The Clash Live 1986 and onward

This page lists all known Clash related audio and video after the band split. If you have any corrections please email blackmarketclash

1. Archive of known post - Clash articles from 1986 onwards

Generally, Clash break up, snippets, immediate post-Clash projects.

2. Archive of retrospective magazines with feature pieces

NME, UNCUT, MOJO, RECORD COLLECTOR, Q, KERRANG etc..
Some of these are lengthy retropective magazine articles, or whole magazines and many cover the whole period of the Clash.

Magazine features by the year which the content focuses on:
All - 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 1979 - 1980 -- 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 onwards

Video and audio

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Did the other band members get much of a say

Ralph Heibutzki

Thomas James When I started working on this subject, so long ago, I asked all the new guys some variation on that question. The consensus I got back was that "Joe was the one doing the talking, so it seemed perfectly natural," as Nick put it. He didn't recall any major issue or resentment over it.

And, while Joe did the talking, 95 percent of the tine, there are a handful of exceptions to that policy, that I've seen, mainly on the print journalism side. There's the Steve Morse interview, (mainly) conducted before the DC gig, where all five members are quoted, and it gives you some sense, at least, of what they were like collectively. The NY Times interview, which coincided with the UK tour, is another good example, plus quite a few of the busking show clips, where everybody did get a chance to chip in.

There's even a lengthy Paul Simonon interview with the student paper, the State News, advancing the MSU gig that I saw -- those are quite rare, given his pithy, soft-spoken nature. But that clip's one of my favorites, where he seemed to expound quite well, once he got warmed up. He comes across pretty well there.

It's interesting to ponder how that policy might have changed, had Clash MK II found its footing, but I'd also have to say that having a single spokesperson for any band -- or maybe two, if there's a Jagger/Richards, or Tyler/Perry dynamic going on -- isn't a radical idea, by any means. the obvious rationale being, "One message, one messenger."

And I'd reckon Bernard Rhodes, given his, shall we say, helicopter parent management style would have been a more enthusiastic exponent of such a notion than most.

Retrospective Clash, new projects


Jan 86		Video Clash - released
Jul 86		Love Kills (Sid & Nancy) - released
4 Dec 87		Walker - film
1988?		Granada TV & London TV only
		Joe Interviewed on Night Network.Production ID 9L/32116 Programme Title NIGHT NETWORK Production Title NIGHT NETWORK (1988) First TX Date 22/05/1988 Synopsis Text Late night chat. This week's guests include DENNIS MORRIS, JOHN LYDON and JOE STRUMMER.
1988		MTV Story of The Clash Vol.1
		Directed by Don Letts with Chris Salewicz
March 88		I Fought the Law release, re-release
21 Mar 88		The Story of the Clash 2CD release
April 88		London Calling CD reissue release, re-release
6 May 88		'Wired' Channel 4 UKTV
		From MTV's Story of The Clash Vol.1 directed by Don Letts and interview by Salewicz which is apparently also from May 88.
April 89		All Clash LPs released on CD
		RTL 2 Documentary
		No new footage
Feb 1991		Should I Stay / LEVI - release, re-release
Feb 1991		Rock the Casbah 1991 - release, re-release
1991?		MTV Rockumentary
1991		Clash on Broadway boxset released
June 91		London Calling CD reissue release, re-release
Dec 93		Super Black Market Clash release, re-release
1997		Tunnel of Love - film
		( UK 1997) 35mm b/w : 11 min. Director: Robert Milton Wallace , stylish witty short, biker loses his triumph to a girl in a sports car ... Cast: Edward Tudor-Pole ,peeps *** Sales Contact: Portabello Rd films (Steve Doyle) 0207 792 0214. Joe & Pablo Cook wrote the soundtrack - Tunnel of Love Soundtrack It is quite an interesting film. The soundtrack was done by Joe and Pablo Cook in 1997.
22 Dec 02		Obituries, Joe Strummer RIP
1997		Tunnel of Love
Mar 2003		Induction into The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
2003		The Essential Clash released
2006		The Clash - The Singles Boxset released
9 Sept 13		The Clash Hits Back CD released
2013		The Clash Soundsystem
14 Dec 19		The Clash: Westway to the World Q&
		N-4290414 BFI Archive Q&A with members of The Clash and director of the documentary, The Clash: Westway to the World. Filming location: NFT1. BFI programming category: BFI Southbank. Event format(s): Screening Q&A / introduction. (Synopsis)
July 23		Combat Rock / Peoples Hall (2023) - released