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| | The Damned - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Damned's first single "New Rose" remains a classic of early punk rock, described by one critic as "deathless anthem of nuclear-strength romantic angst untroubled by bad vibes." [1] It is a cheaply-recorded, but catchy and well-crafted pop song, 'punk' mostly in its volume and breakneck delivery. | | | In the phase of their career from roughly 1979 to 1984, they were also (uniquely among original British punk bands) foundational to the young bands who created hardcore punk. | | | Original members Dave Vanian (David Lett), Captain Sensible (Ray Burns), and Rat Scabies (Chris Millar) were all members of the semi-legendary Masters of the Backsides which included future Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde. |
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| | Hartford Advocate: Damned STRAIGHT |
| | Does Vanian think punk and punk politics has managed to change anything in the world. | | | There he met guitarist Brian James and the two hit it off, deciding they'd start their own band, the Masters of the Backside (the band was managed by Malcolm McLaren, who later managed the Pistols, and its singer was Chrissie Hynde, who later formed the Pretenders). | | | Vanian says most of the Damned's contemporaries started leaning more towards infusing politics into the music. |
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http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:29158
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| | :: onewaylove.com - a dedication to the damned :: |
| | A studio album called "David Vanian and the Phantom Chords" was released in 1995. | | | The band made it through these gigs by telling the audience that Vanian had died and the gigs were a memorial to him. | | | He split with The Damned after a disagreement with David Vanian over the release of the album "It's Alright Jack and The Beanstalk". |
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| | Damned - Gravegiggers (Gig Reviews) |
| | Vanian was dominating the stage with his presence and the sound was excellent with all band members holding the sound together tightly. | | | Dave Vanian's vocals were as good as ever, often he was running across the stage while singing. | | | Vanian and the band were in great moods, with Captain telling hilarious stories about Steve Jones and complaining that he was playing on a stage that "looked like a 1950s B Movie". |
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| | The Damned, MP3 Music Download at eMusic |
| | Vanian, having reestablished contact with Sensible during the former's touring work with his Phantom Chords band, responded by breaking with Scabies, reuniting fully with Sensible and recruiting a new group to take over the identity of the Damned. | | | Vanian's own history allegedly included singing "I Love the Dead" and "Dead Babies" while working as a gravedigger, but whatever the background, he proved to be a perfect frontman. | | | Scabies put Sensible in touch with Vanian and James and the Damned were born, with Sensible switching over to bass while James handled guitar and songwriting. |
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http://www.emusic.com/artist/10563/10563707.html
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| | Look At This |
| | Vanian was supposed to do a lead vocal overdub but it never happened. | | | Apparently, everything was recorded except for the vocals, which Vanian never got around to do which shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone. | | | Dave did in fact get around to visit Jerry Only's garage and sing along to Archangel, but unfortunately no recording was made. |
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http://www.misfitscentral.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi?file=marticle/neat.96
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| | Review: "Grave Disorder" |
| | Vanian’s voice had become stronger, and remained unique even as “new romance” eclipsed punk on the British music scene. | | | Their first, self-titled album was filled with short energetic songs on a variety of subjects, relentlessly driven by Brian James’ rapid-fire guitar chording. | | | As an aside, the Doctors of Madness were one of the most profound little-known bands ever, cursed by falling between the decline of glam and the advent of punk, and entirely too intellectual for either. |
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http://www.gothpunk.com/reviews/grave-disorder.html
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| | Billboard.BIZ |
| | Vanian recently reunited with original guitarist/showman extraordinaire Captain Sensible to record a new album, "Grave Disorder" (due August 21 via Nitro), the first studio collaboration between the pair in nearly 20 years. | | | The new, 13-track set deftly showcases his skills, as well as the funky, sexy bass prowess of Patricia Morrison (ex-Sisters of Mercy; ex-Gun Club), and the moody, often spooky, keyboard playing of Monty Oxy Moron. | | | "I did a show with Dave, where both our solo bands were performing on the same bill," Sensible says. |
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http://www.billboard.com/bb/biz/newsroom/printable_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1018112
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| | SLUG interviews The DAMNED |
| | Vanian rose to the challenge on the ensuing album, Grave Disorder, by singing with a vitality that suggests maybe the vampire has reached immortality. | | | The band would fizzle but later re-emerge as the Doomed, with David Vanian and Rat Scabies in their original vampire/vocalist and drummer roles, and Captain Sensible switching to guitar from bass. | | | Their ups came early, like releasing the first U.K. punk single, "New Rose" in 1976, but the downs soon followed as tensions arose with chief songwriter and guitarist Brian James during the second album Music For Pleasure. |
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| | Toronto Gothic - The Damned release Grave Disorder and play with the Swinging Utters at Lee's Palace in Toronto |
| | With the fruition of Vanian and Sensible's talents and experience combined with Patricia Morrison's (ex-Sisters of Mercy, Gun Club and The Bags) throaty bass sound, second-generation punk Pinch's (ex-English Dogs, Janus Stark, Wernt) blistering drums and Monty Oxy Moron's disquieting keyboards--The Damned are at their pinnacle. | | | Grave Disorder proves beyond a doubt that Captain Sensible and Dave Vanian are one of the truly great songwriting teams of modern music. | | | "She," Vanian's song to wife, bass-player and goth diva, Morrison, is sexy and affecting. |
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http://www.toronto-goth.com/archives/2001-08-22d.shtml
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| | Chapter 2: The Bubble Bursts |
| | The Vanians returned from Sussex and continued their honeymoon on The Damned's European tour at the end of September, while the first single, the appalling 'Problem Child', was released in Britain. | | | Dave Robinson: "When we first signed them, they fitted the Stiff image which was fun rather than serious music. | | | We were interested in them more than in the music, although 'New Rose' changed that and the first album was just fantastic. |
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| | Projekt: darkwave - 'Not of this Earth' |
| | Dave Vanian (Vocals) didn't want this CD released as The Damned, but Rat went behind his back and released it. | | | Excellent guitar, and Vanians vocals are top notch. | | | Reviewer: An Amazon.com Customer from Washington, D.C. First off, this is the CD that got Rat Scabies (Drummer/founding member) kicked out of the band. |
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| | DaveVanianInterview 1987 |
| | Dave: Well, it’s a funny story, that what happened was the people that made the film were on a very low budget, and I don’t know the exact political reasons, but the person who was supposed to be doing all the backing music backed out at the last minute and they were stuck. | | | Dave: Well we wanna do some other things, like you’re talking about a flexi-disc, we wanted to actually record a record off our own backs in a small studio, which might come out of what we’re recording at the moment ‘cos we’re not in a big studio. | | | Dave: Yeah, there is this compilation album, which was difficult to choose but it’s kind of like the best of everything. |
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http://www.gingoblins.com/sugarandspite/VanianInterview1987.htm
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| | The Damned - Shepherds Bush Empire |
| | Dave Vanian sat on a high backed wicker chair in the middle of the stage while the rest of the band played the intro to 'Street of Dreams'. | | | It couldn't have escaped either Brian or Dave that 'Livin on Livin' got a great response and there seemed to be quite a number of people who knew the track VERY well. | | | Eventually, the Brian James Gang trooped on stage - Brian, Dave, A N Other - and they tore into the first track with some force, though for the life of me I can't remember what it was. |
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| | Kult ov Bela - The Damned "Grave Disorder" Review |
| | The line-up for this album includes Dave, the Captain, Pinch (drummer for such punk bands as English Dogs and Janus Stark), Monty Oxy Moron on keyboards, and Dave's wife, Patricia Morrison on bass (she used to be in the Sisters of Mercy and Gun Club). | | | In a tribute to the muse of many a demented artist, Vanian writes a song called "Absinthe" which is the next track. | | | Don't get excited, I'm just killing some time, it's a fantasy crime..." And another goth crooner for Vanian would be "She." Surely influenced by Vanian's wife, it's a romantic little goth ditty about the wonderful virtues of being in love with the right woman. |
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http://www.geocities.com/kultovbela/damngdrev.html
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| | Eternity |
| | But Vanian, apparently alive and well, likes to talk about music, particularly about his uncanny ability to tap everything from punk, goth and surf pop to western, flamenco, ballad and B-horror-flick soundtrack. | | | It’s hard to believe that the first punk band to chart a single is still going -- and stronger than ever. | | | The new disc reunites Vanian with former guitarist Captain Sensible after a 10-year separation. |
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http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2002-10-10/music5.shtml
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| | Dark Culture Magazine - REVIEWS |
| | The Damned led by the legendary duo Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible coincidentally commemorate twenty five years of damnation with a new studio album. | | | Have no fear, Dave Vanian is still the best host in town, enchanting ghouls, punks and vampires alike. | | | Their first single "Democracy?" engages in political commentary from a hearty punk rock point of view. |
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http://www.darkculture.net/archive/reviews/damnedgrave.shtml
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| | Velvetron on Dave Fanning show this Sunday... - Thumped |
| | Dave Fanning will be playing a track from Velvetron's latest E.P. - TECH NOIR this Sunday @ 9pm on 2fm.......4 more info see the central processor : Velvetron.iwarp.com |
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http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=6981
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| | Ink 19 :: The Damned |
| | Fronted by the legendary Dave Vanian and aided and abetted by original guitarist Captain Sensible, this was a rare chance to see some influential music legends in the intimate setting of the Sapphire Supper Club. | | | The Sapphire was very nearly full when we arrived, with about half the crowd wearing the Official Punk Rock Uniform ™ -- you know, the outfit "punks" wear to show everyone how non-conformist they are by conforming to the aesthetic of their social group (thus missing the whole point of punk rock to begin with). | | | Ripping out of the gate with "Democracy?," the lead track from their new album, Grave Disorder, it was instantly clear that despite the core band members having been at this for a quarter-century (!), they've lost none of their vitality or intensity. |
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http://www.ink19.com/issues/november2001/liveInk/damned.html
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| | Splendid: Features: The Damned |
| | Me solo albums are a bit poppier than the Damned, and Dave's Phantom Chords have their distinctive style, but the Damned has its own sound, and it's weird how that almost imposes itself on a song without us even trying to achieve that result. | | | Splendid: Though the Damned covered "Help", all the genre-sprawling albums you've made (like your Black Album) suggest the latter-day Beatles records were a heavier influence on the band's conception of what a great record should be like. | | | In terms of particular talent, Dave Vanian's voice is just a notch below Freddie Mercury's in my book, while Moron and Sensible, the other two Damned elders, bring a wild, anarchic grace to their instruments. |
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http://www.splendidezine.com/features/damned
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| | The Damned |
| | "New Rose," The Damned's first single, remains a classic of early punk rock, described by one critic as "deathless anthem of nuclear-strength romantic angst untroubled by bad vibes." [1] Vanian's deadpan intro--"Is she really going out with him?"--was later borrowed by fellow Brit Joe Jackson for the title of arguably his best-known song. | | | Their first album, Damned Damned Damned was produced by Nick Lowe, and featured a stomping cover of The Stooges' "1970," retitled "I Feel Alright" Scabies' powerful, Keith Moon-style drumming is prominent throught. | | | Captain Sensible (Ray Burns) - bass (although for most of his career with The Damned he played guitar and sang vocals) |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/t/th/the_damned.html
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| | Punk Panto - Evening Times |
| | Since the release of their 2001 album Grave Disorder they have played as part of the Vans Warped Tour in the US, alongside Blink 182, the re-formed Sex Pistols and The Buzzcocks, and last year were part of the 65,000 capacity sold-out Inland Invasion gig in Los Angeles. | | | In fact, just admit it, they've hogged more than their fair share of adrenaline-junkie punk anthems and those perky, peroxide-pretty boys (Sum 41, Blink 182, you know who we're talking about) who dare lay claim to the genre aren't fit to wipe the spit off The Damned's boots. | | | The line-up currently consists of frontman Vanian, his missus Patricia Morrison, former bassist with Sisters Of Mercy (Mark II) and previously of Gun Club, original Damned guitarist Captain Sensible - terrifyingly, they have been playing his chart-topping freak-fest Happy Talk recently - plus keyboard player Monty "Oxy" Moron and ex-Janus Stark drummer Pinch. |
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http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/lo/features/7010584.html
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| | The Damned: album reviews and ratings |
| | A disturbing song, with its dissonant guitars and eerily haunting vocals, it is a harbinger of what was to come in the band's future. | | | Now that Captain Sensible was not part of the line-up anymore, Vanian was able to let loose of his punk roots and wander into more melodic and less messy musical territories, exploring also his vampirical penchant. | | | From fast rhythm punk tracks to Gothic and dark melodies and theatrical instrumentations, it can all be heard on a single record that does not focus on any particular musical theme. |
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| | Musical Calendar for October 12 |
| | Billy's musical interests range from playing traditional Irish folk music (on the pennywhistle), New Orleans Jazz (on clarinet and soprano sax), straight-ahead jazz, swing (on alto and soprano saxophones), and acoustic folk music (on clarinet and saxophone). | | | In 1991, he was not only the music director, but also arranger and performer for Dave Van Ronk's Jug Band interpretation of Tchaikovsky's "Peter and the Wolf". | | | aka: Dave Vanian with the group: 'The Damned', 1986 single "Eloise" charted UK No.3. |
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| | Interview with Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible of the Damned (NY Rock) |
| | This August, the band released Grave Disorder in the U.S. on Nitro Records, the California-based label helmed by Offspring's Dexter Holland. | | | In America, the girls come along because of Sisters of Mercy, because of Patricia [ex-member of Sister's of Mercy, Dave Vanian's wife and the Damned's current bass player]. | | | It's been 14 years since the band's last album with Captain Sensible in the lineup
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| | SOUND CHECK / Smashing Damned plus the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine and Crystal Method |
| | Nevertheless, with zero pyrotechnics and only the cross-dressing, wisecracking antics of Sensible and the Dead Elvis gyrations of Vanian, the band succeeded in burying the competition, allowing just a smattering of rock excess in the form of Sensible's more self-indulgent solos. | | | The band dug deeply into songs from their new album such as "Looking for Action," "Would You Be So Hot" and "Song.com," sprinkling the album's samples throughout with White Zombie-ish abandon. | | | Original drummer Rat Scabies and guitarist Brian James and various other players may have come and gone, and there may be a few clunkers in their otherwise enjoyable new album. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/10/03/musicreviews.DTL&type=printable
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| | The Damned Tour Dates: liveDaily Interview: Captain Sensible of the Damned >> liveDaily |
| | Pinch, the drummer, listens to modern stuff, Dave listens to '50s and rockabilly and goth and stuff like that. | | | I suppose I come from Kraut rock, and kind of garage-beat music and whatever, and Patricia [Morrison, bass] was in the Bags and Sisters of Mercy and all sorts of other bands. | | | People were saying, "Oh, you've got to record it as a live thing." But we've just got the actual album out! |
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| | Record reviews 7 - THE DAMNED and THE ECSTACY OF THE AGONY V/A CD |
| | Absinthe is a Vanian song, somewhere between the MCA ballads and 13th Floor Vendetta or something from the Phantom Chords album. | | | Rat was always The Damned to me. Not only because he's a great drummer who gave the band much of their sound, but because he kept the band together for so many years. | | | Lookin' For Action has a trademark Captain guitar sound to it and if it wasn't for the vocals (Dave's talking not singing on this one) this could almost have been on Machine Gun Etiquette. |
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| | The Damned |
| | Vanian's wife, PATRICIA MORRISON, who previously toiled for GUN CLUB and SISTERS OF MERCY, is in on bass. | | | Vanian says the band prefers not to be viewed through the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia, although he promises to perform such classic treasures as "Smash It Up" and "Curtain Call." | | | Whatever else fate has in store for London's THE DAMNED, the quartet's 1977 NICK LOWE-produced LP for Stiff Records will be remembered in the history books as the inaugural British punk album to hit the streets. |
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| | Amazon.com: Grave Disorder: Music |
| | These superannuated punks have ceaselessly provided live music for Britain's gnarly pallbearers to pogo to, but Grave Disorder is only their fourth studio album in 16 years (and the first to feature bereted loon-ball Captain Sensible since 1982). | | | Vanian even gets to sing a manly voiced love song to missus and bassist Patricia Morrison (Sisters of Mercy), which humorously robs Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" of a few chords. | | | Even so, this album is neat, neat, neat all the way and perhaps the finest album the Damned have ever made. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005NFK5?v=glance
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| | Choler Magazine Interview: The Damned (Pinch) |
| | Especially in the studio, when Dave got 'round to singing some of my lyrics on the album. | | | And after Strawberries, when Captain left, everything changed for me. I'm really blown away to be part of what I consider to be the best punk songwriting team ever. | | | For me to come along and say, "Oh. |
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http://www.choler.com/articles/damned_3.shtml
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| | Damned Discography at CD Universe |
| | The Damned: Dave Vanian (vocals); Roman Jugg (guitars, keyboards, vocals); Bryn Merrick (bass, vocals); Rat Scabies (drums). | | | In the '80s, after the departure of Bryan James and Captain Sensible, vampiric singer Dave Vanian led the band down a more goth-pop path, until the Captain returned to punk things up a bit again | | | Nevertheless, their high-energy sound still stands as a punk rock template. |
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http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/Damned/a/Damned.htm
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| | Blogcritics.org: The Damned, Grave Disorder |
| | The main problem the album has, apart from a couple of rather generic tracks, is that the band have a tendency to let some of the songs drag on just that bit longer than they should. | | | The band have split, reformed and reshuffled more times in the last decade (let alone the 1970s and 1980s) than they themselves probably care to remember, and their 1990s discography was pretty much a wasteland of dodgy compilations and live albums. | | | Now here comes the latest version of The Damned (comprising Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, Patricia Morrison, Monty Oxy Moron and Pinch) with Grave Disorder, their first proper studio album in fifteen-odd years (the aforementioned demos disc notwithstanding), released on Nitro Records, the label managed by Dexter from Offspring. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/09/02/001948.php
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| | hybridmagazine.com :: indie counter-culture daily, no secret handshakes. |
| | We actually did have a band with Rat [Scabies] as the drummer, different bass players, Chrissie Hynde on guitar and two singers, me and this other kid called Dave, he was the total opposite of me with stark white hair and very vamp. | | | I actually lied that I was in another band to get in with people back in the early days. | | | When I changed my name it was before the punk era about 2 or 3 years earlier. |
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| | Collection |
| | Released in 1996 this album is from the Allen Lee Shaw, Kris Dillomore, Moose Line-up with Dave and Rat. | | | If you listen to the banter in the middle of the songs I'm sure I can hear an English crowd. | | | Contains a PC program which has photos, video and lyrics. |
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| | The Phantom Chords Discography |
| | David Vanian And The Phantom Chords CD Voodoo Doll |
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| | The Damned Discography, Biography and Links at Mr Bill's IRS Records Corner |
| | The quartet first performed in July 1976 and soon became famous for their stage act: Sensible in his tutu and feather boa, Vanian looking ever-so-much like Dracula, and everyone picking blows with the audience in true punk style. | | | They were soon signed to Stiff Records and followed their first LP and single (produced by Nick Lowe) with a tour of the US. | | | They became The Damned after Scabies recruited Dave Vanian (David Letts), fittingly, a gravedigger, after hearing him sing at a funeral. |
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| | Dave Vanian & the Phantom Chords CD |
| | Dave Vanian & the Phantom Chords CD Home | | | Essential recordings: Dave Vanian & the Phantom Chords | | | All of our Movies, Music CD's and Video Games are 100% Guaranteed Brand New, Factory Sealed and Original U.S. Version. |
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| | The Damned - The Junction, Cambridge |
| | On stage Dave prowled and sneered in customary suave ghoul fashion, ripping his way through the lyrical feast that is ‘Love Song’. | | | Backing him up was a ferocious sound, but one not particularly well balanced from where we were standing - all we could make out was Captain’s guitar and Pinch’s drums. | | | We didn’t have that long to wait until Stu West, who was attempting the impossible by standing in for Patricia, played the great four note intro for ‘Love Song’ and the large crowd prepared to go crazy. |
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http://www.bizarreingredients.co.uk/gigs/damned3/damned3.html
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Damned, The |
| | The lead vocalist of first-wave punk act The Damned was in New York just three weeks ago to do some promo for the band's new album, Grave Disorder. | | | Original punk Dave Vanian living in the present | | | Who would you choose as the sexiest man alive? |
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| | [Chorus and Verse] The Damned: Grave Dancers Reunion |
| | Sensible, along with singer Dave Vanian, set out to resurrect the band in the mid-to-late ‘90s that many point to as a true originator as well as innovator in UK Punk, having inched out fellow prognosticators, The Sex Pistols, by one single one month earlier. | | | The Damned own no records in rock and roll continuity. | | | All now comprise the latest edition of The Damned, a hyped-up new version of a rock 'n’ roll original. |
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http://www.chorusandverse.com/content/200305/20030525_TheDamned.htm
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| | Re: Views |
| | He just did his Happy Talk/We are the Back Street Boys routine, but he played very good, like the Guitar Hero he is! Dave Vanian, looking splendid in a white suit sort of thing, joked with the audience, making deadpan remarks, and performing like a true Entertainer. | | | And seeing Patricia headbanging and smiling to 'Neat Neat Neat' and Cap and Dave really enjoying playing these songs once more, just makes me wonder how they do that... | | | Captain Sensible had decided to ditch the tracky bottoms (hooray) in favour of a pair of camouflage trousers, but appeared to be somewhat 'out of his face'. |
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| | The Mick Sinclair Archive: The Damned |
| | What is certain, is that aside from the usual Sensible/Scabies composing partnership, Paul Gray has about 20 songs penned and standing by and even Vanian has scribbled a few. | | | Backstage, aprés set, a queue of signature and souvenir hungry fans line the corridor outside the dressing room. | | | The Damned's squeaky organ club – membership qualification is a liking for sixties Nuggets and Pebbles sounds – comprises Sensible, Vanian and Gray. |
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| | Boldly and superbly signed in silver by Dave Vanian and Capt. Sensible!) " | | | Boldly and superbly signed front in silver by Dave Vanian and Capt. Sensible!) " | | | Signed in silver by Dave Vanian and Capt. Sensible!) " |
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| | A Damned Live Review - Baltimore MD 2003 |
| | But now I must revert almost 20 years back to when I was a stupid 14 year old girl and say that David Vanian is still just plain hot with a voice so awesome that I would have sat in that bar forever listening to him. | | | It was about 10-10:30pm when they came on after a good local band called Ego Likeness and a barely tolerable band called Mal Humor. | | | The drummer, Pinch, was sporting a very nice bright red mohawk. |
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| | Damned - Quotes |
| | Oh dear, oh dear, well, I can only apologise for him, you know, he's been getting his Elvis Presley fixations". | | | Put 'em back on Top Of The Pops". | | | But at the same time I wasn't going to lose my temper if Dave Vanian refused to speak to me one night at the Roxy". |
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| | Morbid Outlook - 10 Questions with The Damned |
| | Dave Vanian: What do you want me to be!? | | | Dave Vanian: Watching an old B movie or thriller or classic horror or... | | | Dave Vanian: Lady of Shalot/Turner designs for Triumph |
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http://www.morbidoutlook.com/music/tenquestions/2002_01_thedamned.html
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