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

updated 4 Jan 2009 - added set list and tape info


The Clash at The Guildhall

cdr - goodish sound - full gig - Sound 3+ - Time 83mins - Tracks 24

Not a bad sound. The bass is a bit low but the vocals and Toppers drums, Micks guitar can be heard clearly. A touch thin but goodish.

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Intro / London Calling
Safe European Home
Are You Ready for War?
Rock the Casbah
Sex Mad War
White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Guns of Brixton
Ammunition
I'm So Bored with the USA
Clampdown
This is England
Police and Thieves
The Dictator
English Civil War
Three Card Trick
Janie Jones
I Fought the Law
We Are The Clash
Tommy Gun
Armagideon Time
Garageland
Brand New Cadilac
Police on My Back
Complete Control

A Seven Year Hit
Local Press - Wednesday 7th March
Joe Strummer has done what Joe Strummer threatened to do - take the Clash back 7 years - aqnd what a triumph. Aportsmouth Guildhall audience, which took just 2 hours to sell out...

Still Clashing After all these years
Local Press Thursday 8th March
Music Focus by Phil Tusler - The Clash, Britains most successful survivors from the New Wave explosion of 1976 are no strangers to controversy. From their early beginnings they have refused to submit to musics most influential medium, TOTP...

Any further info / reviews appreciated

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