíre wearing Vivienne Westwood gear theyíve customised by sewing on silk Haile Selassie patches."
Is this picture the RCA?
Photo Jonh Ingham
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The Clash backstage at a concert at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, November 5, 1976.
Photo by Julian Yewdall
GETTY IMAGES: Clash At The RCA
The Clash performing at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, 5th November 1976. Left to right: Mick Jones, Joe Strummer (1952 - 2002), Terry Chimes and Paul Simonon. Photo by Julian Yewdall/Getty Images)
London calling: Jonh Ingham
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Jonh Ingham takes us behind iconic photos of the Sex Pistols, the Clash and more.
The Clash at the Royal College of Art, London, 5th November 76 with guest vocalist Sid Vicious.
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