Out of Control Tour '84

updated 4 Jan 2009 - added set list and tape info
updated 4 Aug 2014 - White Riot may have played?
updated 2 Sept 2016 with better audio information

Audio 1 - extended upgraded vers. -
Goodish sound - Sound 3.5 - Time - 1hr 23mins - 24 tracks
misses White Riot from the end

English Civil War

Just a quick mail, while browsing your excellent site I checked out this gig because it was my first ever gig. I noticed the setlist is missing White riot, I know this because I was on my way out of the hall when they came back on & there was a mad scramble to get back in as the drum intro started.

martin luce <lucemartin[at]hotmail.com>

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Not a bad sound. The bass is a bit low but the vocals and Toppers drums, Micks guitar can be heard clearly. A touch thin but goodish.

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Intro / London Calling
Safe European Home
Are You Ready for War?
Rock the Casbah
Sex Mad War
White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Guns of Brixton
Ammunition
I'm So Bored with the USA
Clampdown
This is England
Police and Thieves
The Dictator
English Civil War
Three Card Trick
Janie Jones
I Fought the Law
We Are The Clash
Tommy Gun
Armagideon Time
Garageland
Brand New Cadilac
Police on My Back
Complete Control
White Riot?

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

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Any articles, interviews, reviews, posters, tour dates from The Out of Control '84 tour around the UK and Europe.

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A Seven Year Hit
Local Press - Wednesday 7th March
Joe Strummer has done what Joe Strummer threatened to do - take the Clash back 7 years - aqnd what a triumph. Aportsmouth Guildhall audience, which took just 2 hours to sell out...

Still Clashing After all these years
Local Press Thursday 8th March
Music Focus by Phil Tusler - The Clash, Britains most successful survivors from the New Wave explosion of 1976 are no strangers to controversy. From their early beginnings they have refused to submit to musics most influential medium, TOTP...

Check Vince White's Clash biog,
The Last Days of the Clash

We Are The Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That Mattered
By Mark Andersen, Ralph Heibutzki

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Joe Strummer Interview Radio Stockholm,
1 January1984

Joe Strummer Interview Ltd Edition picture disk

Interview with Joe Strummer and The Clash in Norway in 1984.

The Clash - Italy 1984 interview
Mister Fantasy - Italian TV - RaiUno
Broadcast 22 March

Joe Strummer of The Clash interviewed backstage pre show Milan Italy 1984. Taken from "Mister Fantasy. This is a very rare item. I had previously uploaded this a few years ago, but there was an audio fault and it always annoyed me, so I deleted the older version and uploaded this new one with the audio sorted. Taken from BASF L-750 Betamax tape archive number #080 digital archive #4018

Clash - 1984 Milan Italy News Show interview

Joe Strummer and The Clash interviewed pre show Milan Italy February 1984. This is a very rare item. I had previously uploaded this a few years ago, but there was an audio fault and it always annoyed me, so I deleted the older version and uploaded this new one with the audio sorted. Taken from BASF L-750 Betamax tape archive number #080 digital archive #4018

The Clash - "Jt. 13th" Interview (France) '84
Made from a second generation VHS-tape.

A longer version (below) is on Youtube but it is inaccesssible from the UK?

Joe Strummer interviewed by Lisa Robinson for WNYC?

This 2-part interview presents polar extremes of Joe Strummer. The first part most likely takes place in late 1983, after Mick Jones left the band but before the new Clash line-up started touring together. The majority of this segment involves Strummer heatedly discussing all the reasons Jones was fired. He then goes on to talk animatedly about the new incarnation of the band and how everyone in America is on drugs.

In the second part of the interview, recorded in the beginning of 1984, Strummer sounds melancholy and exhausted. However, with the departure of Mick Jones from The Clash being old news by this point, Lisa Robinson is able to steer the questioning towards what Strummer makes of performing, success, and his music.

Part 1
00:00 Why Mick was fired: emotional blackmail
01:15 Bitterness
01:56 Success vs. personal problems
02:48 Mick's vision for the band / guitar synth
03:59 Who/what constitutes The Clash
06:10 Making a not-so-great Clash album: Combat Rock
07:05 Glyn Johns saves Combat Rock (as per Joe Strummer)
07:55 Glyn Johns ruins Combat Rock (as per Mick Jones)
08:35 Forcing Mick Jones to sing "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"
10:22 An honorable way for a band to go out
11:00 The two new guitarists (Vince White, Nick Sheppard)
11:39 Hoping to be possessed
12:40 A divorced writing partnership with Mick / "Death is a Star"
14:02 Writing with Paul Simonon / road-testing new songs
14:55 Pete Howard on drums
15:07 Recording a new album
15:49 The US Festival
16:46 Everybody in America is on drugs
18:29 [phone]: Mick Jones' response

Part 2
00:00 Other aspirations / graphic artist
00:51 Growing up with a diplomat father
01:57 A feeling of homelessness
02:29 Slagged for being middle-class
02:59 The reaction in Britain to the disbanding of The Clash
03:45 Taking some criticisms to heart
04:25 Not enjoying playing in stadiums
05:45 Crowd behavior / whose fault
07:13 The ideal performing situation
07:49 Pros and cons for The Clash getting bigger
08:30 Avoiding the problems of The Who
09:09 The commercial success of Combat Rock
10:48 [A false start]
11:07 Joe's opinion of The Clash's music
12:11 Musical influences
12:45 The blues boom of the 60's in Britain
15:05 Re-selling R&B to the U.S.

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