Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-26-1979 to 12-29-1979: Day 2, Part 1: The Clash

In 2023, I posted four albums for the four nights of concerts that made up the "Concerts for the People of Kampuchea" benefit concerts in 1979. At that time, I was aware the full performance by the Clash was available, but I only included a few songs from it due to sound quality issues. But now, as I write this in October 2026, audio editing technology has improved by leaps and bounds. So I revisited the full Clash recording, and decided I could improve the sound quality enough to post it. So here it is.

But that's not all. There was a similar situation with the set by the Who on the next night. I had only posted part of it, but now I'm posting the whole thing. Day 1, a full set by Queen, is staying exactly the same. Day 4, consisting of sets by Rockpile, Elvis Costello, and Paul McCartney, is also staying exactly the same, because I couldn't find any more music from that one. But I'm splitting Day 2 into two albums and also splitting Day 3 into two albums.

When I posted some of the Clash set back in 2023, only three songs from this Clash performance had really good sound quality. "Armagideon Time" came from the official live album of highlights from these concerts. Two more, "Bankrobber" and "London Calling," came from a soundboard quality bootleg of more highlights. I've kept those the same as before.

That leaves the rest of the set. When shared on bootleg sites, it's often called a soundboard recording, but in fact it clearly is an audience boot. I used the MVSEP program to split it into six parts (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and other). I discovered from that that the drums and bass were way too loud, and the vocals and guitar were too quiet. So I did some remixed that hopefully improved that a lot. Also, the vocals had a lot of reverb on them, so I specifically ran the vocals through a de-reverb function. Furthermore, I got rid of some talking by people around the taper, although I couldn't always get rid of all of it.

I think this sounds much better now. It's still not great, still not up to soundboard level, but I think it's pretty close.

This album is 55 minutes long. 

01 Clash City Rockers (Clash)
02 Brand New Cadillac (Clash)
03 Safe European Home (Clash)
04 talk (Clash)
05 Jimmy Jazz (Clash)
06 talk (Clash)
07 Clampdown (Clash)
08 talk (Clash)
09 Guns of Brixton (Clash)
10 Train in Vain [Stand by Me] (Clash)
11 talk (Clash)
12 Wrong 'Em Boyo (Clash)
13 Koka Kola (Clash)
14 talk (Clash)
15 White Man in Hammersmith Palais (Clash)
16 Stay Free (Clash)
17 Bankrobber (Clash)
18 Janie Jones (Clash)
19 Complete Control (Clash)
20 talk (Clash)
21 Armagideon Time (Clash)
22 London Calling (Clash)
23 talk by emcee (Clash)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9gxQ8aPt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/qoyMGfe8oNDXVYW/file

The cover photo is of the Clash and was taken from this exact concert. On the right side in the background, you can see a big, round United Nations logo used for the Kampuchea concerts. I sharpened the image using Krea AI program. Then in October 2026, I further fleshed out the details with the Gemini program.