dykevanian:zombiesenelghetto:The Damned, press review 1976“Captain Sensible isn’t sensible at

dykevanian:zombiesenelghetto:The Damned, press review 1976“Captain Sensible isn’t sensible at all.”“The Damned, Leeds UniversityRat Scabies swats venomously over his kit, like a man trying to pin down a ground sheet in a hurricane. Grimacing sometimes, sometimes grinning. Captain Sensible isn’t sensible at all, he’s wearing a yellow plastic hard-hat with an amber flashing light on top. He stomps back and forth, stopping to sing back-up vocals, close to the mike, even with the mike in his mouth occasionally. He plays his bass brute like and loud.Brian James is probably the most ominously aggressive personality on stage. He doesn’t seem to have the in-built safety valve of self-depressive humour that the others have; almost as though he takes himself seriously. His guitar playing is a constant trebly buzz, a merciless power slide of gilt-edges riffs and half formed solos.Hunched into what appears to be a map-fitting donkey suit is Dave Vanian. All glossed black hair, pit shaft eyes, and skinny leg jeans. Looking for all the world like a sexless spectre from an Isherwood nightmare who’s fallen–” -- source link

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