updated 7 July 2008 - added posters
updated 9 Jan 2010 - added punters comments
updated 12 April 2011 - added Jons photo link Flickr & added punters comments

cdr - full gig lesser sound - Sound 3 - 95min - 2gen - tracks 24

Down at the Casbah Club LP - Sound 3 - 74min - mast - tracks 19

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The full gig is a decent enough audience tape recorded albeit from the back of the Academy . A bit bottom heavy, with some distancce/echo and flat. A little distortion too.

The lead guitar, vocals are the clearest, the drums pound away and the bass thuds incoherently.

The LP from the this gig, Down at the Casbah Club, is marginally better though it omits the first 5 tracks and starts with the Guns of Brixton.



I'm writing from Milan, Italy, and looking by chance at your website it helped me to remember my two fantastic nights that I had with The Clash at the London-Brixton Fair Deal on July 1982.
I was 16 years old at the time.

I remember everything, from the morning, when I had in the rear pocket of my jeans a copy of Sounds with Joe Strummer with the mohawk on the cover. That day I bought only one Big Mac during all day in order to save money for the tickets: I ate the first cold half-Big Mac at noon and the other half at 7 pm. I waited around 3 pm Joe and the rest of the band outside the backstage and now I'm trying here at home to find out some photos that I took that afternoon with Joe and some japanese fans.

That was also the night when Italy won the soccer World Cup against Germany. A great night.

Now I run as editor-in-chief the italian edition of GQ for Condé Nast.

michele lupi michelelupi[a]mac.com

I too was at the 11 July show in Brixton. It was my first time seeing The Clash.

I remember being pleasantly stunned that I could buy a ticket (cheap!) just the day before. It was a dream come true for a guy from the States to drop into London and find that the band would be playing.

Loved the venue; an old theatre with the seats removed. I can understand why an audience bootleg would sound distant and echoey.

What made the night especially memorable was first watching the Italy-West Germany World Cup final on a big TV off the lobby while downing a few pints. As I recall, the show started shortly after the game ended.

The show? Can't remember much but the insane energy, but Train in Vain and I Fought the Law I remember well.

Ears ringing, I boarded the train a happy man.
(Coincidentally, I saw them twice more in the States in the next 18 months. Neither show matched the one in London.)

Bill Stieg - Bill.Stieg[a]Rodale.com

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London Calling
Clash City Rockers
Know Your Rights
Spanish Bombs
Complete Control
The Guns Of Brixton
Somebody Got Murdered
White Man In Ham Palais
Career Opportunities
The Magnificent Seven
Train In Vain
One More Time
This Is Radio Clash
Rock the Casbah
Police On My Back
Brand New Cadillac
Clampdown
Bankrobber
Armagideon Time
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
I Fought the Law
Straight to Hell
Stay Free
Garageland

Down at the Casbah Club 2LP

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The Guns Of Brixton
Somebody Got Murdered
White Man In Ham Palais
Career Opportunities
The Magnificent Seven
Train In Vain
One More Time
This Is Radio Clash
Rock the Casbah
Police On My Back
Brand New Cadillac
Clampdown
Bankrobber
Armagideon Time
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
I Fought the Law
Straight to Hell
Stay Free
Garageland

Chris Knowles
The Essential Clash Bootleg Bible
includes this gig

Photos from Jon [Flickr]

Any further info / reviews appreciated


Support on some dates Southern Death Cult & Under Two Flags.
Jul 10 Fair Deal, Brixton, London
Jul 11 Fair Deal, Brixton, London
Jul 12 Aylesbury Buckinghamshire - Stoke Mandeville Hospital Sports Stadium
...Poster ...Ticket ...Poster2 ...Poster3 ...Flyer
This was a 'charity' gig for the spinal injuries unit where I was working at the time - I managed to blag myself on to the guest list when Joe came to visit before the gig! 
Jul 13 Victoria Hall, Hanley
Jul 14 City Hall, Newcastle
Jul 15 City Hall, Newcastle
Jul 17 Bradford St Georges Hall
new date - resheduled from the 11th May
Jul 18 Bingley Hall, Birmingham
On the Road with the Clash
Traxmarx - includes this gig
Jul 19 Assembly Rooms, Derby
Jul 20 De Montfort, Leicester
Jul 22 Leisure Centre, Irvine
Jul 23 Playhouse, Edinburgh,
This was the Friday night show which was apparently filmed. A second hasty date was added for Sunday after returning from Inverness.
Jul 24 Ice Rink, Inverness,
Supported by APB - i'd bought what i thought was a classy soviet 35mm camera to document the gig and only 2 pictures survived the event. the first is from the soundcheck and features mick jamimg the magnifent 7 in first album mode with the badge stall guy on drums. in the second joe's telling the wankers to stop spitting. photo 1 - photo 2
Jul 25 Playhouse, Edinburgh,
This was an extra date added at the last minute and not on tour itinery. Check recordings from this period closely as they may well exist?
Jul 26 University, Leeds
Jul 27 Arts Centre, Poole
Jul 28 Guildhall Portsmouth
Jul 30 Fair Deal, Brixton, London
Jul 31 Brighton Centre, Brighton
new date - resheduled from the 11th May?
Aug 2 Locarno, Bristol
Aug 3 Locarno, Bristol