Out of Control Tour
The Clash go Back to Basics - European Tour

updated 16 July 2008 - added 2x French magazine links

cdr - good full gig - Sound 3 - 77min - v.low - 24 tracks

Live in Paris 84 LP - Sound 4 - 42min - tracks 13

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Both the LP and full recording have a very similar sound. The tape is a touch less thin in sound, but with a fractionally less dynamic sound and a touch less clarity. Both are very good.

The sound on the LP is very clear but a little thin a distant and a touch toward the high end. However it has a very good sound with great clarity. The vocals, drums and lead are all clear and the bass just hangs on. There is no distortion.

It delivers more great versions of the underated Cut the Crap album including Are you Ready for War (best live sounding version?), This is England and Three Card Trick

"Hello, I'm a french clash' fan and i saw your blackmarketclash web site. fantastic, really very good!

I've got informations for you: there is an "encore" of the concert of the clash in paris on thursday 1 march 1984, i know it, i was there and i recorded it!

Here's the story: they played many songs and stop with "garageland". during maybe 10 minutes the audience ask for an encore... nothing to do! and about 15 or 20 minutes, when 3/4 of the peoples where outside (the concert place was a very big tent, like the americans circus), the clash came back on stage!!! they played 3 or 4 songs including powerfull versions of london's burning, janie jones (twice) and of course White riot!

i'll send you the copy off the ticket and maybe the recording later (i recorded the concert but someone stole at my home the first tape and i'm trying to find the second one containing the "encore" of this concert)"

Thanx a lot for your work. it's great for clash fans, you have made a very good job. i was at Espace Balard March 1 1984. A lot of people waiting for them. Good gig but very noisy. joe said "La lumière sur les gens, la lumière sur les gens..." (Spotlight on people...). Im looking for my friends when they finish and i was suddenly push front of stage because light off and band came once. it was fantastic. A lot of energy. Vince write to me it was one of the best they do. Eric

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London Calling
Safe European Home
Are You Ready for War?
Rock the Casbah
The Dictator
The Magnificent Seven
The Guns Of Brixton
Ammunition
Clampdown
Sex Mad War
I’m So Bored with the USA
This Is England
Tommy Gun
Police and Thieves
Three Card Trick
Janie Jones
I Fought the Law
Brand New Cadillac
Complete Control
Armagideon Time
White Man In Ham Palais
Career Opportunities
Garageland
White Riot

Dictator, boot LP

Dictator, full recording

Chris Knowles
The Essential Clash Bootleg Bible
includes this gig

Rock n Folk 207 (April 84)
Gig Review
...review ...pg1 ...pg2 ... pg3 ...pg4

Best Magazine 188 (March 84)
Joe Strummer
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Any further info / reviews appreciated

Live in Paris 84 LP

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Safe European Home
Are You ready for War
Rock the Casbah
The Dictator
The Guns of Brixton
Sex mad war
Im so bored with the USA
This is England
Tommy Gun
Three Card trick
Janie jones
Armagideon Time
White Man in Hammersmith Palais

Feb 5 SFX, Dublin, Ireland cancelled
Feb 6 SFX, Dublin, Ireland cancelled
Feb 7 Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland cancelled
Feb 8 Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland cancelled
Feb 10 Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland
Vince White describes this gig extensively in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 86
Feb 11 Apollo, Manchester
Feb 12 De Montfort Hall, Leicester
Feb 13 Colston Hall, Bristol
Feb 16 Drammenshallen, Drammen Norway
Feb 17 Johanneshov Isstadium, Stockholm, Sweden
Vince White describes this gig extensively in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 89. This is where Vince first knocks up Bernie's girlfriend!
Feb 19 Philipshalle, Dusseldorf, West Germany
Feb 21 Deinze Belgium
Feb 22 Zenith, Paris, France
this gig never took place. the band were scheduled to play Espace Ballad on the 23rd Feb. but this had to be re-sheduled to March 1st as a national lorry drivers strike blocked the trucks carrying the gear at Calais. Tickets stubs however stiff carry the 23rd date for a price of 80F which would have been about £6 at the time.
Feb 25 Festhalle, Bern, Switzerland
Vince White describes this gig in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 95
Feb 27 Palasport, Milan, Italy
Feb 28 Palasport, Milan, Italy
Mar 1 Espace Ballard, Paris, France
Mar 3 Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland
Mar 4 King Georges, Blackburn
Mar 5 Royal Court, Liverpool
Mar 6 Guildhall, Portsmouth
Mar 8 Academy, Brixton, London
Vince White describes these gigs in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 95
Mar 9 Academy, Brixton, London
Mar 10 Academy, Brixton, London
Mar 12 Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Supported by the Defects. Vince White describes these gigs in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 98
Mar 13 SFX, Dublin, Ireland
Vince White describes these gigs in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 99
Mar 14 SFX, Dublin, Ireland
Mar 16 Academy, Brixton, London
Vince White describes these gigs in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 101
Mar 17 Academy, Brixton, London