Second night of two 'Secret Gigs', Thursday and Friday 5th & 6th July.
updated 20 May 2006
updated Dec 2014 added poster
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Notre Dame 6th July 'Secret Gig' - must be out there somewhere!
A tape does exist of the other night its just not in circulation, not yet anyway. We want a copy!
This is the second of two “secret” gigs played in the small Notre Dame Hall, off Leicester Square, central London. These were played either to trial new material before the Rainbow Theatre, Southall Defence Fund gig on the 14th July or simply as Joe says in the intro, because they had nothing better to do.
Evening everyone...ICYMI earlier, Jim & I had a hoot on the NEW show remembering yours & our most memorable Punk & New Wave gigs. This 1979 Clash gig @ the Notre Dame Hall was remembered fondly. You can catch up @ Mixcloud
Go to 50mins to hear about the Notre Dame gigs
17 photos Virginia Turbett from the second night, the 6th July
- Clash on Parole post
Photos are on sale at Getty Images here
More of Virginia's photos were published in a book,
DRAW ANOTHER BREATH - THE CLASH 1979-80. Details can be found here
Published by Hanging Around Books 2019, it is a small collection of
images from their Notre Dame gig on 6th July 1979.
Virginia's post on is also on Clash City Collectors / Facebook
Book images posted by Virginia
5th July - photo credit unknown
The Sex Pistols at Notre Dame Hall.
Did you go? What do you remember?
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I’ve just come across your site and was intrigued about the bootleg of the 1979 concert at Notre Dame Hall, because it was recorded by a friend of mine on a cheap cassette player. I can’t believe its still doing the rounds today !.
It was, as you rightly say, recorded at the Thursday night concert (the next lunch time we played the tape back to listen to it in St. James’s Park near where we both worked, until a member of the Royal Parks Police told us to turn it down).
To fit it onto a C60 cassette, my friend edited out at least 2 songs from the set the band played - 1 was definitely a version of ‘Jimmy Jazz’ (which we thought was called ‘The Police walked in for Jazz’) and I’m pretty sure another was ‘Lovers Rock’ - we just thought those were the weakest of the new numbers the band had played. My friend sold the bootleg tape through ads in Sounds and NME, through approaching likely looking punks in the Kings Road, and also on a stall in the Great Gear Market in the Kings Road where my girlfriend worked. We also recorded a whole host of other bands during 1979 and the early part of 1980 and sold bootlegs of concerts by The Jam, Adam and the Ants, Gang of Four to name but a few. Unfortunately, from a sound quality point of view, the Clash concert was the last to be recorded on the cheapo cassette as my friend splashed out on a more sophisticated device which enabled the later concerts we taped to sound much better and would have done wonders for the Clash recording.
punkr77 This Clash show was very unannounced. And I didnt know about it !!! That is until we were record shopping in Rough Trade Records on a Saturday and buddy behind the counter alerted us to this upcoming show. I was probably wearing a Clash t shirt.....we bought a ticket...cant remember which day...I do remember them road testing a few tracks off of London Calling 4 months before its release. First time I saw the Modettes opening..and the only time I saw the Low Numbers. Another memorable night. No security. Just Johnny Green and Baker patrolling the front. Jam packed in there..it was a church Hall not a concert hall. Good times.
A Riot of Our Own p165
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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