As I mentioned that my first 'gig' (fucking hate that word), was The Clash, supported by Suicide in 1978, on the 'On Parole' tour. As much as I'd like to post the recording of the suicide performance from that night, it is obviously impossible to find, but I did manage to find the Clash gig (there's that word again) from the year before, at the De Montfort Hall (note the moronic mispelling on the tour poster above). A hall named after the once dictator of England, and Lord of Leicester in the 1300's; who famously banned Jews from Leicester for allllll eternity. He was chopped up in battle and made to suck on his own cock.
As much as I dislike the Clash for being full of pretend hard men, when they were really Art School dropouts and sons of Ambassadors; I do enjoy their early works, and this BBC in concert recording is a fine document of Joe Mellor and the chaps in fine form.(These twats signed to CBS!???)
Much prefer Suicide to these fellow though.
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4 comments:
Aah, now it's all coming together. Taking the information from this post (new to me) and thinking about the past Skrewdriver post I see where this blog is heading. Nice one Himmler.
Cripes!!...I knew I shouldn't have used the word 'Jew'. From henceforth I will use the Codeword 'Garden Party'.
Having moved away from Simon De Montforts old town, to the south of France, I was shocked to discover that De Montfort also made the same move,and was responsible for atrocites that make anything that Simon Cowell did seem like harmless entertainment.
"Kill 'em all", said the pope,"God will know his own". And the lovely Simon (de montfort,not Cowell), acted out this suggestion, by torching the cathedral de Beziers, packed full of women and children, heretics and otherwise.
Oh, and you can call me Henrich.
But that aside - I'm with you on the Clash. They seem to have a god like untouchable status but like you all I saw was some art school kids who became increasingly Stonesy as time went on. Revolutionaries - hardly. Some nice tunes though...
Eric
Exactly, nice toons shame about the pose. Luckily I had the epiphany that was Suicide as support act.this is what split the hordes of Sid Vicious's from the future PiL appreciators.
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