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Last updated 9 June 2007
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I was there

I'm a portuguese big fan of clash and saw that you don't have any information about clash concert in Portugal. I have some photos (take from newspaper) , newspaper reviews , ticket pic , and other informations , unfortunaley I didn't go to the concerto , I had 4 years old when clash played in Portugal ,ahahah.

Cascais is a village about 30 km nearest Lisbon. Clash played in Pavilhão Dramático Cascais , a place used for great concerts of rock , before clash , have played Genesis and other big rock bands…

About concert , ticket price was 400 escudos (1.5 pounds) , the concert was sold out (10.000 persons watched concert), The clash played 24 songs, and they was force to go on stage for 3 encores. Clash dedicated one song to Lisbon , when they played the song “London’s Burning” changed for “Lisbon’s burning”, they started the concert with “London Calling” , they played more song like , Janie jones , magnificent seven , Charlie don’t surf , ivan’s meet gi joe , brand new Cadillac , Spanish bombs , wrong boyo and many more and finished concert with “white riot”. A curious scene happen with stage setting , the photos (slide show , with photos Brixton confronts , page of socialist worker etc..) in back use to be scenario to support clash concert , was show inverted.

The clash have made two interviews for a two different portuguese music magazine.

You can take the photos , news paper magazines , ticket scan , in my blog , I have many stuff about clash posted :
http://rocknoliceu.blogspot.com/

cheers - André

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Magazine: Clash em Caiscais

Interview with Mick Jones (Clash) after the Cascais concert

Entrevista a Mick Jones (Clash) após o concerto de Cascais , entrevista feita por Ana Rocha e publicada na revista Musica & Som. Nota: Pode-se ler a entrevista em ampliado sem ter de recorrer à lupa (eheheh) ao clicar com o cursor do rato sobre as duas partes da entrevista.
..segunda parte da entrevista.

Este post é dedicado aos Clash e a sua passagem por Portugal em 1981.Várias imagens retiradas de jornais e revistas espelham um pouco a euforia que foi a vinda dos Clash e mais haveria para dizer , mas infelizmente este escriba não esteve presente no concerto de Cascais.
Para ler ao pormenor os recortes de jornal basta clicar com o cursor do rato sobre os recortes de jornal.

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Interview with Mick Jones (Clash) after the Cascais concert, interview done by Ana Rocha and published in the magazine Musica & Som. The two parts of the interview, second part of the interview.

This post is dedicated to the Clash and their visit to Portugal in 1981. Several images taken from newspapers and magazines reflect a little the euphoria that came from the Clash and there would be more to say, but unfortunately this scribe was not present at the Cascais concert .
To read the newspaper clippings in detail, just click the newspaper clippings with your mouse.

Clash em entrevista - Clash in interview

Sábado, 19 de Maio de 2007 - Saturday, 19 May 2007

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Entrevista a Mick Jones (Clash) após o concerto de Cascais , entrevista feita por Ana Rocha e publicada na revista Musica & Som. Nota: Pode-se ler a entrevista em ampliado sem ter de recorrer à lupa (eheheh) ao clicar com o cursor do rato sobre as duas partes da entrevista.
..segunda parte da entrevista.

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Interview with Mick Jones (Clash) after the Cascais concert, interview done by Ana Rocha and published in the magazine Musica & Som. mouse over the two parts of the interview. ..second part of the interview.

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The only band that matters,
Clash em Cascais 30-4-1981

The only band that matters, Clash in Cascais 30-4-1981
Sexta-feira, 18 de Maio de 2007 - Friday, May 18, 2007

Este post é dedicado aos Clash e a sua passagem por Portugal em 1981.Várias imagens retiradas de jornais e revistas espelham um pouco a euforia que foi a vinda dos Clash e mais haveria para dizer , mas infelizmente este escriba não esteve presente no concerto de Cascais.
Para ler ao pormenor os recortes de jornal basta clicar com o cursor do rato sobre os recortes de jornal.

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This post is dedicated to the Clash and their visit to Portugal in 1981. Several images taken from newspapers and magazines reflect a little the euphoria that came from the Clash and there would be more to say, but unfortunately this scribe was not present at the Cascais concert . To read the newspaper clippings in detail, just click the newspaper clippings with your mouse.

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Tickets

Photos

From: Manuel LuÌs Cochofel <mcochofel@gmail.com>
Subject: clash photographs

I am a Portuguese photographer and I've been in the concert the Clash gave in Portugal in 81.

I do have some interesteing photographs of the event that I would like to commercialize. Do you think that there are people interested?

All the print are manual made, b&w, numbered and signed by the author, and 30x40 cm.

My best regards, Manuel Luis Cochofel

Taxi com os Clash - ARQUIVO JOÃO GRANDE

RUIMSC 41 - 2017

A Night with the Clash in Portugal
Originally published on BLITZ September 2009

The Portuguese Taxi opened the concert of Joe Strummer’s band at the Cascais Dramatic Pavilion. They won 15,000 escudos (75 euros) and a meeting with the English band. João Grande does the night film of April 30, 1981, in the first person.

Our first record had just come out and the song “Chewing Gum” played with all the force on the radio. It was our first concert in the Lisbon area; To start soon for 9 thousand people in the first part of the Clash? We were going to be slaughtered.

The morning began in Estoril with an RTP team, filming a “TVWC” videoclip for Vivámusica. After lunch we went to the Dramatic soon enough, not before we went to buy 2 bottles of Port wine to give the sound technicians, who were going to be the Clash. It worked; Even today we remember the fabulous sound on the stage.

At about 5 pm, the Clash arrived very well, and with Mick Jones with the ponies of Paul Simonon. From the sound-check I do not remember anything, unless I woke Pearl Harbor [singer of Pearl Harbor & The Explosions and Paul Simonon’s companion] to sleep behind the stage, and I talked to her a lot.

We dined in the pavilion, saw “catering” for the first time, and ate almost nothing, since we were smudged with fear. Until finally the time has come. We entered the stage completely uninhibited and very confident, we started with the “TVWC” and almost without interruption we continued with “Vida de Cão”, and the night was won. We had never heard the roar of thousands of people applauding.

We continued with “É-me igual” and “Rosete” and finished with “Chiclete” already with everything to sing. We hurried to the dressing rooms, and much to our surprise, the whole pavilion called for encore. In our dressing room was a huge mirror, and we looked at our reflection in the mirror and at each other, completely hysterical, wondering if we were not dreaming. We ran back to the stage and gave him what they wanted, a new dose of Chewing Gum. From there the night was like a dream in slow motion, I did not stop drinking beer, and watched the Clash perform as they wandered around the pavilion without destination.

Thanks to my state of mind, I thought that I had just seen the best concert I had witnessed to date, but the criticism of the following days struck them mercilessly, and the same criticism was very positive for us. After the concert, we all went to the clash dressing rooms that were also euphoric, at least Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, who kept shooting everything and everyone.

Our producer António Pinho and co-producer Aníbal Miranda were with us. The latter had lived in London for the last five years and then he talked to them, who wanted to know our name, if we had already recorded something, if there were friends to introduce them, and Joe Strummer himself congratulated us: First time on their tour, a support group had been entitled to encore. Paul Simonon was in another room in the marmelade with Pearl Harbor and the drummer was very quiet about having a beer. Needless to say, the grass rolled everywhere.

Only much later did we go to dinner, I do not remember where; I just know we did not end the night alone.

Did you go? What do you remember?

Info, articles, reviews, comments or photos welcome.
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Jose Saraiva

Pavilh„o do Dram·tico, Cascais, Portugal, just a few days after the release of Sandinista!‬

Ten thousand listening to ´Clash'

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Paul Simonon, Mick Jones, Joe Strumner and Nicky Headon, did not give peace to the more than two thousand fans on Friday at the Cascais Pavilion to hear these four extremely well mated names that constitute the ´Clash'.

Clash em entrevista Clash in interview

Sábado, 19 de Maio de 2007 -
Saturday, 19 May 2007 (originals)

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Entrevista a Mick Jones (Clash) após o concerto de Cascais , entrevista feita por Ana Rocha e publicada na revista Musica & Som. Nota: Pode-se ler a entrevista em ampliado sem ter de recorrer à lupa (eheheh) ao clicar com o cursor do rato sobre as duas partes da entrevista.
..segunda parte da entrevista.

Interview with Mick Jones (Clash) after the Cascais concert, interview done by Ana Rocha and published in the magazine Musica & Som. mouse over the two parts of the interview. ..second part of the interview.

Postado por Merton às 10:34 0 comentários  

Photos

Music & Som - Photes from Caiscais

The only band that matters , Clash em Cascais 30-4-1981 - The only band that matters, Clash in Cascais 30-4-1981

Este post é dedicado aos Clash e a sua passagem por Portugal em 1981.Várias imagens retiradas de jornais e revistas espelham um pouco a euforia que foi a vinda dos Clash e mais haveria para dizer , mas infelizmente este escriba não esteve presente no concerto de Cascais.

Para ler ao pormenor os recortes de jornal basta clicar com o cursor do rato sobre os recortes de jornal.

This post is dedicated to the Clash and their visit to Portugal in 1981. Several images taken from newspapers and magazines reflect a little the euphoria that came from the Clash and there would be more to say, but unfortunately this scribe was not present at the Cascais concert . To read the newspaper clippings in detail, just click the newspaper clippings with your mouse.

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The "Se7e" with the Ciaste in Cascais and San Sebastian

Year III n° 152
From 6 to 12 May 1981

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Presenting about 24 themes, the British group held last Thursday in Cascais, the most anticipated rock concert of the year.

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The concert was neither the best nor the worst of the year: it was just a rock concert, a rock concert by the most political group on the current rock scene: the Clash. Supported by six thousand watts of light and three thousand watts of sound equipment, the group presented, perhaps, the simplest and most direct concert that has ever been seen in Portugal: without artificiality, without any luxury and central paraphernalia. It was only rock music that lasted for two hours, with two new songs and the remaining 22 songs from the albums "London Calling", "Sandinista" and "Clash".

The group even dedicated a home to Lisbon, when they changed the name of the well-known theme "London's Burning" to "Lisbon's Burning". Before the Clash, Pearl Harbor and the Destroyers, an American band, performed at the last minute due to the absence of their main guitarist, who broke his arm in the air.

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Ten thousand listening to ´Clash'

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Ten thousand listening to ´Clashª

Paul Simonon, Mick Jones, Joe Strumner and Nicky Headon, did not give peace to the more than two thousand fans on Friday at the Cascais Pavilion to hear these four extremely well mated names that constitute the ´Clashª.

Coming from a poor neighborhood in London, practically inhabited only by Jamaicans, the rock music that the ´Clashª started producing since their existence (1976), immediately brought the stigma of their difficult experience, made in communion with all the problems experienced by those who, not being born English, are subject to racial discrimination.

In ´Clashª, rock is not only a way of being on stage, but a way of being in life, on the side of the oppressed. That gives I testify to his last work, a triple album released at the beginning of this year, entirely dedicated to the struggle of the Sandinista Front of Nicaragua.

´The press in America and Europe never spoke of them, of their just and hard struggleª, as one of the members of the groups would tell us. Idealizing their sound very well, and supported by great intervening power, the ´Clash.ª they left in this unique show, among us, the best moment of rock music, this year, and we would even risk it, as always, in relation to the many groups that have stopped here.

In the first part of the show, the Portuguese group ´Taxi' and Pearl Harbor, an American vocalist, currently more focused on giving concerts in the Europa, in the company of ´Clashª.

Her voice was mainly from us, being to forget the group of musicians who accompany her. Pearl Herbour comes from the Californian ìunder-groundî media where it would be ìdiscoveredî by a powerful North American record label that launched an attempt to launch it to a large auditorium, "engaging many, many thousands

The failure would become absolute, giving rise to the dismemberment of the group that then accompanied Pearl. It was then that she turned to Europe, where she has known relative success. ears was even the one of the ´Clashª, obliged to come to the stage, by the assistance, for three ´encore'.

The "Se7e" with the Ciaste in Cascais and San Sebastian

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Year III n ° 152 From 6 to 12 May 1981

The "Se7e" with the Ciaste in Cascais and San Sebastian
"Sele" reveals The Cias iv this rn in Cas

The Clash are bursting there

This is a tribute to the best Rock group today.» So Bruce SprIngsteen spoke in the past of 21 when, rii "c rocdt: three hours with the well-known theme of Clash,« Spanish Bombs ». In Barcelona, ​​where also Clash 9 should have acted that did not happen because .livoir?: Sq (gUlttraarrri:) 1J): eitr% "mmer, (voice) Paul Simonon (bass) and Tparirpr were late. (drums)
They were, however, yesterday, Tuesday, in Madrid, from where they depart next Thursday, the 30th, towards Lisbon. At that time, the two TIR Q. trucks transporting the sophisticated equipment of the group should: tJW :: zaa? D 0% s, Pavilhão.
Cascais. In the morning, that day, ONE staff of 27 technicians will be in charge of installing (and then testing) all the material on a stage twenty meters wide. Shortly thereafter (in the afternoon), the four Clash, meanwhile arriving in Lisbon, fsae2rci'd °. ndciiÌt
the party breaks. What will happen then is unpredictable, and it is certain that, in addition to a powerful battery of stage lights, a. Clash performance. . accompanied by slide projection. According to information collected by «Sele», the group should play between two and three hours (everything depends on the reaction of the public), during which they will interpret some of their classic themes,

The Clash on stage and behind the scenes: the two faces of a tour

Burning »and, of course, most of the compositions of the triple album« Sandinista ». But before the Clash took the stage, the Portuguese band Táxi and the North American Pearl Harbor, the protégé of the English group, will perform. Taxi, whose performance should not exceed 30 minutes, will interpret some of the songs from their first album, to be released in the second week of May. This will be the first live performance, in Greater Lisbon, of João Grande, Henrique Oliveira, Rui Taborda and Rodrigo Freitas. An expected action with
rsneur: tdaoccuorn'hegladlea iq, uga'Iji8deity of his work on the disc is now awaiting the decisive test: the live performance.
With no record released between us, Pearl Harbor could be the big surprise of the concert. At least the criticisms so diverse that came out in the English press are enough to draw attention to this American born in San Francisco, who learned music without ever playing an instrument. This is a feat that the artist • explains in the following terms: «Music goes, fundamentally, through my head. That's where it develops. I don't look for music on instruments. » It was in his hometown that he formed his first band, The Exploslons, having then secured several first parts of the Tubes. -A few months later, the group it fell apart, because «each Zrsi:, i, had an Idea In 1981, Pear! Harbor changes. OesieUrPrrne? Irc =. ;; aie.d? Rrr: v4Lio - «Don't Follow Me». Its • style is similar to that of Dolly Parton and, together with the band that now accompanies it, recently secured the first parts of group shows such as the B 52, the Talking Heads and, of course, the Clash. As for influences, Pear! Harbor confesses to being ????
Patsy Cline. For those who like details, we can say that Pearl has a fake nose, which it had to put on after suffering a • boat accident.

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