The Clash - Lyceum Ballroom, London, Britain, 1-3-1979

The Clash is one of my favorite bands, and I really enjoy hearing live recordings from them, but only when the sound quality is excellent. So I'm posting this bootleg, even though it's pretty similar to another one I've already posted, because live Clash that sounds this good needs to get more attention.

The other concert I've posted already that's pretty similar is from the Agora in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 13, 1979. That's only a month after this concert, so the set lists are fairly similar. But there are enough differences to make both worthwhile.

Note that this concert is just three days into 1979. So while the Clash's big release that year was the "London Calling" double album, that came out at the very end of the year, so there's nothing from that here. Instead, the Clash's second studio album "Give 'Em Enough Rope" had just been released two months earlier, in November 1978, so the set list heavily relied on that.

This bootleg is a soundboard, one of probably only a handful by the band that sound this good. But I've managed to improve the sound quality a little more. The lead vocals were a low in the mix, not by a lot, but I boosted them up to the right level using the MVSEP audio editing program. On a couple of songs, the vocals tended to drop in and out, maybe because the singer was getting too far from the microphone at times. So I went through those line by line and boosted the quiet parts. Some lines were just too quiet to fix, but I improved a lot of them. That's why "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" and "Complete Control" have "[Edit]" in their titles.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 Safe European Home (Clash)
02 I Fought the Law (Clash)
03 talk (Clash)
04 Jail Guitar Doors (Clash)
05 Drug-Stabbing Time (Clash)
06 talk (Clash)
07 City of the Dead (Clash)
08 Clash City Rockers (Clash)
09 Tommy Gun (Clash)
10 [White Man] In Hammersmith Palais [Edit] (Clash)
11 talk (Clash)
12 English Civil War (Clash)
13 talk (Clash)
14 Stay Free (Clash)
15 Cheapskates (Clash)
16 Julie's in the Drug Squad (Clash)
17 talk (Clash)
18 Police and Thieves (Clash)
19 Capital Radio (Clash)
20 Janie Jones (Clash)
21 Garageland (Clash)
22 Complete Control [Edit] (Clash)
23 London's Burning (Clash)
24 White Riot (Clash)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wf7R47cs

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/IJOKQHEHrj6vqig/file

The cover photo is from the "Tribal Stomp II" concert in Monterey, California, in September 1979. I darkened some parts of it to give it more of a nighttime feel.