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.
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Record Mirror letters, I CRINGED when I saw
Record Mirror Making up is hard
11 April 1981 / reunited Bernie
Record Mirror: Mike Nicholls in Spain with the Clash
9 May 1981
Mike Nicholls in Spain with the Clash
NME Mass rally for Jobs Concert at Brockwell Park?
NME News: Clash Tour off for now
Record Mirror News
Clash Tour for Britain, in the process of lining up a major tour, Topper appears with the Symphony Orchestra
Record Mirror CLASH CONFUSION
Postpone UK Tour due to management problems, "totally lacking in organisation"
Record Mirror. Boffin says English accents hlding back English bands in the US
Record Mirror (sarcasm):
Mick Jones of The Clash recording in New York
21 March 1981 / refence Ellen Foley
Album.. Various Life In The European Theater
"Nuclear Power: No single civil industry threatens our lives, and the lives of future generations, with such brutal finality as Nuclear Power.
It will have a deep and damaging effect on all of us. An enourmous, appalling expensive risk. Despite the soothing words of the nuclear industry, accidents will happen.
Everyday, the radioactive rubbish dump of lethal nuclear waste grows bigger - in spite of the fact that no one yet knows how to dispose of it with safety and certainty.
It is a deadly inheritance to leave our children and their children. Of course, everyone needs energy - now, and in the future. But heat from atom spliting will fail to provide the kind of secure source of energy and we all need because it is complex, over-centralised, and unreliable, and also creates the materials for any country to assemble an atomic bomb.
Meanwhile, it is diverting vast sums of money and scientific resources away from the only true long-term solutions to our energy needs; an energy conservation programme, coupled with the harnessing of the only abundant source of energy the world will always have - the sun.
Will it dawn on us?"
-Roger Deakin, Friends of the Earth.
Half of the recording artists royalties from this album go into a fund for projects opposing nuclear arms and power, allocated by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Anti Nuclear Campaign, Friends of the Earth and the European Nuclear Disarmament who are working with contributing artists. The other half of the recording artists royalties go direct to these four campaigns.
A Surviving Records Production put together by Chas Mervyn & John Mostyn.
Bernie back - Smash Hits (UK)
Village voice poll - January 1981
May 81 joe interview Nick Kent
The Clash Sandinista! From Clash City Rockers to New York City Rebels
VIVE LE ROCK / #76 / 2020 / 16 pages /
1. Sandinista, Bonds, Kris Needs
2. Ross Sinclair (Soup Dragons) Busking Tour Glasgow photos
Record Mirror May 9 1981 - PDF 14mb
Covers the Madris and spanish dates
The Sun 20 May 1981
Musician N33 June 1981
Int w Joe & Mick - great interview - PDF 57mb
RUDE BOYS
An Interview with Joe Strummer and Robert Fripp
by Vic Garbarini
Musician Magazine, June 1981
The basic idea was fairly simple: you get the two foremost proponents of the idea of music as a force for personal and social change, sit 'em down together for a few beers, and see what happens. Now let's look at the potential problems: on the surface, polite, articulate Robert Fripp and acerbic, street-wise Joe Strummer don't appear to be the most compatible duo in rock history. I mean, you wouldn't expect them to bunk together at summer camp, would you? As musicians they seem to follow widely divergent paths, with the classically trained Fripp exploring the oceanic textures and laser-like solos of Frippertronics, or the fractured, geometric etudes of -The league of Gentlemen-, while Strummer the street poet and musical innocent bashes out three chord symphonies, or heads further up the river into the dark, sensual heartland of reggae and dub. more
Summer French Mag unknown -
PDF 20mb
(ref 12,00 at Lisbon + Spanish gigs)
Damaged Goods Fanzine
Quarter Notes Magazine
1981 12 00
The Clash Making militant rock'n'roll for the urban dweller
London Trax Salewicj Joe Interv Sandinista
2 pages
1981 D.O.A. Cinema Review
1981 The Clash - Where are they now
here
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 ....