Sort it Out Tour

updated 28 Dec 2008 - added NME review





This a classic case of the same tape but two differing conversions. The first one is badly clipped. The second one isn't.

Audio 1

very poor - Sound 1.5 - 65 mins - unknown generation - 21 tracks -

Garageland




Audio 2- enhanced

poor - 65mins - Sound 2.5 - unknown gen - 21 tracks

Garageland





Record Mirror: One off for Clash






NME Clash set for Roxy Concert

August 1978

Clash annouce 9 September Roxy date.





Clash in two London gigs

Evening Standard





Record Mirror Clash protest

Protest against radio stations not playing their singles
9 Sept 1978






Sounds: Clash tune in, turn off

More details on Clash the cancelation and resheduled dates.
9 Sept 1978

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Record Mirror Waiting for The Man

More details on Clash the cancelation and resheduled dates.
16 Sept 1978

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Melody Maker? Clash postpone Roxy - again

The Clash had to put off last weeks gig at London's Harlesden New Roxy Theatre, the third time the concert has to be postponed...





Clash bash - new date confirmed

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UNKNOWN Clash play The Roxy

The Clash have lined up another London Concert folowing their highy successful British tour last month

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Record Mirror Clash Tour

7 October 1978 - New Clash dates

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Record Mirror Clash LP and Single (and more reasons why the Roxy was cancelled, again)

October 21st

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The Harlesden Roxy

This is the first of two rearranged gigs that finally took place following a variety of problems (NME 7 Oct gig preview Chris Salewicz)

Bernie Rhodes announced this gig originally without Joe and Mick’s knowledge whilst they were still in the USA with Sandy Pearlman, it was to be the final nail in his managerial coffin. Bernie’s disputed, but undeniably significant role in The Clash history, would later resume again some 2 years later, but for now the band were enjoying their freedom.

The Harlesden Roxy (previously the Coliseum - not to be confused with the Roxy Club in London’s trendy Covent Garden) is an old converted cinema in a deprived area of northwest London (adjacent to the notorious Stonebridge Estate).

The gig was reviewed by Eric Fuller in
Sounds and the impenetrable tosser Ian Penman. Both were highly critical and represented the end of the UK music business hype for The Clash. Although various writers would continue to write objectively and appreciatively of The Clash, this was the end of the blanket, often ‘over the top’, praise that had suited the music press since punk had caused such a wave of panic amongst its largely hippy progressive rock writers.

Postponed on the 9th September, resheduled date of September 25th postponed and also further resheduled date of 14th October postponed. New GLC restrictions limited tickets to 900, so a second night scheduled for the other 700.

Whirlwind supported. I do not know about the 26.10.78. Free t-shirts (Tommy Gun) given to audience for being messed around previously. I have two. Colin





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Reviews from both nights

Stuck on Top - They came, they saw, they conquered nothing

Record Mirror
4 November 1977

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Punk band seeks deal (Need a New Manager)

Sounds - October 1978

Could you imagine this band? Yes rumours about the Clash's imminent split from Renault dealer and anarchist theorist, Bernie Rhodes have reached such a point...





NME Problems with the Roxy

7 Oct
Chris Salewicz

... text version

I'D CALLED Mick Jones last Friday night The parsimonious Bernie Rhodes - who, though a repIacement manager has yet to be found (and it is most likely neither Billy Gaff nor Brian Lane), appears to be regarded most firmly as the band's ex - wouldn't give me tickets for last Saturday's Clash Roxy date, said CBS....


Clash beaten out of Roxy again

Alternate link





The Clash Harlesden Roxy

Sounds 4 November 1978 - Eric Fuller

text version

LET'S FORGET about all that'greatest rock and roll band in the world' stuff for a start. This was a garbled and gloomy affair in a venue anonymous enough...





Melody Maker Caught in the Act: Fizzy Drinks and Flat Clash

4 November 78
pg28

Frances Lass
if all that you're singing when emerging from a Clash gig is hge praises of a British brew-up then something somewhere has gone markedly wrong. Maybe it was all that postponing and rebooking of dates, maybe the bad sound quality....





Record Mirror Roadshows- Stuck on Top


4 November 78 pg30
by Chris Westwood

They came, they saw, they conquered, nothing... This gig worried me. It worried me bacause the Clash are under momentous pressure to prove their worth...





NME: The Clash: Black'n White Drop Outasite

Ian Penman,

4 November 1978
The Clash: Roxy Theatre, Harlesden

text version - Alternate scan

WEAPONS EXIST, but some people can't see them for looking. The Clash take the obvious lines of misrepresentation, superficiality, and hold up the tacky backdrops, the disinfected battleclothes, the turbulent, tubercular grimaces, and most of all the rock instruments as their weapons, not forgetting air rifles - roots rock rebel! ...





NME





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"The second evening at the Roxy of Harlesden, I think that it’s this evening when Joe will wear his T-shirt “H Block”, which unfortunately which made it impssible for the band to return to play in Ulster in the coming years.






Extensive archive of articles, magazines and other from the Sort it Out Tour October- December 1978

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Setlist

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Complete Control
Tommy Gun
I Fought the Law
Jail Guitar Doors
Clash City Rockers
White Man
Drug Stabbing time
Protex Blue
Guns on the Roof
Stay Free
Police and Thieves...
Blitzkreig Bop
Capital Radio
Janie Jones
Garageland
Whats My Name
English Civil War
Londons Burning
White Riot
Bored with the USA
I Fought the Law



Extensive archive of articles, magazines and other from the Sort it Out Tour October- December 1978

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