Out on Parole Tour 1978

Here is a list of known articles around the time of the tour. If you know of anything that is missing please do let us know.

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Record Mirror archive 1955-1981
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Fanzines: Great Collection
Great collection of scanned fanzines from the 1970s and 1980s

Sounds - Clash on Parole
3 June1978

Clash 'on Parole'

THE CLASH have lined up a British tour which starts at the end of this month.

Called `The Clash Out On Parole’, it follows the relase of their new single, `White Man In Hammersmith Palais’, on June 16.

They start at Aylesbury Friars on June 28 and continue at Leeds Queens Hall 29, Sheffield Top Rank 30, Leicester Granby Hall July 1, Manchester Apollo 2, Glasgow Apollo 3, Aberdeen Music
Hall 5, Chester Deeside Leisure Centre 6, Crawley Sports Centre 8, Bristol Locarno 9, Torquay Town Hall 10, Cardiff Top Rank 11, Birmingham Top Rank 12, Edmonton Picketts Lock Sports Centre 15.

The band are also hoping to play dates in Liverpool and Newcastle but are having difficulty finding a venue as they have been banned in both these areas. They are also trying to arrange a second London date, possibly around the Elephant And Castle area.

Ticketprices will be kept to around the £2.00 mark and 80 per cent of the venues will be unseated, including the London date. Tickets will go on sale next week and full details will be announced then

Record Mirror? - Clash dates
June1978

The Clash: Banned from the Home Counties
Parole Tour / Aylesbury
Confirms bans for St Albans, Hemel Hempsted and Dunstable

Clash to be City Rockers after all

Clash to be City Rockers after all

THE CLASH have now finalised the London dates for their British tour this month, which have been the cause of considerable difficulty.

They will play four nights at London’s Music Machine from July 24 to 27. Tickets, price £2.25, went on sale on Tuesday.

Supporting the Clash on all four nights will be American band SUICIDE, who have been on all the current tour dates with the Clash. There will also be a third band, but this will differ on each night to give opportunities to a number of new bands.

The Clash were unable to play their first choice London date - at the Hammersmith Palais - which would have coincided with their latest single, `(White Man In Rammesmith Palais’ which is at Number 32 in this week’s singles charts.

The band still have to complete their second album, but they are expected to do this as soon as the tour is over and it’s likely that the album will be released in the autumn.

Sounds - Clash off
10 June 1978

Clash off

THE CLASH have been forced to cancel thcir date at Edmonton (East London) Pickct Lock Sports Ccntre on JuIy 15.

Local residents complained about the gig, saying they thought it would attract a “distastefuI audience”. The band are currently looking for an alternative venue.

Tickets for the Leeds Queen Hall date June 29 are available from the hall’s box office and also by postal application with SAE pIus usual agents in the area.

For Leicester Granby Hall on July 1 tickets are avaiIabIe from the town hall box office, Virgin Records Nottingham, R.E. Cords Derby and Sanctuury Records, Lincoln.

The support act for the tour is to be announced.

NME Letters page – 22 July 1978
'Out on Parole Tour'

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NME Letters page – 29 July 1978

text version

Tour poster and White Man single alt

Tour poster and White Man single

Tour poster

Unknown?

On The Road With The Clash.

‘The Myth Of The Clash’ (copyright Marcus Gray) was not the only thing I had to contend with whilst growing up with The Clash – there was also ‘The Myth Of How Many Times I Actually Saw The Clash (in reality)’ to deal with. The truth is: I bullshitted quite a lot. I was a committed bullshitter when it came to The Clash. A one-man crusade to prove myself as the ultimate Clash fanatic numero uno! text version

Sounds article (Paris extract) -
17 June 1978

PARIS

THE BAND’S decision to play Paris was almost as sudden as mine to go. They’d cancelled out of the gig weeks before but the promoter had gone ahead regardless and spattered the city with posters announcing the appearance of le Clash. The replacement band, Subway Sect, also managed by Bernie Rhodes, understandably fearing a riot, refused to play it when they realised there’d be six thousand odd Parisians expecting the Clash.

Full article >

ZIG ZAG No#85 – 3 pages
July 78
Robin Banks reviews the Rope demos

Record Mirror 3 page interview
1 July 1978

Talking Clash. A band with honesty and commitment, playing for people, or just another bunch of hollow, would be superstars?

NME front cover and story - Clash on Tour
Chris Salewicz, NME,
15 July 1978

original
text version

Suicide Chronology

"Blackburn: "Support on the Clash's "Out On Parole" tour. At Blackburn they were arrested by a police officer, named Mr. Ray, for possession of hash. The event is later recollected in the song "Mr.Ray"."

Crawley:
"From the back of the hall I saw skinheads climbing up the PA stack like cockroaches ascending a dinner table. A big lad just strode across the stage and whacked Martin Rev [or was it Alan Vega?- Ed.], breaking his nose. Roadies grappled with him, and he fought to free his arm so he could face the crowd and punch the air in triumph, like he'd scored a winning goal. They pulled him to the side of the stage, where [roadie] English stood, legs apart, waving a knife at the baying crowd. It didn't calm anyone down. [..] To their credit, Suicide finished their set despite Rev's broken nose. Backstage, we watched him, covered in blood, leave for the hospital." from "A Riot Of Our Own", a book (on the Clash) by Johnny Green.

Music Machine 24 July [A] word about the support band, Suicide. They once again showed the yawning gap between theory and practice. People constantly scream for the space and platform to be individual, but when an audience encounters something radically new which doesn't fit the fashion requirements, some feel they have to chuck glasses and hurl abuse. Still, Suicide remain proud and partially won through, despite the hail of plastic mugs, the chants of "Clash! Clash! Clash" and a hamfisted sound mixer. Their electronic toasting [..] veers wildly between the truly awful and the overwhelmingly hypnotic." Reviewed by Ian Birch for Melody Maker 25-Jul-78. The Suicide gig was recorded by Recorded by Howard Thompson (of Bronze records) with a Sony Cassette-Corder TC-205 Archived PDF

The 24th and 26th were both recorded for the "Live 1977-1978" CD Box (Blast First 2008).

Suicide comments on Glasgow Apollo page including the Glasgow axe incident.

The audience looked in bewilderment for a few minutes before deciding to start a slow handclap of disapproval. This is usually the sign for a support band to finish off before things get worse. But Suicide were only just on stage. Alan joined in with the handclap acting like the audience were clapping along to the music. This stopped the hand clapping but provoked the audience to shout abuse and hurl objects at the stage. I did not see an axe, but I can quite believe the reports that this happened would be true. I did see cans, bottles and even an attempt to through the first row of (formerly fixed) seating onto the stage. Archived PDF

On the Road with the Clash
Traxmarx
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Aylesbury Friars warning note
The Clash banned in the Counties ...