Čonkić spent the July of 1978 in London , attending a study- English -abroad course at a UK -based college. Taking in the city’s music scene by going out to live shows on a nightly basis, he ended up seeing a variety of performers—including punk and punk-adjacent acts such as The Clash , The Specials , Midge Ure , Glen Matlock ‘s Rich Kids , Skids , and Magazine . Particularly impressed with one of The Clash shows from their four-night July 24-27 residency at the Music Machine venue, with The Specials as the opening act, where The Clash played material off their upcoming album Give ‘Em Enough Rope —a live performance Čonkić would later state influenced him the most of any he’d ever seen—the look, posture, and pageantry of English punk as well as The Clash’s performative manner 24-year-old Čonkić witnessed that night in Camden were then copied by his own fledgling band upon his return home to Yugoslavia.
London trip influence
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