Impossible Mission Tour
last updated 4 Nov 2005

video - edited - tracks 4 - quality 4
best found on Clash on TV DVDr.

The group is filmed coming off their plane and going straight into a press conference, Beatles style, and Topper apparently publicly puked his guts out on the airport interior after what appears to be a rather shaky plane ride (they all look like zombies).

Some journalist then made a snide remark off screen, which quite obviously hit at something painful in the group. Joe's immediate reply in defense of a green skinned Topper is a magnificent moment of pure expletive-ridden Strummer Rage, all captured by the camera while Simonon takes a real threatening pose. Some of the best bits go like this :

"do you think this is 1976 and you're talking to the Sex Pistols ?"
"Piss off or I'll fucking piss all over you"
"If he feels like throwing up it's because his stomach hurts, I don't need your jokes to fucking contend with"

"If you want to read about puking read your teeny bop magazines. We are not a teeny bop puking group"

The best copy can be found on Clash on TV DVDr, commercially pressed as TV Calling 77-83. It has been copied a few times and there is some noise/hiss on the sound slightly but its quite clear and very watchable.

1 2 3 4	Clash City Rockers Somebody Got Murdered London Calling Safe Europen Home + Interview

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Apr 27		Barcelona, Spain
Apr 28		Madrid, Real Madrid basketball stadium
		Gig reviewed in Record Mirror 9 May 81. Gig played in front of 7,000
Apr 30		Cascais, Portugal
May 1		Lisbon?
May 2		Velodromo de Anoeta, San Sebastian, Spain
May 4		Bordeaux, France
		Joe IDs this date and gig the following night in Lyon before the first track
May 5		Palais des Sports, Lyon, France
May 6		Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland
May 7		Zurich [venue unknown]
May 8		Hippodrome de Pantin, Paris, France
May 9		Palais St. Sauveur, Lille, France
		In 1981 the gigs at Lille and Amsterdam were supported by the Belle Stars (they were travelling on the tour coach which we bummed a ride on!), I think they did most of those European dates. J Heath
May 10		Japp Edenhall, Amsterdam, Holland
		In 1981 the gigs at Lille and Amsterdam were supported by the Belle Stars (they were travelling on the tour coach which we bummed a ride on!), I think they did most of those European dates. J Heath
May 11		Forest National, Brussels.
		Support act included The Belle Stars and Vic Goddard & Subway Sect. Thx for info. Entry 300 BEF (£5.00)
May 12		Musikhalle, Hamburg, West Germany
May 14		Idrottshuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
May 15		The Scandinavium, Gothenburgh, Sweden
May 16		Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden
May 18		Eissporthalle, (West) Berlin
May 19		Circus Krone, Munich, West Germany
May 21		Velodromo Vigorelli, Milan, Italy
May 22		San Remo
May 23		Stadio Comunale, Florence, Italy
May		Rome - cancelled
		the proposed Rome concert never came together- problems with Bernie
May 26		The Bullring, Milan??
		Usually Londonderry boot LP. Probably did not take place.