Here is a list of known articles around the time of the tour. If you know of anything that is missing please do let us know.

Posters

Snippets

UK Articles

Audio / Video

1977 Magazines

1977 General

Clash headline four-week tour

Date / source unknown - Link

Forced to cancel

Record Mirror from Oct 27 1977 - Link

Back on the road

Record Mirror from Oct 27 1977 - Link

Clash and Hell finalise dates

News of The Clash's UK Tour with Richard Hell And The Void-Oids in Sounds 1st, October 1977. Plus Tom Robinson Band's UK Tour. @TheClash - Link

Advert: Richard Hell & The Voidoids + The Deadboys tour dates

Link

Steve Connelly's tour book

Clash roadie Steve Connelly's tour book which was auctioned in 2014 for $1,560. One page only! If you have the other pages, please could you send scans to us. - Link

A Silvertone memo book containing nineteen pages of handwritten notes regarding The Clash's first European tour from their trusted roadie Steve "Roadent" Conolly. The notes include addresses (including one for John Lennon's Dakota New York address), phone numbers and guitar/amplifier/instrument lists, etc. Featured is an itinerary of European and UK tour dates for The Clash. These includes dates from September 26th through December 20th. Measures 4 x 6.25, some of the pages are detached from the binding. Comes with a Gotta Have Rock & Roll Certificate of Authenticity.

Information about the Lous, support band

An extensive Lou's biography at https://www.bacteria.nl/tag/the-lous/ including a link to live video of the Lou's playing at the 1977 Mont de Marsan punk festival.

NME Tour advert with dates

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Sounds & NME

Get out of Control adverts

Link

Link - Sounds

Sounds and Sounds

Sounds / NME: The Clash's UK Tour advert

22nd, October 1977 @TheClash - Sounds - NME

Record Mirror INTERVIEW David Essex

3 December 1977 - Link to full interview

Zig Zag End of Year Poll

Clash t-shirts for sale

Link -

Link

Punk band seeks deal

Date / source unknown

Link

Clash London dates threatened by 'riot'

Date / source unknown

Link

Sounds: Clash City Rockers

The Clash in the City of the Dead. No fun in Belfast or London

29 Oct 1977
4pages

Link 1 or
Link 2

Rock-A-Bye Punk
An early death for Punk?

Link

Melody Maker: Heroes and Villains

29 October 1977

Link

Record Mirror THEY ARE HUMAN

22 October 1977
Drones do a skit Clash album, Clash turn up to laugh along.

Link

Record Mirror CLASH HEADLINE FOUR-WEEK TOUR

1 October 1977

Link

SOUNDS Who's in love with Janie Jones

15 October 1977

Link

IN LOVE WITH JANIE JONES: THE CLASH AND THE BAD GIRL WHO INSPIRED ONE OF THEIR GREATEST SONGS

See also Dangerous Minds

IN LOVE WITH JANIE JONES: THE CLASH AND THE BAD GIRL WHO INSPIRED ONE OF THEIR GREATEST SONGS

Link or archived PDF

Who's In Love With Janie Jones?

Interview by Caroline Coon - Sounds, October 1977

Text link

DURING THE hot summer of 1976, a No. 31 bus jolts through Notting Hill Gate. On the top deck is Mick Jones, humming a riff. He ...

Greatness from Garageland

Peter Silverton, Trouser Press, February 1978

UNANNOUNCED, TO SAY the least, a kid in boots, suspenders and short-cropped hair clambers through the photographers' pit and up onto the stage of London's Rainbow Theatre. Benignly ignored by band, stage crew and security alike... Read the full article

Clash Landing

Search and Destroy Fanzine

Clash Interviewed by Annette Weatherman and Vermilion Sands
A lengthy interview with Joe, Mick & Paul in 1977. It was published in Search & Destroy mag out of San Francisco. It was the first word of the Clash in print in the U.S. Birmingham Rag Marktt & Sweden gigs referenced.

Lester Bangs falls in Love

(and see's the Promised Land)

NME - 10 December 1977

Link

In a flash knew Jones was right.Here was I, a grown man, travelling across the Atlantic océan and motoring up to the provinces of England to ask a goddam rock'n'roll band for the meaning of life. ....

Hate 'n' War 'n'

General interview towards end of the 1977

Record Mirror?

Link

one page only - need full article

Clash City Rockers on Tour

ZigZag December 1977

... Strummer attacked at the Marquee

Derby & Cardiff reviews
Kris Needs, Tour review
Robin Banks

Link

Derby Kings Hall. The thickset geezer with the appearance of a frustrated rugby player - too short to make the scrum but just as tough if they'll only try me out - stands at the edge of the crush around the stage and looks at the bobbing, shoving throng in between wet stares at all gir] French group the Lou's, who ....

Heroes and Villains / Bowie in London, The Clash in Belfast

MM Front cover only - 29th November 977

Full scans wanted - Link

Mick back stage at the Nashville

Melody Maker

Never Mind the Bollocks was released on the 28th October 1977

thumbnails only, hi-res scans wanted

Punk will continue to rule - but what comes next?

The world of pop from the inside by Chris Salewicz, the man in the know

Liverpool Echo - Saturday 31 December 1977

Link

So whats new about punk?

Year end piece. Mentions Coventry Tiffany's.
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Saturday 31 December 1977
Year end piece. Mentions Coventry Tiffany's.

Link

The Punks Mr Fix It

Daily Mirror - Tuesday 20 December 1977 - pg10, 11

Link

[Punks pecking order] ... The Jam were seen riding round in a Rolls- Royce, so that disposed of them. After these more famous bands comes the Irish, Brixton axis, places where it is good to have come from. At least with Brixton or - Ireland as a background there is less chance of being considered a "poseur," or fake, the worst crime in the book.

IN the pecking order of punk there is a definite hierarchy. After the Pistols come The Clash and The Stranglers, two groups who have been variously banned or not allowed to play—part of a punk pedigree.

But The Clash seem to have neglected their humble origins lately and were rumoured to have cane lied gigs in Ireland to go away to Jamaica: very " non punk."

Insurance strangles two more punk dates

References the Clash cancelled concert two weeks prior

Belfast Telegraph - Tuesday 25 October 1977 - Link

Residents' punk rock fear / Plan for Elm Park concert attacked

Reading Evening Post - Thursday 27 October 1977 - Link

Punk Rules OK / The Song of th anti-hero / Baggy to the knees

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 13 September 1977 - Link

- Lengthy piece about punk clothes, mentions Tuffany's ban, Rainbow riot and Lanchester non payment.

Adrian Boot The Clash Story and all the important the photosessions

Online or
archived PDF

The Clash Story contains 3 important photo sessions including The Clash in Belfast. The other two main sections were The Clash at the Camden Rehearsal Studios and The Clash under London's A40 Westway. Maybe it should have been called "UK Calling.

Links to photos

THE CLASH
The Clash Archive
The Clash - Belfast -1977
The Clash - Camden -1977
The Clash - Westway -1977
The Clash - Backstage 1976-79
The Clash - Live
Big Audio Dynamite
Straight to Hell
The Clash - Soho - 1976

Weekend punks - following the Clash 1977 and 1978

16 05 05

Archived PDF

MOJO The Clash From Westway to Broadway

August 1994 (Bonds, US general), JS interview - 20 pages

The History of Rock 1977

Online Editon

Albums First offering for the Clash, page 68

Letters The Clash write, page 91

FEATURE: In Belfast, the Clash, "Desolation and chaos", 6 pages, page 118

FEATURE: NME April 2nd: We ain't l ashamed to fight" The Clash, 6 pages, page 44

Letters, The Clash were right, page 90

Clash Map of London

MOJO / Punk: the whole story

Online viewer (very good)

Feature Magazines - all

Below are retropective articles in magazines. For all a full comprehensive list of magazines, for example articles on a tour, or an album or specific feature go here.

Hanging Around fanzine, Issue #7

including Edinburgh review (1977) - Link

Still Unusual

Great site with lots of archived fanzines

List

Rockers on the Road Out of Control Tour

Oct 77 - Fanzine 2 pages

Link

Richard Hell Tour poster

Link - Link

Link

Manchester - Nov 15

Elizabethan Ballroom, Belle Vue

Often circulated as Elizabthan Suite, it is in fact a full gig which was filmed by and for Granada TV and included Souisie and the Banshees as support.

Snippets were screened twice on the So It Goes TV show (Dec 77 and Nov 78) (and repeated again in 1990) and circulate on video and audio.

Other than the So It Goes source, no other source exists.

It is thought Granada don't know where it is either and that the Dec 78 footage may have come from Tony Wilsons own collection?

So It Goes was a British TV music show presented by Tony Wilson on Granada Television between 1976 and 1977. It is most famous for showcasing the then burgeoning punk rock movement. The show's first series gave the Sex Pistols their first ever TV appearance performing Anarchy in the UK.

14 Seconds of The Clash in Belfast October 1977

For more information on The Clash in Belfast - visit Spit Records at https://www.spitrecords.co.uk

Jonathan Ross interview

BBCR2 with Strummer - July 2001 - 10:57mins

Aberdeen Parole
Suicide, Alan Vega
Richard Hell and spitting, hepititus, Shag Nasty
Roxy New Years Day 77
Suporting the Sex Pistols and moral crisis
Clash tribute bands, local bands, Alarm
Woody Guthire, folk music, Dylan
No Elvis...
Cut the Crap
Bournmouth Winter Gardens (6:15)
Rainbow (White Riot)
Electric Circus Manchester
Speech Impediment, drawl
US EPIC, The Only band that Matters or "mutters" graffiti
ageing
Johnny Cash
Strummers quiff and self titled 1st LP
"reunion when they are '77" and will play faster

Getty Images

219 stock photos and high resolution images about The Clash 1977

The Clash's Roadies

Display at The Clash musuem.

Joe Strummer on John Lennon

"Was Joe Strummer really critical on John Lennon?"

According to Bob Gruen, at a show in England, after the Clash performed "1977", Joe proclaimed, "But John Lennon Rules!" (after singing "no Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones") And Gruen claims that there is similarity between what both of the two had done.

What Joe was critical about was rather Paul McCartney. And some insist that Joe was a huge Lennon fan.

"But John Lennon Rules OK?"

(from my book)

"Positive light to the darkness of the Sex Pistols, the Clash released an incendiary eponymously titled first album in 1977, the year of punk, a Top Ten hit. With Strummer at the helm, the group toured incessantly: at a show that year at the University of Leeds, he delivered the customary diatribe of the times: 'No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones… But John Lennon rules, OK?' He barked, revealing a principal influence and hero of his own…"

(from Chris Salewicz's book, "Redemption Song: the definitive biography of Joe Strummer")

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*photograph: by Ray Stevenson (1977)

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