Clash on Parole Tour
Supported by The Specials & Suicide
Audio -
full audience - poor - Sound 1.5 - 65min - unknown gen - 20 tracks
07 Clash City Rockers
Rude Boy DVD - Quality 5 - 3min - mast - 1 track [The Prisoner which runs into the opening chords of White Riot]
Rude Boy footage
The gig, filmed partially by Mingay and Hazan for Rude Boy features the ‘The Prisoner’ which fades into White Riot, as the director wanted footage of The Prisoner to use along with footage from the Glasgow Apollo. Fans locked up at Glasgow with Joe & Paul had sung choruses of the Prisoner.
The clip from the Prisoner track which appears in the film, has Mick trying to stop fighting in the audience, which actually took place during Capital Radio and which has been cleverly edited in the directors prefered place. Capital Radio may possible exist thus?
The best recording in circulation has some clarity and range but is a raw audience tape suffering from distance and distortion. It’s on a par with the Manchester Apollo bootleg of 3 nights earlier.
Guitar comes through OK, bass is buried but there, drums and vocals distant but not bad. Joe’s rhythm guitar can just be made out.
It’s at least several generations up from the master so an upgrade may yet surface. An enjoyable listen though for the performance and the atmosphere, which is captured quite well.
Aberdeen Music Hall
A complete contrast to the previous night. In Glasgow the band were largely powerless to stop the notorious Apollo bouncers beating the shit out of their fans. Here they are playing at the extremely grand Aberdeen Music Hall. A grandueresque civic building owned by the City Council which is still in use today.
It would not have been surprising if this performance had been subdued after the events from the night before but this is another great performance.
As well as being memorable for the rarish appearance of The Prisoner [at the behest of the directors?] Joe’s intro “Some of us spent last night in jail, this a song called I don’t wanna be the prisoner”, it’s the first recording in effect of Capital Radio II as Mick adds the gentle guitar intro before blasting into the song proper.
English Civil War is a further highlight with Joe saying, “all get out your songbooks and turn to page 29!” The audience get the usual tour 3 song encore ending with the chaotic White Riot.
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This was the night of the infamous Glasgow Apollo gig it was also a Tuesday i seen them next day in Aberdeen where they played a blistering set .Its funny i can remember it as clear as day yet theres things from last week that ive completely forgot.They had this big stage backdrop with a picture of a Mechersmitd it fell downon Topper halfway through the set .Some of Rude Boy was filmed there but i dont think they got that one.
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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)
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... 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
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'Kingdom Come' Fanzine
Report on Scottish dates 1978
Unseen Joe Strummer & Ari Up
July 19, 2016
For Malcontents Only Music, Photography Aberdeen Ruffles, Ari Up, Easy Action, Joe Strummer Aberdeen, Les Clark Design 2 Comments
This week something a little bit different. A couple of previously unseen photos of two absolute punk legends: Joe Strummer of The Clash and Ari Up of The Slits sent in by Les Clark, who rather modestly claims that: ‘These are not photographs, just snapshots of time – leave the photos to the professionals.’ PDF
See A Riot of Our Own pg89
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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