Clash on Parole Tour
Supported by The Specials & Suicide & The Skids
Correct info from a late tour poster. Johnney Green also refers to this as a venue on p89. End of White Riot appeared on Scottish TV the day after...
Skids lead singer Richard Jobson waxes lyrical about this gig whenever he talks about it.
Last updated March 2007
updated Dec 14 - added ticket
updated April 2020
Rude Boy Promo cass - Sound 5 - 3min - 1gen - 1 track
complete song audio only - more info
Rude Boy DVD - Quality 5 - 6min - 2 tracks
Recent DVD Release
The recent DVD release includes the track White Riot as a bonus, probably excluded as White Riot was included from Glasgow and Victoria Park already.
With a mass stage invasion the band are no longer able to continue and the gig comes to an end.
Punk Riot...
The Dunfermaline Kinema White Riot footage was originally shown in edited form on Scottish TV (as a ‘punk riot’ story) as the gig erupted to a premature end. This song doesn't feature on the films promo cassette, possibly with White Riot on to many times and the Prisoner was used solely for the Glasgow mayhem follow up?
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"The gig was definately played on Thursday, 6th July 1978. Suicide were the support band (and boy did they get it that night, almost got murdered) and the crowd were among the most violent ever witnessed in my long career of gigs throughout the years.
This was due to a large part of the crowd being the "Sham Army" who were out to kick in as many Clash fans as they could. So by the time the Clash took to the stage, fights were breaking out all over the place, and the bouncers had pissed off out of the road as they couldn't control it.
The Clash were continually interupted trying to stop the fighting, but eventually just played through the bedlam as there was nothing much they could do.
As the concert came to it's climax "White Riot" the whole place seemed to go absolutely mental as the crowd, at first one or two getting up on the stage and trying to sing with Strummer, then eventually the rest stormed it, Strummer disappearing under a mass of bodies, the band stopped playing, Simonon swinging his bass at anything near him, Topper buggered off through the backdrop and if I remember rightly Jonesy just walking off the side looking more than a bit peeved.
Needless to say they didn't appear again as the house lights went up, the local Fife Police came in, and it became a free for all.
During the set me and my two friends had stood up on the seats at the side of the dance hall where we had a great view. Two guys, one with a huge camera on his shoulder and another carrying some kind of case attached to it, asked to come up beside us to film the band. Me and one of my mates held this big case up so the cameraman could manovere better and I asked the other one what it was for.
He replied it was for a documentary on the band. Yes, It was "Rude Boy"! After a while a couple of bouncers came up to us (doing nothing but helping out by the way while half the bloody crowd were murdering each other) and told us to get down off the seats. For crying out loud, the place had been trashed!!!!!!!!! Anyway, we all had to get down, the two guys thanked us and moved closer to the stage.
I noticed the film is out now on DVD, and one of the extras is "White Riot". I remember after the show (probably within a week) the local TV showed a clip of the end of the gig when the crowd all started invading the stage but this was not on the original film or video.
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from Setlist FM (cannot be relied on)
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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
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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