Saturday morning (congratulations Spurs on your 0-0 with Hull) and the kind of post you love most as I’ve got little to say but lots of great images to show you. I wrote back on Christmas Eve about The Clash appearing at Acklam Hall for 50p on Christmas Day 1979 which was followed by another gig there on Boxing Day. Wayne, a good friend to the Blog wrote in to say he’d been to the concert on Dec 26th and had kept his ticket for these 30 years since, I think he’s got a collector’s piece on his hands. The Pennie Smith photo was the reverse side of the ticket. I rifled through my old tickets last night and found some treats but nothing that predated 1981 so I feel very trumped. Below is the front and back of what Wayne was kind enough to send in – Enjoy !! (We did the best we could with the image quality as he had to scan them…I’ve offered to take this from Wayne for safe-keeping but been rejected)

I simply love that – especially “DINNER DANCE”

Another piece of ‘donated’ memorabilia for you then, some old old Clash concert flyers from the very early days. These appear in the big pink Clash book (seems I need to get a copy) and I just can’t get enough of the DIY fanzine feel of these. Not sure when we went from homemade to corporate with concert promotions but it must have been 1981-2? I got copies of these from Jeff who’d rather be known as DUBWISE72 (fair enough) and they are as old something rather old. No real explanation needed I assume but such joy to see them…..

Talk to you later…oh…a quick reminder about the concert in San Francisco tomorrow featuring the Beat – all proceeds to Haiti disaster relief. Hopefully someone reading will make it along.