Out of Control Tour The Clash Europe 1984

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.

Books, social media – Articles – International – Passes – Snippets – Tour Dates – Memorabilia - Official Press Releases – Mick sacked

Tour dates - adverts

Clash extra - Clash add 5 more dates to UK Tour

84 02 18 Record Mirror

Stop Press - Clash Tour Off for Now

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The Clash Tour announced two weeks ago is off - for the moment at least. A complete date sheet was due to confirmed this week, minus a London Gig which still had to be confirmed

Clash give London a miss

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Still Clashing after all these years

8 March 1984

Snippets

Mick jamming with the Beat

84 02 25 Record Mirror

[Extract] General Public were born, and to help them in their infancy, ex-Clasher Mick Jones came along and guested on guitar.

How did the link up with Jones come about?

"The Beat used to support the Clash a lot in the USA." says Mr Wakeling. "We got to know him quite well. and it turned out that Mick and Roger were both
carrying similar compilation tapes around wont them - a mixture of reggae
and New York funk.”

Fair enough, but what's his role in the band?

He's going to play on all the records, but he wants to form his own group. If everything comes up heads we'll try and tour with his group and alternate the headline. Me and Roger could sing for him and he could play guitar for us - he's got some fantastic songs - brilliant.

HApart from the excitement and honour of having him play on General Public the most exciting thing for me is hearing what his songs are like and relating them to what I used to like in various Clash LPs."

And so with the assistance of M Jones, Genarl Public went into London's Air Studios to record with Colin Fairley. The first product of that collaboration – 'General Public' - is a dense resonant.affair, neatly sliced up by Jones' soaring one note guitar parts, pushed a long by Mr- Billingham's busy keyboards and held screw tight by the Stoker - Panther rhythm grip. It is not the Beat Mk 2, but then, General Public's stylised image - jump suits and 1960's visions of Big Brother - is in a different world to the slap happy Go Feet dance collective.

Captain Sensible on The Clash

Record Mirror , 14 April 1984

MIck doing drama

84 02 18 Record Mirror

Clash got a Mikey on their back

Book launch, Nottingham Evening Post

Friday 29 June 1984

Official Press releases

Press release: New tracks the band are playing at forthcoming dates

Clash communique with new tracks - Clash Communique

The crazy European Kasbah-Klub with Complete Control. A press release listing all the new tracks the band are playing ahead of their forthcoming European and UK dates.

February Press Release

RETURN OF THE MAGNIFICENT CLASH
Watch out, America, and all ships at sea. THE CLASH are back!

Lineup Makes Live Debut On West Coast
Additional U.S. Concerts Planned For Spring

Following a turbulent year characterised by internal upheaval and external silence, the Epic band that rocked the world with albums like Sandinista! and Combat Rock has returned to the front lines -- with new personnel, new material, and new power. Joining CLASH stalwarts Joe Strummer (guitar, vocals) and Paul Simonon (bass) are Nick Sheppard (guitar), Vince White (guitar) and Pete Howard (drums), all 23 years old.

The new CLASH made their American performing debut in January with, a nine-date California tour, playing venues including the Long Beach Arena, the San Francisco Civic Auditorium, and the Fox Theater in San Diego (where all seats sold out In box-office-record time). "Joe Strummer went overboard to entertain," wrote Larry Kelp In the Oakland Tribune. "He played guitar, shouted, preached, ran around the stage, encouraged the crowd, smashed against the stagefront barricades, leaped off the drum riser and sang while rolling around the floor!" Other critics Joined in with.praise for the several as-yet-unrecorded songs and the vigorous performances of the new CLASH recruits. Los AngeL Times critic Robert Hilburn flew to London for an advance interview
his Times Calender piece.

THE CLASH ARE BACK, WITH THE ROCK THAT JUST WON'T STOP.

April Press Release

Spring Tour Takes U.S By Storm - New Songs Previewed, Ready For Summer Recording

THE CLASH are alive and well -- and blazing a trail of incandescent live performances across North America.

The internationally renowned English rock band is presently on an extensive trans-continental tour, bringing their legend to life with an energy, excitement, and daring far beyond the boundaries of rock and roll convention.

The new CLASH lineup has undergone its trial by fire -- five, six, seven nights per week -- and come through with flying colors! Singer Joe Strummer, bassist Paul Simonon, and new members Nick Sheppard, Vince White (guitars) and Pete Howard (drums) have been warmly welcomed by CLASH converts everywhere.

A typical night's set includes such CLASH classics as "Rock The Casbah," "London Calling," "Safe European Home," and "Spanish Bombs". There are also a half-dozen new songs like "Sex Mad War," "This Is England," and "We Are The Clash".

"(Strummer's) new songs are among his most stirring anthems," wrote one reviewer, "and if the band keeps up this pace, its next album could be among its best'" Time will tell: This summer, THE CLASH will travel to Paris to beoln recording their first new album since 1982's million-selling Combat Rock.

Morale within the band's ranks is running at an all-time high. "The main reaction I've had is that it's much better this time 'round," Joe Strummier told one reporter. "We're all saying it's more exciting, It's more lively, it's more -all the things I like most about music!"

Mick Jones sacked

NME Mick gets the Boot

NME 10 Sept 83 –
Mick Jones sacked from Clash

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Oct 1983?

Clash, crash

Link

Clash sack Mick Jones

Clash Trouble, Mick teams up with Topper

The Courier News
Sat May 5 1984

Ex-Clash members may form new group TRAC

The Salina Journal,
Sun May 27 1984

Clash of interests

The Standard – Tue Feb 21 1984

Regrets over Clash

Articles

NME The Clash Pop Will Die

25 February 1984

The Clash in the Combat Zone

Link

"God, is it trendy or what?"
A wave of disgust crosses Joe Strummers face when he talks about the current British music scene...

NME Arm to Arm Combat, Can The Clash fight back? interview

25 February 1984

Exclusive interview by Richard Cook – 6 pages

Heroes for Hire The Clash

ZigzZag Magazine
April 1984

6 pages

The Clash - Record Collector?

4 page article

International articles

Interview, Spex Magazine

Wanted. Higher resolution copies of Spex Magazine, March 1984

Best Magazine #188

French
March 1984

Joe Strummer interview

Clash. La Peche - Interview

1984 French Magazine

10 pages

Plus Punk Moins Rock interview

January 1984
French Magazine

6 pages

Books, articles, social media

Mohawk Revenge: The Clash 1983-1985

Mohawk Revenge | Facebook

Documenting and discussing the ill-fated but endlessly fascinating second major lineup of The Clash, 1983-1985.

2005 interview with the great Nick Sheppard

Mohawk Revenge:
The Clash 1983-1985
Chris Knowles

Text version

Nick Sheppard Instagram posts - Gramtower

https://www.gramtower.com/hashtag/NickSheppard

We Are The Clash: The Last Stand of a Band That Mattered

(book) Link and Link

The Clash's bold, tragic last stand, rescued from history's dustbin: at war with Thatcher, Reagan, the Top Ten, & (sometimes) itself...

Mark Andersen & Ralph Heibutzki

The Last Days of the Clash

(book) Vince White describes this gig extensively in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash.

Vince Whites view: additional internet comments from Vince to add to his book

On the Clash late 1984...

"By that point all the good melancholic songs had disappeared and this kind of 'positive thinking' music had appeared which was stuggling against the tide. I dunno though, some of those songs like 'Cool Under Heat','movers and shakers' felt good to play on the busking tour where they seemed to take on a life of their own out on the streets and 'North and South' too. I have mixed feelings because it's hard for me to separate that from what they eventually became in the studio.

But the busking tour had a really good effect on the band and looking at the Roskilde show I can see a kind of camaraderie had begun to develop between us from that."

Most exciting gig

Vince White (on Clash City) said that "Glasgow Barrowlands was the most exciting show I played and Athens ( the last) was the best show I played."

"I vividly remember the Athens show 'cause I walked out on my own and started it with the 'Complete Control' riff in the dark with all the lighted matches. It was an awesome moment I'll never forget. It built slowly from that and was a cool start from the usual 'London Calling' explosion. And a far cry from the mess of my first Clash gig in Santa Barbara. So if it turns up that would be the indicator of an original recording. Also it was the only show I played completely sober!!! I'd love to hear it. I really had my shit together on that one."

Straight To Hell - The Final Days Of The Clash

By Chris Knowles (Classic Rock) April 18, 2005

In 1983, The Clash sacked Mick Jones, hired three new members and tried to return to their punk rock roots. Cue two years of back-stabbing, bullying, busking and blistering rock n roll... PDF

THE CLASH'S FORGOTTEN YEARS, 1984-1986

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In its official version, the story of The Clash ends with the firing of lead guitarist Mick Jones in 1983.

Though founding members Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon subsequently led a five-piece version of the group until the first months of 1986, it is not a polite thing to mention at parties. The 384-page coffee-table book The Clash devotes less than a single page to the final two and a half years of the bandís career, and the 1985 album Cut The Crap has been left out of every Clash box set to date.

In the words of Rolling Stone, ìIt doesnít count, and the whole thing has basically been erased from history. The Clash as we know them ended at the 1983 US Festival.

The new Clash met the same fate as the new Coke. PDF

Book: The Last Crusade

This article is courtesy [and copyright] of Chris Knowles, Clash fan and author. Chris's Clash book Clash City Showdown is available from all online retailers.

Fanzines: Great Collection

Great collection of scanned fanzines from the 1970s and 1980s

Passes