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THE DAMNED
London, GB
* 7/1976

Line-Up (2023):

Dave Vanian - voc
Captain Sensible - g
Paul Gray - bg
Rat Scabies - ds

Former Members:

Brian James (g, 7/76-2/78, 2000-cca 10/22); Lu Edmonds (g, 8/77-2/78); Roman Jugg (g,kb, 1984-89); Chris Dollimore (g, cca 11/93); Alan Lee Shaw (g, cca 11/93); Glen Matlock (g, cca 9/96)

Captain Sensible (Ray Burns) (bg, 7/76-2/78, g,kb, cca 1979-1984); Alistar Ward (bg, cca 1979-1980); Paul Gray (bg, 1980-3/83, cca 1992); Bryn Merrick (bg, 1984-89); Moose (bg); Patricia Morrison (bg, cca 8/01)

Monty Oxy Moron (kb, cca 8/01)

Rat Scabies (ds, 7/76-1.10.77, cca 1979-1989, cca 11/93-cca 9/96); Dave Berk (ds, 10/77); Jon Moss (ds, 11/77-2/78); Andrew Pinching (ds, cca 8/01)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Damned Damned Damned produced by: Nick Lowe	18.02.1977	Stiff		34
2.	Music For Pleasure produced by: Nick Mason	18.11.1977	Stiff
3.	Machine Gun Ettiquette	09.11.1979	Chiswick		31
4.	The Black Album (2LP)	07.11.1980	Chiswick		29
5.	The Best Of Damned	13.11.1981	Chiswick		43
6.	The Best Of The Damned (MC)	29.01.1982	Big Beat
7.	Strawberries	01.10.1982	Bronze		15
8.	Live At Shepperton 1980	11/1982	Big Beat
9.	Live In Newcastle	11/1983	Damned
10.	Phantasmagoria	7/1985	MCA		11
11.	Is It A Dream?	1986
12.	Damned But Not Forgotten	6/1986	Dojo
13.	Not The Captain's Birthday Party - Live At The Roundhouse	7/1986	Stiff
14.	Anything	11/1986	MCA		40
15.	Mindless, Directionless, Enemy	10/1987	I.D.
16.	The Light At The End Of Tunnel (2LP)	12/1987	MCA		87
17.	The Long Lost Weekend: Best Of Vol. 1/2	6/1988	Big Beat
18.	The Final Damnation	8/1989	Essential
19.	The Collection (2LP)	12/1990	Castle Communication
20.	Totally Damned (+ rare)	12/1991	Dojo
21.	School Bullies	5/1993	Receiver
22.	Peel Sessions	11/1993	Strange Fruit
23.	Eternally Damned - The Very Best Of The Damned	16.05.1994	M.C.I.
24.	Live	7/1994	Success
25.	Tales From The Damned	12/1994	Cleopatra
26.	From The Beginning	5/1995	Spectrum
27.	Noise - The Best Of: Live	9/1995	Emporio
28.	I'm Alright Jack & The Beanstalk	16.09.1996	Marble Orchard
29.	Beanstalk	14.10.1996	Musical Tragedies/EFA
30.	Fiendish Shadows	25.11.1996	Cleopatra/Semaphore
31.	The Chaos Years: Rare & Unreleased 1977-1982	05.05.1997	Cleopatra/Semaphore
32.	Marvellous: The Best of the Damned	1999	Ace
33.	Box Set (3CD box set)	18.05.1999
34.	Eternal Damnation Live	22.06.1999
35.	Grave Disorder produced by: David Bianco	21.08.2001	Nitro
36.	Live: Anthology	08.01.2002	Castle
37.	Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976-1987 (2CD)	13.05.2002	Sanctuary
38.	Neat, Neat, Neat: The Alternative Anthology	07.12.2004	Sanctuary
39.	I'm Alright Jack and the Bean Stalk	15.02.2005
40.	Play It at Your Sister	08.11.2005	Castle
41.	Black Album	06.12.2005	Big Beat
42.	Best of the Damned: Total Damnation	25.04.2006	Metro
43.	Noise, Noise, Noise: The Live Box	26.09.2006	Castle
44.	Best of Oddities and Versions	22.04.2008	Store For Music
45.	Nasty Damned	21.10.2008	Lilith
46.	So, Who's Paranoid?	09.12.2008	Southworld
47.	Machine Gun Etiquette: Anniversary Live Set	05.07.2011
48.	The Chiswick Singles... And Another Thing	26.09.2011	Ace
49.	35th Anniversary Tour: Live In Concert	10.04.2012	4Worlds Media
50.	Pure Punk 1977-1982	05.06.2012	Cleopatra
51.	Live Live Live: Tiki Nightmare	11.12.2012	Wienerworld
52.	Tiki Nightmare: Live in London	10.02.2014	Let Them Eat Vinyl
53.	Punk Oddities & Rare Tracks 1977-1982	04.03.2014	Cleopatra
54.	Another Live Album from the Damned	04.11.2014	Southworld
55.	Go! 45	05.05.2015	Chiswick
56.	35 Years of Anarchy, Chaos & Destruction: Live in London, Vol. 1	15.04.2016	Let Them Eat Vinyl
57.	35 Years of Anarchy, Chaos & Destruction: Live in London, Vol. 2	16.04.2016	Let Them Eat Vinyl
58.	35 Years of Anarchy, Chaos & Destruction: Live in London, Vol. 3	16.04.2016	Let Them Eat Vinyl
59.	The Captain's Birthday Party: Live at the Roundhouse	14.10.2016	Let Them Eat Vinyl
60.	Evil Spirits produced by: Tony Visconti	13.04.2018	Search And Destroy/Spinefarm		7
61.	Black Is The Night - The Definitive	10/2019	BMG		63
62.	Darkadelic	4/2023	Ear Music		9

Captain Sensible:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Women And Captains First	9/1982	A&M		64
2.	The Power Of Love	25.11.1983	A&M
3.	Sensible Singles	1984
4.	Revolution Now	1989	Deltic
5.	The Universe Of Geoffrey Brown	1993
6.	Live At The Milky Way	17.10.1994
7.	Meathead	04.09.1995	Humbug
8.	Mad Cows And Englishmen	24.03.1997	Empty/EFA

Brian James:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Brian James	1991

Dave Vanian:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Big Beat Presents Dave Vanian and the Phantom Chords & The Phantom Chords	3/1995	Big Beat

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	New Rose / Help produced by: Nick Lowe	05.11.1976	Stiff
2.	Neat Neat Neat / Stab Your Back / Singalongascabies	25.02.1977	Stiff
3.	I Feel Alright	1977
4.	Stretcher Case Baby / Sick Of Being Sick & NME	02.07.1977
5.	Problem Child / You Take My Money	09.09.1977	Stiff
6.	One Way Love / Don't Cry Wolf	02.12.1977	Stiff
7.	Love Song / Noise Noise Noise / Suicide	4/1979	Chiswick	16
8.	Smash It Up / Burglar	12.10.1979	Chiswick	27
9.	I Just Can't Be Happy Today / Ballroom Blitz / Turkey Song	16.11.1979	Chiswick	46
10.	White Rabbit / Rabid Over You 12" + Seagulls / Curtain Call	6/1980	Chiswick
11.	The History Of The World (part 1) / I Believe The Impossible / Sugar And Spite	26.09.1980	Chiswick	30
12.	There Ain't No Sanity Clause / Looking At You 12" + Anti-Pope	11/1980	Chiswick
13.	Hit Or Miss	28.11.1980	Chiswick
14.	Friday The 13th EP (Disco Man / The Limit Club / Citadel / Billy Bad Breaks)	11/1981	N.E.M.S.	30
15.	Love Song / Noise Noise Noise / Suicide (reissue)	05.02.1982	Big Beat
16.	Smash It Up / Burglar (reissue)	3/1982	Big Beat
17.	Wait For The Blackout / Jet Boy Jet Girl	5/1982	Big Beat
18.	Lovely Money / I Think I'm Wonderful	04.06.1982	Bronze	29
19.	Dozen Girls / Take That	17.09.1982	Bronze
20.	Lively Arts / Teenage Dream	10/1982	Nems
21.	Generals / Disguise / Citadel Zombies	26.11.1982	Bronze
22.	White Rabbit (reissue)	11.03.1983	Chiswick	82
23.	There Ain't No Sanity Clause	12/1983	Big Beat	97
24.	Thanks For The Night / Nasty 12" + Do The Blitz	01.06.1984	Damned	29
25.	Grimly Fiendish / Edward The Bear	3/1985	MCA	7
26.	The Shadow Of Love / Nightshift 12" + Would You 7"(2) + Let There Be Rats / Wiped Out	6/1985	MCA	19
27.	Is It A Dream? / Street Of Dreams (live) 12" + Wild Thing (live)	9/1985	MCA	34
28.	New Rose / Neat Neat Neat / Stretcher Case / Sick Of Being Sick	11/1985	Stiff	81
29.	Eloise / Temptation 12" + Beat Girl	2/1986	MCA	2
30.	The Peel Sessions EP (10.5.77) (Sick Of Being Sick / Stretcher Case / Feel The Pain / Fan Club)	6/1986	Strange Fruit	90
31.	Anything / The Year Of The Jackal 10",12" + Thanks For The Night	11/1986	MCA	32
32.	Gigolo / Portrait	1/1987	MCA	29
33.	Alone Again Or / In Dulce Decorum 12" + Psychomania 7"(2) + Eloise	4/1987	MCA	11
34.	The Peel Sessions EP (30.11.76) (Stab Your Back / Neat Neat Neat / New Rose / So Messed Up / I Fall)	7/1987	Strange Fruit
35.	In Dulce Decorum / Psychomania	11/1987	MCA	51
36.	Fun Factory / A Riot On Eastbourne Pier 12",CD + Freedom / Pasties	15.10.1990	Deltic
37.	Disco Man / Pretty Vacant	06.04.1998	Empty/EFA
38.	Looking At You	01.02.1999	Empty/EFA
39.	Neat Neat Neat	2/2007	Castle Music
40.	New Rose / Nasty	06.11.2009	Cleopatra
41.	Standing On The Edge Of Tomorrow	1/2018

Brian James:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Why? Why? Why?	29.01.1982	Illegal

Captain Sensible:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Happy Talk	6/1982	A&M	1
2.	Wot	8/1982	A&M	26
3.	Croydon	29.10.1982	A&M
4.	Stop The World	6/1983		82
5.	The Cricket EP & Percy Pavillion & Dolly Mixture	15.07.1983	Pavillion In Splender
6.	I'm A Spider / Women Say Go 12" + Telex From Space produced by: Tony Mansfield	28.10.1983	A&M
7.	Glad It's All Over 12" + Happy Talk	2/1984	A&M	5
8.	There Are More Snakes Than Ladders	7/1984		57
9.	One Christmas Catalogue / Relax	16.11.1984	A&M	79
10.	The Hokey Cokey	12/1994		71
11.	While Wrecking The Car	21.07.1997	Empty/EFA
12.	Wot & Erkan & Stefan	5/2005

Rat Scabies:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Let There Be Rats / Wiped Out / Drums, Drums, Drums	7/1983	Paradiddle

Movies:

1. The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead (3/2015, documentary, directed by Wes Orshoski)

Various:

1. show 6/1975, Nashville Club, London
disbanded 2/1978
reunited 1978 as The Doomed (1 gig), then The Damned
disbanded 1989
25/26.7.92 - gigy line-up z roku 1978
reunited cca 11/93
reunited 2020

Compilation Appearances:

"New Rose" / "Neat Neat Neat" on compilation "Teenage Kicks" (4.4.05)
"Melody Lee" on compilation "A Life Less Lived - The Gothic Box" (19.9.06, Rhino)
"New Rose" on compilation "John Peel - Right Time, Wrong Speed: 1977-1987" (9.10.06)

Rat Scabies:

produced by SP:

The Satellites: Nightmare EP (4.3.83, Kamera)

appeared on the SP:

Dubstar: I Will Be Your Girlfriend (12.01.97, Food)

Brian James:

appeared on the LP:

Jean-Jacques Burnell: Euroman Cometh (4/79, United Artists)

Captain Sensible:

appeared on the LP:

Joey Ramone: Don't Worry About Me (19.2.02, Sanctuary)

produced by SP:

Dolly Mixture: Teen Been (27.11.81, Respond)

Press References:

Bang!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1993	14	15.12.1993	4	Big Bang
1994	1	12.01.1994	17		profile
Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1976	36	04.09.1976	24		gig review
1976	45	13.11.1976	32		interview
1977	8	19.02.1977	24	Albums	album review
1977	10	05.03.1977	23	Singles	single review
1977	12	19.03.1977	34		interview
1977	18	30.04.1977	33		interview
1977	23	04.06.1977	4
1977	26	25.06.1977	16	Caught In The Act	gig review
1977	33	13.08.1977	5
1977	35	27.08.1977	43	Caught In The Act	gig review
1977	43	22.10.1977	25	Singles	single review
1977	48	26.11.1977	24	Albums	album review
1977	48	26.11.1977	45		interview
1977	50	10.12.1977	21	Singles	single review
1978	1	07.01.1978	4	News
1979	18	12.05.1979	4	News
1979	20	26.05.1979	4	News
1979	25	07.07.1979	19		interview
1979	38	06.10.1979	4	News
1979	39	13.10.1979	30	Singles	single review
1979	40	20.10.1979	3	News
1979	45	01.12.1979	28	Singles	single review
1980	33	27.09.1980	4	Record News
1980	34	04.10.1980	19	Singles	single review
1980	39	08.11.1980	4	News
1980	42	29.11.1980	16	Singles	single review
1980	44	13.12.1980	42	Caught In The Act	gig review
1981	11	14.03.1981	31	Caught In The Act	gig review
1981	28	11.07.1981	22	Caught In The Act	gig review
1981	48	28.11.1981	18	Albums	album review
1981	48	28.11.1981	23		interview
1982	4	23.01.1982	3	Fast Forward
1982	6	06.02.1982	4	Fast Forward
1982	20	15.05.1982	4	Fast Forward
1982	40	02.10.1982	21	Albums	album review
1982	42	16.10.1982	15		interview
1982	48	27.11.1982	27	Singles	single review
1982	49	04.12.1982	5	Fast Forward
1982	50	11.12.1982	21	Albums	album review
1983	1	01.01.1983	25	Caught In The Act	gig review
1983	13	26.03.1983	26	Singles	single review
1983	14	02.04.1983	14	It's Alive	gig review
1983	15	09.04.1983	4	Fast Forward
1983	30	23.07.1983	16	It's Alive	gig review
1983	38	17.09.1983	16	It's Alive	gig review
1984	27	18.08.1984	20	It's Alive	gig review
1993	49	04.12.1993	4	News
1997	16	16.04.1977	41	MM File	profile
New Musical Express
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1976	0	06.11.1976	23	Singles	single review
1976	0	06.11.1976	49	On The Town	gig review
1976	0	13.11.1976	17		profile, interview
1976	0	20.11.1976	2	News Desk
1976	0	20.11.1976	31	On The Town	gig review
1990	0	13.10.1990	5	News Extra - Sampled Notes
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1994	10	24.05.1994	7	Galerie
2001	8		14	Pelmel
2001	9		15	Pelmel
2004	10		57	Napříč žánry	interview
2004	10		63		gig review
2007	10		80	Live	gig review