support acts ... Richard Hell & The Voidoids
Strange stormy night. Other piers had been blown down that night!
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Hey Ho Lets Go - Personal Review
November 12, 1977. Hastings Pier.
In the summer of ’77, I started going to the Basement Club, near to the Art College in Brighton. Saturday night was punk night and although it was dark and dingy and the walls ran with sweat, we went there for the music...
Ken Copsey. Remember the Voidoids walked off stage after their ëbaldí lead guitarist was hit on the head by what looked like a full can of beer. Thank god that kind of age discrimination doesnt go on nowadays or none of us would dare set foot on stage again!
John Storer.The Clash in 77 was one of the best gigs I ever saw at the Pier, even though I had to stand at the back because it was the first gig Iíd taken the future Mrs Storer to (She was a Genesis / Yes / Pink Floyd fan). Weíd only been going out a couple of weeks so I had to be on best behaviour. Knew it was going to be a great gig as soon as they launched into Londons Burning. ìTheir debut still stands the test of time and is one of the few albums from that era I still listen to occasionally. But only in the car Mrs S still hates punk!
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There are several sights that provide setlists but most mirror www.blackmarketclash.co.uk. They are worth checking.
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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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Punk rock shows its violent face
November 12, 1977. Hastings Pier.
I Saw The Clash #1, 11.11.77
The Clash Get Out of Control Tour @ Cambridge Corn Exchange
Russell Cronin
My life had already been changed by The Clash. The first time I saw the band was at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, November ’77. I had turned sixteen in September and was at boarding school in Stamford. We persuaded a liberal teacher to hire a mini bus and improvised a punk look. It wasn’t hard, then: if you didn’t have long hair & flared trousers, you stood out. PDF version
Hey Ho Lets Go - Personal Review
November 12, 1977. Hastings Pier.
In the summer of ’77, I started going to the Basement Club, near to the Art College in Brighton. Saturday night was punk night and although it was dark and dingy and the walls ran with sweat, we went there for the music. My life had already been changed by The Clash. The first time I saw the band was at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, November ’77. I had turned sixteen in September and was at boarding school in Stamford. We persuaded a liberal teacher to hire a mini bus and improvised a punk look. It wasn’t hard, then: if you didn’t have long hair & flared trousers, you stood out. PDF version
Manchester - Nov 15
Elizabethan Ballroom, Belle Vue
Often circulated as Elizabthan Suite, it is in fact a full gig which was filmed by and for Granada TV and included Souisie and the Banshees as support.Snippets were screened twice on the So It Goes TV show (Dec 77 and Nov 78) (and repeated again in 1990) and circulate on video and audio.Other than the So It Goes source, no other source exists. It is thought Granada don't know where it is either and that the Dec 78 footage may have come from Tony Wilsons own collection.?
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