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)
The Vice
Creems
Kris Needs (vocs) Colin Keinch
(guitar) Wally Wildebeest (bass) Tony Bryant(drums)
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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
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