Get Out Of Control Tour
Supported by Richard Hell & The Voidoids & The Lous
updated 24 June 2006
updated 28 Dec 2008 - added details on new source
updated May 2023 added new clipping rearranged venues
updated June 2024 added photos
Audio (1)
some over amplification - full gig
Sound 2.5 - 42:32min - low gen audience? - 16 tracks
Capital Radio full source
Audio (2)
upgrade to lower gen - (misses last 6 tracks)
Sound 2.5 - 29:27mins - low gen - 10 tracks
Capital Radio slightly better edited source
Quality
a great performance and very enjoyable listen
Some recordings don’t have good sound quality but still capture the energy and excitement of The Clash live. This is definitely one of them a great performance and very enjoyable listen. The best of the Out of Control Tour UK Leg recordings until Sheffield turned up recently.
It’s a low generation audience recording with some degree of stereo separation. Although there is distortion from over amplification, distant vocals and a low bass level the guitars come through very well picking up some great punk guitar work from Mick (and Joe).
Drums are good too with the cymbals clear. Distortion levels are worst on the first 4 songs but improve at Jail Guitar Doors. Sound is best on the slower songs where the distortion is less intrusive.
Record Mirror CLASH CHANGES
8 October 1977
Sounds Clash leave 'em standing
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Mick Jones at the Records Shop. Edinburgh 1977
Courtesy of Ranking Fred at Clash on Parole FB
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Edinburgh Clouds and Coasters
Clouds Disco, also known as Coasters or The Cavendish Ballroom, was located at 3 West Tollcross in the Tollcross area of Edinburgh 7. The venue has been known by various names over the years, including Outer Limits, Bermuda Triangle, The Network, and Lava & Ignite. It is a large nightclub with 3 venues on 2 floors of a single building and can accommodate over 1200 people. Coasters itself is pretty small and both the upstairs rooms are tiny.
It hosted numerous concerts from the 1940s through the 1980s, with its heyday being in the 1970s and 1980s. The venue was known by various names over the years, including Outer Limits, Bermuda Triangle, and The Network. It was a popular dancehall since the 1940s and became a central hub for punk and new wave music in the 1970s, featuring performances by iconic bands such as Pink Floyd, The Jam, Generation X, and The Heartbreakers. The Clash played again busking in 1985 and Strumemr agian with LRW in 1988.
The building's history as a dancehall and concert venue dates back to the 1940s. However, as of January 2023, the venue is no longer in operation. The nightclub, which was most recently known as ATIK, closed its doors for good on January 21, 2023, after being unable to secure a new lease with its landlord 9 10 . The building's future is currently uncertain.
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Head in the Clouds
Edinburgh Clouds
bigger room on the ground floor
"Great website you have. Good attention to detail.
Given that, I thought I'd correct a small detail on that page about the Clash gig at Clouds. I was at the gig, and many others at Clouds at this time.
The mistake on your page relates to the venue - Clouds was not only the upstairs part of the building at that time. Clouds was the whole building, including the ground floor. The Clash did not play in either of the two upstairs rooms, which as you point out are pretty small. In fact, they played on the ground floor level, which is a bit bigger, though far from massive.
A minor detail, I know, but as you've obviously spent so much time on the website, I thought you might want it as accurate as possible." Jim
Terrific performance
It’s a terrific performance throughout and the audience response is loud and excited. It must have been a great venue, small and unseated. It’s still in use today and is a Northern Soul mecca. Joe’s responds to the décor in his intro to the gig “I’m just gazing at myself in the mirror”
It’s a great performance throughout building to a frenetic finish from I’m So Bored With The USA through to Garageland with each song running straight into the next. At similar breakneck speed The Clash blast through the one encore of What’s My Name and White Riot.
Two definite highlights:
Capital Radio is just brilliant and a good example of the increasing drama The Clash were now adding into songs. With a “Sssh!. Sssh!, Sssh , the music drops back to drum and bass only , and Joe intones “One night I was all alone, sitting by my telephone, got no friends to call, I listen to the radio, all night long” Joe then screams through a manic rant with the music building to its full blast ending. Joe dramatising the “wanna tell your problems, phone in from the bed sit room” theme.
Police and Thieves is awesome here, extended with great guitar work and ad libbing from Joe.
Hanging Around fanzine
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Issue #7 (1977)
Review of October concert at Clouds, mentions Playhouse concert in May
Glasgow ‘zine Trash 77 in their third issue
"Joe Strummer has a few words with Glasgow ‘zine Trash 77 in their third issue. There’s also a live review of The Clash in Edinburgh"
'Stand up and Spit'
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"Joe Strummer has a few words with Glasgow ‘zine Trash 77 in their third issue. There’s also a live review of The Clash in Edinburgh"
Joe Strummer, 1977 Edinburgh
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What a gig, awesome
Hamish Mason - What a gig, awesome, supported by Richard Hell and the Voidoids plus the Lou's ....remember everything about it like it was yesterday...Joe coming on and waving to the crowd then says....I'm waving to myself in the mirror at the back of the hall....no hellos Edinburgh
Joseph Murdoch - I was there
Ian Dickson - I was there - unbelievable gig
One of the greatest nights of my life.
Gordon Moug Phillips - First time I ever saw them, what a night! I remember there was a female, French punk band supporting, the name escapes me, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids. When The Clash were about to come on, there was a big crush at the front and security announced they wouldn't be coming on until people moved back. Just at that point the band came piling onto the stage, kicked the security guy into the crowd and lit the touchpaper. One of the greatest nights of my life.
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