Jun 76 - Black Swan , five piece ....
Sept 76 - 100 Club, London gigs ....
Dec 76 - Anarchy Tour ....
Jan / Mar - Early 77 Gigs ....
May 77 - White Riot UK Tour ....
Jul 77 - European Dates ....
Oct 77 - Out of Control UK Tour ....
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 ....
Feb 79 - Pearl Harbour US Tour ....
Jul 79 - Finland + UK dates ....
Sep 79 - Take the Fifth US Tour ....
Dec 79 - Acklam Hall Secret Gigs ....
Jan 80 - 16 Tons UK Tour ....
Mar 80- 16 Tons US Tour ....
May 80 - 16 Tons UK/Europe ....
May 81 - Impossible Mission Tour ....
Jun 81 - Bonds Residency NY ....
Sep 81 - Mogador Paris Residency ....
Oct 81 - Radio Clash UK Tour ....
Oct 81 - London Lyceum Residency ....
Jan 82 - Japan Tour ....
Feb 82 - Australian Tour ....
Feb 82 - HK & Thai gigs ....
May 82 - Lochem Festival ....
May 82 - Combat Rock US Tour ....
July 82 - Casbah Club UK Tour ....
Aug 82 - Combat Rock US Tour ....
Oct 82 - Supporting The Who ....
Nov 82 - Bob Marley Festival ....
May 83 - US Festival + gigs ....
Jan 84 - West Coast dates ....
Feb 84 - Out of Control Europe ....
Mar 84 - Out of Control UK ....
April 84 - Out of Control US Tour ....
Sep 84 - Italian Festival dates ....
Dec 84 - Miners Benefit Gigs ....
May 85 - Busking Tour ....
Jun- Aug 85 - Festival dates ....
Sept 85 - European Tour ....
Jan 86 - Far East Tour ....
1986 onwards - Retrospective
74-76 - Joe with the 101ers ....
Jul 88 - Green Wedge UK Tour
Aug 88 - Rock the Rich UK Tour ....
Oct 89 - Earthquake Weather UK ....
Oct 89 - Earthquake Weather Euro ....
Nov 89 - Earthquake Weather US ....
Jun 99 - Comeback Festival dates ....
July 99 - Short US Tour ....
July 99 - UK Tour ....
Aug 99 - Festival Dates ....
Oct 99 - UK Tour ....
Nov 99 - Full US Tour ....
Dec 99 - European Xmas dates ....
Jan 00 - Australasian Tour ....
May 00 - Mini UK Tour ....
Nov 00 - supporting The Who Tour ....
Jul 01 - UK & US Instore Tour ....
Oct 01 - Full US Tour ....
Nov 01 - Japanese Tour ....
Nov 01 - Full UK Tour ....
April 02 - Brooklyn NY Residency ....
Jun 02 - UK Festivals ....
Jul 02 - Hootenanny Tour ....
Aug 02 - UK Festival Dates ....
Sep 02 - Japanesse Dates ....
Nov 02 - Bringing it all Back Home ....
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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.
Tour dates - Adverts - Social media - Posters - UK Articles - US Articles - International Articles - Passes, tickets, programmes - Snippets - Tour Photos - Memorabilia - Retrospectives - Audio-Video
Tour dates
Sounds Tora! Tora! Clash!
Clash: many sell-outs but no permits
Link
Adverts
New Clash management
Social media
The Clash Official | Facebook
Poster
UK Articles
SOUNDS: The Clash in Amercia
The Clash's 'Pearl Harbour '79' Tour of North America review
February 17th, 1979. The Clash's 'Pearl Harbour '79' Tour of North America review by Sylvie Simmons for SOUNDS music mag with pics by Bob Gruen. "For the first time in the US I could see the relevance of pogoing"
Read the article / Alternate link
London Evening News The Clash still cut that honest dash
& Spit, and now polish
6 Jan 1979 / London Evening News and The Sun newspapers
Clash: "We're musicians"
International Musician magazine / Mick guitars
Melody Maker: Banging on the White House Door - On the road with the Clash
5 pages. On the road across the US with The Clash
Melody Maker: Banging on the White House Door - On the road with the Clash
- republished in UNCUT magazine / 8 pages / November 1997
NME A Garbled Account of the Clash US Tour by Joe Strummer
Melody Maker; Sandy Pearlman Interview
Melody Maker Clash - the world's best rock band
SOUNDS The Clash In America - Sylvie Simmonds
1979 02 17 Read the full article here
© Sylvie Simmons, 1979 The Clash In America
Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 17 February 1979
"SO YOU think we lost the battle then go home and weep about it. Sometimes you ve got to wake up in the morning and think, Fuck it youre going to win the battle. Joe Strummer.
THERE WERE no riots, no outraged citizens, no glaring headlines when Pearl Harbour 79 came to an old elegant building in downtown Vancouver last week. The only report in the newspaper? s music section was that the local symphony orchestra had gone on strike. The Clash? s first American tour is being felt by the press as the stimulating aftershock of the Pistols US invasion a year ago or not at all. ...
Sounds Garry Bushells USA Tour Notes
February 1979 - Read the full article here
THE CLEANCUT cuddly Clash continue their perillous ' assault on the North Americansub-continent with typkal clearheaded foresight.
Meaning they were actually granted work permits a mere 24 flours before their first single gig in Vancouver last Wednesday, despite losing vast quantities of gear to Canadian custom officials who stripped them of studded bracelets, belts and knives which were taken 'downtown'for destruction.
Don't have the insides
Q MAG Pearl Harbour Tour: The Clash's First Amercian Tour
Link or Text version
2 pages.
A selection of quotes from the band members and others from the tour.
US Articles
When the Clash Finally Played Their First U.S. Show
Bryan Wawzenek
Published: February 7, 2019
Ultimate classic Rock
Read the full article
or archived PDF
The Clash were about two and a half years into their career before they played a gig on U.S. soil. The band's first American show wasn't at a grimy punk club: They were already too popular in the States. Besides, Give 'Em Enough Rope had already shown the Clash was moving beyond the rudimentary constraints of punk.
They played their first U.S. gig on Feb. 7, 1979 at the Berkeley Community Theatre in Berkeley, Calif. The 3,500-capacity venue on the campus of Berkeley High School had a rock pedigree, with past gigs by Bob Dylan, the Who and Jimi Hendrix. ...
Village Voice: The Clash See America Second Most Intense Rock Band Ever
R Christagau / Photo image only / Read the full version here
Edmonton Journal: Rock Talk: Lisa Robinson
LA Weekly: The Clash In L.A.: Just the Best
The Clash - punk band and proud of it
Green Bay Press Gazette
Sun Mar 4 1979
'Clash' - Rock's new revolutionaries
North East Bay Independent and Gazette / Fri Feb 16 1979
Includes review of Give 'em Enough Rope
The Baltimore Sun Punk band touring here, has limited expectations
'Secret' history of The Clash
Read the full article or PDF archive
Penned by Oberlin College assistant dean
Updated Jan 12, 2019; Posted Feb 04, 2015
Doane also is the author of "Stealing All Transmissions: A Secret History of the Clash." The English punk band -- the classic lineup includes Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Nicky "Topper" Headon -- became widely known as "The Only Band That Matters" in the 1980s, influenced a generation of musicians who followed and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. Doane recently gave a talk on his book at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Archive. Doane spoke with Plain Dealer reporter Michael Heaton. ... Read the full article
Clash Crests on New Wave Punk Wave
Los Angeles Times 1/20/79 / Read the full article
Even with Elvis Costello's five previously announced concerts, February promised to be an exciting period for rock in Southern California. But now we can look forward to a bonus: The Clash has just been signed for a Feb. 9 appearance at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
Tickets for the Clash concert - part of the English band's first U.S. tour - will go on sale Monday. Tickets also go on sale that day for two of Costello's shows: Feb. 14 at the Long Beach Arena and Feb 18 at San Diego's Fox Theater.
Clash City Talkers: New York Meets Jones And Co.
Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1979 / Read the full article
There's nothing quite as frustrating to watch as the hypocrisy of press, radio, and record companies rushing to get behind some new band that has successfully survived their initial indifference and become some sort of hot property.
The Clash, who couldn't get a record released in America until nearly two years after their first LP was unanimously acclaimed by the English press, suddenly became the darlings of the season when they toured here in February.
Clash: New Import for Rockers
Fri Feb 2 / The Los Angeles Times / 2 pages
Active or passive: two rock voices
The Los Angeles Times
2 pages
Experimental Rock. Vigorous in Britain
By John Rockwell
The New York Times
January 14, 1979,
Section D, Page 35
Rock is an indisputably American creation. But the British caught on quickly, and from the time of the Beatles onwards, British acts have defined the form in disproportionate strength to the relative populations of the two countries. A re- cent sampling of British "new wave" disks indicates that there is still a lot of life left in that country's experimental rock camp.
British Groups Enliven Rock Music Tradition
Rutland Daily Herald
Sun Jan 14 1979
Wider article on British rock music in Amercia in 1979
International Articles
Best Magazine 130
Mai 79 Topper Headon or text version
6 pages / On the road across Amercia with the Clash
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Les InRocks99
2 pages, 3 photos
Passes, tickets
Photo, pass
Snippets
Dolly Parton Impersonators
Tour photos
Archive PDF here. More Tour photos here
Memorabilia
Audio and Video
Interview - Radio Vancouver
Vancouver Interview with Topper and Paul as the band as they embark on their first tour. - Time 15mins
15mins - clearer version
Fuller recording 26mins with songs
Older copy, Part 1 - (5mins)
Older copy, Part 2 - (5mins)
Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley talks about his experiences opening for the Clash on their 1979 US Tour. This interview took place in November 2002 at the Rock Nightclub in Maplewood, Minnesota.
Bo Diddley opening for the Clash
Bo Diddley opening for the Clash At Ontario Theatre, Washington DC
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
MOJO What are we going to do now?
From Xmas 1979 onwards including the bands demise
October 2004 / 7 pages
April 7th A special benefit, Clash plan a gig for arrested for gig-goers page 66
Oct 6 Ready for Screening Rude Boy the Movie page 125
December 29th With their backs to the wall, The Clash The band enjoy the triumph of London Calling...,"Desperation- I recommend it" 3 pages, page 140
Letter Jam v Clash/Pistols page 145
Clash Map of London
MOJO / Punk: the whole story
Online viewer (very good)
Feature Magazines - all
Below are retropective articles in magazines. For all a full comprehensive list of magazines, for example articles on a tour, or an album or specific feature go here.
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