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NME Review – Bands don't play Leeds Hall Emma Ruth
8 July 1978
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
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London – Music Machine – Jul 27
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Clash on Parole Tour
Supported by The Specials & Suicide
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The Clash
8th JULY 1978 EDITION
BANDS DON’T play Leeds Queen’s Hall for the music; they do it strictly for the loot. Specifically designed for exhibitions of the EarIs Court non-rock variety, the atmosphere and acoustics are so zero it’s like hearing long distance discs and looking at insectile Importers from the far end of a vast aircraft hanger.
When The Stranglers played here last October (on a night which clashed with the Leeds Live Stiff sell-out) 4,500 showed up and Hugh Cornwall was all but embarrassed that his band had achieved such a mass mandate, saying (very unconvincingly), “This is as big as we want it to get . We don’t ever want to play to more people than this.”
Similarly (no doubt) The Clash and their promoters hoped for a repeated comprehensive turnout. But the venue was chosen as badly as the original punk ethic was abused.
The frugal hundreds who came hardly justified the extravagance of the setting; in a word, this CIash concert failed. Not because their musical, significance has declined or because they can’t excite or don’t have substantial promise - but just because someone somewhere over-rated their drawing power (though it’s probably an indication that The Clash’s superior punk is going the way of aII the other species’ rather than a straight forward representation of the band’s relevance rating.)
With Suicide having pulled out of the support slot, a lot of people were feeling a little put upon having to make do with Siouxsie Banshee and Chelsea, the bands whose job it was to kill some time and close some open spaces. They made the best of it, though, and helped to generate some kind of tension for the City Rockers - the rest being supplied by a phoney intermission ion comprising some frenzied punk waxings and a shakey hand on the lights network, leading ultimately, to the Meserschmitt/Notting Hill projected backdrop and the band’s definitive entree.
Always one of the more charismatic of tile new bands, The Clash, as ever, looked good; Mick Jones in white straights, blouse and red waistcoat, Strummer in yellow (the smart.assed trouble making high school kid having difficulty - would you believe? - holding his pants up. “With A Sham 69 badge”), and acquitted pigeon shooter Simonon with his customary Nazi - chic outfit and Richard Hell stances at the axe. If you weren’t supposed to be seeing The Clash just for their music, you’d probably get entertainment enough just seeing them move.
But the music, after all, is the stuff that shifts the units, and The Clash’s apparent difficulty in “getting things right” for the second album Ieads you to expect pretty big things from them as they get to grips with another tour.
It’s too early to say The Clash have progressed - the new album will probably stun just Dike the debut - but on the strength of this performance, they don’t go out of their way to indicate progression (though as previously stated, the sheer inadequacy of this venue mitigates most short comings). The one thing you can say about the band with total assurance, however, is that each and every member is developing considerable proficiency. The style may no t have changed much but the delivery has a solid propensity.
Jones solos impressively (frequently at will) and Topper Headons produces rock steady drumming with the occasional flash of quasi-virtuosity. Oldy Strummer hasn’t really changed, though with an acid test of an impending album threatening / haunting him like an albatross, pulling out the stops for a few hundred punters in a Northern aerodrome is probably the last thing he needs.
The essential effect of this musical maturation is that The Clash seem to have graduated/shifted towards Heavy Metal music; distinctive, discordant maybe, but Heavy Metal all the same. Of the numbers, ironically, “Complete Control” loses its vitality live, while “Clash City Rockers” and “Tommy Gun”, hardly seminal Clash numbers to begin with, come over like punk tunes a dime a dozen, drowned in volume and the ambition of each Clasher to feature at the death.
The very best “Capital Radio” and a sequence of songs from the first (first again?) album, followed “Londons Burning”. `I’m So Bored- With The USA’, `Janie Jones”, the band’s classic immaculate “Police And Thieves” interpretation, and the inevitable standard, “White Riot”.
“White Man In Hammersmith Palais” is the one song that looks forward rather than back, and a hint that the band can successfully experiment with rhythms, which (unless Strummer preserves his marginally political naive obsessions forever) are possibly the most plausible device to secure their safe and credible exit from this tight-line limbo.
Well over a year after The Clash set the standard with the best rock album of the New Age, the band must be aware that things are not as cut and dried as they should be.
The Clash maybe sometimes beg to be written off, but somehow you can’t do it. while we await the album (in the meantime), the band should check out the suitability of other venues in advance.
Emma Ruth
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Post by Bruno » Sat 29 Oct, 2011 9:55 pm
Funny how memory plays tricks, I thought I'd been to quite a few gigs at the Queen's Hall, but as I've mentioned before, I kept a comprehensive list of all the gigs I went to for several years, so I've just dug it out again, and it turns out I only went to two at the QH.First was The Stranglers, supported by the Drones and the Saints, towards the end of 1977. The second gig was The Clash in early summer 1978. They were supported by Chelsea (another punk band as far as I can remember, which isn't very far at all), but I do remember the opening act, a band called Breaker from Coventry. Breaker was the band which evolved into The Specials (weren't they orignally called Special AKA?), and even then the lead singer was that miserable bloke who sang Ghost Town when they morphed down into the Fun Boy Three. Anyway, this bunch of midlanders wasn't going down very well in Leeds, there were chants of 'off, off, off' and worse, so the singer (was it Jeffrey Dammers?) stopped the music and proceeded to moan at the audience about how, atttending Elland Road as a Coventry City fan, he had been attacked by Leeds supporters. Cue the biggest cheer of the evening so far from the crowd, and a hail of glass bottles like something from Agincourt, which saw the band hurriedly leave the stage, not to return. I'm not condoning that sort of behaviour, but I am still laughing about it, 33 years later.On the beer festival subject, I've just been to have a look in my kitchen cupboard, and I note that I have beer glasses from the Great British Beer Festival (ie the national event) from 1981, 1982 and 1988. The 1988 glass actually features the words 'Queen's Hall, Leeds' so there is no doubt as to the venue. The intervening years, 1983-1987, saw the Leeds Beer Festival being held at the QH as far as I can recall.
