1977

This page lists all known Clash gigs from 1977 with info.

Jan 1		Roxy Club, Covent Garden, London
		21:30 with Rob Harper
Jan 1		Roxy Club, Covent Garden, London
		00:30 with Rob Harper, second performance, re: Rob Harper in Last Gang in Town pg 261

Jan		Mickey Foote Demos
Mar 11		Colisseum, Harlesden, London
		The Clash headline a 2 day event. Terry Chimes last gig (for now)
Mar 12		Colisseum, Harlesden, London cancelled
		The Clash to headline a 2nd night, Generation X & The Slits to support.

Apr 10		The Roundhouse, Chalkfarm, London
		Sunday and Monday night gig, supporting John Cale with the Subway Sect.
Apr 11		The Roundhouse, Chalkfarm, London
		Neither The Clash nor The Subway Sect played either of these dates, although posters were printed and displayed advertising them. Both dates featured Generation X instead.
Apr ??		Possible other French dates
Apr 24?		Le Mans - Le Royal Cinema
		This gig definatley took place though the date is a guess. It was filmed by students. A witness commented that "one of my friends (who was a bit drunk) danced strangely between the scene and the front row... The show (or part of it) was filmed since we saw it at a "punk special night" a few months later in the university..." "the movie... "punk special" at the University was also shown 3 or 4 years later as well"
Apr 25?		Le Havre
Apr 26		Le Chartreux Cinema, Rouen
		Dominique Laboubée (Dogs guitarist) "The Clash, I saw the first French Clash concert in Rouen in 1977 and it was incredible" There were around 200 people in attendance. This date is definate. Denis. Nos années punk book ...cover, ...clipping 1, ....clipping 2, ...clipping 3 Concert at ROUEN -about 200 people attended in an old cinema Ç Le Chartreux Č (now 1’Exo 7). Rouen and Le Havre gigs were organised by the record shop “Melodie Massacre” in Rouen and “Music Action” in Le Havre” which are are transit cities in France on the way to Paris.
Apr 27		“Nuites de Punk”, Palais De Glaces, Paris
		Rob Symmons [Subway Sect] interviewed in 1999, who had this to say: "The first phase was when we played the 100 Club, the Royal College of Art, the ICA and the Lacey Lady, all with the Clash and with no one there. That was with the Clash there, in London, and there was literally no one there. Then we stopped for a bit that winter, rehearsed loads, wrote loads of songs, did Harlesden, and then stripped it down more for the White Riot tour. Before the UK dates for that, we started off going over to France... There was supposed to be a lot but they all got cancelled. We did about three - there was Rouen and another place in the outskirts of France. We played this cinema in Paris, which was supposed to be this famous place where Johnny Halliday played, and the Rolling Stones in about 1963. It was all seated with lots of older people there, so that was quite strange." Around 500 people there.

May 1		Civic Hall, Guilford
May 2		Rascals, Chester
May 3		Barbarella, Birmingham
May 4		Affair, Swindon
May 5		Erics, Liverpool
May 6		University, Aberdeen
May 7		Playhouse, Edinburgh
May 8		Electric Circus, Manchester
May 9		Rainbow, London
		infamous riot gig - often mis-cited as the 7th. See 7th gig at Edinburgh with Edinburgh Ticket
May 10		Town Hall, Kidderminster
		Following an injury to his hand, Mick Jones of the Clash is forced to cancel the gig booked for Kidderminster Town Hall.
May 12		Palais, Nottingham
May 13		Polytechnic, Leicester
May 14		Brakke Grond Amsterdam
May 15		Fiesta, Plymouth
May 16		University, Swansea
May 17		Polytechnic, Leeds
May 19		Rock Garden, Middlesborough
May 20		University, Newcastle
May 21		City Hall, St. Albans
May 22		Skindles, Maidenhead cancelled
May 22		Wolverhampton Civic Hall
		The Clash played a replacement gig at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall on May 22 1977. This gig was played literally days after The Jam departed the tour. Rumour had it there was a dispute about the use of lighting on the tour. Buzzcocks, Slits and Subway Sect supported. The ticket stub did not have the bands name printed on, but had a "complimentary" stamp across it and the price written on. It was however an official Civic Hall ticket.
May 23		Top Of The World, Stafford
May 24		Top Rank, Cardiff, Wales
		White Riot 1977 was Clash at their superlative best – from Cardiff’s Top Rank balcony the front of stage appeared a pogoing and spitting frenzy. Against the Notting Hill Riot backdrop, Joe’s eye’s burning and neck pulsing, his lyrics spat out with such white heat intensity - I wondered if he could survive another year! Dave Smitham
May 25		University of Sussex, Brighton
		Video exists
May 26		Colston, Bristol
May 27		Pavilion, West Runton
May 28		Odeon, Canterbury
		probably didn't happen...
May 28		De Montfort Hall, Leicester
		date listed in NME...
May 29		Chancellor Hall, Chelmsford
May 30		California Ballroom, Dunstable

June 14		Grona Lund, Stockholm
July 17		Birmingham Rag Market (Punk Festival)
		The band show up to the aborted punk festival announced 3 weeks earlier. The council managed within a couple of days to shut it down. The Clash talked to local fans but the police turned up to make arrests for unlawful gathering and obstruction.
July 17		Birmingham Barbarellas
		Following the afternoons debacle, the band managed to borrow heavy metal band Warhead's gear and play a 45 minute set in front of 500 punks. Johnny Green (A Riot of Our Own) mentions the Clash in 78 being outside a Birmingham venue explaining to ticket holders why they were unable to play. There is a small interview reference in Search and Destroy [1977] fanzine titled Clash Landing where the Clash are interviewed by Annette Weatherman and Vermilion Sands.
Aug 5		Mont de Marsan, France
		...Punk Festival. Around 3,000 people turned up for the two day event
Aug 11		14th Bilzen Festival, Lie'ge, Belgium
		support bands Elvis Costello and The Damned - Page 28 The New Visual Documentary
Sep 26		The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland
Sep 27		Brussels
		From Swiss No Fun fanzine interview with Joe.
Sep 28		French TV show
		London's Burning / Complete Control / 1977 Not Michel Drucker TV Show. Presented by the famous Punk presenter Freddy Hausser. The interview is with Phillipe Manoeuvre who writes for the French music magazine Rock n Folk.
Sep 29		Bataclan, Paris, France
		...Punk Festival
???		Musikladen TV Show
		From Swiss No Fun fanzine interview with Joe
Oct 1		Kaufleuten Saal, Zurich , Switzerland
		Note this gig did NOT take place at the Rote Fabrik
Oct 2		Vienna Porrhaus
Oct 4		Munich
		Much speculation has surrounded the dates but courtesy of a German Fanzine with tour dates... it is confirmed the band played Munich on the 4th, Frankfurt on the 5th and Hamburg on the 6th.
Oct 5		Frankfurt Volksbildungsheim
		from ticket stub
Oct 6		Winterhuder Fährhaus, Hamburg
		The Show in Hamburg 6th Oct.1977 was at the Winterhuder Fährhaus.The Show starts with Londons Burning and ends with Janie Jones plus an encore of Garageland if I remember correctly.It was one of the first UK Punk gigs in Hamburg. I've got some photos from this Show. Peter, Hamburg
Oct 7		Dads, Malmo, Sweden
Oct 8		Ronneby, Sweden
Oct 9		Club 700, stora Hotellet, Oreboro, Sweden


Oct 20		Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland
		cancelled, see A Riot of Our Own p20
Oct 21		Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
		support The Count Bishops. Small review of Dublin at the foot of the Belfast review: The Clash in Belfast, Caroline Coon, Sounds, October 1977
Oct 22		Eric’s, Liverpool
		with the Toilets
Oct 24		Kinema, Dumfermline
Oct 25		Apollo, Glasgow, Scotland
Oct 26		Clouds, Edinburgh, Scotland
		Clouds was the upstairs part of Coasters (now called the Cavendish) where strummer played again with the clash busking in 1985 and with LRW in 1988 - Coasters itself is pretty small and both the upstairs rooms are tiny.
Oct 27		University, Leeds
Oct 28		Polytechnic, Newcastle
Oct 29		Apollo, Manchester
Oct 30		Victoria, Stoke
		'77 was with Richard Hell & the Voidoids and the Lous, and was manic, pure 'punk', backstage after the gig Mick was all over the place taking photos, Joe was very ill, white, exhausted, but still gave time to us kids for photos. Mick Jones took my address to send me some prints but apparently they never came out ( no flash or some other such problem). They really were the friendliest band I met at the time and invited everybody back to their hotel after. I couldn't go (my mum was waiting in the car to take me home - no, really! I didn't tell them that though). I was 15 at the time. Changed my life (that old cliché). The concert was on a par with The Ramones two months later for excitement, energy. (redian2) ticket reverse with autographs
Nov 1		Top Rank, Sheffield
Nov 2		University, Bradford
Nov 3		Kings Hall, Derby
Nov 4		University, Cardiff, Wales
		Follow Derby link for Kris Needs review of Derby and Cardiff.
Nov 5		Exhibition Centre, Bristol
		This is listed as the 10th in most cases, but we are told it was in fact the 5th which makes sense near Cardiff. The November 5 gig at the Bristol Exibition Centre, (now the Watershed arts centre) with The Void-oids, was a strange affair with the staff, selling left over sarnies, from an event that afternoon. I think the band could cope with spit & warm beer, but cheese bap missiles were unheard of during the time. I recall the French band, The Lou's - appearing first, then poor old Richard Hell, (who, I recall, hated the gobbing) didn't know that Marky Ramone, played drums on this tour. Later on, chatted to Jonesy, who recanted the story of being chased by Ted's, when last in Bristol. These "Teds" turned out to be jealous punks, (Mick had stolen one of the disgruntled punks girlfriend)Anyway, I had a lot of fun travelling around the UK, meeting some great people.
Nov 6		Market Hall, Carlisle
Nov 7		Top Rank, Birmingham
Nov 8		Tiffany's Coventry
		Original schedule listed Coverntry gig on the 8th as Locarno
Nov 9		Winter Gardens, Bournemouth
		the clash gig at the bournemouth winter gardens november 9th 1977 , stole the headlines locally as it was the first time a punk band had played at the winter gardens and a full scale riot took place between two gangs in the audience that night . When jonathan ross interviewed joe strummer in july 2001, an e mail asking if joe he rememberd the gig was read it out to him, he did remember the gig and talked about it on air . Bournemouth council almost banned punk bands from playing the winter gardens after that night , but the buzzcocks and the undertones managed to play gigs there in 1979 .
Nov 10		Exhibition Centre, Bristol
		This date is listed in most cases as Exhibition Centre, Bristol which we are told took place on Saturday 10th November. Bath University was cancelled.
Nov 11		Corn Exchange, Cambridge
Nov 12		Pavilion, Hastings
		Strange stormy night. Other piers had been blown down that night!
Nov 13		Top Rank, Southampton
Nov 15		Elizabethan Ballroom, Belle Vue, Manchester
		often circulated as Elizabthan Suite, it is in fact a full gig which was filmed by and for Granada TV and included Souisie and the Banshees as support. Snippets were screened twice on the So It Goes TV show (Dec 77 and Nov 78) (and repeated again in 1990) and circulate on video and audio. Other than the So It Goes source, no other source exists. It is thought Granada don't know where it is either and that the Dec 78 footage may have come from Tony Wilsons own collection.? Also see A Riot of Own p31.
Dec 11		Apollo, Glasgow
Dec 13		Rainbow, London
		Supported by the Zones and Sham 69, suported by Rat Scabies 2 of the nights
Dec 14		Rainbow, London
		supported by Sham 69??, suported by Rat Scabies 2 of the nights
Dec 15		Rainbow, London
		support Lovers of Outrage, suported by Rat Scabies 2 of the nights
Dec 19		Belfast McMordie Hall, Queens University Students Union
		first night cancelled due to transport problems (Dec 19th??)
Dec 20		Belfast McMordie Hall Queens University Students Union
		the story goes that 2 shows were to be done on the one night to make up for the cancelled Ulster Hall fiasco back in October. Only one show went ahead. the venue was changed on campus. Support The Lous. (Dec 20th??)