drowningparty:Dave Vanian & The DamnedNow aged 60, Vanian, a one-time gravedigger, still retains
drowningparty:Dave Vanian & The DamnedNow aged 60, Vanian, a one-time gravedigger, still retains much of the aesthetic “otherness” that has distinguished him from his punk rock peers since 1976; forty years on, the figure he cuts in both the genre and his own band remains singular as ever. Despite the gleeful chaos that followed in their early wake—smashed drum kits, overturned microphones largely thanks to Sensible and drummer Rat Scabies—Vanian is a man of an intensely private sensibility, all showman onstage and eschewing the public eye off it. Aesthetically he prefigured the now-rote brand of capital-G Goth; in the earliest images of the band he’s resplendently pallid, with the lidded eyes of a silent film star and leather jacket collar worn up, a la Dracula. Later came the frilled poet blouses and two-toned mane of the ‘80s; these days he favors an onstage look that skews even more Edwardian. He brought references from cult icon Vampira to Gothic literature into The Damned’s oeuvre, and made sweeping, melodic tracks staples among the work of a band once synonymous solely with three-minute infernos. -- source link
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