Out of Control Tour
Supported by The Scabs
updated 5 Jan 2010 - added punters comments
updated 2 Sept 2016 with better audio information
updated June 2022 added review and extra ticket
Audio 1
Sound 3 - 1hr 34min - low? - 30 tracks
This is England
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Brielspoort, Belgium
Comment
The 21th of february 1984 was one of the finest days of my life, on that day I travelled from Den Hague in Holland by train to the Brielpoort in Deinze in Belgium to see the Clash.
It was a very cold and sunny day and at four o clock we arrived at the Brielpoort which lay nearly a great river. The security controlled every Clash fan with a camera or tape recorder with them and if they discovered it you must gave it to them till after the concert was finished.
On the outside of the Hall Belgium Clash fans hold a protest against The Clash and gave the fans flyers with the message '" Joe Strummer sold out the Clash and turned rebellion into money"". Afcourse we did not like the flyers.
Somehow I was lucky to get a camera inside.
The gig was in a large Hall and I remember that nearly everybody frontstage was drunk and that on stage where The Clash started to play was filled with a lot of TV's
The Scabs a Belgium band opened before the Clash. From the first beginning when the Clash started to play the band got a very good response from the public which came from Holland, Belgium, England, Germany and Italy. Nearly everybody fronststage started to dance and to pogo.
I can remember that the clash sounded very fresh and the band was in a good shape. The setlist of songs was a mix of Clash classics like Londen Calling and Guns of Brixton and a lot of new songs like Dictator, Three Card Trick and This Is England which ware received by the Clash fans very well. After nearly two hours and several gifts the band was finished and left the stage.
After the gig I got the setlist part One from a Clash roady and on the setlist you could read 23 songs but they played 33 songs, there was a second setlist a small one filled with the second and third gift but I did not get that one.
After the gig Marcel my Clash friend and me walked away in the cold outside and forgot to buy the Out of Control 84 Tour shirts but I got the Tour poster which I picked up from the wall and I still got it with the setlist and gigticket.
After that we fell asleep in a cafe which belongs to the local Deinze sport football club where they played the Clash the whole night till we left at eight o clock in the morning and get by train at home the same morning.
In september 2001 I got a very good tape from a dutch journalist who legally taped the first 90 minutes and 29 songs and the sound quality was very good because he held the tape under excellent conditions at his home. He said to me to felt sorry because he could not tape the whole concert because he did not expect that the band played longs than 90 minutes.
The Setlist on your website is from mine and the photo's after the setlist, photonumber 1 - 6 - 8 - 9 - 14 the photo's which got the brightest light are also from mine and I think Jorge Bruekner got them from me or Marcel in the eighties when we wrote a lot with English clash fans.
Peter Pakvis peterpakvis[a]hetnet.nl
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photos below courtesy of Joerg Bruekner
photo courtesy of Joerg Bruekner
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Setlist
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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)
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... both have lists of people who say they went
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Vince White describes this gig extensively in his Clash biog, The Last Days of the Clash
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