Setlist

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	Capitol Radio (Youtube) Protex Blue (Youtube) Cheat (Youtube) Remote Control (Youtube) I'm So Bored with the USA (Official) Hate & War (Official) Career Opportunities (Official) Remote Control (Official) White Riot(Youtube) Police And Thieves(Youtube) London's Burning (unreleased) 1977 (unreleased) 48 Hours (unreleased) Deny (unreleased) tbc (unreleased)

White Riot Tour with the Jam, Buzzcocks, Slits and Subway Sect -previously listed as the Polytechnic

updated 5 Sept 2008
updated 25 December - punters comments added
updated 6 Aug 2014 - review of 10 tracks so far released
updated 20 December with Soundsystem DVD info
updated June 2022 added photos

Video, Youtube

Not all of the yracks have been released. 6 tracks were unoffically released on Youtube. 4 more tracks were released officially on Sony's Soundsystem Boxset.

Video - Filmed by Students
Youtube release (by students?) 10 tracks

Official re-release
Official Sony Soundsystem Boxset DVD

I'm So Bored With The USA 2:14 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
Hate & War 1:94 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
Career Opportunities 1:42 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
Remote Control 2:73 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

Audio (from DVD)

Sound 3  - 9mins + 20mins - master video - Tracks 18

Remote Control (from DVD)

Video source and quailty

The following sources have photos and footage from The Clash's performance at the University of East Sussex in Brighton on May 25, 1977:

1. The University of Sussex's official website features footage of The Clash's performance at Mandela Hall as part of their White Riot tour. See more on the University of Sussex website.

2. An article on dangerousminds.net contains early footage of The Clash during the White Riot tour, shot at Sussex University on May 25, 1977. Check out the article here.

3. A video on YouTube titled "The Clash - Brighton 77 pt1" contains footage of the band's performance at Sussex University during the White Riot tour. Watch the video here.

4. Far Out Magazine also has videos of the band's performance at Sussex University on May 25, 1977, as part of the White Riot Tour. Explore the content on Far Out Magazine.

These sources provide valuable visual documentation of The Clash's historic performance at the University of East Sussex in 1977.

From the owner of the video

"The Clash footage is from The White Riot Tour, the entire Brighton gig, including the full Clash set. I am still hoping to get a DVD out this year - but their are a lot of parties involved to get clearance from."

"There still are plans for a commercial release and I am in discussion with a production company, it's just taking a long time to get all the clearances. It's not just the Clash of course, there's the Slits, Subway Sect and Buzzcocks too.

Almost all the members from those bands have OK'd on principle the release, a few are very hard to track down, and some have passed-on and I am having to deal with Estates. Joe's has OK'd it but I haven't been able to make direct contact with Mick, Paul or Topper. I've have handled a lot of archive material in the past and always want to release officially, it ensures greater distribution and that Artists get paid for their Art. It is B&W, features an entire set - London's Burning (how timely), 1977, I'm So Bored With The USA, Hate & War, 48 Hours, Denny, Police & Thieves, Capitol Radio & 7 more, including White Riot of course. There were 3 camera, edited live and an ambient mic. The sound is pretty good, good enough for a sound recording too. I'm sorry I can't send you a copy, I'll trade direct contacts for the missing 3 for a DVD of some of the set and I'm sure at release time we can work together to promote each other. It is amazing!"

"I remember watching a black & white video of the White Riot Sussex University gig in Brighton a week after the event, it was shown between bands at a gig in the basement of the art college, I have often wondered if this video is still around, I guess it was shot by an art student as part of a course,  vidoes of other punk gigs in Brighton existed from the time, I remember watching the Damned & Adverts soon after their gig there." - D (2005)

"I just got a Dvd off someone who said he had some footage of The Damned from University of Sussex Brighton in 1977.

Thought he got the wrong year but it was correct and it also has one track by The Slits one by Subway Sect two tracks by The Adverts and The Damned Fan Club, Sick Of Being Sick, Stretcher Case, New Rose then The Clash; Capitol Radio, Protex Blue, Cheat, Remote Control, White Riot, Police And Thieves.

Joe says White Riot in Sussex University before they start the song also the back ground is the same for The Slits,Subway Sect and The Buzzcocks (Buzzcocks I was given 2 Songs on Dvd).

The Damned and Adverts footage is totaly different background and the drum kit is on a round riser". M (2008)

Shots from video

"If its from the one i have been given its a two track preproduction copy (Capital Radio and White Riot),basically i was sent a copy and asked to pass it on to Mick, Tops etc, (Tops loved it BTW and Mick was very interetsed to know it existed plus Robin loved it as he's in most of it behind Micks amp) to probe the possibility of a commercial release as its the complete Clash show plus most of the Slits,Buzzcocks and Subway sect, a three camera shoot by the students all shot in glorious black and white , the sound is very good as well.
As far as i know had this turned up before they decided to release the Shea cd things could have been very different ,so don't expect an official release any time soon although there was talk of like Rat Patrol says a grey area release of some kind unless they have done it already ..........perhaps Klam can tell us , in any case its a fantastic piece of film and one that must see the light of day soon." Steve (2008)

Satch's discussion on the video

Link or Archived PDF

Link or archived PDF

Open Culture

Link or archived PDF

Rare Live Footage Documents The Clash From Their Raw Debut to the Career-Defining London Calling (1977-1980)

For all their leftist political fervor, musical richness, and fiercely uncompromised delivery, The Clash still suffered accusations that they sold out when they signed what looked like a relatively lucrative deal with CBS records in 1977.

Posters

Link

"Below is an original poster from the gig, kindly shared by Chris Stevens. Chris wrote....Here's my original poster of The Clash gig at Sussex Uni 25/5/77. I was a 1st Year student at the time and took this from the refectory wall at the end of the gig." courtesy of Clash City collectors

Tickets

University of East Sussex Brighton

The Clash performed at the University of East Sussex in Brighton on Wednesday, May 25, 1977, as part of their White Riot Tour. The concert took place at the university's campus, which was designed by architect Sir Basil Spence. The building is known for its modernist style and was completed in 1965.

The University of Sussex was founded in 1961 and has since grown to become a leading research university. The campus was designed by Sir Basil Spence, who was known for his modernist architecture, and the buildings were completed in 1965. It is still standing today and serves as the main campus for the University of Sussex. The concert was filmed by students, and the footage has been preserved as a part of the band's history.

loud, fast & just brilliant

"The Clash show was booked as a Polytechnic show, but actually took place at Sussex University due to demand; that's why you don't see it listed as such in the White Riot tour ads & so on. I actually bought the last two tickets! The footage was screened live while the show was going on,on closed-circuit TV screens around the venue, in the bars and so on; at the age of 18 I'd never seen anything like that before & it was certainly a rarity in 1977.

The previous week I'd been to my first punk gig, The Ramones & Talking Heads at Eric's in Liverpool but I still didn't really know what to expect. The hall had big glass windows at the stage end which meant that being summer the Slits essentially went on in daylight, despite the backdrop screens; I seem to remember we had to wait a pretty long time for Clash stage time to make sure it was properly dark by the time they got on. The Jam had dropped off the tour a few dates before, so it was the Slits, the Subway Sect & the Buzzcocks before the Clash. You can see photos of The Slits set in Caroline Coon's 1988 book and some of them & The Clash (in colour!) in The Punk Rock Movie; it's been a long time since I've seen that, so I think it's the clips where Joe has the red shirt on. Or maybe green; getting old!

Unsurprisingly it was a fantastic night. I was already a big Clash fan & it was unbelieveably thrilling to see them in person, the first time of many. The song I especially remember is Garageland, Joe crouching down to sing it. They were loud, fast & just brilliant.

But we know that, don't we?

How fantastic to see those screengrabs; it really does bring it all back. This I have to see; I've been playing it in my head for 30 years..."

Cut all my hair off next day and never looked back!

Gill Robinson - I was there! Great night! Got so pissed almost got put in the health centre for the night but escaped! Cut all my hair off next day and never looked back!

I was involved in organising this gig and pirate video'd it

Tony Glaser - I was there but as the just-recently-ex-Social Secretary. I was involved with this gig, and somewhere I think I still have the original posters (supported by the Subway Sect I and The Damned, I believe . . . I remember Rat Scabies was so young his father was there with him to try to curb excessive excesses) and I think I have my own personal "pirate" video of the whole think too . . . in some reel-to-reel video format that probably can't be read any more.

Other gigs to remember . . . and before my day was The Who (Keith Moon fell through the stage, when the stage comprised a bunch of refectory tables gaffer-taped together), Bob Marley (I booked him for a return show for £400 in 1975 or '76 but he cancelled with a spurious-looking note from a doctor which said "This young Jamaican has a very bad sore throat and I recommend he return to his home country as soon as possible" . . . wish I had kept that piece of paper!)

Also before my day at Sussex was Jimi Hendrix, and I believe Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I also remember booking Supertramp just before their fame . . . believe we paid £14 for that gig (they were guaranteed to get 90% of our profits), Kevin Ayers (played most of his set with all the lights off as he was in a shy mood; I seem to remember his contract required chilled Dom Perignon and appropriate glassware), John Martyn (several times), Can (several times . . . have a bootleg tape of their gig too), Clive James, Gong (whose altered mental status involved them dismantling the weird ziggurat floor of the Falmer House debating chamber, which the Union had to pay some carpenters a tidy sum to figure out to put it back together).

Al Stewart (whose promoter said at the last minute that he wouldn't go on stage unless we gave him his whole fee up front in cash . . . I explained that as the gig was sold out in advance there was no cash around but I would be happy to go on stage and explain that he wouldn't play . . . the promoter offered me a job at the end of the evening; no, I turned it down). What about Amazorblades?

And I recall the Slits - I suspect they were with The Clash too. And Billy Idol, who was a student at Sussex but never played anywhere more glamorous than Norfolk House (or was it Essex House) - there is a picture of him in normal student clothes in his pre-punk days somewhere on the web. Must be a whole lot more too but hard to remember it all, you know how the 70s were.

Steve Blake - I was there!

Mark Hagen - I was there!

Paul Cecil - I was there!

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