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Rat Scabies + Brian James-

Playing Damned Damned Damned and Early Tracks Live @ the Fleece

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Murder of Crows

Friday 23rd March 2012

The Damned first album, Damned Damned Damned, was written by Brian James and Rat Scabies. 10 Tracks by James and 1 by Scabies. The final track was an inspired Iggy Pop and the Stooges cover.

As Captain Sensible said recently "if it wasn't for Brian James, I'd still be

cleaning toilets"

While the Sex Pistols will always have a prominent place in the story of U.K. punk, the Damned did nearly everything first, including the first single, the smoking "New Rose," and the first album, namely this stone classic of rock & roll fire. At just half an hour long, Damned Damned Damned is a permanent testimony to original guitarist Brian James' songwriting (ten of the 12 tracks are his) and the band's take-no-prisoners aesthetic. Starting with Captain Sensible's sharp bassline for "Neat Neat Neat," which rapidly explodes into a full band thrash, the Damned left rhetoric for the theoreticians and political posing for the Clash. All the foursome wanted to do was rock, and that they do here. Dave Vanian already has his spooky-voiced theatrics down cold; "Feel the Pain" indulges his Alice Cooper fascination while the band creates some creepy fun behind him. Most of the time, he's yelping with the best of them, but with considerably more control than most of the era's shouters. Scabies' considerable reputation as a drummer starts here; comparisons flew thick and fast to Keith Moon, and not just for on-stage antics (of which there were plenty). His sense of stop-start rhythm and fills is simply astounding, whether on "So Messed Up" or in his own one-minute goof, "Stab Yer Back." Though the Captain doesn't get his full chance to shine on bass, he's more than adequate, while James just cranks the amps and lets fly. Concluding with a version of the Stooges' "I Feel Alright" that sounds hollower than the original but no less energetic, Damned Damned Damned is and remains rock at its messy, wonderful best.

Brian James (born Brian Robertson, 18 February 1955, Hammersmith, west London) is an English punk rock guitarist, who has played for several notable bands. His first band was the proto-punk outfit London SS. Previously he had played with another proto-punk band, Bastard, with vocalist Alan Ward, alias Alan Timms, Dez Lover (bass) and Nobby Goff (drums). Some of the influences of Bastard's on stage appearance would surface later, when James moved on to The Damned, recording on their first two albums Damned, Damned, Damned and Music for Pleasure before leaving. James subsequently formed and disbanded Tanz Der Youth, and Brian James Brain's, who briefly became The Hellions.

Christopher Millar (born 30 July 1957), better known by his stage name Rat Scabies, is a musician best known for his tenure as the drummer for The Damned.

Millar was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. He played drums with Tor and London SS before founding The Damned with Brian James, Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible in 1976.

All Ages Show*

£10 Advance

(More on the Door)

Tickets :

The Rock Shop, St.Nicholas Market (Only 50p Booking Fee)

Bristol Ticket Shop:

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*Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult and leave by midnight