Out of Control Tour '84
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Interview on the tour bus in Toronto
Comment, potentially recorded by radio?
...on the ticket stub on the site it says the gig's presented by "Chum & Chum FM" -- they're both radio stations and are part of the company that owns the music channel here in Canada.
The TV station was known to tape gigs (or least parts of them) and also interviewed the band as they rolled into Toronto. It's entirely possible that the channel and/or the radio recorded the show and have it stored somewhere in their archives. I've tried asking before, but they say they can't release that information...
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The Orlando Sentinel -
Thu Mar 29 1984
Clash to play at the Gardens
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Three Canadian dates firmed for The Clash
The Clash still loud and vibrant
The Leader Post,
Mon May 14 1984
Clash having a few days in New York ahead of Canda leg
The Arizona Republic
Wed May 2 1984
Clash – proud of being punk
The Windsor Star
Mon Apr 30 1984
After The Clash, The Clash goes on
The Globe and Mail -
Saturday 28th April
The Clash: Rock visionaries are back
The Gazette -
Thu Apr 19 1984
The Clash: Playing rock and roll stronger than ever
Edmonton Journal - Thu May 3 1984
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Clash still driving home its political messages
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Red Deer Advocate -
Sat May 12 1984
The Clash: Political rock
The Star -
Fri May 4 1984
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Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada
Latest edition of punk pioneers
Clash wipe out any doubts
Toronto Sun?
Review of Toronto Show
By Wilder Penfield III - May 1984
The latest edition of The Clash gets an A for effort. And last night at the Gardens they made other ratings seem irrelevent. If there was less of a sense of expectation then at the Grandstand summer before last (and at 9,000 this time, less than half the turnout,) this could have something to do with the lack of new music since, and the question mark of three new members.
The question mark can now be eliminaled. Recently enlisted guitarists Nick Sheppard and Vince White have added a touch rockabilly resilience to the band's hard drive. And drummer Peter Howard has helped wind the team as taut as they have ever been.
Or maybe it just seemed that way because singer Joe Strummer once again appeared to have something to prove last night.
Strummer and bassist Paul Simonon are the only holdovers from the original 1976 London line-up. And without recently-departed guitarist Mick Jones, they appear to have rediscovered their focus.
For better or for worse they didn't take the easy way out. No dramatic changes of pace were in evidence. They played everything an old-Clash fan would want to hear, and they did so in ways that should make for new ones.
As a result, these punk pioneers seem to have more going for them now than when they started.
Initially, what Strummer wanted to prove was that he can be as provocative (disagreeable) as ever. "Are there any great groups in this city?" he demanded. And when there didn't seem to be any unanimity in the response (despite the musically and politically acceptable opening-act example of Messenjah) he announced that our PR was bad.
Welcome, Joe, to a city which, like London, is too rich to afford an automatic reaction to that question.
Then, after introducing the bandmembers, he said. "My name is Pierre Trudea, are you ready for war? "
This from band whose authorized introduction addressed to "flat-toppers," "pill-poppers," and other presumably disaffected members of their presumed peer group -- was: "If you want to be out of control, now is the time!"
What redeemed the concert was not their ersatz integrity but their real (-istic) intensity.
Gone were the photos of undernourished third-world children. In their place were a dozen standard-sized color TVs, flickering rhythmically.(Surely they weren't showing videos!) Aside trom that, the show's only bright color, this was your basic white working class rock band, on your basic black industrial set, in your basic black (and white) garb, sponsoring the white side of your basic black-and-white issues.
But their power -- and also my principal objection to it -- is in the blinkers they sport so bravely.
I doubt they accomplished anything new last night, for unfamiliar lyrics were also inaudible, but I think this was the band they wanted to be when they introduced themselves at the Rex Theatre five years ago. Maybe it was enough that we rediscovered their commitment, and can look forward to deciphering the content when they finally release another album.
Any bets they at least don't tell us they want us to dance?
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Cartman68 - 12 Apr 2020, 16:49 User
Great show, though not as good as the CNE show in '82. onlyRNRilikeit
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There was a nice gathering yesterday in celebration of the Clash visiting Toronto 4 times between 1979 and 1984. Nick Smash put together a great booklet of pictures and text, #/100, some guest radio station personalities from back in the day were in stage and a long unheard Joe Strummer radio interview from 1987 was played. There was a good turnout and I got to meet Steve Pecar in the flesh. My book is 23/100.
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I can't take anything Joe says seriously I just keep laughing.
This was the first day I met Joe and then knew him until he died....went to sound heck and then myself and 5 of my friends were brought back stage after, we did the same in Ottawa, Detroit and Kitchener over next week or so
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The Clash - Concert/backstage - 4/30/84 Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto Canada
ilevene
Sep 6, 2015
The Clash - Concert/backstage - 4/30/84 Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto Canada
This was one of my first "legit" photo shoots, and my first at Maple Leaf Gardens. I had just landed the role of Photo Editor at my college newspaper and this earned me the right to start soliciting photo passes for just about any and every concert that rolled through Toronto. In no time I was hooked up via B.A.S.S. and the people at MLG Inc. I guess they must have been desperate for press....
So after acquainting myself with the "will call" and some protocols, here I was in the pit. I wasn't a big fan of The Clash, they didn't hold the historical significance that they do today, but I liked a few of their songs and went because my photography buddy was a huge Clash fan. He was somewhere back in the seats. What follows is half transcribed/half from memory recollections of the conversation that took place backstage with Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon after the show.
IL: Hi guys, how are you doing tonight?
JS: Yeah, fine. You?
IL:Great. Awesome show. The backstage area seems a bit sparse.
JS:Yeah, well, they expect us to act crazy and tear things up you know?
IL:Yeah, I kind of thought you would too. I guess that’s just the image that punk has given itself.
JS:It’s unfortunate, yes.
IL:I must say though, I think your band kind of defies the label of being punk. You actually defy description. You have a bit of everything in your music.
JS:Thanks for noticing, yes. We have many influences and it’s reflected in our music.
IL:Would you care to tell me about them?
JS:Well, Paul over there might have something to tell you. I need a cuppa tea.
IL:Alright then, I’ll talk to him. We’re both bass players so maybe he can give me some tips.
JS:Yeah, brilliant.
IL:Hello Paul, great show tonight. I must tell you, I came to this show really to photograph it but I think I’ll leave as fan.
PS:Well, we always love to hear that. I think you really have to come to the shows to appreciate the band.
IL:How so?
PS:It’s just a completely different ambience, you know? We feed off the reaction we get from the audience, then we send it right back out, and the whole thing just spirals out of control in a good way.
IL:Ah, cute. The tour is called “Out Of Control”.
PS:That’s kind of why. It’s really a bit of a wind up of the press. We’re portrayed as this band that goes about smashing shit up, and for us it’s just about the music. The music is the only thing that’s out of control. We like it to be. What good would it be if we just stood there like dead men on stage?
IL:That’s for sure. I don’t think I’ve seen so much energy at a concert. Joe’s banging on the stage with hammers, you’re jumping all over...
PS:Exactly, yes.
IL:Actually, I expected this concert to be some sort of punk riot but it was nothing like that. It’s almost…..intellectual? The songs seem to hold a lot of meaning to your fans.
PS:We want people to think, not just listen. Unfortunately, our image precedes us. I don’t know if we’ll ever escape that.
IL:We’re both bass players, can you give me any tips?
PS:Keep playing. As much as you can (tosses me a pick).
IL:Thanks Paul. Take care.
Then Paul Simonon abrubtly got up and went to play on the video game placed there. I was expecting blood-letting and punk-crazed room-destroying antics and instead Paul and Joe played video games and sipped tea. Before leaving, I asked both of them to give me an autograph, something I rarely did.
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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)
from Songkick (cannot be relied on)
... both have lists of people who say they went
& from the newer Concert Database and also Concert Archives
Also useful: Ultimate Music database, All Music, Clash books at DISCOGS
Articles, check 'Rocks Back Pages'
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Out of Control Tour 1984 United States March, April, May
ARTICLES, POSTERS, CLIPPINGS
A collection of and other items from March to August 1984
VIDEO AND AUDIO Video and audio footage
BOOKS
Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band That Mattered By Mark Andersen, Ralph Heibutzki Fort Lauderdale pg137, pg147, pg151
Nashville pg103
features archival footage and new interviews to tell the story of the band's final days. The four primary members of the band - Jones, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonen and Topper Headon tell their sides of the story as do Nick Sheppard and Vince White, both of whom replaced Jones, and original drummer Terry Chimes, who returned to replace Headon in 1982.
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