Out of Control Tour 84
Joe Strummer lost his father two days after the second Milan date (28th).
updated june 2021 added passes and tickets
Audio 1 - Boot cassette,
major upgrade - Sound 3 - 1hr 23mins - 27 tracks
Are You Ready For War?
Another nice and a much improved upgrade. A probable low/first generation accompanied with bootleggers photocopied artwork it has a reasonably good sound. (Back Stage passes can also be found on the reverse of the FHTE cover.)
The tape has some minor problems and is a touch thin for the first few songs. These differences were far more pronounced on the actual boot tape.
Overall the vocals, lead guitar,drums are clear but bass is thin and generally the range is thin, but still an enjoyable listen with a pretty nice width of sound with reasonably good clarity, only the high decibels produce some slight over amplification.
The sound is up front and near with not too much echo. The different drums can just be made out, the vocals come across really strong as does the guitars. Even the bass is clear further in, particularly when the decibels are low. Link to If Music Could Talk
TV Interviews
The Clash - Italy 1984 interview
Mister Fantasy - Italian TV - RaiUno - Broadcast 23 March
Joe Strummer of The Clash interviewed backstage pre show Milan Italy 1984. Taken from "Mister Fantasy and below being interviewed pre show Milan Italy February 1984. This is a very rare item. I had previously uploaded this a few years ago, but there was an audio fault and it always annoyed me, so I deleted the older version and uploaded this new one with the audio sorted. Taken from BASF L-750 Betamax tape archive number #080 digital archive #4018
The Clash - Italy 1984 interview - Mister Fantasy
Clash - 1984 Milan Italy News Show interview
Rebel rock in Milan with the Clash
La Stampa -
26 Febbraio 1984
Translation
Tomorrow and Tuesday
MILAN - Tomorrow and the day after the flash group will exhibit in Milan, one of the few left in the world to combine rock and rebellion.
Their production combines a very Anglo-Saxon protest (politics with a lowercase "p", as bassist Slmonon explained: common streams, everyone's life, personal things.) With the themes of international politics. music is vital.
Wozniak said last year's Californian concert organiser: If they hired me as their spokesperson, I might be able to express the flash message in a more positive way: in life you have to have the courage to know how to pass from naive.
Il grouppo inglese a Milana davanti a un pubblico giunto da mezza Italia
Ill rock dei Clash e una guerra
La Stampa
Mercoledì 29 Febbraio 1984
Text [English]
English translation go to La Stampa archives
I personaggi, le classich, le fantasie di Mr Fantasy
Arrivano i Clash, ribelli senza tempo
Europa - Lunedì 5 Marzo 1984
Text [English]
Tickets, passes
Pete Howard pass for the 27th and 28th
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Milan Palazzo dello sport
A fired up Clash as Joe attempts a few words of Italian!
Notable for the only post 83/Mick Jimmy Jazz which is by far the most jamming version the Clash played. The band are as usual fired up and Joe attempts a few words of Italian! There are edits on Guns of Brixton, The Dictator (only the last minute survives) and the opening intro on Police and Thieves with a tape turnover. Janie Jones is replayed after an interruption. The set list is largely the norm for this tour and there are excellent versions of Ammunition and Three Card Trick.
London Calling has some flaws for the first few seconds and the first two tracks are the thinnest sounding. By the introductions and Are you Ready for War the sound has improved. Ammunition is preceded by Joes growing concern at the political swings to the extreme 'fascist' right (Thatcher - Reagan) and for young people to use their political votes (for the parties of the left). A theme he would reiterioate throughout this tour.
The band run through a usual set of numbers. Joe steps it up for Im so bored for the USA. A remarkable Jimmy Jazz follows, very jammy, hard and short. The show really comes together musically as the band concentrate on enjoying playing as with most 84 shows. Janie Jones is much speeded up as Joe picks up the pace, but it doesnt quite work out first time and Joe stops it and restarts from the beginning, quickly racing into English Civil War. I Fought the Law ends the set.
Armagideon Time opens up the encores followed by a very energetic, if slightly loud and overamplified Tommy Gun. The atmosphere is really charged as the band launch into Garageland, Joe ad libs some extra angry lyrics towards the end, and carries on into a rousing Brand New cadilac and caree Opportunities combo. The band is urged anto a very tame and quiet Londons Burning.
Nick Sheppard takes lead vocals as per usual on Micks 'Should I Stay or Should I Go" and tries to shout the lyrics in a effort to deliver a fast upbeat aggressive version. the band bows out with a similar asault on White Riot.
Listen to the whole gig
The Clash 1983-1985 | Forty years ago Clash II leveled Milano, Italy over two nights, leaving nothing in their wake but ashes, splinters and shattered marble.
One of the tapes around is mine, recorded with a Sony Walkman
I was there both nights. First one quite awful, the 5 were nervous, the sound system abysmal: subpar performance. One of the tapes around is mine, recorded with a Sony Walkman. Far better the second one, with the great not moving supporting.
THE CLASH Palazzo dello Sport - Milan
Fans acount of the night. Includes lots of comments underneath
[translated]
... as soon as I set foot in the cauldron (I had arrived early enough), the first thing I met was a flying chair which at times took me in full.
By the way, I was with my girlfriend at the time who got scared to death and made me horrible bangs that lasted at least until the end of the concert (and the relationship that ended shortly after). .... in full
Rock rebel in Milan with the Clash
La Stampa
26 February 1984
Issue 48 page 23
Slamo punk, non crediamo ai dogmi
La Stampa
29 February 1984
I milioni di milioni di milioni
La Stampa
15 March 1984
Arrivano i Clash, ribelle senza temo
La Stampa
5th March 1984
La Stampa original articles can be found here
Lengthy fans blog with comments
The support band Not Moving give there taken on supporting The Clash in Milan for two nights
Open for the Clash in Milan: the word from the support Not Moving
On February 28, 1984 (leap year, for the record) Joe Strummer with what remains of the Clash makes a stop in Italy. It is not the first time in our country for the band, which has already held some concerts in 1980 and 1981 for Italian fans.
That Milanese date sees the presence of a guest group to open the evening: Not Moving, an emerging band that had already attracted the attention of many professionals and enthusiasts. Their sound is peculiar, it hangs up to the mood of bands like Cramps and Gun Club, with many references to punk, but also to the sound of Australian rock and to more roots-blues atmospheres. PDF
The Last Days of the Clash
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We Are The Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That Mattered
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