I
don't know how the Damned get better at every gig, especially since
they were brilliant the first time I saw them, and this was the sixth.
But they were!
Middlesbrough
Town Hall resembled a weird goth youth club, since there were 5 other
"young" "hip" "good looking" bands on
the tour aswell who were not great, especially in comparison! The
singer of [spunge] tried to rouse the crowd in a chorus of
'I say Captain you say wot' - I don't think they got it, but they
chanted along anyway!
Cap graced the stage in his extremely fashionable Fred Flinstone-style
outfit and they were off with a really fresh sounding set, with plenty
of new additions which sounded fantastic, such as Melody Lee,
Absinthe and Anti-Pope which was dedicated to the original
writer of it - my Dad! Stu the new guy was really good, and when Cap
was trying to upstage him by standing in front to block him, Dave
tied them together with his microphone lead, it was hilarious! The
only bad thing was that I couldn't see Monty from where I was standing,
as he is now kind of hidden - as my mam (valvicious) put it "to
keep him away from the drink" but in fact to keep beer off the
keyboard!
You know it's been a great night when you can't hear out of your right
ear the next day, so it really was - they are all charming men and
lots of fun. It was just bloody brilliant and although I resisted
going onstage in the encore to play New Rose - mainly cause
I can't yet play it, maybe I will next time!
Anti
Pop Jen
Thanks
to Anti Pop Jen for these photos!
