Supported by The Jam, Subway Sect

Is this picture the RCA?? see below

full gig [master]... to follow

The Royal College of Art is best known as a centre of British art [Hockney, Kitaj, Conran] but on November 5, 1976 it hosted A Night Of Treason, starring The Clash.

Punk was going overground and the place was full of punks, the interested and students. The stage door policy was loose and backstage was as crowded as out front. The dressing rooms and corridors were seething with talent. Siouxsie Sioux was gathering her tribe to follow up the Punk Festival appearance. Billy Idol and Tony James were about to leave Chelsea (one time on stage) and start a band called Generation X. Adrian Thrills was starting a fanzine. Mark P was working on the next issue of Sniffin’ Glue.

If Punk was an attitude then Subway Sect was as Punk as it got. They didn’t look or sound like anything else on a stage [before or since]. Their complete lack of showmanship and off-centre music really made you feel you were seeing something new. Then The Jam came on, all two-tone shoes and Shepherds Bush riffs. Somehow the sharp suits and Rickenbackers were at odds with the homemade fashions and Fenders of the Pistols and the Clash and backstage they sat apart from the other bands.

The Clash were incendiary. The sound was big and loud and they climbed all over their brace of songs like kids on a building site, crashing guitars and a rabble-rousing Joe. Then a student threw a beer glass. [Depressingly, it was always students who threw glasses and bottles.] Joe threw his arms above his head and shouted ‘Under heavy manners!’ He sought out the perpetrator, who got on stage. Joe questioned him and the guy looked sheepish. Then Sid Vicious got on stage, muttering into the mic and looking well-named. A few minutes later and they got back to the wonderful racket.

People used to say their life changed the first time they saw The Clash. This was the night when that scenario began.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14	White Riot I’m So Bored With The USA Career Opportunities How Can I Understand The Flies? 5. London’s Burning ‘Hey You...’ (Strummer rant at audience members) Protex Blue Deny Mark Me Absent ** What’s My Name? 48 Hours Janie Jones 1977 White Riot

Last gang in Town p218

Jul 4		Black Swan, Sheffield
		Last gang in Town p170 The birth of The Clash - The Independent - Fri 10 Oct 2008 - An epiphany at a Sex Pistols gig led to the formation of the most enduring of punk bands. Here, in an extract from a new book, The Clash reveal how they started in a London squat
Aug 13		Rehearsal Rehearsals, Camden Town, London
		....private invite gig
Aug 29		Screen On The Green, Islington, London
		Midnight Special Last gang in Town p180
Aug 31		100 Club, London
		...supporting the Sex Pistols.Last gang in Town p190
Sep 5		The Roundhouse, Camden Town, London
		...Keith Levenes last gig with The Clash. journalists invited; 3 show up. Last gang in Town p190

Sep 20		Club, London...100 Club Punk Festival
		with the Pistols, the Damned, the Buzzcocks, Subway Sect et al. Last gang in Town p195
Oct 9		Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre, Leyton Buzzard
		see ZigZag Aoril 77 'Konctere Clockwork' text version or scans ... ZigZag Aoril 77 'Konctere Clockwork' .... pg1 ......pg2 .....pg3 supporting the Rockets... just a note on your gig list i saw them at tiddingfoot leisure centre and keith levene was still a member they were supported by a r n b band called the rockets. the promoter a guy called chris france had also promoted gigs by the jam,the dammed and eddie and the hot rods all in leighton buzzard he also managed john otway and wild willy barrett at this time.the clash were superb sounding a lot like the mc5 at this gig. i'd actually gone along to see the rockets who i'd seen locally several times in the previous couple of years and followed around a bit,but the clash blew them off stage and they split soon after.cheers glyn
Oct?		Guildford
		In an NBC 'Live at 5' Interview early 1982, Paul & Joe refer to this gig and the fact there was only 1 member in the audience.
Oct 15		Acklam Hall, Ladbroke Grove, London
		supporting Spartacus and Sukuya. Last gang in Town p210 (from Time Out mag).
Oct 16		University of London, London
		supporting Shakin Stevens. Last gang in Town p211
Oct 23		Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
		Last gang in Town p215
Oct 27		Barbarellas, Birmingham
		Last gang in Town p217
Oct 28		I.C.A., London
		with Subway Sect see ZigZag Aoril 77 'Konctere Clockwork' text version or scans ... ZigZag Aoril 77 'Konctere Clockwork' .... pg1 ......pg2 .....pg3
Oct 29		Town Hall, Fulham, London
		Last gang in Town p217. Supporting Roogalator
Nov 3		Harlesden Coliseum
Nov 5		Royal College of Art, London
		A Night Of Treason Last gang in Town p218. ...supported by thge Rockets see ZigZag Aoril 77 'Konctere Clockwork' text version or scans ... ZigZag Aoril 77 'Konctere Clockwork' .... pg1 ......pg2 .....pg3
Nov 6		Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry
		3 photos given as this date, though it is likely to be the 29th Nov
Nov 11		Lacy Lady, Ilford
		Last gang in Town p222.
Nov 13		Birmingham Barbarellas
Nov		Polydor Demos
Nov?		Harlesden Coliseum - Anarchy Tour Rehearsals
		When I spoke with Rob from Subway Sect yesterday he said the Clash only played Harlesden once - in early 1977. They rehearsed there for the anarchy tour. Vincent
Nov 18		Nags Head, High Wycombe
		Last gang in Town p224.
Nov 29		Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry
		Last gang in Town p189