White Riot Tour with the Buzzcocks, Slits and Subway Sect - Some suggestion this was on the 18th?
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"The Rock Garden. I nearly turned around and cowered back to Redcar when I spotted my first glimpse of punk rockers. There was only four of them but what an impact they made on me, the two lads were festooned in safety pins and badges while they both were holding dog leads and at the other end of the leads wearing diamond studded dog collars were their girlfriends wearing short skirts and torn stockings, all of them looked pure evil but cool as well, I was gob smacked as I stood there in drainpipe jeans and leather jacket and thinking 'What the Fuck!'. A couple of pints eased my nerves"
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On this day in 1977, CBS released the self- titled first album by The Clash in the UK. The album is widely celebrated as one of the greatest punk albums of all time. CBS in the US refused to release it until 1979 and Americans bought over 100,000 imported copies of the record making it one of the biggest- selling import records of all time.
Pictured here is the group performing at The Rock Garden in Middlesbrough, 19th May 1977. Photo by Teesside Archive/Mirrorpix (01399114).
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poster courtesy of ...
Below we have an original gig poster, Garry who went to the gig thinks this poster might of been from one of the Boro record shops to promote the gig as the venue was on the outskirts of town with little passing trade.
In pictures: Legendary rockers The Clash on stage at Middlesbrough's Rock Garden
Atmospheric images show mosh pit surging round the stage at the venue which in later years became The Arena nightclub
As venues go, Middlesbrough's Rock Garden can claim its place in the punk history of Teesside.
In its 70s heyday, the Newport Road venue - which started life as The Pavilion Theatre, became Club Marimba and then much later The Arena - played host to a huge number of rockers from The Sex Pistols to The Stranglers.
In May 1977, legendary rockers The Clash took to its stage - were you there?
One of our photographers was and captured a whole series of atmospheric pictures of the band from what appears to be the mosh pit at the front of the stage.
1. A sea of long haired, denim clad and leather jacketed fans pack the audience, stretching their arms out to reach the stage as the band belt out their numbers in front of spindly microphone stands.
2. Speakers are blaring out the noise and if you zoom in, you can catch the typical punk sneer on the face of the lead singer.
3. The date was May 19, 1977. The Clash had released their debut single White Riot that March and set out on a spring tour around the United Kingdom.
4. Their line up that night was Joe Strummer (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Mick Jones (lead guitar and backing vocals), Paul Simonon (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Nicky 'Topper' Headon (drums.)
5. Fans will know the iconic hit songs that came after White Riot including London Calling, I Fought The Law and Rock The Casbah.
6. There are seven images in our photographer's collection which have been unearthed from the archives here at TeessideLive. If you were there - let us know
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There are several sights that provide setlists but most mirror www.blackmarketclash.co.uk. They are worth checking.
from Setlist FM (cannot be relied on)
from Songkick (cannot be relied on)
... both have lists of people who say they went
& from the newer Concert Database
Also useful: Ultimate Music datbase, All Music, Clash books at DISCOGS
A collection of articles, interviews, reviews, posters, tour dates White Riot Tour. Articles cover the month of May 1977.
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Middlesbrough Rock Garden 'The Clash' 19 May 1977
Punk 77 .. Mick Todd recalls
I had a look inside for the listings and to my amazement there was an article about a punk band called the Clash and they were playing at some place called The Rock Garden in Middlesbrough in a few days times. I fancied going but just to be sure I wanted to hear what they sounded like so I went to WH Smiths in Redcar and bought a copy of the Clash's first album (archived PDF)
Facebook: MIDDLESBROUGH ROCK GARDEN - NEWPORT ROAD - MIDDLESBROUGH
Posts on The Clash at the Rock Garden
From the comments, it appears theres a review and photos in the Middlesborugh Gazette.
Book: The Clash Takes on the World:
Page 35
Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band.
..Detailed memories of the gigs at;
Newcastle University May 1977
Middlesbrough Rock Garden, May 1977,
Sussex University May 1977,
Newcastle gig in both Oct 1977 and December 1978,
Newcastle Mayfair June 1980,
Newcastle City Hall July 1982..
(PDF verison)
White Riot Tour montage
The Clash compilation video of the track 1977
THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN Song 1977 (Beaconsfield Film School Session)
Licensed to YouTube by SME (on behalf of Sony Music UK); CMRRA, LatinAutor - UMPG, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, UMPG Publishing, and 2 Music Rights Societies
White Riot: Documentary about Rock Against Racism Festival
https://www.facebook.com/WhiteRiotFilm
http://whiteriot-movie.com https://bcij.jp/ctg/movie/5598.html
According to the Japanese promo link above, it will be available for digital rental starting this April 2020:
“The rental distribution period will start from April 17th (Friday) on the following distribution platforms. The service will be available for approximately one month until May 15 (Fri). The platform also includes the online movie theater "Uplink Cloud", which has been urgently implemented due to the situation of uplink. In the future, some theaters are planned to be released one by one, but so that people who live in the self-restraint area can also enjoy it, and also in the `` chaotic world by director Rubika Shah of this work, thinking by myself, I want you to know the importance of raising your voice. Even if you are alone, you can find your friends by raising your voice. You can act together and overcome it. "What you can do now It was said that it came to be implemented. Please check out RAR's activities at home, which are relevant to modern times.
■ Distribution platform Uplink cloud, Amazon prime video, GYAO! Store, crank-in! Video, COCORO VIDEO, TSUTAYA TV, DMM movie, dTV, Hikari TV, Video Market, Videx JP, Movie full plus, music.jp, U-NEXT, Rakuten TV and others.”
The Clash Live - University of East Sussex Brighton White Riot Tour - Wednesday 25th May 1977
Video - Video - Filmed by Students
Youtube release (by students?) 10 tracks
Capitol Radio (Youtube)
Protex Blue (Youtube)
Cheat (Youtube)
Remote Control (Youtube)
I'm So Bored with the USA (Official)
Hate & War (Official)
Career Opportunities (Official)
Remote Control (Official)
White Riot (Youtube)
Police And Thieves (Youtube)
Official re-release - Official Sony Soundsystem Boxset DVD
I'm So Bored With The USA 2:14 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
Hate & War 1:94 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
Career Opportunities 1:42 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
Remote Control 2:73 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
The Clash Live - The Rainbow 9th May 1977 - White Riot Tour
Video - probably filmed by Don Letts/Julian Temple.
Don Letts' Punk Rock Movie is the only known footage to have been broadcast (White Riot). The taper also recorded Subway Sect. Punk Rock Movie 2mins and also Old Grey Whistle Test 2mins
The recent offical Sony release Sound System box set includes new video footage.
Don Letts Super 8 Medley 11:40
White Riot 1:52 (Harlesden, 3 Mar 1977)
Janie Jones 1:73 (unknown)
City of the Dead 2:04 (unknown)
Clash City Rockers 2:15 (unknown)
White Man in Hammersmith Palais 2:53 (unknown)
1977 1:41 (The Rainbow, 9 May 1977)
Don Letts footage has recenty been released. A good listing of the contents of the The Clash's Sound System box set can be found here.
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