RIP Brian James The Damned

Saw them a few times back in the day , great energy

 

Wrote the first punk single New Rose , what a tune
RIP Brian .

 

F***

 

Where did you see them? Was it during the punk period or when they'd got all pantomime goth (not that I think there was anything wrong with that part of their career, I just don't know of a better way of describing them).

Hope you're keeping well.

 

Saw them a few times in the 70’s , I had a mate who went full punk seemingly overnight and persuaded a few of us rockers to go to Leeds to see the Pistols Damned and Clash , at the time being a die hard Deep Purple fan I wasn’t overly impressed but saw them at Unity Hall in Wakey and then at Newcastle in 1980 and really enjoyed them

 

Bloody hell! I would give my right arm to have seen The Damned, The Pistols and The Clash (other than the spitting thing, that was horrible). Even though it wasn't your thing, I hope you have some fond memories.

My dad was only 21 when he became my dad and he was in his mid to late 20s when Punk was happening and he went to all that stuff too, and the records that were in my house when I first started playing records were all that stuff. And I'd put on Damned Damned Damned or Never Mind the... or Give 'Em Enough Rope or Alternative Ulster or Teenage Kicks and it was just amazing. But I'm too young to have seen any of them.

 

Starting in about 1977, several punk type bands appeared at Unity namely Adverts, Vibrators and Boomtown Rats.
Stranglers and Iron Maiden also were on around 77.
I may be wrong but I don’t think the Damned appeared until 79/80 when they made a few appearances…. they had mellowed somewhat since the baked bean image of Neat neat neat and New Rose etc.
The band that I remember most vividly were The Adverts !!

 

The bain of many a concert hall with their Smash it Up number!
Great group back in the day.

 

Went to a lot of gigs at Unity Hall around that time , might have been 79 thought it was earlier

 

R,I,P, Condolences to all involved.

 

Clash at Newcastle Poly 1979 was the scariest gig I’ve been to , The Slits who supported them encouraged the skin head element there to attack students . When the Clash came on Joe Strummer wasn’t happy tried to calm things but you got marauding skin head groups beating the **** out of anyone who looked like a student , then they started smashing the windows on the side of the building . Bizarrely the other notably violent gig was Toya Wilcox at Huddersfield Poly , she lasted 3 songs before having to go off due a stage invasion , something in the air that night in Udders scraping everywhere after , can’t remember the club we went to but there was a full blown mass scrap

 

Unity Hall, Huddersfield Poly and the F Club at Leeds Uni were the main punk venues in 77. All covered in my 4 Points In Punk podcasts. I know a lot of you listened to them when I posted a couple of years back. The Damned were instrumental in the early punk movement. They made great pop music later too IMO.

 

I was too young to see the original Damned but saw him several times with Lords of the New Church.
& some player pals of mine later backed him up in James Gang.
True legend..