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The Damned have released a new live album. In 2022, the band's original lineup - Dave Vanian, Brian James, Captain Sensible, Rat Scabies - reunited for a series of shows. The band has just released a live album from the November 11, 2022 show recorded at the 02 Apollo Manchester and from November 11...
Punk rock lived its best life at the inaugural Pomona fest (even though the traffic tried to kill it).
Australia missed out on the Peter Gabriel tour but we will get the DVD.
The 80s line-up of The Damned will play USA this May and June. Of course, Dave Vanian, paul gray, Captain Sensible, and Rat scabies will be tearing through tracks from the band's 80s classics. You can see the dates below....
Wayne Kramer, who has died aged 75, was the guitarist and co-founder of MC5, the Detroit band who fused ear-shredding garage rock and revolutionary politics, inspiring the likes of the Clash and a whole legion of bands who enlisted in the 1970s punk movement; with lines like “I’m sick and tired of paying these dues/ And I’m sick to my guts of the American ruse” they attacked the establishment against a backdrop of crunching riffs.