Live music, memories & history from Chelmsford and beyond.
Established January 2006
Selected event record
The Clash
Chancellor Hall · 27 May 1977
Confirmed
Date 27 May 1977
Venue Chancellor Hall
Archive status Documented event record
Archive record
White Riot Tour.
The selected event record identifies this as a Chancellor Hall appearance on the White Riot Tour. The date is recorded as 27 May 1977, following the surviving ticket and Maurice Hyde’s Flickr source titled “The Clash Ticket May 27th 1977 Chelmsford Chancellor Hall”. The archive currently presents that core record without adding details that are not established in the surviving material.
Archive approach: This is a selected record from the Chelmsford Rocks archive, not a claim that every surviving detail has been resolved. Where the source is incomplete, the page stays deliberately modest.
Related selected records
Other individual records currently linked to the Chancellor Hall archive:
Flickr caption identifies Martin Reid, Gary McDowell, Pete Frostick and Mick Bartlett, and says the image appeared in the Sunday Times Magazine in September 1977 and was taken at a Chancellor Hall Clash gig. The Flickr caption does not give the concert date, so this is related 1977 context rather than proof of the specific 27 May event. Shared from the Flickr page of Maurice Hyde; the original magazine photographer is not identified in this Flickr item. Open the Flickr source →
This record is one selected entry within the wider Chelmsford Rocks source archive. Use the links below to compare the event with the venue history and the broader surviving listings.
Flickr caption identifies Martin Reid, Gary McDowell, Pete Frostick and Mick Bartlett, and says the image appeared in the Sunday Times Magazine in September 1977 and was taken at a Chancellor Hall Clash gig. The Flickr caption does not give the concert date, so this is related 1977 context rather than proof of the specific 27 May event. Shared from the Flickr page of Maurice Hyde; the original magazine photographer is not identified in this Flickr item. Open the Flickr source →