The Damned were always a proficient and exciting live band, and they still are. However, their air of danger disappeared with Rat Scabies, and it's disturbing to find a keyboard-playing goon with a perm and a drummer in a gorilla costume compounding Sensible's permissible buffoonery.
Rating: 2 / 10
Retail dvd (union square pictures, widescreen)
Nick Cave - The Ultimate Music Guide, on sale this week!
Bruce Springsteen: "I get roughed up crowdsurfing… people try to pull chunks out of me"
First Look - David Bowie: Five Years
The Clash announce major new box set
The National: "Trouble Will Find Me is like The Band and Air in the same room"
Watch Laura Marling cover Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark"
Bill Wyman on playing with The Rolling Stones: 'Never again'
Queens Of The Stone Age announce '…Like Clockwork' tracklisting and release date
I would have bought the issue of Melody Maker in which I first read about Bruce Springsteen on my way into the art school in Newport, where in March 1973 I was in my last term, only a few months away from moving to London and not long after that fetching up on MM as a junior reporter/feature...
