Out of Control Tour
The Clash go Back to Basics - European Tour
cdr - good sound - Sound 4 - 99min - mast - 30 tracks
A good audience recording of the complete gig with only a small edit at the beginning of Career Opportunities. The only other notable point is Nick Sheppard doing the Should I Stay or Should I Go vocals.
All the instrumentation and can be heard, which is a good starting point, however as expected from an audience tape it is lacking full pro width and clarity and has a fraction of distance. But this master/1st gen came from a private collector who had bought out an the old time taper who did it, and as such suffers no inherent copying problems and is without distortion of any kind.
A packed enthusiastic crowd at Liverpool extend the success of this tour with another great show. The band would play 30 tracks tonight. A long set but with no surprises and all though its a fine performance it is not as fired up as earlier performances in February. Check out Glasgow Barrowlands and Manchester Apollo for better sound and slightly better performances.
The tight slope down to withing inches of the band has Joe appealing for some ease of congestion at the front from the packed crowd after just two songs as one guy has apparently been crushed according to Joe.
Highlights include Know Your Rights and White Man in Hammersmith Palais where Joe changes the words to the section wearing Burton suits, to wearing natty dreadlocks and funny hats to have a go at his pet hate at the time, Boy George.
Someone throws an Arab slipper ot the band during Rock the Casbah. Joe in good humour laughingly brings to everyones attention when the band returns for the first encore.
Paul opens now, as on the rest of the tour, Guns of Brixton with his solo mouth organ intro. Joe launchs into a passionate and more constrained Ammunition.
This is followed by a Clash run though of regular songs. Joe follows the oldies deliversing a very enthusiatic Three Card Trick, Janie Jones and end of set I Fought the Law.
The band open with We are the Clash, and in keeping with the good atmospshere Joe mis-introduces Tommy Gun and goes energetically into Complete Control. The crowd really rise to English Civil War after Joe has announced the winner of the breakdance competition, is he taking the piss or what?
The band seem to be going strong and fire out Brand New Cadilac before a slightly more funky Armagideon Time. Nick sings Should I Stay which is followed by a tape turnover which does not affect the tracks.
Garageland's opening couple of seconds has some minor tape problems and that as per ends that segue.
The band come out for a second encore. Joe appeals for members of the Kop (Liverpool's famous 'singing' end in football) as he leads the audience into Bankrobber. A slower tired Joe finishes with Spanish Bombs and the usual rousing finale White Riot.
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London Calling |
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White Man in Hamersmith Palais
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| SFX, Dublin, Ireland cancelled | ||
| SFX, Dublin, Ireland cancelled | ||
| Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland cancelled | ||
| Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland cancelled | ||
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Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland | |
| Vince White describes this gig extensively in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 86 | ||
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Apollo, Manchester | |
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De Montfort Hall, Leicester | |
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Colston Hall, Bristol | |
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Drammenshallen, Drammen Norway | |
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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! | ||
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Philipshalle, Dusseldorf, West Germany | |
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Deinze Belgium | |
| 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. | ||
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Festhalle, Bern, Switzerland | |
| Vince White describes this gig in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 95 | ||
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Palasport, Milan, Italy | |
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Palasport, Milan, Italy | |
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Espace Ballard, Paris, France | |
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Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland | |
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King Georges, Blackburn | |
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Royal Court, Liverpool | |
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Guildhall, Portsmouth | |
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Academy, Brixton, London | |
| Vince White describes these gigs in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 95 | ||
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Academy, Brixton, London | |
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Academy, Brixton, London | |
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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 | ||
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SFX, Dublin, Ireland | |
| Vince White describes these gigs in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 99 | ||
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SFX, Dublin, Ireland | |
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Academy, Brixton, London | |
| Vince White describes these gigs in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash, page 101 | ||
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Academy, Brixton, London | |
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