Paris Residency, Vienna dates.

last updated 4 Nov 2005
updated 22 January 2022 added poster

Audio from Video

Edited - tracks 4 - sound quality 4 - best found on Clash on TV DVDr.

The best copy can be found on Clash on TV DVDr, commercially pressed as TV Calling 77-83. It has been copied a few times and there is some noise/hiss on the sound slightly but its quite clear and very watchable.

Audio: 4 tracks and interview

Clash TV Special from Ohne Maulkorb

Youtube video links

The broadcast includes 4 edited tracks of decent quality.

The Clash TV Special from Ohne Maulkorb was filmed at the Clash gig in Vienna on October 3rd 1981 (BMC thinks Oct 2) and not in may. It was broadcasted on the 10th of october on Austrian Television. I was at this gig and it was great! Erhard

I saw them 24 years ago (around) october 1981 in Vienna - was looking forward to this gig for months! it must have been one of their worst gigs ever. very disappointing. main reason was the bad pa (their own got stuck at customs), the one they used was absolutely powerless and that in a hall packed with 10 000! bad vibes in the audience. my then girlfriend collapsed due to the shoving and bad air, so during "safe european home" i had to sit on the floor beside her and care for her...still that wasn't able to diminish my enthusiasm for them a bit. but of course it is a little bitter having seen your heroes at a low point. Thanks, Tele

Broadcast on the 10th of October, the second night cancalled

(Vienna State Hall) in Austria. “There was a Clash TV special from Ohne Maulkorb it was filmed at the Clash gig in Vienna on October 2nd 1981. It was broadcast on the 10th of October on Austrian television. I was at this gig and it was great!” The Vienna State Hall gig for the 3rd of October was CANCELLED Thanks for the information Russell Cronin Link

Different broadcasts? 2 x videos

Video 1

Lesser audio / lesser video / 16:55mins / 480p / Link

Includes London Calling and the Austrian Commentator speaking, Safe European Home is full playing out as the credits roll.

0:00 Clash City Rockers edit
1:11 Plane lands (Pata, Pata)
2:31 Press conference (Pata, Pata)
3:00 Strummer/Headon row
3:55 Clash on bus (Pata, Pata)
4:43 Somebody Got Murdered - edited
7:01 Backstage - Clash speak, Bernie asleep
7:23 Somebody Got Murdered - continues
8:55 Backstage - Just Austrian commentator, no clash
9:43 London Calling
12:57 Safe European Home
16:26 Credits role as SEH plays out

Video 2

Better audio / better video / different broadcast / 12:22mins / *720p
Link to 12:22 version / Link to London Calling

This has ben upscaled form 480p to 720p. London Calling (3:14mins) is additional video/track of the same quality.

0:09 Clash City Rockers edit
1:05 Plane lands (Pata, Pata)
2:57 Press conference (Pata, Pata)
2:56 Strummer/Headon row
3:47 Clash on bus (Pata, Pata)
4:40 Somebody Got Murdered - edited
7:01 Backstage - Clash speak, Bernie asleep
7:19 Somebody Got Murdered - continues
8:55 Safe European Home edited

Additional video track, London Calling / 3:14

Better, shorter version 12:22

Better audio / better video / different broadcast / 12:22mins / *720p

Better, shorter version London Calling

Better audio / better video/ Lond Call / different broadcast / 3:14 / *720p

Lesser fuller version 16:55

Lesser audio / lesser video / 16:55mins / 480p / Link

"do you're talking to the Sex Pistols?"

The group is filmed coming off their plane and going straight into a press conference, Beatles style, and Topper apparently publicly puked his guts out on the airport interior after what appears to be a rather shaky plane ride (they all look like zombies).

Some journalist then made a snide remark off screen, which quite obviously hit at something painful in the group. Joe's immediate reply in defense of a green skinned Topper is a magnificent moment of pure expletive-ridden Strummer Rage, all captured by the camera while Simonon takes a real threatening pose. Some of the best bits go like this :

"do you think this is 1976 and you're talking to the Sex Pistols ?"
"Piss off or I'll fucking piss all over you"
"If he feels like throwing up it's because his stomach hurts, I don't need your jokes to fucking contend with"

"If you want to read about puking read your teeny bop magazines. We are not a teeny bop puking group"

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Vienna 81 video

Setlist

1 2 3 4	Clash City Rockers edited Somebody Got Murdered London Calling Safe Europen Home + Interview