Out of Control Tour - UK & Europe Tour

updated 2 Sept 2016 with better audio information
updated july 2021 - added Sold Out advert





Audio 1

Good - Sound 3 - 1hr 22mins - master - 24 tracks
Very, very top end and distant. Needs a lot of bass EQ but ok.

Ammunition





BBC Radio Bristol

Sound quality - good
Radio interview with Nick Sheppard at the venue an hour before gig

0:00 Intro BBC Bristol
0:11 Adrian Jay interviews at Colston Hall, coming back to Bristol
1:23 touring with The Clash, humping gear
3:18 Cortines and 'Fascist Dictator'
3:50 full 'Fascist Dictator'
6:35 'The Spics', Nicks wife Heidi's in the The Spics; "She couldn't sing"
7:40 The Spics "You and Me"
10:40 Clash guitarist recruitment
12:25 ... and the The Clash tonight?
12:40 Bankrobber (studio version)

Fascist Dictator (Cortinas)





Sources

Link to Satch's

Not a bad sound again on this, and similar to many of the 84 shows, but not quite as good. The clarity is goodish without being excellent, as is the width of the sound. There is some echo from the taper being a little back, but not a lot. Its also has some slight over amplification as the sound rises. Police & Thieves cuts at 4.02, though a lesser source (that came in orange sleeve below) has a full Police & Thieves. As the song closes out Joe mutters 'Blitzkreig Bop'. Perhaps he thinks its 1978?

Through all this Joes vocals, particularly between tracks comes over loud and very clear. the drums bash away clearish, as does the leadguitars. The bass is there loud if a little blurred.

This gig at Bristol is intense as are all the UK shows from the spring. Are You Ready for War stands out here as a great track.

Several tapes exist. All much the same. The fullest is slightly the inferior. An edited one is a marginal upgrade, though not worth missing the extra tracks.





Record Mirror: Bristol new date

7 January 1984





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UK dates early February 'Sold Out', 3x dates at Brixton Academy





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Vince White

Vince White describes this gig extensively in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 78





Billy Bragg

Back stage with Bill Bragg.
For an embassrassingread of Braggs antics do read buy





We Are The Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That Mattered

By Mark Andersen, Ralph Heibutzki








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Setlist

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2
3
4
5
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7
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9
10
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12
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24

London Calling
Safe European Home
Radio Clash
The Dictator
Clampdown
Are Your Ready for War
Guns of Brixton
Rock the Casbah
Sex Mad War
Bankrobber
Brand New Cadilac
This is England
Im so Bored with the USA
White Man in Ham Palais
Police and thieves edit
Three Card Trick
Gragaeland
I Fought the Law
Ammunition
Tommy Gun
Know your rights
English Civil War
Armagideon Time
White Riot



There are several sights that provide setlists but most mirror www.blackmarketclash.co.uk. They are worth checking.

from Setlist FM (cannot be relied on)

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& from the newer Concert Database and also Concert Archives

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Articles, check 'Rocks Back Pages'



Out of Control Tour
UK & Europe
February, March 1984


ARTICLES, POSTERS, CLIPPINGS ...


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Any articles, interviews, reviews, posters, tour dates from The Out of Control '84 tour around the UK and Europe can be found here






VIDEO AND AUDIO

Video and audio footage from the tour including radio interviews.




BOOKS


The Last Days of the Clash

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





We Are The Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That Mattered


By Mark Andersen, Ralph Heibutzki
reference Stockton, Long Beach and San Diego




Return of the Last Gang in Town,
Marcus Gray

Click to read






Passion is a Fashion,
Pat Gilbert

Click to read








Redemption Song,
Chris Salewicz

Click to read








Joe Strummer and the legend of The Clash
Kris Needs

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The Clash (official)
by The Clash (Author), Mal Peachey

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