White Riot Tour with the Buzzcocks, Slits and Subway Sect.
Date listed in NME...This is often listed as CARDIFF 77. It isn't.
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Audio - Cardiff 77 CD
Sound 4.5 - 35mins - Tracks 12
Whats My Name (Cardiff 77 CD)
All sources: (BBC Broadcast)
- Cardiff 77 LP
- Cardiff 77 CD (the best - reissue of LP master)
- Daddy is a Punkrocker LP (reissue from CD)
- Super Golden Radio Shows CD (poorer source)
- White Riot 7 (reissue from CD)
Cardiff 77 CD
the best sounding recording of the early Clash
Cardiff 77 CD is probably the best sounding recording of the early Clash and is the best sounding boot as well. It was broadcast by BBC Radio though BBC Radio 1 did not have an FM stereo frequency back them [though they had AM mono broadcasts though until the mid eighties] This is probably then from the master source given its quality. It’s a hifi professional quality recording but with limited stereo separation.
The sound is very clear with excellent range and clarity and no distortion. Any rough edges are more likely to be poor Clash equipment than BBC equipment. The vocals are up a bit in the mix.
Released multiple times on various boots, this is the LP version of the gig. Missing from all boots are the the usual first two tracks the Clash had been playing, Londons Burning and 1977, 1977 figuring at the end of the set again though.
It is not from Cardiff, as Leicester gets a namecheck not once but thrice and from the songs played it is from the White Riot tour. Joe name checks the De Montfort Hall during Police and Thieves, a larger venue than Leicester Polytechnic. The NME lists the Leicester gig as the 28th May.
BBC Archives?
Does the full gig exist within the BBC. Worth adding is the whereabouts of the John Peel sessions which were never broadcast?
Alternate theory!
The 'Cardiff 77 LP' first appeared in 1977 however ...
"In 198I, I was living in West Hampstead with my mate, who worked for "Fifth Column" t-shirt shop in Portobello road. They produced all the official clash t-shirts of that time, having agreed some kind of franchise deal with the band. Johnny Green also worked at the shop at that time, having stopped touring with the clash the previous year.My mate became good pals with JG, who sometimes popped over on a sunday afternoon for chat. He invited us over to his flat in Hampstead for his birthday party that year.
Anyway, one evening my mate came back from work:"oh, look what Johnny gave me today! A cassette of the clash playing in Cardiff on the white riot tour!" That tape was identical, both in terms of sound quality and set list, to the Leicester boot I recently downloaded from satch's.
Johnny had recently helped Mick Jones to move flat, and "borrowed(!!!)"a tape at random from Mick's private collection! It was soon sold by my mate to a guy in Camden who was in the vinyl pressing business, for a very handsome price. However, the earliest this would have gone into public circulation would be spring 81........
I wonder if the first Cardiff 77 LPs (I've never seen or heard these) were home cassette recordings made from the radio broadcast, and the later stuff came from our mixing desk tape, via JG, via MJ? I've no way of checking the different sound quality of them against each other.
I always fancied that the Cardiff misunderstanding came about because JG told my mate that that's what it was, and my mate sold it on as such (it was never labelled),and the next guy never bothered to listen to it in minute detail before he rushed it out, after all, Leicester is mentioned 2/3 times during the gig!
P:S: would you know the date of this BBC broadcast, and if it was regional or national?Maybe I could find out from the Beeb?
Keep up the good work, this site is much appreciated. Badger"
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This recording provides the best live versions of the rarer 1st album songs, particularly Cheat, 48 Hours, Protex Blue, Deny and Remote Control.
Joe intros 48 Hours with “Its Saturday night you’ve just got paid, Monday’s coming don’t be afraid” and Deny “Lets kiss to the latest Clash love song”. Police & Thieves is a highlight with Joe stating he’s not Diana Ross.
Rob Massey I was there. One of the best gigs I ever attended. Not got the ticket though.
Nick Weston I was there as well and had a drink with the band at the long DeMont bar as we were early. Also kept the advert from the Leicester Mercury
Great site, I am amazed at how much information you have compared to any other site I've seen for any band.
I thought the some recollections and ticket stubs copies might be of interest to you:
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Facebook page - De Montfort Hall / The Clash
Facebook Page - The Clash / Leicester
A legendary concert in all ways - I had just started work in April and spent my first weeks wages on the Clash Album, I am surprised to see that they played the Poly - I have no recollection of missing it, as far as my memory stands, as soon as the tour was announced I checked the dates and got the tickets. (But I also remember it as costing less than £1.50 so my memory is obviously less than perfect.)
It was my first punk concert and my first impression was that at eighteen and 6' 3", I was 4 years older and two foot taller than the rest of the hall.
Subway Sect - I have little recollection other than competent but not inspiring.
Slits - technically the worst band I have ever seen (and I've seen thousands) - rarely managed to get all 4 to start the same song at the same time, usually ended with drums or bass continuing after the rest finished and they seemed unable to learn that running around each other in circles meant that the leads got tangled up, cutting out guitars & ripping microphones from hand at inappropriate moments.
However there were unique with a certain magic about them and I was certainly not put off enough to stop me buying Cut or seeing them live a few years later.
Buzzcocks - superb - I remember them as a lot more aggressive and harder than the poppy band I saw in later years. Spent the next couple of months touring the local record shops of Leicester trying to find someone who could get me a copy of Spiral Scratch.
Clash - amazing - everything I hoped and expected (You've heard the recording and so can image). De Montfort Hall was one of the best venues in Britain with amazing acoustics, easy to enter or leave and had a decent bar the whole length of one side.
Nigel
PS I was also at Watchfield Aug 1975 and saw the 101ers - I saw three or four days of bands and they were one of only a couple of bands who stood out (and the only one of those who I had not heard of). Good enough for me to have caught most of two sets. However I was convinced that they were called the Fabulous 101ers - I checked out a Watchfield site and although not listed someone has commented "on the first Friday night a riproaring set from the fabulas 101ers" suggests I was not the only one who might have thought this. (http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/watchfieldfestival-menu.html)
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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.
If you know of any articles or references for this particular gig, anything that is missing, please do let us know.
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'The Clash' Leicester 1977
Chris Knowles - Clash City Showdown
The Essential Clash Bootleg Bible
includes this gig .. or here...
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)
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