Artchie and Binkie. "På Dad's Dancehall, Malmö 7/10-77." Noncha Allt! (Swedish fanzine), no. 2, Oct. 1977, pages 5

— A concert review and interview from the Swedish fanzine covering The Clash's performance at Dad's Dancehall in Malmö on 7 October 1977.

— The review details the support acts, local band New Bondage (playing Shocked & Defeated, Got No Job) and Problem, before describing The Clash's set including London's Burning, 1977, Hate & War, Complete Control, Remote Control, Janie Jones, 48 Hours, and encores White Riot and 1977.

— A brief interview with Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon, and Mick Jones touches on their previous gig in Hamburg, the upcoming show in Ronneby, and their opinions on other bands, praising the Ramones and Patti Smith Group while dismissing many English punk bands as "crap".

— The piece also includes a sidebar listing a potential 1977 setlist featuring tracks like Police & Thieves, Clash City Rockers, and Garageland.

Noncha Allt! was a short-lived Swedish punk fanzine from 1977, part of the country’s first wave of DIY punk publications noted for its irreverent and nihilistic tone.

Issue #2 (October 1977) featured a review of The Clash’s concert at Dad’s Dancehall in Malmö on 7 October 1977, alongside pieces on The Stranglers and The Jam.

…Well, here we are again (and issue two). In this issue there’s an interview with The Stranglers and one with The Clash, a review of The Jam + a bunch of other stuff. Really, you ought to buy at least ten copies, it’s worth it. Why not? Send the money to us, you know the address already? Then regarding the subscription, send us a twenty via the post and you’ll, in any case, get four issues. Note: we might quit after you’ve got two issues, but that’s the risk you take. Maybe (though very unlikely) we’ll also raise the price of the magazine in the middle of your subscription, but we’ll send a note about it so you can send us more money. You can also send us more than a twenty in the post so you can be sure to get the magazine in your letterbox when it’s time.

Our address is as usual: “Noncha Allt!” c/o Artchie Fioretos, Nicoloviusväg 11, 223 65 Lund or Binkie Liljegren, Elias Fries Park 10, 223 00 Lund.

P.S. 2: As you may have noticed, those of you who read the magazine backwards, we have a new name this time. It’s David Stereo and he’ll probably turn up more times.

P.S. 3: We thank David for publicity on the radio on 28/9-77 in the programme from Malmö’s youth radio, Linje L9. You heard it, right? They played, unexpectedly, a song by and with New Bondage that was called “Shockod H Defeated” – absolutely brilliant! N.B. was support act to The Clash at Dad’s.

P.S. 4: We also thank Space Records in Malmö, Musikboden and Gleerups in Lund for keeping their customers informed about the latest on the music front, i.e., for selling the magazine.

P.S. 5: Number 3 will come sometime at the end of November or the beginning of December.

…Swedish punk fanzines, i.e., good or bad complements to “Noncha Allt!”

Go Punk: The most well-known fanzine (after Noncha Allt). Issue 3 has good pictures and decent reviews. Good that they take up slightly more unknown bands. It costs 5 kr. Available from: Go Funk/Eklund, St. Johannesgatan 20, 752 35 Uppsala. They will apparently change their name to “Scratch!”

Glum Glov: Two girls make it. That says it all. Well, it’s actually quite good, just a bit “so-so”. It costs 5 kr. and is available from: MC Linöqust, Hibblovägen 27, 175 30 Järfälla.

Inferno: Not a punk fanzine. They write about everything, from Genesis and Tangerine Dream to Björk (OCR error corrected if intended) and they write positively about everything. Sad. Pay 4 kr. to 93 04 89-0 and you’ll get it. It costs 12 kr. for four issues via postgiro. There’s too much clutter in it – improve!

Who’s a Punk: Yes, very good. Imagine they can write that in Norrland. Costs 5 kr. and can be sent from: Björnehult, Floragatan 44, 941 00 Piteå. Issues 3 and 4 that we’ve flipped through have a few poor pictures, but it’s recommended!

Noncha Allt!: The magazine with punch. What? Yes, that’s us. Oh, okay. But it’s clearly the best. Read!

We haven’t managed to find more punk fanzines, but there is said to be one called Schiz-phenie (handwritten) and one called Atraop (published in Malmö and supposed to have just one page). We haven’t got hold of either of them.

So, we were finally in the car on the way to Klippan. After an hour’s drive we arrived. But what the hell? The place was teeming with rockers and bikers, at least 300 of them. “Imagine that The Stranglers are going to play here,” said Binkie to me as we were going in through the gate and 20 kronor poorer.

We had barely got inside before the rockers started picking fights. Fun! Inside they were blasting Jailhouse Rock at full volume and the bikers were bouncing back and forth.

We thought, “We can’t be here,” and went out — it was only half past nine. We took a walk around the place, which was a large manor house.

And then suddenly we saw Jet Black, the drummer, in a window. “We’re going in there,” I said, so we knocked on a door next to the window. After a few minutes of knocking, an older woman came and said we couldn’t come in.

“Yes, but we’re from Noncha Allt,” I blurted out. “No way,” she said and slammed the door. “Well,” we thought, and went up to the bar to get a beer.

Up in the bar we met the others we had travelled with. We started talking and after a while I went to get a beer. At the same time, I said that I was from a magazine in Lund and would like to talk to the guys.

“Wait,” said the woman and went down a flight of stairs. After a while she came back and said: “Okay, come with me.” “What the hell!” I thought, but obedient as I am, I followed her and came into The Stranglers’ room while they were drinking tea and eating sandwiches.

“Hello, I’m from a Swedish punk fanzine and I would like to interview you,” I said in my best school English. “That’s okay,” said Hugh Cornwell — the guitarist, if you didn’t know. So we started talking.

Suddenly a roadie rushed in and said the rockers had started smashing the equipment and that there wasn’t going to be a concert. Jean-Jacques started getting angry and ran around kicking a paper ball (what the hell is that? — ed.). I kept asking questions. “When will your next album be out?” (it’s already out! — ed.)

“Sometime in the middle of September,” said Hugh. “Will ‘Something…’ be on it?” “Yes, but not ‘Straighten…’” “But you already know all that. Do you consider yourselves punks?”

“No, not really,” said Jean-Jacques. “We’re a bit too old in the game. We’ve been playing quite a while. Hugh had a band down in Lund. I know — Johnny Sox. You had a guitarist named Janne Knuda.”

“That’s right,” said Hugh. “He’s playing with Kalle P. Dal these days. Kalle was up at the hotel yesterday. He left his new LP, but I haven’t had time to listen to it. It’s supposed to be quite rocky.”

“Well, I don’t know,” I said. “I haven’t heard it. He’s every rocker’s favourite.” “Oh, that explains everything,” said Hugh. “I asked him if he wanted to play as the support act but he said they didn’t have time. But he probably knew the rockers were coming here to cause trouble. Strange — it probably would have been enough if he’d come here and calmed those rockers down. A damn shame, right?”

We kept talking and I pulled out some copies of the first issue. Hugh, who knew a bit of Swedish, began translating for the others. When he got to the single reviews and to the lines: “He (J.J.) would probably play the shirt off both Jack Bruce and Paul McCartney.”

Just to have a whole LP with the Pistols — wonderful. The sleeve is just as it should be, held together with a safety pin. Hinkjö and I have got hold of over ten copies of that half LP, so you can buy it from us for 40 kronor + postage. But this only applies to those who subscribe — in other words, become a subscriber to the magazine. You know the addresses.

The “famous” Lund group New Bondage were the first support… and they really fired up the audience, much thanks to singer and guitarist Henrik Hvarsgård coming on stage with nothing on his upper body and wearing black Lou Reed sunglasses — an enormous contrast. They powered through their songs with wonderful energy and feeling. They played, among others, their upcoming single Shocked & Defeated, their own Got No Job and Wayne County’s Cream in My Jeans. This was probably the breakthrough for New Bondage. Now they can count themselves as one of the best punk groups in Skåne, if not the very best. Malmö group Problem were the next band. They didn’t have a particularly successful night, even though they borrowed the Englishmen’s equipment. The only song that went down well was Jag vill inte ha.

After half an hour’s wait, Strummer & Co. came on stage and went straight into London’s Burning. It’s an incredible feeling to see and hear Strummer shout: “London’s burning with boredom now / London’s burning dial 999.” After this song, little Johnny Rotten copy Nicky Headon banged into 1977. Paul Simonon rumbled away on his bass and Mick Jones is a damn good guitarist, but he can hardly show it at concerts — though he did during soundcheck, when he played some wonderfully smooth solos and got lovely tones from his guitar. After 1977 came a string of songs in quick succession — among them the rebellious Hate & War and the new single Complete Control, which is a great mix of punk and reggae. This is a direction that The Clash will probably show on their next LP, due sometime early next year. They also played Remote Control, Janie Jones, 48 Hours and a bunch of other tracks from the LP.

After 50 minutes of wonderfully good music, the concert was over — but they had still managed the encores White Riot and 1977 (once again). The Clash are without doubt the main pillars of punk along with the Sex Pistols and maybe one or two other groups — something they proved this night.

Noncha Allt: That was where they threw stuff at The Jam some time ago. By the way, where did you play yesterday?

Mick Jones: Yeah, it was in Hamburg. There were about 1,000 people who saw us.

Mick Jones: Yeah, there were some, but the main thing isn’t that you’re a punk, but that you like the music.

Noncha Allt: Yeah, but in Germany they mostly listen to electronic music, like Kraftwerk.

Paul Simonon: Half of them are just crap, but there are some good groups, like Glen Matlock’s Rich Kids.

Noncha Allt: Do you believe this talk that Glen Matlock wrote the Sex Pistols’ songs and that without him they’re nothing?

Paul Simonon: No, we — or rather, I — don’t go out much in London.

Mick Jones: If there are people who like these bands, let them — as long as they have fun.

Noncha Allt: What do you think of the American bands, for example, Heartbreakers and Wayne County?

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1977
London’s Burning
Capital Radio
Bored with U.S.A.
The Prisoner
Police & Thieves
Remote Control
Hate & War
Complete Control
White Man in Hammersmith
Clash City Rockers
Career Opportunities
Janie Jones
White Riot
Garageland
Jail Guitar Doors

City of the Dead
Pressure Drop
Cheat
What’s My Name
Deny
Protex Blue
48 Hours
Time is Tight