The Damned
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The Damned: Music For Pleasure
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 26 November 1977
CATCHING SIGHT of the title in a news column, I wondered. 'Music For Pleasure'? Have the dervish-like Damned decided to junk all this credibility rubbish, ...
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Report by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 4 September 1976
Special report from the first European Punk Rock Festival in the South of France by CAROLINE COON ...
Report by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 2 October 1976
THE 600-STRONG line, which last Monday straggled across two blocks outside London's 100 Club in Oxford Street, waiting for the Punk Rock Festival to start, ...
The Sex Pistols, The Clash et al: Punk Rock Festival, 100 Club, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 2 October 1976
High dummy count flunks punks ...
The (?) Rock Special (#5): Other Bands
Profile by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976
"I don't understand why people think it's so difficult to learn to play the guitar. I found it incredibly easy. You just pick a chord ...
Welcome To The (?) Rock Special (#1): In Love With The Modern World
Overview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976
Johnny Rotten, the Clash, the Damned and a committed cast of hundreds of new music makers give the finger to the old farts ...
The Damned: In The Pub Across The Road With The Damned
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 27 November 1976
1. Point Of Information This isn't, as one might have been lead to expect from the blurb in last week's paper, an 'In The Road' ...
Sex Pistols, Damned, Clash, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers: Leeds Polytechnic
Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 11 December 1976
Punk! On stage! ...
The 100 Club Punk Rock Festival
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
Monday, September 20th: The Sex Pistols, the Clash, Subway Sect, Siouxsie and the Banshees. Tuesday, September 21st: The Damned, Chris Spedding and the Vibrators, the ...
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
IN OCTOBER 1976 Nick Lowe produced the single 'New Rose' in an eight-track recording studio. It was the first U.K. punk sound on vinyl, preceeding ...
The First European Punk Rock Festival
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', (Omnibus), 1977
VERY LITTLE ABOUT the festival turned out as planned. Initially the Heartdrops (now the Clash), Richard Hell, the Sex Pistols and Graham Parker and the ...
U.K. Report: Sex Pistols And Beyond
Report and Interview by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 27 January 1977
LONDON – So this is how legends are born. Not with a song, or even a death, but with an expletive. ...
The Damned: Damned Damned Damned (Stiff SEEZ 1)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 February 1977
Damned with faint praise ...
The Damned: Damned, Damned, Damned (Stiff Records)
Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 19 February 1977
LADIES AND Gentlemen — welcome to the world's first 78 rpm album. At last, a recording that gives credence to the claim that punk does ...
The Damned: Damned, Damned, Damned (Stiff Seez 1)*****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 19 February 1977
Fast, crazy, dangerous and Damned ...
Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 26 February 1977
FUNNY WHAT rave reviews can do. ...
T. Rex and The Damned: The Beautiful and The Damned
Report by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 19 March 1977
T Rex and The Damned on tour together... will the boppers say nix to the new wave? Will Bolan get blown off the stage? Captain ...
Report and Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 19 March 1977
THE KID IN THE PUB doesn't believe I'm me. "You a roadie?" "I'm a writer." "Yeah?" He's already dubious. "Who do you write for then?" ...
Punk Is Just Another Word for Nothin' Left To Lose
Essay by Mary Harron, The Village Voice, 28 March 1977
The worst insult in the English punks' vocabulary is "poser". These are working-class kids who resent it when the middle classes ape their style. ...
The Damned: the Starwood, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 April 1977
THE DAMNED, the first representative from England's Blank Generation of punk-rockers to reach America, proved more harmless Monday at the Starwood than dispatches from abroad ...
The Damned: The Fantastic Four versus the Big Apple
Report by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 23 April 1977
The story so far: Barry Cain and The Damned have journeyed to New York in pursuit of the evil CBGB... ...
Around the bend on Stiff Records
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 24 April 1977
WHAT KIND of record company would use as its motto the phrase "reversing into tomorrow"? Which record company would define its purpose, on its first ...
The Damned/The Adverts/Motorhead: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 30 April 1977
I FIRST saw the Damned at the Roundhouse last November. Shortly after the release of 'New Rose'. Although the 45 had been successful the set ...
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, May 1977
A monthly blindfold test by those masters of Slander Rock, Mark Volman & Howard Kaylan ...
The Damned, The Dead Boys: CBGB, New York NY
Live Review by Joe Sasfy, Unicorn Times, May 1977
I SawThe Damned And The Dead Boys And Am Alive And Not Angry By Joe Sasfy, Doctor of Rockology ...
New Releases: The Kids Err Alright
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, July 1977
REMEMBER "PUNK ROCK?" For a while there it was the supreme hip misconception — a much abused catch-all referring in general to any sort of ...
Report by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 20 August 1977
'Bilzen? more like Belsen' Clash, Damned: Bilzen Festival, Belgium ...
Top Drummers Get Itchy Feet Dept.: Why I Quit The Damned by Rat Scabies
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 15 October 1977
IT'S COMMON knowledge that all drummers are certifiable nutters but I must admit that when somebody whispered in my ear the other Sunday that the ...
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 3 December 1977
...Are The Damned splitting up? Why is Captain Sensible embarrassed? What's the name of Rat's new band? All this and more is revealed by ROSALIND RUSSELL ...
Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 10 December 1977
A rainy Friday afternoon in Stiff publicist Glen Coulson’s office. Glen ruffles his hair, takes a swig from a can of warm Heineken and expounds ...
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 7 January 1978
(a somewhat sobering cautionary tale of our time)Charles Shaar Murray asks, is that a light at the end of the tunnel – or another oncoming ...
The Damned: Final Spotlight On The Damned
Report by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 15 April 1978
"OOOOOOOOO CAPTAIN," says Helen from Headingley, "you're so cool these days. That jacket" – indicating his sombre black tuxedo affair and matching multi-colour polka-dotted tie ...
The Damned, Rockpile, Ducks Deluxe: Venue, London
Live Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 13 January 1979
DESPITE THE eleventh hour location change, the Venue was packed. ...
The Damned/UK Subs/The Specials: The Lyceum, London
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 21 April 1979
WITH ENOUGH police grouped manacingly outside in coaches, in squad cars and standing around to supervise a couple of Manchester United away fixtures, I suppose ...
Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, April 1981
THE GOOD NEWS is that England's surviving punk pioneers have released their most accessible album to date. Songs like ‘Dr. Jekyll’ and ‘Wait For The ...
Report by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 2 January 1982
"COME HERE," cried an excited Captain Sensible from the corner of the backstage lounge. "I've just discovered what this is like! It's like the Generation ...
The Damned: Strawberries (Polydor)
Review by Leyla Sanai, New Musical Express, September 1982
YOU DIDN'T really think they'd gone, did you? After all, it's only four years since their 'farewell' gig, and looking at Jimmy Pursey's Hams 69 ...
Report by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 30 March 1983
IF YOU'RE keen to witness a major cultural capital in hibernation, try being in London the week between Christmas and New Years. Just about everything ...
Overview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, January 1986
TO PUT EVERYTHING INTO PERSPECTIVE, AS TO WHERE THE ORIGINALS FROM '76 HAVE GONE; BE IT A WAYSIDE DITCH OR A MAJOR RECORD COMPANY WATER ...
Hawkwind, Gaye Bikers on Acid et al: Acid Daze, Finsbury Park
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, David Quantick, New Musical Express, 5 September 1987
SPORTS DAY IN HELL ...
Retrospective by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, 7 February 1992
NO ONE could ever have predicted it, but the Damned are the great survivors of punk. ...
The Damned: Eternally Damned: The Very Best Of (Music Collection)
Review by Miles, MOJO, July 1994
THE DAMNED WERE THE FIRST PUNK band to release a single ('New Rose') and to get an album out and in the charts, but it's ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, July 1995
Summer, 1976. Punk, live punk, is about to explode in the capital. Tap rooms, Poly bars and sweaty clubs will host its unwashed greats. Johnny Black looks ...
The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, The Heartbreakers, The Buzzcocks: Destination Nowhere
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, December 1996
Twenty years ago this month, the Sex Pistols, Clash, Damned, Heartbreakers and Buzzcocks embarked upon the Anarchy Tour. What followed more than lived up to ...
Retrospective by Jonh Ingham, Q, 2005
APRIL 1976: For me it began at the El Paradise strip club, where the Sex Pistols filled a tiny room with three-chord beat and Rotten ...
Punk File #1: The First Anarchic Year
Retrospective and Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, June 2006
'76 WAS PRETTY hairy. The anniversary headlines might read "1976, The Year Of Punk", but for most kids flares and long hair (still a sign ...
Various Artists: The Big Stiff Box Set
Review by Stuart Maconie, The Word, December 2007
THE '70S BEGAN and ended in turmoil, with strikes, crises, terrorism, class war and new political orthodoxies on the march. ...
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Phoenix, 3 March 2009
THE Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Jam — they get punk rock respect more than three decades down the pike, but their contemporaries the Damned ...
Retrospective and Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, February 2013
Armed with "a license to cause mayhem", they created an "'orrible" speedball of a debut album. Before losing control…. Thirty five years on, all four founder ...
The Damned: Great Hall, Cardiff University
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 3 April 2023
These punk pensioners need to loosen up ...
see also Captain Sensible
see also Lords of the New Church, The
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