Get Out Of Control Tour
update - 7 April 2020
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Hastily arranged special xmas date to compensate for the cancellation on the 20 October, the opening night of the tour.
first night cancelled due to transport problems (Dec 19th??)
the story goes that 2 shows were to be done on the one night to make up for the cancelled Ulster Hall fiasco back in October. Only one show went ahead. the venue was changed on campus. Support The Lous. (Dec 20th??)
BELFAST CHRISTMAS DATES
NME - JANUARY 1978 EDITION
"HIYA!" SHOUTED JOE STRUMMER, punching savagely a big Chnstmas balloon decoration hanging from the ceiling above his head. A sweating hall full of Ulster's punk population leapt in the air with a great roar. The Clash had come back to Belfast.
The roar continued more or less unabated throughout the hour-long set, which also saw a lot of frenzied gobbing. At one point Mick Jones had to stop playing to unclog his strings.
There were two Saturday shows originally scheduled for Queen's University Student's Union - which had tried to stage the band's aborted Ulster Hall gig in October, but which was also stymied on that occasion by insurance problems (see Thrills 29.10.77). This time around, only one Clash performance actually got off the ground, the first one falling down over a travel hold-up after The Clash apparently missed their plane.
About 650 punks bought tickets for Saturdays show. Each ticket was accompanied by a personal note from student organiser Eamonn McCann, appealing for cool on the part of the audience, "so that other punk concerts might be possible in the New Year."
The entrance hall to the union looked almost like a pet shop as the show got underway. Tables groaned under assorted belts, buckles, leads, studded collars and safety pins, all taken off fans as they came in and each carefully labelled with the owner's name.
The Clash lashed into their programme at sub-sonic speed, throwing almost unnoticed Northern Ireland asides into familiar songs (`Police And Thieves" became "Police And Priests"), and pausing only to wipe down between numbers.
The set finished on "Garageland", which seemed to catch the crowd by surprise. It took them a full 30 seconds to realise that the show was indeed over, and the mighty roar then started up again with a vengeance.
The band came back onstage almost immediately with "London's Burning", only it was now called "Belfast's Burning". The audience went ape. By the final encore `number, "White Riot", the bouncers were no longer able to hold the front-line control, and several people broke through onto the stage to share vocals with Strummer. He passed the mike to one to finish the song for him.
The band left the stage as chaos became general.
When they got outside the fans were in for a shock. In the normally middle-class Elmwood Avenue four or five armoured Land Rovers were pulled up, ringed with police carrying rifles.
The crowd, which had shown no hint of aggro throughout the evening, stood about in groups, looking bemused. The police, several with rifles held on the hip, moved amongst them, presumably looking for the expected violence. None came.
Suddenly a ligger at the back of the crowd, jumping piggyback on his mate's shoulders, became the target for action, and a handful of cops rushed in to collar him He was hustled off into one of the waiting Land Rovers.
As the punks moved off down University Road the Land Rovers kerb-crawIed beside them, occasionally stopping for armed constables to lump out and stand guard at street corners. If it was provocation, as some of the fans muttered, it didn't work. Most of the crowd seemed to be in 2 hurry to get to a party somewhere.
The success of the Clash concert means that Queens will now be able to go ahead with their projected New Year programme. First confirmed date is January 26 for Buzzcocks.
COLIN McCLELLAND
THRILLS
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Set list gathered from reviews
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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
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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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The Clash – Belfast – Gavin Martin
The last time The Clash tried to play Ulster Hall a combination of big business moguls...
NME gig review opposite
NME Belfast 78 gig review
the 78 review has a bried mention of this hastily aaranged 77 gig.
See also The Clash - Visual Documentary pg30 para.1
See also Riot of Our Own pg20
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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