Clash - live at Music Machine, London, UK - 27. July 1978

Complete Control
Safe European Home
What's My Name

[@hairydot61]

I went to one of these nights, I was 17yrs old at the time, U.S.A. band Suicide and The Coventry Specials supported, bloody Amazing night, did Don Letts DJ?, remember Reggae, Dub & punk played over the system, one of my first gigs

[@deerhunter2218]

Were The Coventry Specials a Specials cover band? Came from the same city an all

[@hairydot61]

​@@deerhunter2218hi, I beleve that The Coventry Specials was the original name of The Specials before they just called themselves The Specials, cheers

[@hairydot61]

​@@deerhunter2218....I got it a bit wrong there, this is cut & paste from wiki .... The group was formed in 1977 by songwriter/keyboardist Dammers, vocalist Tim Strickland, guitarist/vocalist Lynval Golding, drummer Silverton Hutchinson and bassist Horace Panter (a.k.a. Sir Horace Gentleman). Strickland was replaced by Terry Hall shortly after the band's formation. The band was first called the Automatics, then the Coventry Automatics.[9] Vocalist Neville Staple and guitarist Roddy Byers (usually known as Roddy Radiation) joined the band the following year; the new line-up changed their name to the Special AKA. Joe Strummer of The Clash had attended one of their concerts, and invited the Special AKA to open for his band in their "On Parole" UK tour. This performance gave the Special AKA a new level of national exposure, and they briefly shared the Clash's management.

[@TERRANOVAofficial]

i went to all 4 nights at the music machine - wow so long ago . i still have the tshirt i bought there maggy thatcher let them eat cake - fourth night (not sure if 3 or 4) anyway last night joe only had 2 strings left

[@MissEmilyMattinson]

That's my dad at 0:24 in the blue t-shirt!! You can hear someone say to him, "Howard you're a star"

[@andrewlowe6521]

Ask him if Steve Jones was just off camera playing what's my name

[@SpikyMagpie]

I would love to be there!! So great!!

[@unclemort1960]

Joe Strummer - a ball of passion and sweat.

[@rumpraisin]

And talent.

[@heatherlubman7496]

total control my fav song

[@DJSMITHST135PF]

I was there on the second night. We went down for the first night but it was sold out so we slept rough and went for the second night.

[@TomTremayne]

This venue went on to become the 'Camden Palace' & then 'KoKo' with its popular club nights & at 0:36 you can clearly see Mornington Crescent top station in the near distance. Fantastic moment at 2:34 when Strummer's building-up for the start of 'What's My Name?' & presumably asking his name from all the regional places ('Aberdeen, Manchester, Perthshire, Newcastle') before Mick irritatedly interrupts him by saying (at 2:59) "It's Safe European Home!". Strummer then apologies & they crash in to it!

[@benjiderueil]

Merci pour la vidéo

[@johanneskepler8944]

yes! they played Music Machine 3 nights in a row no? last night strummer had only 2 strings left on his git - epic

[@sdh8286]

No he didn't - I was there

[@TERRANOVAofficial]

4 nights

[@TERRANOVAofficial]

this is from 'rude boy'

[@wolfthedave]

Love it, come back Joe.. "Why judge me?"

[@twcpu2369]

I realize it is widely believed this footage is from the 27th of July, but I'm not sure about this. I have a bootleg of every Music Machine show performed during this stretch with the exception of the show on the 26th, and none of my audio matches this. I know the audio for this show was re-recorded, but, for example, the part during European Home where Joe says "they got the tree, they got the smoker" or something like that, that obviously was what he really sang, despite the overdubbing in studio ,because it matches his lips and hand movements. On my bootleg from the 27th, he does not sing this part. I think this was most likely filmed on July 26.

[@pittrek81]

That's interesting. Most of the sources I checked claim it's from the 27th, but I don't think I have a bootleg to actually check it

[@XRCF]

@@pittrek81 bit late but I can confirm the video was shot on the 26th not the 27th Proof: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5fReISkdrOciq8

[@pitchforkcustom]

i have bootleg of this .. awrdeen newcastle perthshire oh sorry .. etc all exactly the same . says 27th but you may be right.

[@henrydemonfreid1985]

Was this definitely filmed at Music Machine? Music Machine is now Koko, no? The street matches for sure!

[@heatherlubman7496]

raw may hem the best no security near the band could get close to your favorite bands then

[@dracothedraconian7486]

I'm sure they opened with Safe European Homes - my memory huh?

[@pittrek81]

@CFUL001 Lucky you :-)

[@keiththestones7951]

This is how Safe European Home and the whole fucking Give'em enough rope should have sounded without Sandy Pearlman and his shitty production, all these fabulous songs wasted in their studio versions

[@dancing_on_the_valentine_83]

Wish to see any Japan's concert from Music Machine... ❤️

[@justarkadia]

thewhochilipepperU22 Rudie Can't Fail was released in 1979, the film Rude Boy was filmed in 1978/1979 and released in 1980. Great footage of the Clash!

[@mjh5437]

Rude Boy is such a naff film......really cringey.

[@XRCF]

Yeah but without it we wouldn’t have some of the best looking video of the clash playin live

[@eugenemclemmont4045]

It meant the world to us back in the 80`s, Clash footage was hard to come by.