Venue unknown but not the Perppermint Lounge. See below.
page updated - started May 2020
Andrew: The June 1979 shows at the Peppermint Lounge in New York never happened. Tickets were sold for some New York shows that were supposed be in June, but those shows were later cancelled. I nearly got fired from my job for going down to the Ticketron outlet to assist a co-worker get tickets for a bunch of us for these shows because there was a ticket limit. Andrew Baxley baxlap[a]msn.com
Ben: In the summer of '79, living in Northern Virginia, I heard rumours of a Clash gig at the Peppermint Lounge, and when I visited the PL in 1983 employees mentioned the bands that played their amongst them The Clash. I seem to recall a college friend who worked at the radio station mentioning that he saw them at the PL. This was in Blacksburg in 1981-1982. He was from Northern N.J. and saw many shows in the city. It was the only method of communication back in those days; heresay, rumour and myth. This was the month after I graduated high school. Who knows if it was true, but I did hear about it that summer. BenI hooked up with some very old friends on Facebook. They worked at the Peppermint Lounge in the late '70s and early 80's. The poster is a fake. The address is wrong as they did not move to that location and there was no show at that time. "There was no Peppermint Lounge on 5th Ave in 1979. The original re-opened November 1980 on 45th St."
Also there were no colour xerox machines in 1979. This was likely a rumour started by the record company to maintain interest in the release of The Clash in the USA in June of 1979. I am sure the label was getting word of the Vanilla Tapes demos for LC and the greatness that was about to come. Ben
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Newcastle - Tyne Tees Studios ITV, Alright Show - Thurday 8th March 1979
From the vaults of Tyne Tees TV. Tyne Tees were the North East's (Newcastle/Sunderland) local ITV franchise, part of the ITV network supplying programmes to other ITV regions/franchises.
Ruisrcok Festival
2.04 Fans, including The Clash on stage, silent (there's a version with Groovy Times dubbed over and nanother with White Riot dubbed over)
This version has been dubbed from the audio recording
4.41 There's another fans footage with interviews with promoters and a silent snippet of the Clash on stage again (The beginnig is over dubbed with London Calling). There's a 38 second snippet form this copy circuating.
2.55 There is another fans footage montage recently come into circulaltion.
Here is a list of known articles around the time of the tour. If you know of anything that is missing please do let us know.
Some display images are low res, the link goes to high-resolution version. Some of the links especially PDFs are *big* so please hold on!.
Record Mirror archive 1955-1981
Searchable, most editions
Fanzines: Great Collection
Great collection of scanned fanzines from the 1970s and 1980s
NME – Strumemr Interview – 30 June 1979
Posters - The black and white one to the left from Notre Dame of decent quailty.
Jun 76 - Black Swan & five piece »
Aug 76 - 100 Club & London Gigs »
Dec 76 - Anarchy Tour »
Jan / Mar - Early 77 Gigs »
May 77 - White Riot UK Tour »
Jul 77 - European Dates »
Oct 77 - Out of Control UK Tour »
Jan 78 - Sandy Pearlman UK Dates »
Apr 78 - UK Festival Dates »
Jul 78 - Out on Parole UK Tour »
Oct 78 - Sort it Out UK Tour »
Feb 79 - Pearl Harbour US Tour »
Jul 79 - Finland + UK dates »
Sep 79 - Take the Fifth US Tour »
Dec 79 - Acklam Hall Secret Gigs »
Jan 80 - 16 Tons UK Tour »
Mar 80- 16 Tons US Tour »
May 80 - 16 Tons UK/Europe »
May 81 - Impossible Mission Tour »
Jun 81 - Bonds Residency NY »
Sep 81 - Mogador Paris Residency »
Oct 81 - Radio Clash UK Tour »
Oct 81 - London Lyceum Residency »
Jan 82 - Japan Tour »
Feb 82 - Australian Tour »
Feb 82 - Hong Long & Thai gigs »
May 82 - Lochem Festival »
May 82 - Combat Rock US Tour »
July 82 - Casbah Club UK Tour »
Aug 82 - Combat Rock US Tour »
Oct 82 - Supporting The Who »
Nov 82 - Bob Marley Festival »
May 83 - US Festival + gigs »
Jan 84 - West Coast dates »
Feb 84 - Out of Control Europe »
Mar 84 - Out of Control UK »
April 84 - Out of Control US Tour »
Sep 84 - Italian Festival dates »
Dec 84 - Miners Benefit Gigs »
May 85 - Busking Tour »
Jun- Aug 85 - Festival dates »
74-76 - Joe with the 101ers »
Jul 88 - Green Wedge UK Tour »
Aug 88 - Rock the Rich UK Tour »
Oct 89 - Earthquake Weather UK »
Oct 89 - Earthquake Weather Euro »
Nov 89 - Earthquake Weather US »
Jun 99 - Comeback Festival dates »
July 99 - Short US Tour »
July 99 - UK Tour »
Aug 99 - Festival Dates »
Oct 99 - UK Tour »
Nov 99 - Full US Tour »
Dec 99 - European Xmas dates »
Jan 00 - Australasian Tour »
May 00 - Mini UK Tour »
Nov 00 - supporting The Who Tour »
Jul 01 - UK & US Instore Tour »
Oct 01 - Full US Tour »
Nov 01 - Japanese Tour »
Nov 01 - Full UK Tour »
April 02 - Brooklyn NY Residency »
Jun 02 - UK Festivals »
Jul 02 - Hootenanny Tour »
Aug 02 - UK Festival Dates »
Sep 02 - Japanesse Dates »
Nov 02 - Bringing it all Back Home »
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