BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:901@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270423T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270424T000000 DTSTAMP:20261008T011152Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/the-damned-final-damnation- 50/ SUMMARY:THE DAMNED – FINAL DAMNATION 50 DESCRIPTION:People have been arguing about punk rock since the big bang tha t created that high decibel universe. The Damned were at the heart of that revolution and have returned like resurrected vampires to take back the(i r) punk rock crown.\nFew bands have managed to maintain their manic muse\, few bands have been key catalysts to a musical genre\, few bands have man aged to improve like fine old wines and few have managed to do it with suc h fantastic chaos\, captivating style and shape shifting music as The Damn ed. Their mix of theatrics and raw power combine to create their vaudevill e immaculate and gothic horror shivers\, dark music hall anthems and a per fect punk rock.\nIn the rules of rock ’n’ roll most bands fade away bu t then the Damned were never playing by the rules. One of the originals wh o sparked the punk rock riot doesn’t mean they had to stay there. Their trip has been long and thrillingly\nstrange and ‘Darkadelic’ is a late period triumph that entwines their core obsessions of garage/psyche/punk rock old black and white Universal horror film soundtracks and even moment s of sweet jazz which they sieve with a\nbrooding and enthralling melody. This is a tasteful aural experience with exquisite guitar playing delivere d with a breath taking virtuosity but never loses its inventive punk rock edge.\n\nIt feels they have been waiting for decades to deal this hand tha t sees them surpass their early 80s classics such as Machine Gun Etiquette \, Black\nAlbum and Strawberries whilst nodding at what was loved on all those classic\nalbums. From their 1976 formation to the new album this has been a wild creative trip. Playing by their own rules\, The Damned The Da mned 1.0.docx\nwere the first punk band to release a single in Nov 1976\, the first punk band to release an album and six months later they were the first punk band to release a second album\, they were the first punk band to tour America and then the\nfirst punk band to split up. They did this all by the autumn of 1977 before most people had cut their hair and even w oken up to punk rock. The Damned were then the first punk band to reform a nd came back with all guns blazing with their third album\, 1979’s Machi ne Gun Etiquette\, and then lurch through the\nyears with their powder keg music\, sartorial style\, innovative takes on psyche and goth and even a brush with pop stardom in their grandiose pop goth phase of the late eight ies.\nFor a form of music that was meant to be of the moment and flash in the pan\, punk has become a much loved historical epoch and it’s perfect that one of the form’s key originators and one of the most prestigious bands coming out of the 70s scene are the only true survivors and are stil l\, somehow\, at the top of their dark game.\nFew classic bands still have the inspiration left to make albums and few make albums as good as the ap tly named Darkadelic. 2018’s Evil Spirits finally established the band i n the top ten of the album charts giving the band the\nconfidence to make an even more guitar driven album that celebrates their garage psych influe nces that have always been a part of all their best work. Taking advantage of the enforced down time of the pandemic they have been in creative over drive in the past year either working remotely or in Thomas Mitchener ’s studio just outside Watford.\nThe Damned may have been the punk pioneers but their muse has always been multi dimensional. From their first rehears al onwards the band were beyond the cliche. They were the only “ classic ” punk rock band to combine gothic sounds and horror aesthetic with pun k music\, shaping a strong identity of their own. They had a baritone croo ning vocalist instead of a shouter. They also had great songs and an inten se manic energy plus a wild abandon of ideas. The new album brings all the se threads together into a perfect\nwhole. Their unlikely strange brew of psychedelia\, garage rock\, punk rock with a gothic twist has never sounde d so well realized. It’s this seamless combination of all the dark and f ascinating forms of music that is the key to the band\, a combination that reflects the oddly diverse core members of\nthe group.\nYou could not get a more unlikely combination of characters into one room if you tried. Aft er four decades the two leading members of the original line up are as cha lk and cheese as ever. The vampiric stylish sex god singer David Vanian is still dealing that 24 carat gold croon that pioneered Goth and gives the band a unique dark flavour. The singer is ageless as the mad\, bad and dan gerous to know Byronic vampire and is still immersed in the attendant B mo vie culture that he is so imbued with. His partner in crime is the manic s ongwriter and guitarist/bass player Captain Sensible whose wild stage pers onae\, hilariously perfect monicker and off the cuff quips sometimes masks his brilliant guitar playing and timeless knack for melody and a creative \nsensitivity that is peaking on the album.\nIt’s this fantastically pha ntasmagori c bizarre core to the band that is key to their genius. They ar e the sartorial and stylistic creative tension that is the representation of the band’s music. Like all the great bands\, the Damned were always a combustible creative arms race from the start. They were formed by the fo resight and genius of Brian James who was famously described by The Clash ’s Mick Jones as having the vision for punk a year before anyone else. B rian also had a fist full of anthems to back his perception up with. Their classic November 1976 New Rose debut single was released a month before t he Sex Pistols ‘Anarchy In The UK’ putting a spiky cat amongst the pop \npigeons.\nThe Damned should have been huge. They had the tunes\, the sty le\, the moment and the momentum. They hit the road with Trex\, threw up a ll over the music press and were a thrilling surge of lunatic energy but t hey were hamstrung by being on an indie label and fell apart as other punk bands\nwere catapulted into the mainstream by the majors. Their influence from that period though hangs over the worldwide punk scene. The 1977 deb ut album with its short sharp shocks of songs was a template for many teen age\nyouth working out what punk was and then its insane speed and wild en ergy was key to American hardcore and beyond. The album’s darker moments and shivering aesthetic were riders on the storm harbingers to goth and d eath rock. As the years rolled by The Damned have been acknowledged as one of the fundamentals of alternative rock history and one of the most influ ential groups of all time. They have been acclaimed by a diverse selection of bands that includes Guns N ́ Roses\, who covered New Rose on Spaghett i Incident\, The Foo Fighters\, Depeche Mode\, Minor Threat\, The Misfits\ , Black Flag\, Bad Brains\, Green Day\, The Offspring ... That would have been enough for any band but the Damned have remained restless and have su rvived and thrived. Evil\nSpirits showed there was still plenty of creativ ity in the tank and Darkaledic takes this up several notches. Where once t hey were almost feared for their wreckless and wild abandon the Damned now are respected for their talent and influence and Darkadelic is the perfec t document of this sea change. 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