Out on Parole Tour 1978

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.

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Suicide Join Clash Tour

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Record Mirror? - Clash begin big British Tour

White Man single released, Clash in court

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Clash 'on Parole'

Sounds / 3 June 1978 / Link

Clash 'on Parole'

THE CLASH have lined up a British tour which starts at the end of this month.

Called `The Clash Out On Parole', it follows the relase of their new single, `White Man In Hammersmith Palais', on June 16.

They start at Aylesbury Friars on June 28 and continue at Leeds Queens Hall 29, Sheffield Top Rank 30, Leicester Granby Hall July 1, Manchester Apollo 2, Glasgow Apollo 3, Aberdeen Music
Hall 5, Chester Deeside Leisure Centre 6, Crawley Sports Centre 8, Bristol Locarno 9, Torquay Town Hall 10, Cardiff Top Rank 11, Birmingham Top Rank 12, Edmonton Picketts Lock Sports Centre 15.

The band are also hoping to play dates in Liverpool and Newcastle but are having difficulty finding a venue as they have been banned in both these areas. They are also trying to arrange a second London date, possibly around the Elephant And Castle area.

Ticketprices will be kept to around the £2.00 mark and 80 per cent of the venues will be unseated, including the London date. Tickets will go on sale next week and full details will be announced then.

Record Mirror? Clash dates

June 1978 / source unknown

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Record Mirror, Clash Tour

3 June 1978

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Clash to be City Rockers after all

Date / source unknown

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THE CLASH have now finalised the London dates for their British tour this month, which have been the cause of considerable difficulty.

They will play four nights at London's Music Machine from July 24 to 27. Tickets, price £2.25, went on sale on Tuesday.

Supporting the Clash on all four nights will be American band SUICIDE, who have been on all the current tour dates with the Clash. There will also be a third band, but this will differ on each night to give opportunities to a number of new bands.

The Clash were unable to play their first choice London date - at the Hammersmith Palais - which would have coincided with their latest single, `(White Man In Rammesmith Palais' which is at Number 32 in this week's singles charts.

The band still have to complete their second album, but they are expected to do this as soon as the tour is over and it's likely that the album will be released in the autumn.

UK Tour dates Clash Tour, 14 gigs set

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Sounds - Clash off

10 June 1978

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THE CLASH have been forced to cancel thcir date at Edmonton (East London) Pickct Lock Sports Ccntre on JuIy 15.

Local residents complained about the gig, saying they thought it would attract a "distastefuI audience". The band are currently looking for an alternative venue.

Tickets for the Leeds Queen Hall date June 29 are available from the hall's box office and also by postal application with SAE pIus usual agents in the area.

For Leicester Granby Hall on July 1 tickets are avaiIabIe from the town hall box office, Virgin Records Nottingham, R.E. Cords Derby and Sanctuury Records, Lincoln.

The support act for the tour is to be announced.

The Clash: Banned from the Home Counties

Fax confirms bans for St Albans, Hemel Hempsted and Dunstable

Date / source unknown / Link

The Clash 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais' 7" single full page advert with Out on Parole dates

Date / source unknown widely placed in UK music magazines

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Left: Tour poster White Man single & dates - Link
Right: Tour poster White Man single alt, Tour coming - Link

Clash City Collectors | Facebook

'Clash on Parole' tour poster

Ray Gange - posters are Nick Egan's artwork

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Letters to the Editor
Pop Punk and Religion (defending The Clash)

Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 21st August 1978

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NME Letters page

22 July 1978

'Out on Parole Tour'

Link or text version

NME Letters page

– 29 July 1978

Link or text version

Record Mirror, Letter by Pete Shelley tp Jimmy Pursey (Sham 69)

17 JUNE 1978

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JImmy Pursey Interview where he critisises the the Clash

Record Mirror, Phil Lynot interview includling on The Clash

3 June 1978

full interview

Two members of The Clash were last week arrested in London last week ...

Date / source unknown

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Topper and Paul make up with champion pigeon breeder

Date / source unknown

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Punk Rockers in Court

Guardian - 11 May 1978

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Clash in Court

Sounds - 15 May 1978

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Punk rockers shot birds

Guardian - 24 June 1978

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Pot shot punks hit trouble (pigeons)

Daily Mirror -
Saturday 24 June

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NME AND THE CLASH GO TO JAIL

Date unknown, June?

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Suicide Chronology

Link or Archived PDF

"Blackburn: "Support on the Clash's "Out On Parole" tour. At Blackburn they were arrested by a police officer, named Mr. Ray, for possession of hash. The event is later recollected in the song "Mr.Ray"."

Crawley:
"From the back of the hall I saw skinheads climbing up the PA stack like cockroaches ascending a dinner table. A big lad just strode across the stage and whacked Martin Rev [or was it Alan Vega?- Ed.], breaking his nose. Roadies grappled with him, and he fought to free his arm so he could face the crowd and punch the air in triumph, like he'd scored a winning goal. They pulled him to the side of the stage, where [roadie] English stood, legs apart, waving a knife at the baying crowd. It didn't calm anyone down. [..] To their credit, Suicide finished their set despite Rev's broken nose. Backstage, we watched him, covered in blood, leave for the hospital." from "A Riot Of Our Own", a book (on the Clash) by Johnny Green.

Music Machine 24 July [A] word about the support band, Suicide. They once again showed the yawning gap between theory and practice. People constantly scream for the space and platform to be individual, but when an audience encounters something radically new which doesn't fit the fashion requirements, some feel they have to chuck glasses and hurl abuse. Still, Suicide remain proud and partially won through, despite the hail of plastic mugs, the chants of "Clash! Clash! Clash" and a hamfisted sound mixer. Their electronic toasting [..] veers wildly between the truly awful and the overwhelmingly hypnotic." Reviewed by Ian Birch for Melody Maker 25-Jul-78. The Suicide gig was recorded by Recorded by Howard Thompson (of Bronze records) with a Sony Cassette-Corder TC-205

The 24th and 26th were both recorded for the "Live 1977-1978" CD Box (Blast First 2008).

Suicide comments on Glasgow Apollo page including the Glasgow axe incident.

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The audience looked in bewilderment for a few minutes before deciding to start a slow handclap of disapproval. This is usually the sign for a support band to finish off before things get worse. But Suicide were only just on stage. Alan joined in with the handclap acting like the audience were clapping along to the music. This stopped the hand clapping but provoked the audience to shout abuse and hurl objects at the stage. I did not see an axe, but I can quite believe the reports that this happened would be true. I did see cans, bottles and even an attempt to through the first row of (formerly fixed) seating onto the stage.

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Sounds, The Clash: The "Serious In-Depth Interview" You've Been Waiting For!

WANTED .. Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 17 June 1978

"AAAWOOOEEEUUUOOO, PETE...'ear you bin to the States...how wazzit?" ... Total word count of piece: 5365

Creem, The Clash Rule The New Wave

WANTED .. Comment by Simon Frith, Creem, July 1978

ANYBODY WHO knows anything knows that the Clash is the best band in Britain; what is difficult to decide is if, in 1978, this means to anyone else. Total word count of piece: 1724

NME, The Clash on Parole, Clash on Tour

15 July 1978 / Link - 5 pages

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 15 July 1978

IT'S AS IF THE Clash's 'Police And Thieves' stage backdrop has suddenly transmogrified into moving 3-D. Total word count of piece: 6560

15 July 1978
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Book: On The Road With The Clash

Kris Needs / Link or text version

‘The Myth Of The Clash' (copyright Marcus Gray)

Jun 78 Aylesbury
Nov 78 Coventry
Dec 78 Aylesbury
Dec 78 Lyceum (London)
Jan 80 Aylesbury
Feb 80 Birmingham
Feb 80 Coventry
Oct 81 Lyceum (London)
July 82 Brixton (London)
July 82 Birmingham
Aug 82 Bristol
Feb 84 Leicester

ZIGZAG No#85 Drug Stabbing Time

July 78 / 3 pages / Robin Banks reviews the Rope demos / PDF

Record Mirror: Talking Clash

3 page interview

1 July 1978 / Link

Talking Clash. A band with honesty and commitment, playing for people, or just another bunch of hollow, would be superstars?

Rock On!
Don't gob on Me - It Makes Him ill

Joe tells Rock On! how he caught hepatitus from gobbing
Richard Routledge / Archived PDF

Joe (from a hospital bed when he caught Hepatitus)

Date / source unknown / Link

Is this the all-time Top Pops?
Negative view on debute album 'The Clash'

Belfast Telegraph / Saturday 22 July 1978 / Link

Hebdo, The Clash Out on Parole

July 1978 - Hebdo French Magazine - Page 1 - Page 2

Marion Millot kindly shared this Rock Hebdo French Magazine article from July 1978. It appears to mention the Clash's White Riot Tour. Clash City Collectors | Facebook

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MOJO The Clash From Westway to Broadway

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

Breakdown, retrospective and Farewell Joe

Covers November 1978 to November 1982
MOJO March 2003

14 pages

History of Rock 1978

Online edition

Rock Against Racism show after an Anti-Nazi League march. 3 pages. Page 70

"We wanted to finish rock 'n' roll' Subway Sect incl. Clash page 8

He also told us that he was sure that The Clash would split within the next month."Strummer and Mick Jones hate each other. They don't speak to each other. They'll never play together again." Damned interview page 46

Interview with Keith Levene/Public Image. Liar was a song about him page 86

Letters Page 93

Mods and Rockers clash at Brighton page 111

15 November Just another battle 8 page feature page 132

Clash Map of London

MOJO / Punk: the whole story

Online viewer (very good)

Retropective magazine features, audio, video

For a full catalogies of retropective articles in magazines, interviews and features on TV and radio go here.

Rude Boy film - tracks

Glasgow - Apollo 4 - July 4th
audio & video tracks from Rude Boy

Aberdeen - Music Hall - July 5th
2 audio & video tracks from Rude Boy

London - Music Machine - Jul 27
3 audio & video tracks from Rude Boy

For more details on the film Rude Boy go to;

Wikipedia

Rude Boy / Blackmarketclash.co,uk\

Whats On - ITV

Link / Granada region / Tony Wilson interviews Topper and Joe / 1:51secs

26mins - The Clash lasts 1.51min
Production ID 1/0938/0024
Programme Title WHAT'S ON
Production Title EPISODE 0024
First TX Date 22/06/1978
Synopsis Text Tony Wilson introduces

Rita Hunter
Sanskritik
Dire Straits
John Hurt
The Clash
Running Time 26 mins 11 secs

Manchester Apollo

2nd July / 2 tracks / 5 mins / The "Rock revolution"
'Manchester's' Burning, I'm So Bored with the USA

Rock Revolution Video - vid is overdubbed with fake crowd noise.

This is often labeled as from November 1978 - including in the video itself - but with both audio recordings circulating - it is from this gig, the 2nd July.

Late 70s, Joe Strummer and Ari Up on Tour Bus

Don Letts Premium Footage

Johnny Green interviews

Johnny Green | A Riot of Our Own | Night and Day with the Clash | Rock City Networks

Ex-Road Manager Johnny Green Describes The Experience Of A Clash Performance | Classic Rock Network

Johnny Green The Clash Road Manager Gives A Reading and Q&A Session at The Ilkley Playhouse | WestRidingMedia

Johnny Green, the infamous Road Manager of The Clash, gives a reading and a Q&A session of his book 'A Riot Of My Own -Night and Day With The Clash' at The Ilkley Playhouse as part of the Ilkley Literature Festival 2011. Sorry about the quality but I was right at the back of the hall.