Out of Control Tour '84
updated 2 Sept 2016 with better audio information
updated july 2021 - added Sold Out advert
updated August 2022 added London Standard, Atherstone reviews
updated March 2024, April 2024 added new pass, reviews
Audio 1
Good sound full gig - Sound 3.5* - 85min - low? - 27 tracks
* Best for tracks from I Fought the Law onwards
Are You Ready for War
Audio 2 - Edited boot cassette
Slight upgrade - Sound 4* - 1hr 14min - bc/m - 23 tracks
* Best for tracks upto Janie Jones only. Misses Safe European Home, Police & Thieves, Three Card Trick anbd English Civil War
Are You Ready for War
Sound quality
A very low gen tape with bootleggers artwork and bootleggers edits [73.40]. This is a minor upgrade on the full show which is quite good as well, maybe only a coupe of copies less.
The tracks lost on the better one are Safe European Home, Police and Thieves, Three Card Trick and English Civil War, Janie Jones has an inferior sound also.
A nice sounding show with a lot of similarity to many of the other audience 84 shows. Great sound within the limitations, nice width with pretty good acoustics/clarity. Nice mix, bass, guitars, vocals, and drums. This one is slightly better than most.
Differing bootleg tapes knocking about
Posters
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Stop Press - Clash Tour Off for Now
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
Record Mirror new Brixton dates
4th February 1984
Advert, tickets have sold out
UK dates early February 'Sold Out', 3x dates at Brixton Academy.
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Advert, sold out
Advert, sold out
Clash extra - Clash add 5 more dates to UK Tour
84 02 18 Record Mirror
Tickets still available for the 16th and 17th
Passes, tickets
Brixton Academy, London
Above Brixton Academy: (Kasabian)
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The Clash… and clashes with yardies: the man behind Brixton Academy
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In 1982 Simon Parkes bought a rundown cinema in south London for £1 and for a glorious decade brought music's biggest names to the Brixton Academy. Here he remembers gigs with the Clash, egg and chips with Eric Clapton and hosting the country's first-ever legal raves.
“"The most memorable moment for me was the opening number of the Clash [in March 1984], which was a big breakthrough for the Academy," says Parkes. "They played London Calling, and watching 5,000 people go absolutely mental gave me this feeling in my stomach that was somewhere between the adrenaline of a near car crash and your first kiss from a really hot girl you fancy.”
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 8: Joe Strummer, Nick Sheppard and Paul Simonon of The Clash perform on stage at the Brixton Academy on March 8th, 1984 in London, England. (Photo by Pete Still/Redferns)
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The Clash Brixton Academy
A real Clash of identities
Atherstone Herald
Fri Mar 16 1984
The yobs are back, still angry
The (London Evening) Standard
Fri Mar 91984
The Last Days of the Clash
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sunday Apr 8 1984
The Guardian - UK daily newspaper
BRIXTON ACADEMY - Robin Denselow
SEVEN years on from the punk revolution, is there still a place for the Clash? When I last saw them in the autumn of `72, they were supporting the Who at New York’s vast Shea Stadium two magnificent bands from different generations split by personality conflicts and the loss of their original ideals. Since then, of course, the Who have collapsed and the Clash have split in two, with Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon actually sacking Mick Jones, who was always more of a flash rocker than a punk.
Smash Hits? or Face?
The Academy in London's Brixton is a 30's cinema with an air of shaby elegance. Classical greek statues... after a few numbers (Strummer) "i'm prepared to kill sonmeone..."
We Are The Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That Mattered
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Photos of The Clash in Brixton 8th March 1984
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Photos below: from one of the five nights at Brixton
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Brixton academy 1984. You can see the gob raining in.
Update: didn’t think this post would cause such a debate on the whole gobbing thingThere was definitely gobbing at the Brixton gig and from memory Joe called it out (I’m not going on the witness stand on this though!). This photo was taken on Friday the 6th of December 1984. There’d been a fight behind me and I’d climbed on to the edge of the stage to avoid it. The bouncers tried to kick me off but Paul shooed them away.
They did play Brixton previously that year on the 16th and 17th of March. I also saw them at the Manchester Apollo on the 11th of February 1984.
Sadly I was too young to see the ‘real’ Clash, as I was 9 in 1977 and they never played Manchester in 1982 when I started going to gigs. Instead I saw all the original band members in their subsequent incarnations. Not the same I know I know, but thems the breaks.
I did see Topper Headon play in Manchester in in 1986 I think it was at Umist??, and sadly the gig was poorly attended. My mate and I danced up front the whole time anyway, and afterwards Topper came and thanked us and invited us backstage. He ended up walking me to Piccadilly Station to meet my Dad, who was picking me up.
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