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bold indicates on video. According to Mingay and Hazam, the tracks two tracks used for official releases were overdubbed - more info here.
From Here To Eternity
(audio only)Londons Burning
Rude Boy Promo cassette (audio only)
Londons Burning
White Riot
Rude Boy DVD
(video)Londons Burning
White Riot
Extensive archive of articles, magazines and other from the 'Sandy Pearlman dates in early gigs in 1978, and the Festival gigs in May 1978
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SHORT MIDLANDS TOUR, ANL CARNIVAL & PARIS ARTICLES, POSTERS, CLIPPINGS ... A collection of Numerous articles, interviews, reviews, posters, tour dates from 'Rock Against Racism' Carnival and the early gigs of 1978
VIDEO AND AUDIO Video and audio footage from the tour including radio interviews.
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Rock Aganist Racism Carnival
with Tom Robinson Band, X-Ray-Spex, Steel Pulse, Patrik Fitzgerald
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updated 7 July 2008 - added mike morgans view
updated - added link to Lewisham NF riots and ANL Aug 1977
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updated July 2022 - comments and Women against the Nazis photo
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Audio - full audience recorded gig
complete gig - Sound 1.5 - 42min -- low generation cdr - 12 tracks
White Riot from audience tape
Sound quality
The only other recording in circulation is a fairly poor audience recording, not low generation but containing most (if not all) of the set.
The sound swirls and blurs constantly and suffers not surprisingly from distance. It conveys some of the atmosphere although chat from near the taper is detracting.
Drums and bass come over well but vocals and guitars are poor and the sound is very poor but listenable just.
From Here To Eternity CD
Sound 5 - 3min - 1 track - supposedly overdubbed
Official release / link here
Rude Boy Promo cassette
Sound 5 - 6min - 1gen - 2 tracks
According to Mingay and Hazam, the tracks two tracks used for officail releases were overdubbed - more info here. This tape was probably the last one surviving. It was a demo tape tape not publicly circulated.
Privately shot footage
of the whole Clash set exists in black & white and was used in the in Julan Temple's Clash film, The Future is Unwritten
Rumours persist that a/v footage was shot by the organisers for fund raising releases and that this still exists. The black & white audience/footage was used in documenatary film "Who Shot the Sheriff". So far only Londons Burning and White Riot shot by Hazan and Mingay (Rude Boy) exists.
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The RAR gig
The RAR gig proved a significant milestone in The Clash's history: the first time in front of a huge audience; estimated at anywhere between 50 to 100,000. It attracted national media attention and had a direct association with organised left wing politics to which the Clash, Joe particularly, were sympathetic.
Much was made of Joe's Brigade Rosse shirt. Famoulsly interviewed after by Terry Lot for Record Mirror Joe had quite a bit to say. The full text from that interview is here.
The event is well documented, A Riot Of Our Own, Last Gang both have extensive chronologies, and also amongst the media at the time as well as the Rude Boy video and DVD footage. Both are identical and contain 2 songs as does the promo cassette from Atlantic Publishing (for further info on this cass. check George Gimarcs 'Post Punk Dairy' page 103). One track made it onto the official live release.
Significant impact
RAR had a significant impact in raising the consciousness of young people against racism and the National Front. Playing at the rally was perfectly logical in view of the bands anti-racist stance since forming two year's earlier. A platform for The Clash to present their stance, through songs such as English Civil War (debuted here), about the dangers of the far right.
The previous Aug 77 had seen riots in Lewisham with NF marchers confroneted by ANLanti-protestors. Link here.
The bands performance is a very well received, one of the highlights of Rude Boy is seeing tens of thousands of people pogoing to White Riot. Hazan and Mingay for the Rude Boy film recorded White Riot and London's Burning.
Audio and video and overdubs
Songs that can be found on the Rude Boy promo cassette (Rude Boy outtakes), whilst London's Burning is on the official release, From Here To Eternity, all in excellent sound quality, though there was some subsequent remixes of studio dubs to enhance the quality. The films producers claim this to be minimal but other sources, such as Green suggest otherwise.
They also claimed film was in short supply so they tended to never record whole gigs, though more may exist somewhere as may further professional audio recordings from the gig and 1978 as a whole.
Rock against racism: on the front line with the Clash, Specials, Undertones & Elvis Costello
12.10.2014 | Dangerous Minds
It all began in 1968 when an old Tory coot Enoch Powell gave a racist speech against immigration and anti-discrimination legislation at his West Midlands constituency in England. Powell claimed he was horrified at what he believed was an unstoppable flow of immigration that would eventually swamp the country where "in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man." It was an incendiary and offensive speech full bile and hate, and became known as the "Rivers of blood speech" because of Powell's quotation from Virgil's Aeneid about "'the River Tiber foaming with much blood.'"
Many of the white working class supported Powell, most shamefully the London dockers' union staged a one day strike in his favor. Powell became the pin-up of the far right and his words appeared to sanction their rise, in particular the odious neo-Nazi National Front that promoted its racist policies with the boot as much as the ballot. Against this rose Rock Against Racism - "a raggedy arsed united front" co-founded by Red Saunders, Roger Huddle and others in 1976.
At first, Rock Against Racism was just an idea - a way to bring together a new generation of youth against the stealthy rise of the far right. It may have remained just an idea had it not been for Eric Clapton announcing (see video) during a concert in 1976 that the UK had "become overcrowded" and his fans should vote for Enoch Powell to stop Britain from becoming "a black colony." Allegedly Clapton then shouted "Keep Britain white." His racist tirade led to Saunders and Huddle writing a letter to the music paper NME pointing out that half Clapton's music was black. The letter ended with a call for readers to help establish Rock Against Racism. The response was overwhelmingly positive.
In April 1978, 100,000 people marched across London in support of Rock Against Racism, which was followed by a concert at Victoria Park headlined by The Clash and the Tom Robinson Band. It was a momentous event, which singer and activist Billy Bragg correctly described as "the moment when my generation took sides."
Photographer Syd Shelton documented the rise of Rock Against Racism during the 1970s and 1980s from its first demonstrations, the concert in Victoria Park, to the gigs, bands, musicians (The Clash, The Specials, The Undertones, Elvis Costello, etc), the young activists and supporters who stood up and proudly said: "Love Music, Hate Racism."
Previously on Dangerous Minds
Anti Nazi march planned by RAR
Record Mirror Join the fight against the front
8 April 1978