Short European Tour of Holland, France, Switzerland,
Germany and Sweden

updated 8 July 2008 - added 3 photos courtesy laubai
updated Dec 2014 - added poster
updated October 2020 - added bootleg tape & unknown interview, handmade poster
updated November 2022 added French article
updated May 2023 added Deny Fanzine & better poster
updated Jan 2024 added a relfective blog artcile

Clash on Tour LP

Sound 3 - 24min - LP/m - tracks 9 - for info on bootlegs check Clash on Stage website

Clash on Tour LP - White Riot

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full gig [upgraded] - Sound 3.5 - 50min - 1gen - tracks 18

White Riot

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The full recording.

A recent recording [2000] is a big upgrade on the older tapes which are circulating and an improvement as well on the edited down to one side The Clash on Tour LP.

one of the best 1977 recordings around

The full upgrade is one of the best 1977 recordings around and is a from a very good low generation audience source. There is some distance but all the instrumentation is fairly clear. Vocals and backing vocals are very good; the guitar sounds a bit thin, bass not focussed and drums fairly distant. Not as enjoyable a sound as the Mont de Marsan full tape but still very good especially with the volume cranked up really high.

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A seven song edited recording of this gig made up one side of the widely available The Clash On Tour bootleg LP, occasionally refered to as Tommy Guns LP [due to inner labels]. The LP contains edited sets from

Paris - The Bataclan - 29 Sept 1977
Paris - Le Stadium -16 Oct 1978 more info

Both shows are edited down for the LP. Fuller tapes exist.

The full tape of the 1977 gig [and the full tape of the 78 gig] have an excellent sound. Both superior to whats on this boot vinyl.

The LP sound quality is reasonable. Easily listenable with some minimal distortion on the first side. Side 2 is a bit more muddy in sound.

The Bataclan - Punk festival 29 Sept 77

A decent sound that suffers only minor distortions in the vocals. The sound lacks a decent range and is a touch flat, a little distant too, yet with a fair degree of clarity. The bass is there, but is lost in the sound.The fuller tape is slighlty better.

Notable highlights include a great version of Complete Control, better sounding versions of the infant White Man, and the The Prisoner and City of the Dead which have begun to show up. London's Burning has been contorted to Paris is Singing at the end.

Le Stadium 16 Oct 78

Again a decent sound if a little flat, not to dissimilar to the other show on the LP.

A fair degree of clarity and maybe a touch more range in the sound on this one though. You can just make out the bass chords though the clarity overall is quite reasonable, with only very mild distortion. The fuller tape has marginally a better sound eminating from a 1st generation source .

The tracks from the second album Give Em Enough Rope, are beginning to show up. Guns on the Roof and Drug Stabbing Time.

What is of most interest here though is the detour at the end of Police and Thieves into the Ramones Blitzkreig Bop. Great. This version was copied and hidden on the official bonus CD [USA only] issued with the 2000 remasters titled Rockers Galore.

Paris is beginning to sizzle

“Paris is beginning to sizzle” laughs Strummer near the end of an incendiary performance at the famous Paris Bataclan. The Bataclan is an historic grand Paris theatre dating back to the 1860’s (see picture) and has witnessed many great performances, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, Vince Taylor, Oasis and Radiohead, but this bootleg documents surely one of its greatest presentations.

The Clash were no doubt inspired by the venue’s rock’n’roll history and its lack of seats in the main auditorium. Punk was big news by now in Paris and the band go down a storm.

A French fans eye view

After the gig, the CLASH went to drink at “La Coupole”, an “existentialist cafe” and finished the night at the Gibus Club.

They saw the local band ASPHALT JUNGLE which they had just mentioned in their “Paris is singing” version. For the TV show, the scenery was “very” punk with flying pterodactys!

This TV show was prouced by “Un sur Cinq (1 out of 5)”, a social and culturel broadcast. Freddy Hausser produced the “Pop News” rubrique and presented the CLASH with Phillipe MANOEUVRE (who wrote “Cheap trill” in Rock’n’Folk magazine).

The CLASH played “London’s burning” at the sound check but the cameramen didn’t want to continue. They striked cos the CLASH played too loud. Just one man accepted to film. So, it was a fixed and large plan. 15 min. later, the CLASH played “Complete control”, then “1977”(cut) and it was over.

White-flash: Tonight in Paris - A RADICAL PUNK GROUP

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14. RELEASE. September 29, 1977.
Tonight in Paris
A RADICAL PUNK GROUP

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The Clash will give a concert in Paris at the Bataclan 50 bd Voltaire (XI°) on Thursday September 29 at 8:30 p.m. the concert is organized by Skydog and Marc Zermati who has followed the group since its inception: "we must promote radical music and the Clash play radical music" he says.

The Clash are an integral part of British New-wave. It is an organization which includes 7 people and which, according to a strategy determined by a materialistic vision of the facts, proposes to carve out an important place in the phenomenon of rock. There's Bernard Rhodes, the band's manager, who designs the patterns for the band's costumes.

The Clash convey at the same time as a new musical aesthetic a new style of dress, military outfits dyed in black embellished with slogans painted in stencil and metal accessories, an alternative fashion that is spreading through Boys or Seditionarist, the new shops on King's road London. benefit-concerts for London squatters, the group had released a 45 rpm: Keys to your heart (Chixwick Records).

Joe is the group's ideological mentor. Mick Jones (guitar) and Paul Simenon (bass) were part with Brian James (of the Damned) of London SS, a legendary group that never gave concerts. The drummer is new, it's his first band. He does not play on the 33 lap The Clash but on the last 45 lap of the group which will be released in France by CBS.

Finally the last members of the Clash organization are the two roadies, •
who at the Mont de Marsan Punk festival, dismantled all the equipment, dressed in pants whose legs were attached with straps.

The texts of the group indicate the political directions of the group, the anti-Americanism in Pm so bored with the USA ... Yankee dollars talk to the dictators of the world/ln fact it's giving orders/And they can' t afford to miss a world/I'm so bored with the USA/What Kojak for the USA.

In homage to Jamaicans who had fought with English hobbies during the Notting Hills riots, they cover a reggae by Murvin and Perry "Police and thieves in the streets/Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition/From genesis to revelationl The next generation will be hear me/And all the crowd horns in day by day, Denis is a song about a junkie girl: "And you said You'd given it up gone and kicked it in the head/ You said you ain't had none for weeks but baby i seen your arms...”

“Janie Jones” is the story of a whore: “He's in love with rock'n roll woaahh He's in love with getting stoned Woaahh He's in love with Janie Jones ". Hate and war are the new “Peace and Love” of punks: e Hate and War, I hate all the English/They're just as bad as wops/And y hate all the politeness/And i hate all the cops” .

48 hours, city life, metro, brick walls. Cheat respond to lp violence with violence, White riot, blacks have problems but they are not afraid to throw a stone, Garageland: "We're a garage band, we horn from garage land" "London's burnin is a call for civil war: "London's burnin' with boredom now"
Here is the speech of the Clash of the violent words which stick to a violent music which makes them with the Pistols the most respected group of the New Wave.

ALAIN “No Future” PACADIS

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The Bataclan, Paris

The Bataclan was built in 1864 by the architect Charles Duval in a style inspired by the Chinoiserie trends of the times.

The theatre is located at 50 Boulevard Voltairein in the 11th arrondissement of Paris and has a capacity of 1,500 people. The venue has a rich history, hosting various concerts, theater performances, and cinema screenings over the years and has recently suffered a tragic terrorist attack.

As for the current status of the building, Le Bataclan is still in existence and continues to serve as a venue for concerts and events. It gained international attention following a tragic terrorist attack in November 2015, but it has since reopened and remains a significant cultural landmark in Paris.

Paris is beginning to sizzle

The recording begins with a reggae track being faded out over the PA and then with no introduction The Clash blast into London’s Burning. The performance starts off fast and furious and just builds in intensity up to the 2 encores, which are especially powerful. Highlights are many. Complete Control has great guitar work from Mick with the solos now mirroring the recorded version released that week.

White Man in Hammersmith Palais “un nouveau chanson” is still in development with some lyrics changed for this gig “punk rockers all over the world, especially here in France, down by the banks of the Seine, I went insane” Capital Radio is fantastic here with a particularly manic Joe ranting over the now extended ending.

There is an edit at The Prisoner but it loses only the very opening chords. Joe responds to a request for White Riot with “listen mate, can’t have a White Riot in case I lose my chequebook!” He then introduces I’m So Bored With The USA with a rare bit of literary criticism by shouting “Henry Miller!”

As mentioned the 2 encores demanded by the enthusiastic crowd are especially brilliant. The second 1977 gets different lyrics and the Bataclan gets a name check in What’s My Name. “Paris is beginning to sizzle” is the intro to Paris Is Burning with almost completely different lyrics including references to Asphalt Jungle, 1984 and a particularly well-received name check for local favourites The Stinky Toys.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18	London's Burning Complete Control 1977 Protex Blue White Man In Ham Palais Capital Radio Hate and War CityOf the Dead The Prisoner Police and Thieves I'm So Bored With the USA Clash City Rockers Janie Jones Garageland White Riot 1977 What's My Name Paris Is Singing

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17	London's Burning Complete Control 1977 White Man in Hammersmith Capital Radio The City of the Dead The Prisoner White Riot Paris is Singing above from 29 Sep 77 I fought the Law Jail guitar Doors Clash City Rockers Drug Stabbing Time Protex Blue Guns on the Roof Police and Thieves Blitzkreig Bop above from 16 Oct 78