Sunday

damned

...who'd have thought these layabout chancers would have been treading the boards in any form long enough to have the first wax released as a thirtieth anniversary 3cd blowout?,thats right amigo not too many but that is indeed whats up with this, three disks packed with radio sessions/b-sides/demos/plus the first gig at the 100club(supporting the pistols) in old london towne...from the beginning bass throb of neatneatneat this is a perfect encapsulation of street level rock'n'roll in the mid seventies blowing the past few years of singer songers/prog musos into the garbage bin and bury it...this is dave vanian and mates digging the grave of pomposity and lighting the dawn of a new era giving the kids something of their own, a new hope where millionaire coke heads didn't get a look in...buzzing guitar and pummeling drums, cymbals ringing all underpinned with the captains throbbing strings with daves monotone delivery gliding over the top...released early '77 this got the year off to a fine start, a year that saw incredible wax from the clash/pistols/jam plus many other long forgotten players who all helped rescue music from the blahs...the bonus disks round out the whole shebang by adding singles and the first demos( june76) plus sessions for john peels radio show and the july'76 appearance at the 100club...dig the fact theres hardly anyone in attendance at this gig yet many have come to think they actually were, such must be the power of positive thinking(or lying)...50 tracks in just over two hours, well worth the bother for this monumental reissue of screaching rock'n'roll noise...
...get it here...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could you re-up the Damned 30th please? The link show zero-length. Sorry to be late to the party.....

spacedsaviour said...

open the file you find at the link, disregard the zero kb...