Campus footage of The Clash to feature in new box set
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Last updated: Thursday, 23 May 2013
Punk band The Clash perform in Mandela Hall on the ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓƵ campus on 25 May 1977.
Paul Cecil during his punk days as a student at the ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓƵ in the late 1970s.
Previously unreleased film footage from a 1977 gig by punk pioneers The Clash at the ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓƵ is to be released in September as part of a 12-disc box set.
The band – famous for chart-toppers such as London Calling, Rock The Casbah and Should I Stay or Should I Go - have compiled Sound System, which includes a DVD that couples all of their videos with unseen archive footage.
The box set also collects for the first time all of the band's seminal studio albums, plus three CDs of demos, non-album singles, B-sides and rarities.
The ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓƵ footage is from 25 May 1977, when The Clash played in Mandela Hall as part of their White Riot tour and the gig was displayed live on screens around the venue.
Paul Cecil, who was studying American Studies at Sussex at the time, was among those who attended the gig.
He remembers: “A lot of students bought tickets. On the day of the gig itself, large numbers of London punks turned up without tickets and began piling into Mandela Hall. Students took one look at them and started to sell their tickets to them. They thought it was scary. It wasn’t.
“Inside the gig it was a really friendly atmosphere. There was lots of pogo-ing and jumping around, getting very bruised bashing into people. It was mayhem but controlled mayhem for about 35 minutes.
“The Clash played an outstandingly good set - very short, very loud, very fast.”
The new DVD release features four songs from the gig: I’m So Bored With The USA, Hate & War, Career Opportunities, and Remote Control.
It comes from the archives of Julien Temple, a film and video director who had befriended the band and went on to make The Sex Pistols movie The Great Rock And Roll Swindle.
But if you can’t wait until September to buy the box set, you can see footage of the show on YouTube. In The Clash are performing Capital Radio, Protex Blue, Cheat and Remote Control; and in they play Remote Control, White Riot, and Police and Thieves.
Other big names to perform at Sussex in the 1970s included The Who and The Damned.
The Clash broke up in the early 1980s and front man Joe Strummer died in 2002.
I saw Fugazi here in 1995. Not quite so famous but still brilliant. Proper "straight edge" band (ex minor threat). I think they went on stage with their back-packs on. They are releasing live bootlegs but they don't have the Sussex one.
Carter USM played in 1991 apparently.
Found a pic of Fugazi
also, I came across the link below. I think there is a Sussex bootleg cassette - be careful 'home taping is killing music' an old slogan from the past :)
who else played? and why don't people play anymore?!
No surprise to see the legacy of the late Sir Joe Strummer being misused in such a way. Grrrr.
Manic Street Preachers played here in 1992; they also did Clash's "It's So Easy" on this gig!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoV8r-k1O9Q (in the end)
is it also in Mandela Hall? i can't make out...
ew sorry, confused it; it's not clash cover though, it's guns and roses
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Love the fact that the Clash played at Sussex - great footage. I've heard Jimi Hendrix played here as well - I wonder who else?
From Tony Hudson on 22 May 2013
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