Get Out Of Control Tour
Supported by Richard Hell & The Voidoids & The Lous
updated 24 June 2006
updated 28 Dec 2008 - added details on new source
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Audio - some over amplification - full gig
Sound 2.5 - 42:32min - low gen audience? - 16 tracks
Capital Radio full source
Audio - upgrade to lower gen - (misses last 6 tracks)
Sound 2.5 - 29:27mins - low gen - 10 tracks
Capital Radio slightly better edited source
a great performance and very enjoyable listen
Some recordings don’t have good sound quality but still capture the energy and excitement of The Clash live. This is definitely one of them a great performance and very enjoyable listen. The best of the Out of Control Tour UK Leg recordings until Sheffield turned up recently.
It’s a low generation audience recording with some degree of stereo separation. Although there is distortion from over amplification, distant vocals and a low bass level the guitars come through very well picking up some great punk guitar work from Mick (and Joe).
Drums are good too with the cymbals clear. Distortion levels are worst on the first 4 songs but improve at Jail Guitar Doors. Sound is best on the slower songs where the distortion is less intrusive.
Mick Jones at the Records Shop. Edinburgh 1977
Courtesy of Ranking Fred at Clash on Parole FB
Edinburgh Clouds and Coasters
Clouds was the upstairs part of Coasters (now called the Cavendish) where strummer played again with the clash busking in 1985 and with LRW in 1988 - Coasters itself is pretty small and both the upstairs rooms are tiny.
"Great website you have. Good attention to detail.
Given that, I thought I'd correct a small detail on that page about the Clash gig at Clouds. I was at the gig, and many others at Clouds at this time.
The mistake on your page relates to the venue - Clouds was not only the upstairs part of the building at that time. Clouds was the whole building, including the ground floor. The Clash did not play in either of the two upstairs rooms, which as you point out are pretty small. In fact, they played on the ground floor level, which is a bit bigger, though far from massive.
A minor detail, I know, but as you've obviously spent so much time on the website, I thought you might want it as accurate as possible." Jim
It’s a terrific performance throughout and the audience response is loud and excited. It must have been a great venue, small and unseated. It’s still in use today and is a Northern Soul mecca. Joe’s responds to the décor in his intro to the gig “I’m just gazing at myself in the mirror”
It’s a great performance throughout building to a frenetic finish from I’m So Bored With The USA through to Garageland with each song running straight into the next. At similar breakneck speed The Clash blast through the one encore of What’s My Name and White Riot.
Two definite highlights:
Capital Radio is just brilliant and a good example of the increasing drama The Clash were now adding into songs. With a “Sssh!. Sssh!, Sssh , the music drops back to drum and bass only , and Joe intones “One night I was all alone, sitting by my telephone, got no friends to call, I listen to the radio, all night long” Joe then screams through a manic rant with the music building to its full blast ending. Joe dramatising the “wanna tell your problems, phone in from the bed sit room” theme.
Police and Thieves is awesome here, extended with great guitar work and ad libbing from Joe.
Did you go? What do you remember?
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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 from the Get Out of Control Tour. Articles cover the month of October through to New Year 1977.
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Gig review
Glasgow ‘zine Trash 77 in their third issue
'Stand up and Spit' website (PDF here)
"Joe Strummer has a few words with Glasgow ‘zine Trash 77 in their third issue. There’s also a live review of The Clash in Edinburgh"
Manchester - Nov 15
Elizabethan Ballroom, Belle Vue
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