Clash on Parole Tour
Supported by The Specials & Suicide
updated 1 Aug 2011 - added new recording
updated 12 Feb 2014 - added Jimmy Pursey Photo
updated August 2022 added Steve Jones photos correcty with source
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Low gen - Sound 3+ - 62min - low/m - 18 tracks
Cuts at Janie Jones, misses White riot with JImmy Pursey
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Sound quality
The sound on this recording is very good one indeed, the best of the On Parole gigs (save the Rude Boy excerpts). There is a very good range and clarity of sound, it's only faults are some bass over modulation, lead guitar a little low in the mix and vocals a touch distant.
Joe's rhythm playing comes through very well as do the drums and there is little intrusive talking from the crowd. Of the circulating tapes and cdrs during this period, this one stands out alongside the Paris one later in the year.
Clash residency
Clash On Parole Tour climaxes with their first residency, four nights at The Music Machine. The Music Machine (now Camden Palace) is actually about 20 seconds walk over the road from Mornington Crescent tube, and roughly 5 minutes walk away from Camden Town tube.
The 4 nights recendency were rapturously received in the press and by those in attendance. Rude Boy captures the drama: is there a more exciting moment in rock'n'roll cinema than when the film cuts dramatically into Complete Control at the Music Machine?
Dates
Suicide join Clash on Tour
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Time Out Magazine previews dates at Music Machine
Tickets, passes
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Backstage pass, the 24th
Backstage pass for all 4 nights at the Music Machine - this one given away to a fan by Johnney Green
Snippets
The Music Machine
The Music Machine (later renamed the Camden Palace) began in the 60's and became famous for punk gigs, still in use today as a dance nightclub, it has staged gigs in recent years by Blur and the Oasis.
The Music Machine was a perfect type of Clash venue; sweaty, intimate, seat less, restrained security and within the part of London they lived and loved best. Enjoying greater critical acclaim and increasing commercial success, few other bands (if any) either then or now, would have opted to play four nights here rather than they take the money and play one or two nights at the larger Hammersmith Odeon or similar.
New heights of popularity within the UK music press, the Music Machine residency resulted in some ecstatic reviews (see link).
The Clash At Music Machine in Camden, 26th
It was really hard to shoot them because it was impossible to stand still
North West London, July 1978.
BY JUSTIN THOMAS 26/07/1978
The Clash was my favourite band back in the day, they had too much energy! It was really hard to shoot them because it was impossible to stand still, you would be moved from pillar to post by the crowd. The music machine raised areas on each side of the stage, so I made sure I was in the front of the row and got a position up there.
The moment they played I stepped on one of the speakers.
Security was telling me to come down but there was no way they could get to me. Might take my pictures without getting poked every five seconds.
The place was packed; many of the fans came in climbing through the bathroom windows and it was well over capacity.
Near the end of the show, I got a painting of Jimmy Pursey from Sham 69 jumping off the loudspeaker on the other side and almost hitting Paul Simenon's head. In the next song, Steve Jones from Sex Pistols walked on and to my knowledge, that was the ONLY time The Pistols and The Clash have shared a stage together.
NME review of the 3rd night at the MM
Charles Shaar Murray
The Clash MUSIC MACHINE,
26th July
"TIME HAS come today. Third of four Music Machine gigs and — surprise! — the ritual bottling of Suicide appears to have been omitted for the once. Alan Vega is up by the mike, moving jerkily from pose to like a series of still-photo slides vaguely synch with the music — pose CLICK pose CLICK pose — while Marty Rev stands solid and immobile beside his control post and the drum machine gets louder and LOUDER and LOUDER and LOUDER AND LOUDER AND LOUDER AND ...
The tape was fucked & had to be thrown away.
"I often check your site for trip down memory lane and I was just reading about the Harlesdon Colliseum gigs, I went to one of these (and taped it ~bad sound as I remember) and I think one significant thing about these gigs was the fact that a quantity of t-shirts were given away on both nights, you can see one of these shirts ~ view pics ~ (I have one washed & shrunk and another unworn), also shown are a Suicide TS bought at the Music Machine gig (Suicide received a bad case of bottling by Clash 'fans' at this one) and a couple of shirts from the Brixton gigs, I think 5th Column printed these as the guys were on the stall, I was selling Mikey Dread tees for Kosmo at the second set of dates the Clash played at this venue (late July).
The Music Machine tape, an amusing (in retrospect) story about this tape, which I thought had great sound, was that a close friend badgered me to borrow it for weeks, I lent it to him but wasn't truly comfortable about doing so. Calling round his house one day his Mum said 'He's in his room, go right up!' I did so only to find my mate with unspooled cassette tape all over his floor (it was a C120) and him with a pencil in the cassette trying to get it all back in again. The tape was fucked & had to be thrown away.
I remember it was the gig where Joe went on about Aberdeen & Perthshire etc before Safe European Home, they played Blitzkrieg Bop that night and Cook & Jones joined for a couple of encores along (I think) with that idiot Jimmy Sham. I have the cassette box with the track listing if its of any use.
I ended up seeing the Clash 40+ times with the last gig being the one where it pissed-down on the Pier in New York, this was also the height of my 'I'm on the guest list' blagging, when I managed to get myseld & two friends in even though there was no way I was on that bit of paper, the Pier gig was the best I had seen the Clash in a number of years (1st gigs being the White Riot tour), the humidity and the incredible electric storm which broke-out were the catalyst for a great and exciting atmosphere and inspired the band as well as the audience; the forked lightning and monsoon-like rain, which came-in at an angle and totally drenched the band and their gear right at the end of the set, felt like a release from the oppressive heat of the day, I actually couldn't believe that they carried on playing as I'd have thought the chances of an electric shock were very high. The rain was so hard that my leather jacket was soaked on the inside as well as out."
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I saw all the clash gigs (4) there. Brilliant
I saw all the clash gigs (4) there. Brilliant. I followed them a lot back then. We were punks from the neighbourhood and someone from the band..usually Joe or Baker or JG would let us in through the back door. Once we had to scale 30 feet up a drain pipe to the dressingroom window. The MM bouncers were animals and there were always a lot of fights in there.
This was a remarkable gig
Wasted days / 26th or 27th
This was a remarkable gig. The first time I saw the Clash live. I went after work from Hall & Hall's. We finished work quite early at 4.30 pm so there was too much drinking time before the gig began. I remember Suicide, a New York experimental electronic duo, who the crowd did not like. Then I fell asleep at the back of the hall, only waking up in time for the encore! Still great stuff and I remember the backdrop to the stage with the flags and stukas on it. After this I had to get two night buses back to Brixton. Consequently I overslept my alarm, missed the special works bus from Brixton (the workforce was primarily West Indian) and had to go into work by tube and train instead. I was hellishly late. I should have taken a sickie…
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Steve Jones and Jimmy Pursey
It is documented that Steve Jones (Sex Pistols guitarist) joined The Clash on stage on the 25th, 26th, 27th. It is reported that Jimmy Pursey (Sham 69 lead singer) joined The Clash on stage on the 26th however the only known tape cuts off at Janie Jones. It is also thought he may have appeared on the 27th. The tape is not clear but it does appear as thought someone else has a mic but it is turned down.
NME Thrills: What a Bunch of Wankers
'Clash Supergroup'
The band they're already calling the 'Supergroup' of the 80's still seems to be a long way from hard fact. That marriage of fine minds and noble intellects - who, for the sake of argument, we'll call Pursey, Cook, Jones and Kermit (PCJ&K) are even embroiled in little matters of contract fullfillment with at least three very interested and potentially stubborn parties whose influence may impede our heroes progress for at least six months.
Re: Steve Jones Happier Playing with The Clash?
Post by rudebhoy / If Music Could Talk thread
It's documented in Marcus' book. SJ played the encores at Birmingham and Blackburn. Bernie was apparently thinking seriously of replacing Mick with him. Mick got wind of it, and kicked off understandably. Marcus also reckons SJ rehearsed with the other 3 during the GEER sessions one time when Mick was hours late.
It all got smoothed over, and Jones, and Cook on a second drum kit, played with the band along with Pursey at The Music Machine on July 26th.
I am guessing Bernies idea sprung from his and the rest of the bands frustration at Micks timekeeping, and his general rock star attitude. I was fortunate enough to spend 6 or 7 hours in the bands company later that year, and the difference(s) between Mick and the rest of the band were plain to see.
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Joe Strummer, Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69, Mick Jones and Steve Jones of Sex Pistols jam to ‘White Riot' during a Clash gig at Music Machine, 1978 in London.
Photo by Janette Beckmann (Getty Images), Songsmiths
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Photos from the 4 nights
The Clash giving it all onstage at The Music Machine (Camden Palace), London in 1978 Max Browne recalls, "This was the first time I'd seen the band and it was on their home ground at The Camden Palace in 1978. Their power was shattering - visually, aurally and socially of course. White lightning flashed on musical crescendos that seemed to singe the hair, crowd surfing, fans jumping up singing with the band until they were whisked offstage, only to be instantly replaced - all part of The Clash at their peak. Mick Jones glanced at me in the box and I pressed the shutter."
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1978 The Clash performs at Music Machine, London with The Slits, Phil Rambow and Friends and Innocents Pic Neil Anderson
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