The Clash Mick Jones (guitar/vocs) Joe Strummer (guitar/vocs) Paul Simenon (bass) Topper Headon
(drums) Mick Gallagher (keys)
Lew Lewis (harmonica)
Ian Dury and the Blockheads: Ian Dury (vocs)
Chaz Jankel (guitar) Mick Gallagher (keys) John Turnbull (guitar/keys)
Charley Charles (drums) Norman Watt Roy (bass) Davey Payne (sax)
Vice
Creems Kris Needs (vocs) Colin Keinch
(guitar) Wally Wildebeest (bass) Tony Bryant(drums)
gig poster and flyer (click to
enlarge flyer)
ticket
memories
The webmaster, north Bucks:
"The
opening night of the London Calling tour saw a mammoth and excruciatingly
loud performance from Joe and Co. I didn’t enjoy this one so much (as
Stoke Mandeville 82) but did enjoy the ‘surprise’ support act of a certain
Ian Dury and The Blockheads who were incredible (when queueing up someone
shouted "Ian Dury is the support act" and lots of "you what?") and an
interesting local act called the Vice Creems featuring a certain Kris
Needs. I remember him vividly unwittingly calling me a **** after the
moron I was with spat at him during his performance and then bravely
legged it from the hall after he saw the look on Needs' face.. Not my
fault (nor his to be fair) but Needs pointed in my direction at the end of the song and said
naughty things to which the audience turned in my general direction.
Whoops. Can laugh about it now as Kris and I know each other."
Thanks Sarah Woods for the below
backstage pics:
press cuttings
Thanks Tim Watts for the cuttings.
thanks to graham britten for
the nme cuttings
what happened next
The Clash
effectively imploded after the final Cut The Crap album by which time Jones had
been sacked from the band. After The Clash, Jones went on to successfully form
Big Audio Dynamite. Currently he is part of Carbon Silicon. Strummer formed and
toured with The Mascaleros. Simonon
went into art and came back into prominence in 2007 with The Good, The Bad
and The Queen, a project also featuring Damon Albarn. Topper is believed
to be living and playing in the Dover area. Joe Strummer died in 2002.
Jones and Headon reunited
for the first time on stage in 25 years in January 2008 at a Carbon Silicon gig
(Jones' current band)
ian Dury and the Blockheads
lasted only another couple of years. They reformed for one off gigs and
more permanently in the 1990s before Dury's untimely death
The Vice Creems
featured Friars legend Kris Needs who is still a music journalist
The Clash - Police And Thieves (live at this
gig!) Ian Dury and The Blockheads and Mick Jones - Sweet Gene Vincent (also at
this gig!) Vice Creems - No Passion
