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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 Sort it Out Tour, October to December 1978
If you know of any articles or references for this particular gig, anything that is missing, please do let us know.
Clash in two London gigs -
Evening Standard
Clash postpone Roxy – again
UNKNOWN/Melody Maker?
The Clash had to put off last weeks gig at London's Harlesden New Roxy Theatre, the third time the concert has to be postponed...
Clash play The Roxy - UNKNOWN
The Clash have lined up another London Concert folowing their highy successful British tour last month
NME Punk band seeks deal
(Need a New Manager)
Sounds – October 1978
Could you imagine this band? Yes rumours about the Clash's imminent split from Renault dealer and anarchist theorist, Bernie Rhodes have reached such a point...
Problems with the Roxy
NME 7 Oct Chris Salewicz
I’D CALLED Mick Jones last Friday night The parsimonious Bernie Rhodes – who, though a repIacement manager has yet to be found (and it is most likely neither Billy Gaff nor Brian Lane), appears to be regarded most firmly as the band’s ex - wouldn’t give me tickets for last Saturday’s Clash Roxy date, said CBS....
... text version
The Clash Harlesden Roxy
Sounds 4 November 1978 - Eric Fuller
LET'S FORGET about all that'greatest rock and roll band in the world' stuff for a start. This was a garbled and gloomy affair in a venue anonymous enough... ... text version
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Caught in the Act
Fizzy Drinks and Flat Clash
Melody Maker 4 November 78 pg28
Frances Lass
if all that you're singing when emerging from a Clash gig is hge praises of a British brew-up then something somewhere has gone markedly wrong. Maybe it was all that postponing and rebooking of dates, maybe the bad sound quality....
Roadshows- Stuck on Top
Record Mirror 4 November 78 pg30
by Chris Westwood
They came, they saw, they conquered, nothing... This gig worried me. It worried me bacause the Clash are under momentous pressure to prove their worth...
The Clash: Black'n White Drop Outasite
Ian Penman, NME, 4 November 1978
The Clash: Roxy Theatre, Harlesden
WEAPONS EXIST, but some people can't see them for looking. The Clash take the obvious lines of misrepresentation, superficiality, and hold up the tacky backdrops, the disinfected battleclothes, the turbulent, tubercular grimaces, and most of all the rock instruments as their weapons, not forgetting air rifles – roots rock rebel! ... text version
NME
UK Local Radio – 4 mins
BBC R1 - Rock On
10 mins John Tobler w/Mick & Paul
BBC Radio 1 various
Something Else TV/John Tobler Rock On w Joe Mick / John Tobler Paul Mick 80
London Lyceum 28th Dec
1 track on Rude Boy
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Sort it Out Tour / Supported by Whirlwind
updated 28 Dec 2008 - added NME review
updated Oct 2020 – added phjotos, news clippings and tickets
Audio - very poor - Sound 1.5 - 58min - unknown gen - 19 tracks
I Fought the Law
poor audience recording
The only recording in circulation is a poor audience recording, a good few generations off the master (though a small improvement on an earlier copy).
There is a lack of clarity and distortion throughout. Vocals are very distant and to poor to hear Joe’s adlibs etc. Bass is buried somewhat and drums are distant. Lead guitar though comes through best and makes this an enjoyable listen, just.
gig problems
This is the first of two rearranged gigs that finally took place following a variety of problems (NME 7 Oct gig preview Chris Salewicz)
Bernie Rhodes announced this gig originally without Joe and Mick’s knowledge whilst they were still in the USA with Sandy Pearlman, it was to be the final nail in his managerial coffin. Bernie’s disputed, but undeniably significant role in The Clash history, would later resume again some 2 years later, but for now the band were enjoying their freedom.
The Harlesden Roxy (previously the Coliseum - not to be confused with the Roxy Club in London’s trendy Covent Garden) is an old converted cinema in a deprived area of northwest London (adjacent to the notorious Stonebridge Estate).
The gig was reviewed by Eric Fuller in Sounds and the impenetrable tosser Ian Penman. Both were highly critical and represented the end of the UK music business hype for The Clash. Although various writers would continue to write objectively and appreciatively of The Clash, this was the end of the blanket, often ‘over the top’, praise that had suited the music press since punk had caused such a wave of panic amongst its largely hippy progressive rock writers.
Postponed on the 9th September, resheduled date of September 25th postponed and also further resheduled date of 14th October postponed. New GLC restrictions limited tickets to 900, so a second night scheduled for the other 700.
Whirlwind supported. I do not know about the 26.10.78. Free t-shirts (Tommy Gun) given to audience for being messed around previously. I have two. Colin
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It’s another strong performance though of course with the band keen to put on a good show after unwillingly disappointing fans that had travelled to the earlier cancelled dates.
The set is the same as for the European mini-tour and so Complete Control is still the opener with What’s My Name a welcome addition. The set was significantly changed two weeks later for the UK leg of the Sort It Out Tour.
Garageland has an edit that loses the majority of the song and the recording ends with the crowd still shouting for more after White Riot.
LONDON - OCTOBER 25: Mick Jones and Joe Strummer performing on stage at The Roxy, Harlesden on October 25th, 1978 in London.
(Photo by Gus Stewart/Redferns)
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