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.
Extensive archive of articles, magazines and other from the Sort it Out Tour October- December 1978
CBS Give Em Enough Rope newsletter
Smash Hits dates
Record Mirror Clash Tour
7 October 1978 - New Clash dates
Clash sort it out at last
NME: Sham, Clash Major Tours
7 Oct 1978
Clash Big November
UNDER THE banner of "The Clash Sort It out",
the band next month begin their longest-ever British tour. It will include several Loildon dates in early December, details to be announced shortly. Meanwhile, confirmed gigs are:
7 Oct 1978
NME tour dates
The Clash's album 'Give 'Em Enough Rope' and 'Sort It Out' Tour advert
Sounds 11th, November 1978 - Enlarge Image
The Clash's album 'Give 'Em Enough Rope' and UK 'Sort It Out' Tour advert
Sounds 25th, November 1978 - Enlarge Image
SOUNDS Sort it Dates
NME: The Clash have extended dates to the Sort it Out Tour
The Clash have extended their British Tour up to Christmas and have finalised...
NME Xmas concerts for the Clash
The Clash, whose new album 'Give 'Em..
Tour News & Gossip - Clash Loose
Smash Hits
November 1978
Support: The Innocents
Punk77
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The Innocents - Classic UK all girl Punk Rock with images and ...
Suzie Hogarth – Drums, Sarah Hall – Bass, Greg Van Cook – Guitar Marguerite – Vocals & Finboa Barry – Keyboards
The Innocents were a peculiar one. Formed in March 1978 by Marguerite Van Cook (girlfriend of Greg Van Cook from the Electric Chairs) and Sarah Hall ex Flowers of Romance, throw in drummer Suzy Hogarth from left wing agit pre punk band The Resisters, add in the aforementioned Greg and a piano player called Fiona Barry and you have a band! A chance encounter with The Clash, in shared rehearsal studios, sees the band being added to the Sort It Out tour playing along with The Slits on the 30 odd date tour. Gigs also follow with The Adverts. Demos are recorded with Dave Goodman at Pathway (unreleased) and they are featured in music weekly Melody Maker as the best unsigned band of 1978. They get management, and an offer to go to the States, but it all crumbles from there and the band ends. Never mentioned in books on The Clash or women in punk, Punk77 is always happy to step in and present to you The Innocents.
The Clash have confirmed to play Sid benefit concert to help pay Vicious's legal costs for his murder trial
Plus additonal dates in December
81. Four Concert and Promotional Posters, circa 1978 - 1984
Four Concert and Promotional Posters
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Selection of four posters featuring British rock bands The Clash and Tom Robinson Band. The lot includes a The Clash concert poster for multiple dates at Brixton London during their 1984 Out of Control tour; a The Clash poster for their concert at Brielpoort, Deinze, Belgium on 21st February 1984; a black-and-white photographic poster of The Clash featuring an image taken by Pennie Smith and a promotional poster for the Tom Robinson Band's second album TRB Two. Smith has worked with some of the most iconic rock musicians, and she took the iconic image of The Clash's bassist Paul Simonon smashing his Fender Precision Bass, which was used as the London Calling album cover artwork.
(Largest): 29.75" x 20" (75 x 51 cm), Condition: Fine to Very Fine. All rolled with some degree of handling wear. Belgian poster has a 7 cm tear on the bottom border. Artist: Pennie Smith, Unknown Artists
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Big O Publishing 1978 (B225), 83” x 60.5”.
Blank Tour Poster
Backstage pass
Sounds, Children of the Revolution 1976-1978
23 December 1978 - Children Of The Revolution - Punk Family Tree by Peter Frame. "Strummer blown away by Rotten's force, accepted offer to join Clash"
Top of the Pops is a miss for The Clash
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Sunday Sun (Newcastle)
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops
- but not The Clash. The group, which has now well and truly taken over the mantle of the pacemakers of Punk, has vowed it will never willingly appear on television's biggest pop show. And The Clash's members say they will stick by their pledge even if it means selling less singles as a result.
The group's Joe Strummer was quoted recently as saying: "It makes me sick that the programme should still be on. I want it to end."
And he added: "I think we are the last well-known punk group still true to the original aims of punk." And it's those original aims which see The Clash so opposed to Top of the Pops.
They believe it is typical of what they regard as the manipulation of pop music and groups, and its control by big business.
Even when the group's record company CBS tried to get a film of The Clash performing' their latest single "Tommy Gun" on to the programme recently, the objections came long and loud from Strummer and his colleagues.
But if their stand means that singles miss out on airplay and consequently in the charts, their album sales are showing no illeffects.
In fact they are currently up in the Travolta league. Just haw big their following is was shown when their new album, "Give 'Em Enough Rope" stormed to number two in the LP charts just one week after it was released.
It's the sort of performance which confirms that the band has taken over the mantle formerly worn by the Sex Pistols.
But they do keep running into trouble, as in their recent gig at the Polytechnic in Newcastle. There, the people who organised the show are refusing to pay the group anything like their full fee because of the amount of damage done by punk fans, and it is claimed, by the group themselves.
They've also had arguments with their manager which have led to gigs being cancelled and Sans let down.
And it could be that over the next few months, under the spotlight of publicitY as punk's leaders, they will have to learn to cope with a whole new series of problems.
It should be interesting to see whether it all has any major effect on the kind of music they produce and the following they've built up.
In the meantime, that hatred of Top of the Pops remains.
The Clash squat and live rough
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Britain's most exciting band lives in a squat Joe Strummer of The Clash whose new album shot to Number 1 in the charts can’t afford a place of his own .
People think because you've had a few hits you’re rich ” Strummer 24 told me.
"Bands like The Who and the Stones never got any money until years after they started making hits hope it's gonna be the same with us UP you should see our drummer Nicky i Headon— he sleeps rough.
The Clash one of the original some heavy criticism recently from those who reckon they’ve "sold out” for success .
“We haven't changed We've still kept our integrity and we still know what our duty is— to make a stand ’’Times changed standards all different .
But the music business doesn't know that There's a whole new world of kids out there — but those mugs in the industry close their eyes to it NIGHTMARE .
“Instead they continue to go out at lunch times and get drunk on other people s money”
Joe went through a nightmarish time earlier this year when he was frightened of walking out alone
“It was all gettingtoo much for me I kept thinking I would be attacked because of what we've always stood for
“But I soon got over it You have to or you’re dead BARRY CAIN
Smash Hits
The Clash | Facebook
September, New York, The Record Plant
Record Mirror, Letters page
SOUNDS LETTERS PAGE
29 July 1978
NME Letters page
Sounds Clash Board Game
23 December 1978
Would dearly like a high-re copy of this
Page (image) Intro
Page (image 2) board game
or PDF version here (better)
WANTED ****
SOUNDS Clash Poll Winners
'rock' biased magazine (its all in the title) in 1978...
The Clash Ignore Alien Orders | Facebook - https://www.facebook.com
Tony Beesley - Bought a few issues of this 'rock' biased magazine (its all in the title) in 1978; purely because of the colour poster sized pages of punk groups, despite the mag's resentment towards the music and most bands of that category - pop mag, Supersonic, were much more favourable and supportive, on the other hand.
The first two pics are from around June/July and feature a few quotes about the 2nd album recording sessions etc. and the photos are from the same photo session that Sounds featured within a Clash interview issue at the same time. The 3rd pic is from I think was the only Rock On annual published; again a great source for punk and new wave posters.
Brian Young - Oh dear the dreaded Joe with a stocking mask pics, Paul as a nazi, Topper as bruce Lee and Mick as gawd knows what...most embarrasing photo shoot they ever did!
Review of Clash Songbook
Sounds 16 September 1978
Sally James in her Clash T-shirt, TISWAS 25 November 1978.
Wayne Spencer - Their first appearance on TISWAS was actually on Saturday 25 November 1978. They were on the show to promote Tommy Gun which was released one day before. Sally from that show where she’s wearing a Sort It Out Tour 78 T-shirt, for the tour that was currently happening at the time of this first TISWAS interview.
And a photo from her interview with The Clash on that show. And a brief video clip here from that show showing Sally in the Clash T-shirt.
And if that brief clip of Sally James in her Clash T-shirt from TISWAS on 25 November 1978 exists, then maybe her interview with The Clash from that same show is still out there somewhere.
Video
That clip is from The 1970s: Those Were The Days. Part 2 of a two part documentary. Shown on Channel 5 in the UK last night on Saturday 1 June 2024.
Meoldy Maker: Clash: Who's in Control
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Clash of Interests
15 December 1978 / Time Out Clash 2 page feature
Smash Hits Clash feature
2 page feature
Record Mirror Mayhem is Coming.
Opposition building up against troublesome RAR concerts
Sounds Interview - Clash on Delivery
18 November 1978
4 pages detailed review of the Give 'Em Enough Rope.
An article on The Clash by Garry Bushell and Pix by Jill Furmanovsky. "I'm really optimistic about punk."
Archive PDF (1) / Archive PDF (2) / jpg1 / jpg2
Front cover
NME When Great Minds Clash
– unreadable - anything better?
Melody Maker The Clash plead Not Guilty
We never came to destroy
SOUNDS Topper Interview
TIME OUT Magazine - Guerillas in retreat?
Time Out cover story + cover image about The Clash (actually a very condensed version of a book written by Miles that was around at the time)
Advert from the same Time Out for Purley & Lyceums concerts on
NME Clash Want them again
barely readable
2 December 1978
The Face (retrospective)
On Parole Tour memories and particulalry Bristol Locarno
-- 1980
Written before screenings of 'Rude Boy', this is a Clash, fan's account of touring ,from the trenches. Vaughn Toulouse (pictured left) quit the dole in Plymouth to follow the 1978 Clash tour. This is his story. Pennie Smith took the photos during '79 and '80.
History of Rock 1978
Welcome to 1978 / Contents ...
Joe letter to NME pg 72
The Clash ANL pg 55
Interview Melody Maker
Nov 25 8 pages pg 91
MOJO The Clash From Westway to Broadway
August 1994 (Bonds, US general), JS interview - 20 pages
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Breakdown, retrospective and Farewell Joe
Covers November 1978 to November 1982
MOJO March 2003
14 pages
History of Rock 1978
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.
'The Clash': Spokesmen for Trouble Youth
Morning News - Sat 16th December 1978
Laments lyrics of The Clash and musical status
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Rolling Stone The Clash Anger on the Left
Rolling Stone
www.rollingstone.comThe Clash: Anger on the Left
London —
Never mind that shit,” says Joe Strummer, the thuggish-looking lead singer of the Clash, addressing some exultant kids yelling “Happy New Year” at him from the teeming floor of the Lyceum. “You’ve got your future at stake. Face front! Take it!”
In sleepy London town, during a murky Christmas week, rock & roll is being presented as a war of class and aesthetics. At the crux of that battle is a volcanic series of four Clash concerts — including a benefit for Sid Vicious — coming swift on the heels of the group’s second album, Give ‘Em Enough Rope, which entered the British charts at Number Two. Together with the Sex Pistols, the Clash helped spearhead the punk movement in Britain, along the way earning a designation as the most intellectual and political New Wave band. When the Pistols disbanded early last year, the rock press and punks alike looked to the Clash as the movement’s central symbol and hope.
Yet, beyond the hyperbole and wrangle that helped create their radical myth, the Clash brandish a hearty reputation as a rock & roll band that, like the Rolling Stones or Bruce Springsteen, must be seen to be believed. Certainly no other band communicates kinetic, imperative anger as potently as the Clash. When Nicky “Topper” Headon’s single-shot snare report opens “Safe European Home” (a song about Strummer and lead guitarist Mick Jones‘ ill-fated attempt to rub elbows with Rastafarians in the Jamaicans’ backyard), all hell breaks loose, both on the Lyceum stage and floor.
Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Artists: The Clash
Like the Sex Pistols, the Clash’s live sound hinges on a massive, orchestral drum framework that buttresses the blustery guitar work of Jones, who with his tireless two step knee kicks looks just like a Rockettes’ version of Keith Richards. Shards of Mott the Hoople and the Who cut through the tumult, while Strummer’s rhythm guitar and Paul Simonon’s bass gnash at the beat underneath. And Strummer’s vocals sound as dangerous as he looks. Screwing his face up into a broken-tooth yowl, he gleefully bludgeons words, then caresses them with a touching, R&B-inflected passion.
Best Magazine No#122
French
Sep 1978
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Rock n Folk Magazine No#143
French
December 1978
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Clash off to New York
The Clash, New York, 1978. Michael Putland
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Joe Strummer walking away at The San Gennaro Festival, NYC, October 1978
The Feast of San Gennaro takes place on Mulberry Street (Little Italy) between Canal and Houston AND on Hester between Baxter St. and Centre St. AND Grand and took place on Octover 3rd
History of the Feast of San Gennaro – Blog
Celebrates the Feast of San Gennaro, 1978 October 3 | NYCMA Collection Guides
The Clash - November 1978 © Bob Gruen
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Photos: New York September, October 1978
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1978, The Clash in New York Bob Gruen
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Classic Rock in Pics - The Clash in New York, 1978. Photo by Michael Putland.
The recording release of Johnny Thunders' So Alone album
6 October 1978
Joe Strummer walking away at The San Gennaro Festival, NYC, October 1978, in a legendary photo by Bob Gruen
Joe Strummer New York 1978
Joe Strummer in front of the House of Oldies record store, New York City, October 1982. Bob Gruen
New York September 1978
Joe Strummer, Central Park, New York City, 1978 Kate Simon
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Joe Strummer & veteran New York bluesman Al Fields during the recording of “Julie’s Been Working for the Drug Squad” for “Give ‘Em Enough Rope“, 1978. Photo by Ronni Hoffman.
The Clash down by the Dockyards
The Clash - November 1978 © Bob Gruen
Joe Strummer NYC, 1978
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Steve Carey - Who’s at the piano ??
Calvin Pope - Steve Carey - did the album have a piano in it?
Diane Pagel - Calvin Pope, on Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad.
Pete Wrieden - Diane Pagel that is correct and it was played by the BOC keyboard player I want to say Allen Lanier....
Michael J Phillips - Pete Wrieden - no it was played by Al Fields in the picture. i have seen comments in a book from either Strummer or Jones saying it was him. Trouble is I read so many Clash books I don’t recall which one? maybe they were wrong?
Pete Wrieden - Michael J Phillips - I read they brought him in and recorded but nothing really came of it… Sandy Pearlman produced and suggested using BOC keys player …. But who knows… as you said lots of different books around
Michael J Phillips - Pete Wrieden - that is probably more feasible to be honest. Love that track. I remember my schoolmates being horrified that they had recorded a bonafide ‘rock and roll’ song lol!
Pete Wrieden - Michael J Phillips - Ha....yeah....a real throw back tune.....keeping us all on our toes....!
The Innocents from Marguerite, lead singer
The fist date of the sort it out tour was the scottish gig. Edinburgh, i thought they played Glasgow right before that?
We missed the first gig. There was a snow storm and we drove up, we walked in just as the Clash went on, but after that we did ALL the gigs. Two with out the slits, just us and the Clash, but mostly us, then the slits and then the Clash.
The tour officially started in mid Nov on a Tuesday, I seem to recall that we were trying for that. So we played thirty gigs, came back played with Suzie and the Banshees at the music Machine and then did the Sid Vicious Benefit.
I don't know why you seem to be the only people who noticed us in the years since...but thanks for it.
Just to add. I didn't count all the cancelled dates, but we were often on the road waiting to hear if we would play or not...Newcastle was a mob scene...
I hope this helps, write back if you have any questions.
Best Marguerite, <clarity32[a]gmail.com>
THE CLASH - RARE INTERVIEW - LONDON WEEKEND TV
Broadcast 6 JANUARY 1979 - HD
The Clash interviewed by Elvis Payne for 'The Saturday Morning Show' on London Weekend (regional) TV on the ITV Network.
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Archive footage when - the clash - appeared on the saturday morning show on 6 january 1979. The official music video of tommy gun was played - this is now available on vevo - and cannot be uploaded here. Joe strummer - paul simonon - topper headon - were live in the studio and were interviewed by elvis payne. It was tx on lwt in london area only - rest of country watched tiswas.
Saturday morning show was introduced by steve jones and elvis payne. The saturday morning show - tx in london area only - ran for 16 shows eventually replaced by the itv networked show - tiswas - with chris tarrant from atv in the midlands.
Summary: Mick not there, not well, (Cover of Time Out Magazine, 26 April 1978) Topper broken sticks, Paul learning to play the base, lighter base as its too heavy, money, USA, carry on playing, attacking record companies.
Or alternate poor version (probably better)
Audio from above video
This circulates as 'UK Local Radio' - but is in fact the audio from the programme
BBC R1 - Rock On
10 mins John Tobler w/Mick & Paul
BBC Radio 1 various
Something Else TV/John Tobler Rock On w Joe Mick / John Tobler Paul Mick 80
Don Letts Premium footage / London late 1978
Probably from the Lyceum at the end of December/January.
Stay Free
Don Letts Super 8 Medley
Lots of footage blended together. Would take an age to discect it all.
Rude Boy film - tracks
London Lyceum 28th Dec
1 track on Rude Boy
For more details on the film Rude Boy go to;
Rude Boy / Blackmarketclash.co,uk
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.
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