Ticket
The Apollo
5th October 1981

Came back from some travels, knowing that a lot of friends were going to see The Clash that night so I went along to the box office, which at the time was to the left of the Apollo.
Arrived just after a couple of Standing tickets had been returned for right down the front! Very impressive.
Collectively we must've broken every Health & Safety rule in the book by collecting tickets from people in the Standing area and meeting friends in the bar to bring them back down the front.
A boisterous crush and I remember being a bit worried for the girls who were with us.
But we lived to gig another day!
Turned out that Theatre of Hate were support but nobody seemed to know - I remember loads of us rushing from the bar as word got round the venue that they were on.
The 'Standing' note was written on at the box office, by the way - I suppose The Clash persuaded the management to take some seats out quite late on, after tickets were printed.
Stuart