Hello….yes I know it’s been a while. I started the Clash Cup as a fun and interactive way for the visitors to The Clash Blog to ultimately select the best 32,16,8 and finally the top 4 Clash songs of all time. If you’re a newer visitor to the blog we basically ‘seeded’ a number of songs so that they’d protected until the later rounds. If you check back on the blog you can find that list (I’ll also get a page added for next week). Even though you’ve perhaps missed the earlier 51 match ups don’t worry as the important votes lay ahead.

Right then – to get it back on track – we’ve got a series of results to review – I’ll get back to the head-to-head match ups this weekend and guarantee a new Clash Cup entry every day or two. Round one is nearly complete and by next weekend we’ll be all set for round two. The system is simple – no registration is required and one vote per IP. I track all votes and leave polls open for about 72 hours. Thanks for being so patient with this, I fully realise it’s been on hold about six weeks (best laid plans and all that…).

Here are the results for the pending battles that we left pending!

Match 46 – The Equaliser tops      Ivan Meets G.I. Joe         32-11                                                              Not a big shock there in this ‘All Sandinista! battle’

Match 47 – City of The Dead smacks    Freedom Train            45-1                                                              The most one sided result so far in Round One

Match 48 - 48 Hours defeats         Three Card Trick             36-10                                                          Thank goodness for that (10 votes for Three Card Trick?)

Match 49 – Time is Tight edges         Lose This Skin                27-17                                                          Pretty close end result sees another cover version into round 2

Match 50 -  Groovy Times slips by          The Call Up                 31-28                                                      Bloody close and more than enough votes for The Call Up to get to the next round as high vote runner up

Match 51 – The Guns of Brixton sneaks past     Train in Vain           34-27                                             Another close one and both songs will make it to round 2

Right there you have it, we’ve got 4 pairing left in Round one to sort the last 8. Then by next Saturday we’ll launch into round 2. Sorry it took so long and I look forward to all of your voting in the days ahead.