The Clash Live 1978

This page lists all known Clash gigs from 1978 with info. If you have any corrections please email blackmarketclash

Tours

Jan 78 - Sandy Pearlman UK Dates ...

Apr 78 - UK Festival Dates ...

Jul 78 - Out on Parole UK Tour ...

Oct 78 - Sort it Out UK Tour ...

'The Sandy Pearlman Tour'

During early 78 the Clash played several secret dates on a 'short midlands tour'. Sandy Pearlman, CBS's producer for the Rope album had come in from the States to check out the band and Johnney Green was asked to fix up some inpromptu gigs for Pearlmans benefit.

The "short midlands tour" gigs organised at the behest of Bernie so as Sandy Pearlman (Give em Enough Ropes would be American producer) could get to see and meet the band.

Pearlman did turn up at Coventry where famously Robin Crocker, Micks mate, thumped him in the face for attempting to enter the dressing room, Pearlmans view of events is somewhat different however. It was enough of an assault to have Bernie cowering over, dabbing Pearlmans nose with a silk bloodstained handkerchief as the band stepped over and went on stage.

Dates

The dates are slightly questionable. Dunstable date seems correct and the Birmingham tape is labelled the 24th.

The band definately played Dunstable the following night.Following these dates, Joe and Mick went to Jamaica late February, just before Joe got Hepatitus mid Feb.

The early recordings of the Rope album began at the Marquee Studios in March. Pearlman arrived back in the UK in April to carry on.

Extensive archive of articles and magazines from early 1978

Video and audio from early 1978

Short Midlands Tour, RAR and Paris


Nov 78?		BBC R1 Rock On
		10 min interview with John Tobler w/Mick & Paul
Oct 99		From Here to Eternity released
		Details - live tracks from 1978
1978		Talking to the Clash 7" released
		Details/Discogs
		Johnney Green interviews - retrospective


1978		Rude Boy Film - audio, video, adverts, reviews
		Theatre radio advert and BBC R4 interview with Hazan and Mingay
Jan 00?		Something Else - BBCTV
		& BBC Radio 1 interview with John Tobler 26mins
Jan 24		Birmingham - Barbarellas,
Jan 25		Dunstable, Luton - Queensway Hall
Jan 26		Coventry - Lanchester Polytechnic
		The ticket is for Tiffany's?
Jan 28?		TISWAS 1st Appearance UKTV - ITV
Feb 17		Clash City Rockers released
		Wikipedia
March		Recording White Man in Hammersmith Palais
		March/February *note Passion is a Fashion lists WMHP as being recorded in March at Marquee as part of the session below. Studio - CBS Studios White Man in Hammersmith Palais Line Up: Joe Strummer - vocals, guitar, Mick Jones - guitar, vocals, Paul Simonon - bass, vocals, Topper Headon - drums, Producer - The Clash. Source - The Complete Clash
March		Recording B Sides
		Studio - Marquee Studios The Prisoner Pressure Drop 1-2 Crush On You Time Is Tight White Man in Hammersmith Palais - probable overdubs Line Up: Line Up: Joe Strummer - vocals, guitar, Mick Jones - guitar, vocals, Paul Simonon - bass, vocals, Topper Headon - drums, Gary Barnacle - saxophone on "1-2 Crush On You", "Time is Tight". Producer - The Clash
March		Recording Give Em Enough Rope
		March–April 1978 - Basing Street (London) Source?
Early 78		John Peel Sessions, BBC Maida Vale ... incomplete
Apr 30		London - Victoria Park, Hackney
		2 audio & video tracks from Rude Boy film
May 1		Birmingham - Barbarellas
		1 audio & video track from Rude Boy film
May		Recording Give 'Em Enough Rope
		Utopia Studio (London), Island Studios/Basing Street (London) GEER Groovy Times Gates of the West One Emotion Line Up: Joe Strummer - vocals, guitar, Mick Jones - guitar, vocals, Paul Simonon - bass, vocals, Topper Headon - drums, Gloves Glover - piano. Bob Andrews - keyboards. Producer - Sandy Perlman. Engineers - Corky Stasiak, Dennis Ferrante, Gregg Caruso, Kevin Dalimore, Chris Minto
May 20		Don't Quote Me - BBC2
May 27		Paris - The Hippodrome (Marxist Festival)

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Out on Parole Tour.

The name of the tour coming not from the pigeon shooting farce which the press assumed and vilified the band for, but from Mott The Hoople's All The Way From Memphis "you look like a star, but you're really out on parole ".

Although venues were much the same size and largely standing as the previous Get Out of Control Tour this was to be a more professional tour with a new top grade PA and performances much less manic than before but very powerful nevertheless.

"The band are also hoping to play dates in Liverpool and Newcastle but are having difficulty finding a venue as they have been banned in both these areas. They are also trying to arrange a second London date, possibly around the Elephant And Castle area."

Out on Parole Tour would include most of the Rope songs but would climax with a run through of first album favourites to please their audiences who wouldn't be able to get familiar with the new material until its eventual release in November.

To fill the album gap Whiteman had been released as a single on the 16th June, (same day as the pigeon shooting Court hearing hence the press piss-taking of the tour title) and Joe introduces it here by announcing its current chart position; No.32.

Pauls tour backdrop

The gig also unveiled the new Tour backdrop designed by Paul a Notting Hill townscape with blow up of a WWII Messer Schmidt.

Extensive archive of articles and magazines from the Out on Parole Tour period

Video and audio from the Out on Parole Tour period

Out on Parole Tour


Mar 1980		Rude Boy Film - audio, video, adverts, reviews
		Theatre radio advert and BBC R4 interview with Hazan and Mingay
Oct 1999		From Here to Eternity released
		Wikipedia - live tracks from 1978
Jun 16		White Man in Hammersmith Palais released
		Wikipedia
Jun 22		What's On with Tony Wilson (Granada region) - ITV

Jun 27		London - The Manticore Theatre, Fulham, Secret Gig
Jun 28		Aylesbury - Friars
Jun 29		Leeds - Queens Hall
Jun 30		Sheffield - Top Rank
Jul 1		Leicester - Granby Halls
Jul 2		Manchester - Apollo
Jul 3		Manchester - Rafters Club
Jul 4		Glasgow - Apollo
		4 audio & video tracks from Rude Boy film
Jul 5		Aberdeen - Music Hall
		2 audio & video tracks from Rude Boy film
Jul 6		Dunfermline - Kinema
		1 audio & video track from Rude Boy film
Jul 7	~~Cancclled~~	Queensferry - Deeside Leisure Centre
		Believe this was reschuduled from the 6th and then cancelled. Suicide chronology confirms this
Jul 8		Crawley - Sports Centre
		includes the soundcheck
Jul 9		Bristol - Locarno
Jul 9	~~Cancclled~~	Southampton
Jul 10		Torquay - Town Hall
Jul 11		Cardiff - Top Rank
Jul 12		Birmingham - Top Rank
Jul 13	~~Cancclled~~	Liverpool - Empire
Jul 13		Blackburn - King Georges Hall
Jul 14		Bury St Edmunds - Corn Exchange
Jul 15	~~Cancclled~~	Edmonton - Picketts Lock Sports Centre
Jul 21		Liverpool - Eric's - Friday evening
Jul 22		Liverpool - Eric's - matinee for under 16's
Jul 22		Liverpool - Eric's - evening
Jul 24		London - Music Machine
Jul 25		London - Music Machine
Jul 26		London - Music Machine
Jul 27		London - Music Machine
		3 audio & video tracks from Rude Boy film
Aug 5	~~Cancclled~~	Edinburgh - Carnival Against the Nazis
Aug		Recording Give 'Em Enough Rope
		August–September 1978 The Automatt (San Francisco) GEER overdubs and mixing Gates of the West overdubs and mixing Line Up Joe Strummer – vocals, guitar Mick Jones – guitar, vocals
Sept		Give 'Em Enough Rope overdubs and mixing
		Studio - The Record Plant (New York) GEER overdubs and mixing Gates of the West overdubs and mixing Line Up Joe Strummer – vocals, guitar Mick Jones – guitar, vocals Al Fields – piano on "Julie's in the Drug Squad" (his take was not used per Return of Last Gang in Town and Passion is a Fashion) Al Lanier – piano on “Julie’s In the Drug Squad” Stan Bronstein - saxophone on "Drug Stabbing Time" Dennis Ferranti - vocals on "Gates of the West" Source - Passion Is a Fashion (p. 210), Return of Last Gang in Town
Sep 7		New York - Max's - Mick only fundraiser for Sid Vicious

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This band begin the Autumn with a mini tour of France, Holland and Belgium immediately prior to Bernie Rhodes sacking. Johnny Green includes dates on this tour as some of the best he witnessed.

That followed a chaotic UK Tour in which numerous dates were cancelled probably as a result of the duisruption caused by the changing a managerment.

These dates have changed and reflect 'A Riot of Our Own' (book), the NME and tape details.

Belfast was the first night, Dublin the day after, a day off in London before Paris. The remaining dates fit around the Belgium tape and A Riot of Our Own. Some French dates are missing after Paris.

Extensive archive of articles and magazines from the Sort it Out Tour period

Video and audio from the Sort it Out Tour period

Sort it Out Tour


Nov 78?		BBC R1 Rock On interview w/ Mick & Paul
Mar 1980		Rude Boy Film- audio, video, adverts, reviews
		Theatre radio advert and BBC R4 interview with Hazan and Mingay
Oct 1999		From Here to Eternity released
		Wikipedia - live tracks from 1978
Oct 11		Given 'Em Enough Rope released
		Wikipedia Give 'Em Enough Rope
Oct 11		Belfast - University SU, Queens Hall
Oct 12		Dublin, Dun Laoghaire - Top Hat

Oct 16		Paris - Le Stadium
Oct 19		Leuven (in the town parc during a beer festival)
Oct 20		Arnhem - The Stokvishal
Oct 21		Amsterdam - The Paradiso
Oct 22		Brussels - Ancienne Belgique
Oct 23		Fleron Liege - Cinema Home

Oct 25		London - Roxy Theatre, Harlesden
Oct 26		London - Roxy Theatre, Harlesden
Nov 3		Bath - Pavillion
Nov 9	~~Cancelled~~	Bournemouth - Village Bowl
Nov 10	~~Cancelled~~	Malvern - Winter Gardens
Nov 12?	~~Cancelled~~	Canterbury - Odeon
Nov 14	~~Cancelled~~	Coventry - Locarno
Nov 15	~~Cancelled~~	Manchester - Belle Vue
Nov 16		Edinburgh - Odeon
Nov 17		Middlesborough - Town Hall
Nov 18		Leeds - University
Nov 19		Sheffield - Top Rank
Nov 20		Leicester - De Montfort
Nov 21		Bristol - Locarno
Nov 22	~~Cancelled~~	Birmingham - Odeon
Nov 22		Bournemouth - Village Bowl
Nov 23	~~Cancelled~~	Ipswich - Gaumont
Nov 23		Manchester - Apollo
Nov 24	~~Cancelled~~	Bangor University
Nov 24		Derby - Kings Hall
Nov 24		Tommy Gun released
		Wikipedia
Nov 25		TISWAS
Nov 26		Cardiff - Top Rank
Nov 27		Exeter - University
Nov 28		Coventry - Tiffany's
Nov 29		Stoke - Victoria Hall, Hanley
Nov 30		Peterborough - Wirrina Stadium
Nov		BBC R1 - Rock On
		John Tobler w/Mick & Paul - 8 mins
Dec 1		Liverpool - University, Mountford Hall
Dec 2		Newcastle - Polytechnic
		Newcastle Ian Penman Interviews Joe & Mick 30mins
Dec 3		Edinburgh - Odeon
Dec 4	~~Cancelled~~	Glasgow - University Strathclyde
Dec 5	~~Cancelled~~	Glasgow - University Strathclyde
Dec 10		Canterbury - Odeon
Dec 12		Bath - Pavillion
Dec 13	~~Doubtful~~	Hastings - Pavillion (21st)
Dec 15	~~Doubtful~~	Brighton - Top Rank
Dec 16		Barberellas Birmingham
		Mick on stage w/ Dav Johamson
Dec 17		Portsmouth - Locarno
Dec 18		London - Tiffany's, Purley, Croyden
Dec 19		London - Music Machine
Dec 20		Wolverhampton - Civic Hall
Dec 21		Hastings - Pier Pavillion
Dec 22		Aylesbury - Friars
Dec 28		London - Lyceum
		1 audio & video track from Rude Boy film
Dec 29		London - Lyceum
Jan 3		London - Lyceum
		1 audio & video track from Rude Boy film
		Video tracks
		possibly from the 3 New Year Lyceum dates
1978		Rude Boy Film- audio, video, adverts, reviews
Early 80		BBC Radio 1 - various
		Something Else TV / John Tobler, Rock On w Joe Mick / John Tobler Paul Mick - 26mins