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Radio Interview
30 minute interview by Ian Penman with Mick and Joe
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Record Mirror
Northern Echo Clash cast off the Pistols tag
16 November 1978
Book: A Riot of Our Own
Book: The last night of the tour according to A Riot of Our Own pg125 and it definately took place. It is listed on adverts in the music press as a late date for the Tour.
Doubts over punk band's poly concert
Newcastle Journal - Thursday 30th November 1978
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Came up as a pin badge sold by auction. May be fake as unusual design.
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Newcastle Polytechnic
Newcastle Polytechnic was a concert venue located in Newcastle upon Tyne, England that hosted various gigs, concerts, and shows in the 1970s and 1980s1 2 3 4.
The venue was used by the band The Police for several concerts, including performances on March 8, 1975, May 9, 1975, May 4, 1976, and May 6, 1977 2. Other notable acts that played at Newcastle Polytechnic included Andy Summers (with Kevin Ayers) on June 11, 1976, Curved Air on September 24, 1976, and Pixies with The Wolfgang Press on April 27, 1989, which was the last concert held at the venue 2 3.
The concert history of Newcastle Polytechnic spans from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s, with the venue serving as a popular location for live music performances in the region during that time period 1 2 3 4. However, the exact details about the building itself and its history are limited in the provided search results.
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Poly riot band loses fee
Newcastle Journal - Thursday 14th December 1978
The Clash Newcastle Polytechnic
Oct 28 1977 and Dec 2 1978
Posted July 16, 2012 - by vintagerock
The Clash Newcastle Polytechnic Oct 28th 1977 and Dec 2nd 1978 Support acts: Richard Hell and the Viodoids (1977); The Slits (1978) The Clash came back to Newcastle later in 1977, and again in 1978. I only have vague memories of the 1977 gig, and can;t be certain that I attended, although I think I did.
Long Hair n Punks Freak Together
NME What, them again?
Nick Kent - NME
Book: The Clash Takes on the World
Page 35
Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band.
(PDF verison), text extract below
..Detailed memories of the gigs at;
Newcastle University May 1977
Middlesbrough Rock Garden, May 1977,
Sussex University May 1977,
Newcastle gig in both Oct 1977 and December 1978,
Newcastle Mayfair June 1980,
Newcastle City Hall July 1982..
Book: The Clash Takes on the World: Page 35
Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band ...Memories of the newcastle gig.. Link
[extract] ... I saw, and felt, something different in The Clash at the 1978 concert. They were now an experienced, established and confident rock band, rather than just another new punk act. The place was packed, with everyone standing on chairs and tables. They started with 'Safe European Home, which set the tone and pace for the evening: 'The air was electric. The Clash were hyped up and 100mph but they were a much better band than expected' (Poolan 2014). I also remember being particularly impressed by Mick Jones' guitar work, and his quieter 'Cockney-charm vocals' (Sutcliffe 1978) on 'Stay Free, which remains one of my favourite songs to this day. This was the best time that I saw The Clash, and the night I realised that they had become a serious rock band -the 'market leaders' (Sutcliffe 1978). I remember saying to my girlfriend (now wife) that on that night they stood up to comparison with The Who and Led Zeppelin as one of our best live rock acts.
Although I enjoyed the gigs, I was scared on both occasions. I had very long hair, and looked out of place at a punk gig. The fact that the gigs took place in a students' union building added a level of safety. I could blend in with the students, although I was also the subject of taunts from local punks. It was leaving the venue which was the most frightening aspect of the evening. We had to run the gauntlet of a large group of punks and skinheads who, having been denied access to the gig, were determined to vent their anger and frustrations on students, many worse for wear from alcohol, leaving the hall. Some people were seriously hurt. A heavy police presence minimized the violence and the danger and we survived both gigs unscathed. Poolan (2014) also recollects the eruptive atmosphere on those evenings:
"I was at both [gigs]. There was a big fight - I avoided it thankfully - at the first and a lot of windows were smashed as people weren't students or couldn't get in. There was a lot of 'gobbing' at the first and Strummer eventually got angry and took his revenge at the front in similar fashion. (Poolan 2014)"
A guests only venue
most of the punks at the concert were not student union members so were not allowed in
"the Dec 2 Polytechnic, Newcastle gig did take place (thought you could be right it might be the 9th, it was a Saturday anyway) as I was at this concert, and out of the 20 or so clash gigs I attended this was my favourite due to the atmosphere. The clash were supported by the Innocents, and the Slits.
The poly was a guests only venue and most of the punks at the concert were not student union members so were not allowed in, and a lot of the students would not sign people in. There was no problem buying tickets so a lot of people were pissed of with he students as they thought they were being ripped off as there was also no refund (not that anyone wanted a refund). I managed to get in early and there was a lot of fire escape doors kicked open to let people in.
I can't remember much about the Innocents except they had a female singer and I think were along similar sound as the Raincoats or Kleenex. The Slits came on stage and Ari invited all the punks to "kick the shit out of the students for being wankers and not letting people in" or something along those lines, and a lot of the punks obliged. During the slits set someone at the front of the stage stuck their hand up Ari's mini skirt so he had the shit kicked out of him, by the audience, and Ari as he was pinned to the stage and couldn't go anywhere as Ari stamped on his face and couldn't turn around as the people behind were hitting him as well.
The Clash, and particularly Joe was apparently a bit peeved at Ari's outburst and the fighting and after playing Safe European Home (the opening song) asked for everyone to calm down, then went on to play the best gig Iv seen, probably due to the band being in a bad mood over all the fighting.
The next day the gig was on the front page of the Northern Echo with a shot of the Clash on stage taken from the back balcony of the Poly and a review of the mini-riot that had taken place (I was also in the picture :-)), and as far as I can remember the Northern Echo was only published on a Sunday at the time. Iv thought about checking the news-agency archives as I wouldn't mind a copy of the picture as I never kept the original article, it was not something I thought about at the time."
A second review of the Newcastle gig
Newcastle Poly 2.12.78
There was a lot of tension building up to this Clash gig, the last night of the tour, as only students were allowed to buy tickets. The local, and thriving, new wave scene took exception and students with good music taste (and a union card) received a degree of harrassment to deliver tickets.
At the time I was a student and working, voluntarily, on the Newcastle University newspaper "The Courier" and sensed a story. I was interested in how they could play a venue to such a limited, privileged audience and remain loyal to their well-known egalitarian beliefs. I phoned their manager, Caroline Coon, with the obvious questions and eventually had a couple of conversations with her to the effect that the band was determined to see the doors opened up on the night to the general public.
Newcastle Poly was (maybe still is) a typical venue with a number of entrances/ exits and a big high room which doubled up as the Refrectory in the day time. There were hundreds of people hanging round outside, on a very cold night - without tickets - verbally assaulting me and my fellow Clash-loving student mates. There was a lot of tension in the air when The Slits came on. They were clearly not happy at playing to the selected audience and made their views well know, resulting in a few isolated fights.
When the Slits closed their (15 minute) set, there was a serious attempt by the general public to get into the venue. Many had tickets but they also had to show a Student Union Card to get in. A lot of students (including myself) dropped our Union Cards from an upstairs window to people trying to get in. Some managed it.
The tension and the aggravation clearly got to Joe and the band. It was the most incendiary live performance I've ever seen. He was furious with the Slits and stopped the show a number of times to get people to back off from the stage, saying this was not how he wanted to close the tour.
On the way out it was clear the venue was overcrowded and there were some hairy, potentially nasty scenes of people panicking to exit. Nevertheless anyone who was there will tell you that this was the gig to remember for the rest of your life.
A third review of the Newcastle gig
Dec 2 1978 Newcastle Poly - I'd just been married that afternoon and took the wife for her honeymoon so it definitely happened. Your reviewer is spot on about the situation. I had to leave my newly wed other half outside for an hour before a serious blag got her in. 25 years later she's still with me - now that is loyalty.
It was a rather fierce gig though - intense and the songs were played with real venom. A right mellee stage front.
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Alistair Horn - Luckily my cousin was a student there at the time and signed me in, I was sixteen and shitting myself in case I didn't get in.
Philip Oxley - If it was the one I was at, kicked off big style when they wouldn't let us in without student union cards. Big windows put in and we stormed it.
Robin Tate - Gary Waugh wrote a few years back…
I was there, hitched-hiked over from penrith, got signed in by a student mate who was studying at the poly, there was a near riot going on outside and the slits were winding up the students inside summat rotten, really tense and incredibly exciting atmosphere and then the clash opened with safe european home and the place went fuckin' mental.
I hid inside a cleaners locker (complete with metal bucket and mop) somewhere in the polytech from late afternoon to get into that one ...spent most of the following early morning hours after the gig avoiding Geordie boot boys, do you remember that simon oliver ?- we both got the train up, and walked straight into the poly - you went under the stage / - we were 17 ! -
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