Garageland (song)

After our second gig a critic in New Musical Express wrote that we should be returned to the garage and locked in with a motor running so that we died.

"[9] This was evidenced in the verses: "Meanwhile things are hotting up in the West End alright / Contracts in the offices and groups in the night / My bumming slumming friends have all got new boots / And someone just asked me if the group would wear suits", and, after the chorus, with the following lines: "I don't want to hear about what the rich are doing / I don't want to go to where the rich are going / They think they're so clever, they think they're so right / But the truth is only known by gutter snipes".

[11] The song made its live debut on 10–11 March 1977, on the first and second night of an early gig at The Coliseum in Harlesden, London, where the band was supported by Subway Sect, Buzzcocks, and The Slits.

[12] From that moment to 1985, the song has become a stable part of the setlists of their future tours and concerts, and has graced stages all over the world.

Among the most important venues, concert halls and arenas there were: "Garageland" was first featured as the last track of the band's debut album as well as in its 1979 U.S. release.

[23] It was featured in the 1980 film release Rude Boy, where it was performed live at Rehearsal Rehearsals, but the audio was re-recorded at Wessex Studios,[24] and on The Punk Rock Movie, directed and filmed by Don Letts mainly at The Roxy club in Super 8 in the autumn of 1977 during The Clash's White Riot tour, and published in DVD format in 1992.

Two) released in 2003 by various artists and performed by Billy Bragg with Wiggy, The Neurotics, and Attila & The Stockbroker, Charlie Does Surf: A Tribute To The Clash released in 2004 by various artists where the song was performed by The Glasgow Tiki Shakers with Bill McGlynnon guitar, Joyce Seko on bass, and Bruce Graham on drums, and Revolution Rock: Joe Strummer Memorial Night At Klubi, Tampere Finland released in December 2006 by various artists throughout LampLite Ltd. and performed by The Control with ex-Hanoi Rocks' Stefan Piesnack and Tumppi Varonen on vocals.