The Clash: New Year's Day '77 9 years old

Built around the earliest, until now unseen, footage of the Clash in concert, filmed by Julien Temple as they opened the infamous Roxy club in a dilapidated Covent Garden on January 1st 1977, this show takes us on a time-travelling trip back to that strange planet that was Great Britain in the late 1970s and the moment when punk emerged into the mainstream consciousness. Featuring the voices of Joe Strummer and the Clash from the time, and intercutting the raw and visceral footage of this iconic show, with telling moments from the BBC's New Year's Eve, Hogmanay and New Year's Day schedules of nearly 40 years ago, it celebrates that great enduring British custom of getting together, en masse and often substantially the worse for wear, to usher in the New Year.

Credits

The Clash: New Year's Day '77 Cast

Name Character
Paul Simonon He was 59, now 68 years old
Joe Strummer He was 62, 50 years old when he died
The Clash was 39, now 48 years old

The Clash: New Year's Day '77 Crew

Name Department
The Clash: New Year's Day '77 poster
The Clash: New Year's Day '77 (9 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, January 01, 2015
  • Runtime: 75 minutes