October 2011
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Grimly Fiendish
You didn’t make me good, you just painted me green
You made me part of your forgotten dreams
“The Damned I like a lot. I was introduced to them because one of them had the good taste to wear a Marc Bolan T-shirt. Of those new bands who don’t seem to be breaking out of their environment, I thought it’d be nice to have them on tour.”
—Marc Bolan (via diamond-star-halo)
I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
Naz Nomad and the Nightmares
Naz Nomad & the Nightmares - I Had Too Much Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
Then came the dawn
And you were gone
THE DAMNED’S STORY COMING TO THE BIG SCREEN
Filmmaker Behind “Lemmy” Chronicling Band in its 35th Year
Oct. 3, 2011, New York — The storied career of seminal British punk band The Damned is coming to the big screen. When the band kicks off its 35th anniversary tour this month in Boston, they will be shadowed by New York-based filmmaker Wes Orshoski, who is directing/producing a feature-length documentary on the group.
The as-yet-untitled-film, to be a production of Orshoski’s Three Count Films, will combine new footage captured on and off the road with the current band members—including Damned founders David Vanian (vocals) and guitarist Captain Sensible—with archival clips and new interviews with many of the band’s famous friends and peers.
“I’m incredibly honored to be working with a band who I feel has registered as an immeasurable impact on artists from across the musical spectrum,” says Orshoski, who recently co-directed/produced the critically acclaimed documentary on Motörhead’s Lemmy. “I feel like the Damned’s story and the scope of the band’s influence has gone largely unnoticed by the masses, especially in America. And I’m hoping my film will help right that wrong.”
Captain Sensible quotes: “It seems like every other scumbag who was ever in a punk band got a film made about them, now it’s our turn, and at least we have some real stories to tell. Hopefully, this will cause a bit of a stink, but that’s what it was always supposed to do.”
Orshoski is asking longtime fans of the band who may be in possession of vintage video and photos (as well as rare handbills, posters and/or magazine articles) to email him at: info@threecountfilms.com
The Damned, featuring Vanian, Sensible, drummer Pinch, bassist Stu West and keyboardist Monty Oxy Moron, kicks off its 35th anniversary tour October 20 at Middle East in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The band is marking the anniversary by playing both its 1977 debut album, “Damned Damned Damned,” and 1980’s “The Black Album” in their entirety on the upcoming tour, which launches in the U.K. on Nov. 9 in Bristol (O2 Academy). The 35th Anniversary tour comes to Australia and Japan in 2012.
“All that album was done by gambling. Vanian won £20 for singing the middle bit of ‘Bad Time For Bonzo’ in one take. I won £10 by singing the lyric to ‘Life Goes On’. I had another bet on with Rat, £10 or £20. I said I’d get a toilet flushing on the album and he said ‘You won’t’ and I said ‘I will’. It ended up on the drum track on ‘Don’t Bother Me’. We triggered it off with a snare drum so it goes ‘sssh’ ‘sssh’ every time, and it actually was a toilet. I never got the bet money off Rat though. I don’t know if Rat knows even now that I got the toilet on ‘Strawberries’.”
—Captain Sensible on “Strawberries”
12 I Feel Alright
The Damned
I Feel Alright
Radio’s burning up above
Beautiful baby, be my love
