Supporting The Sex Pistols
According to the music press, there was to a be a 2 night stand on Boxing Day and the 27th but if there wassufficient demand, the 28th would be added.
The Sex Pistols would be supported by The Clash and The Damned. The Ramones having pulled out.
Pistols to open new Roxy venue, 3 night stand
Ramones out - Damned, Clash in
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THE RAMONES have pulled out of the big punk-rock package tour, in which they were to have co-headlined with the Sex Pistols.
As a result the whole tour has now been completely re-vamped.
It will be going ahead from the beginning of next month with the Pistols as sole billtoppers — supported by two other fast-rising British punk bands.
The Damned and The Clash, plus American outfit Heartbreakers fronted by former New York Dolls member Johnny Thunder.
SEX PISTOLS ARE PLAYING THE ROXY
Acton Gazette -
Thursday 16 December 1976
Another Sex PIstols Cancellation, Roxy off
Acton Gazette -
Thursday 23 December 1976
Book: Sex Pistols: The Pride of Punk
Toward the end of the Anarchy tour, plans were assembled for the Sex Pistols to play in London, and discussions took place about a possible gig at the Roxy Theatre in Harlesden on December 26 and 27 (not to be confused with the punk club The Roxy, which opened in central London around the same period).
Terry Collins, licensee of the Roxy Theatre, told New Musical Express (1976: 2) that the Pistols "booked rehearsal time at the Roxy, so I went along to assess them, and I was horrified by their attitude which was absolutely disgusting."
Collins also alleged that the band had caused "considerable backstage damage" and that he finally decided not to allow the band to play because he did not "want to condone their attitude." The Roxy Theatre was to host a head- line gig by The Clash in 1977."
Sex Pistols: The Pride of Punk - By Peter Smith, page 58
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Roxy Theatre, Harlseden The Roxy (Harlesden). Address: Craven Park Road, Harlesden, London, NW10 8SH. Harlesden Odeon, later The Roxy, where the Sex Pistols rehearsed and The Clash and Sham 69 played gigs. The Clash rehearsing on its stage in December 1976 in prepartion for the Anrachy Tour. Later, The Clash, supported by The Slits and Subway Sect, debuted new drummer Topper Headon here on 11 March 1977. Opened in 1937 as an Odeon cinema with a 1,719 capacity, the cinema closed in 1972, although it reopened as a Liberty cinema before becoming The Roxy. The building went on to be used as a nightclub called The Tara. The building was demolished in 1989 and flats called 'Odeon Court' were built on the site.
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