Clash on Parole Tour
Supported by The Specials & Suicide & The Skids

Last updated March 2007
updated Dec 14 - added ticket
updated April 2020
updated Feb 2024

Rude Boy Promo cass

Sound 5 - 3min - 1gen - 1 track
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Rude Boy DVD

Quality 5 - 6min - 2 tracks

Recent DVD Release

The recent DVD release includes the track White Riot as a bonus, probably excluded as White Riot was included from Glasgow and Victoria Park already.

With a mass stage invasion the band are no longer able to continue and the gig comes to an end.

Punk Riot...

The Dunfermaline Kinema White Riot footage was originally shown in edited form on Scottish TV (as a ‘punk riot’ story) as the gig erupted to a premature end. This song doesn't feature on the films promo cassette, possibly with White Riot on to many times and the Prisoner was used solely for the Glasgow mayhem follow up?

Richard Jobson waxes lyrical about this gig

Johnney Green also refers to this as a venue on p89. End of White Riot appeared on Scottish TV the day after...

Skids lead singer Richard Jobson waxes lyrical about this gig whenever he talks about it.

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Dunfermaline Kinema

Skids at the Kinema

'Kingdom Come' Fanzine

Report on Scottish dates 1978

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Kingdom Come fanzine (issue #11)

August 1978. Includes review of White Man in Hammersmith Palais single, Dunfermaline and Glasgow gigs.

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Nigel Welch - Yep. Was at the Kinema in Dunfermline. One of the best gigs I’ve seen. Mad Mad night.

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The Clash play live in Dunfermline at the Kinema in 1978

15th August 2020, By Ieuan Williams Reporter

It was a performance that culminated in the encore as the stage was invaded by fans during the band's single White Riot.

Drummer Nicky Headon walked off and the incident made national headlines with a clip featured in the film/rockumentary Rude Boy.

The July 6 date was part of their On Parole tour with tickets costing just £2 with support from Suicide and The Coventry Automatics.

The iconic night in Dunfermline was the second time The Clash had played the Kinema after initially crossing the border a year earlier.

On October 24 in 1977, they made the trip to Fife on their Get Out Of Control tour.

Support came from Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Lous, and hometown Skids.

A rare photo from the 1978 gig is now featured in new book ? 16 YEARS Gigs In Scotland: 1974-1990? .

It features 2,000 images spanning 32 locations across Scotland, presenting rare and previously unpublished photographs of the country? s music history and lost venues.

Chris Brickley, who comes from Glasgow and is now resident in Edinburgh, sourced the material over a period of two years.

More than 150 private collectors, from Scotland, the UK and overseas, have contributed to make the book a reality and it was published this week.

The Clash playing at the Kinema in Dunfermline in 1978. Photo: Hugh Jeers.

Kinema review

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the crowd were among the most violent ever witnessed

"The gig was definately played on Thursday, 6th July 1978. Suicide were the support band (and boy did they get it that night, almost got murdered) and the crowd were among the most violent ever witnessed in my long career of gigs throughout the years.

This was due to a large part of the crowd being the "Sham Army" who were out to kick in as many Clash fans as they could. So by the time the Clash took to the stage, fights were breaking out all over the place, and the bouncers had pissed off out of the road as they couldn't control it.

The Clash were continually interupted trying to stop the fighting, but eventually just played through the bedlam as there was nothing much they could do.

As the concert came to it's climax "White Riot" the whole place seemed to go absolutely mental as the crowd, at first one or two getting up on the stage and trying to sing with Strummer, then eventually the rest stormed it, Strummer disappearing under a mass of bodies, the band stopped playing, Simonon swinging his bass at anything near him, Topper buggered off through the backdrop and if I remember rightly Jonesy just walking off the side looking more than a bit peeved.

Needless to say they didn't appear again as the house lights went up, the local Fife Police came in, and it became a free for all.

During the set me and my two friends had stood up on the seats at the side of the dance hall where we had a great view. Two guys, one with a huge camera on his shoulder and another carrying some kind of case attached to it, asked to come up beside us to film the band. Me and one of my mates held this big case up so the cameraman could manovere better and I asked the other one what it was for.

He replied it was for a documentary on the band. Yes, It was "Rude Boy"! After a while a couple of bouncers came up to us (doing nothing but helping out by the way while half the bloody crowd were murdering each other) and told us to get down off the seats. For crying out loud, the place had been trashed!!!!!!!!! Anyway, we all had to get down, the two guys thanked us and moved closer to the stage.

I noticed the film is out now on DVD, and one of the extras is "White Riot". I remember after the show (probably within a week) the local TV showed a clip of the end of the gig when the crowd all started invading the stage but this was not on the original film or video.

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