The Damned

Support from Billy Karloff & The Extremes. A contributor to this site wrote "I went to see The Damned on 18 July 1980 at the assembly rooms, it was my first gig, I was 15 years old. The songs I remember were 'Love Song', 'I Just Can't Be Happy Today', 'Noise Noise Noise', 'New Rose', 'Neat Neat Neat', 'Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde' and 'Smash It Up parts 1 & 2'. The support, Billy Karloff, wore see through plastic macs" [Neil Hay of Billy Karloff & The Extremes wrote "We did indeed wear plastic macs owing to the extensive spitting that was a feature of all punk gigs at the time and we had also toured with The Revillo's previously so had some experience of this - we also had "Sou-wester" hats. The idea was to start off wearing our normal stage clothes and if the spitting started, we would put on the afore-mentioned macs and hats at the end of the song. Bizarrely, once we did this, the spitting stopped"]. Another contributor wrote 'The gig caused much controversy and made the front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph the following Monday due to allegations of the Damned vomiting in the dressing room and making off with sections of the PA (amongst other stuff). In fact it saw the end of such acts at the venue for years.'

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