White Riot Tour with the Buzzcocks, Slits and Subway Sect.
cdr – above average - sound 3 - 44min - low gen - tracks 14
“They said fly to Amsterdam …” The White Riot Tour crosses the channel from Leicester on the 13th to Amsterdam on the 14th and back again to Plymouth on the 15th. Another fast and furious performance must have stunned the mostly laid back hippy Dutch, but come the encores the band generate a good response from the local crowd.
Given the early trepidation to this first ‘national tour’, this overseas sorteé fills Joe particular, and the band, with confidence. This is the earliest example of Joes ‘stagecraft’ as he banters away non-stop beligerantly with the silent crowd (except throughout individuals keep shouting White Riot), and is a breakout from the much less interactive earlier gigs circulating from Guildford and Birmingham from the beginning of the Tour.
Venue
http://www.brakkegrond.nl/
This good audience recording, is a much improved 2nd upgrade and has been well mastered. The recording is complete with no edits, captures the guitars and drums well, bass clearly audiable but less clear. It has a wideish sound with a lot of clarity and bass apart is quite clear. The vocals are fractionally down and the only fractional distortion is on the bass when the amps threaten to overpower the recorder but don’t which only adds to the ‘live experience’.
Poorer versions circulate widely which are a lot flatter and a much lower generation/poorer copy.
“.. We’re from London right, and we don’t know what goes on in this town, we’ve only been here 10 hours and this is what London feels like and if you don’t like it you can go to the bar or get ear plugs. London’s Burning …” The band blast through the opening songs to little response with Mick saying “..not taking much notice , any dope about!?”. 1977 has some lyric changes “... go to the movies”.
Capital Radio starts with Joe shouting, “I’m a housewife, I don’t know …what… to… do”. Police and Thieves is a highlight with a longer extended rap than the usual one on this tour, which closely follows the studio version, “for the first time you are going to hear some punk-reggae”.
Joe acknowledges the reaction by this stage of at least part of the crowd by dedicating Career Opportunities to our No.1 fan down here. An encore is called for and a blistering White Riot is introduced by “ and for our encore a comedy number!” The finale, 1977 is a blistering version with Mick adding some liberal guitar notes in there….
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White Riot full page ad
with dates
The Jam quit White Riot Tour
Melody Maker Mid May 77
Oct 77 - Unknown Fanzine
page 1 page 2 page 3
Greatness from Garageland
Peter Silverton, Trouser Press, February 1978
UNANNOUNCED, TO SAY the least, a kid in boots, suspenders and short-cropped hair clambers through the photographers' pit and up onto the stage of London's Rainbow Theatre. Benignly ignored by band, stage crew and security alike...
Clash Landing
Search and Destroy Fanzine
Clash Interviewed by Annette Weatherman and Vermilion Sands
A lengthy interview with Joe, Mick & Paul in 1977. It was published in Search & Destroy mag out of San Francisco. It was the first word of the Clash in print in the U.S. Birmingham Rag Marktt & Sweden gigs referenced.
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Rascals, Chester |
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Barbarella, Birmingham |
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Affair, Swindon |
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Erics, Liverpool |
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University, Aberdeen |
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Playhouse, Edinburgh |
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Electric Circus, Manchester |
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Rainbow, London |
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| infamous riot gig - often mis-cited as the 7th. See 7th gig at Edinburgh with Edinburgh Ticket | ||
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| Following an injury to his hand, Mick Jones of the Clash is forced to cancel the gig booked for Kidderminster Town Hall. | ||
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Palais, Nottingham |
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Polytechnic, Leicester |
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Brakke Grond Amsterdam |
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Fiesta, Plymouth |
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University, Swansea |
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Polytechnic, Leeds |
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Rock Garden, Middlesborough |
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University, Newcastle |
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City Hall, St. Albans |
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| Skindles, Maidenhead cancelled | ||
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| 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. | ||
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Top Of The World, Stafford |
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Top Rank, Cardiff, Wales |
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| 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 | ||
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University of Sussex, Brighton |
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Colston, Bristol |
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Pavilion, West Runton |
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Odeon, Canterbury |
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| probably didn't happen... | ||
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De Montfort Hall, Leicester |
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| date listed in NME...This is often listed as CARDIFF 77. It isn't. | ||
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Chancellor Hall, Chelmsford |
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California Ballroom, Dunstable |
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