Clash on Parole Tour
Supported by The Specials & Suicide
updated Dec 2014 - added ticket
updated Oct 2020 - added photo
updated July 2021 added poster
see also this history of www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk and this gig
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Audio
very poor - Sound 1.5 - 61min - copied too often! - 18 tracks
Tommy Gun
Sadly the only recording circulating of this gig is fairly awful.
It has very little clarity or range with Joe’s between song comments (and there are many) almost indecipherable. Its not near the master, distant and with all the instrumentation largely lost in a confused muddle of mid range sound. Any upgrades nearer the master very welcome.
First night of the Out on Parole Tour.
The name of the tour coming not from the pigeon shooting farce which the press assumed and vilified the band for, but from Mott The Hoople’s All The Way From Memphis “you look like a star, but you’re really out on parole “.
Although venues were much the same size and largely standing as the previous Get Out of Control Tour this was to be a more professional tour with a new top grade PA and performances much less manic than before but very powerful nevertheless.
Mick’s guitar playing now has a heavier rock sound, which may have been a result of Sandy Pearlman’s HM influence or the quality of the new PA.
Out on Parole Tour would include most of the Rope songs but would climax with a run through of first album favourites to please their audiences who wouldn’t be able to get familiar with the new material until its eventual release in November.
To fill the album gap Whiteman had been released as a single on the 16th June, (same day as the pigeon shooting Court hearing hence the press piss-taking of the tour title) and Joe introduces it here by announcing its current chart position; No.32.
Pauls tour backdrop
The gig also unveiled the new Tour backdrop designed by Paul a Notting Hill townscape with blow up of a WWII Messer Schmidt.
The Friars Aylesbury was a popular venue with audiences and bands alike until its closure in 1984. The gig was reviewed by Garry Bushell for Sounds, the neo-racist Sun gutter scribe.
Telegram informing the Clash where they cannot play
see also this history of www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk and this gig
It has a rare playing of All the Young Punks (like the demo version circulating) and provides the live debuts for Safe European Home, Cheapskates, Drug Stabbing Time & Stay Free. It also features the first very brief outing for Blitzkreig Bop segued onto the end of Police and Thieves. There is only one edit a short one during Stay Free.
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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
Numerous articles, interviews, reviews, posters, tour dates from The Clash on Parole Tour, June & July 1978
If you know of any articles or references for this particular gig, anything that is missing, please do let us know. We have none on this ocsasion!
See also this history of www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk and this gig
this gig as a PDF
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Sounds gig review
Clash/The Specials - Aylesbury
8th JULY 1978 (text version)
FOR PEOPLE who like to put things in neat little pecking orders - and because of our conditioning there’s a lot of them - the Clash are the Big Boys now, THE punk establishment. Well, the Damned have split; the Stranglers aren’t cool, are they?; and with Johnny in cold storage the Ex Pistols are nothing more than Uncle Malcie’s marionettes, mainlining on the puerile publicity of negative outrage Jolly shocking, what?
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On the Road with the Clash
Traxmarx - includes Ayslebury Gig
Granada region, Whats On - ITV
Manchester – Apollo – 2nd July
Rock Revolution Video - 2 tracks - 5 mins The "Rock revolution" vid is overdubbed with fake crowd noise. This is labeled often November 1978 inlcluding inthe video itself but with both audio recordings circulating – it is from this gig, the 2nd July.
Glasgow – Apollo 4 – July 4th
audio & video tracks from Rude Boy
Aberdeen – Music Hall – July 5th
2 audio & video tracks from Rude Boy
London – Music Machine – Jul 27
3 audio & video tracks from Rude Boy
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