White Riot Tour with the Buzzcocks,
Slits and Subway Sect
updated 5 Sept 2008 - added posters
Photos from the gig
Rumours of Video but this is likely to be the Brighton Video from the 25th May 1977
I have a couple of images of Clash Tour Posters from 16th May 1977 when they played Swansea University refectory.
I was such a fan back then. I was the first one through the door at the top of the stairs and took the large black poster off the wall as†I went in. I rolled it up and guarded it with my life as I braced my knees against the stage and suffered the pogoing punks in my back as Subway Sect played their set.
As if that wasn't mad enough, the place went wild when The clash came on. Top gig.
I sold the posters when times were tight and would gladly sell my mother to get them back.
I also went to Bristol on 9th July 1978 and watched them in the Locarno. Another superb gig.
The Coventry Specials kicked off the evening with their unique two tone sound and then Joe Strummer had to come on stage to tell the idiots who were throwing glasses and stuff at SUICIDE to stop or the Clash wouldn't play.
I may be a saddo but I really enjoyed Suicide.
As we waited for the Clash, Terry Hall and I sat next to each other on one of the school dining tables beside the stage and chatted about their life on the road. Terry gave me a handful of those black Clash target badges that were floating around on the tour.
After the gig myself and my friend went backstage and he interviewed the Clash for a local radio station in Swansea.
My friends and I were so impressed with Suicide that we told them and they put us on the Guestlist for their headlining gig at the Marquee in London a few days later.
In Wardour Street, we again met Alan Vega and Martin Rev backstage and chatted for ages with them and the Clash lads who were also in that tiny dressing room behind the Marquee's stage. What I would give for a couple of photos backstage that night.
The only other time that I chatted to any of the Clash was Topper at 'The Last Night at the Nashville' in london. I cna't remember the date.
I don't know how useful this is but, hey, it's better to tell a story than to simply share it with the inside of your head.
cheers Nigel Drean, Swansea
4 camera shoot thought to exist
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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| 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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| 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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De Montfort Hall, Leicester |
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Chancellor Hall, Chelmsford |
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California Ballroom, Dunstable |
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