The Damned - I Just Cant Be Happy Today [OGWT]

[Video] The Damned - I Just Cant Be Happy Today [OGWT] (Wiggy St Helens UK 2008)

[@theflyintheointment]

I always loved the idea of The Captain and Vanian discussing the candelabra before this performance. "Let's get an antique candelabra and put it on the organ. One of those candelabras you see in Hammer horror films. Better still, lets put some cobwebs on it. It will look all dark and gothic". Within 30 seconds, the candelabra is on the floor

[@christopherhaley1964]

Dave is so industrious, catching up on his vampire literature in between.

[@thedamnedrose6665]

Dave looking at scabies like "wtf" 😂 I adore the damned!

[@isabellahopeferris-green2897]

Not my favourite Damned song, but by far my favourite live performance ever. A fantastic mess!

[@deb8498]

What is your favourite ? I'm curious Ive loved the Damned since early 80s.. I have a favourite .. Smash it up 1 and 2 With musical intro..💙🙏 It is An Anthem.... it has been said..

[@vat_egg]

i love the way vanian magically makes the captain start playing the keys. great little performance touch

[@stuartmorley3836]

I can vaguely remember watching this on telly.. I was 11.. My Mum had gone to bingo,but my stepfatha, even though he was a git,always watched OGWT

[@primate1234]

Love it when the candles fall off the keyboards!!!!!

[@MiaMeezy]

Dave was seriously like wtf Scabies?!? Priceless! They're still singing (meanwhile the feedback started the whole thing, Scabies completely losses it) They were so drunk 🥴 Dave reading Captains music lol candles fell 😂 just epic! I absolutely love The Damned!!!

[@errcycoo]

this is just flat out one on th best live performances ever recorded

[@lemncurry]

Love the fact that Vanian taped the mic to his hands😄

[@dscus]

I love how Dave wants to Laugh when Captain's guitar and candelabra fall.

best keyboard solo ever !!!

[@PunkInDrublic1993]

Oddly my dad showed me this off the old grey whistle test dvd he recently bought. By far one of the best performances I've ever seen.

[@cosmicdrifter287]

this sums up my working day.

[@chriswallace2407]

Cheers for posting, The Damned the only band i never tire of listening to or watching ...

[@Mr.Steve-O]

R.I.P. Algy Ward

[@johnnyswitchblade]

One of the first proper punk bands.

[@Mel7vc]

Oh Dave... forgotten how gorgeous you were (are). the good ol' days.... originality ruled.

[@poughkeepsiejohn1]

We're The Damned! We're a punk band! And this is called "Cahnt B Happee 2-Day"!

[@primate1234]

I miss this chaotic side to The Damned- I'd say it ran from about 79' to 81-82 and then they started getting serious in their live shows. Seeing them like this is pure bliss :)

[@Omenuiwf]

3:16 Dave's looking at the drum kit like "What the fuck Rat?"

[@Tiger8231]

I was 16 and the Damned amongst many bands were changing the music scene (as well as the social scene) - shame there is no movement today.....everyone is tame/nonadventurous. We wait for the youth to do something other than comply.

[@joeydanielski962]

Spoken like a true out of touch old person.

[@reetthen]

@@joeydanielski962 Posted 2 years ago. old person.

[@jodibrooklyn1033]

That intro cracked me up!

[@hattertim]

Kudos to wiggy for posting this...seeing them in May...looking forward to it even more now!

[@barnowl01292]

Fucking brilliant! One of the best bands ever...

[@cambelt2001]

Good to see this, what a band!

[@elkiewernicke6257]

Wie immer toll von Anfang an

[@christopherhaley1964]

Lovely.

[@l.salisbury1253]

RIP Algy Ward 1959-2023

[@carloscosta8603]

Rat is my favorite drummer ever!!

[@Kelly14UK]

Classic performance.

[@sunboy1000]

the best punk/goth band in the world

[@AlphaGoII]

Lovely stuff Lads

[@pezzolite]

lol thanks Wiggy =D

[@RoryLynott]

Fucking priceless.

[@kevindobbs1031]

Great chaotic days never to be repeated.

[@andreaprodan5616]

As underrated as Sensible's T-Shirt!

[@axelazaryan]

LOVELY

[@vat_egg]

raw power

[@markyboy531]

Stooges!!

[@mkiswatoo]

Perfect Chaos.

[@ChrisParsonsbethefly]

YES!!!!!!!!!!

[@foff4strings]

If I remember correctly there was some sort of technician work to rule at the BBC when this was aired. As a result of hanging around for most of the day waiting for the camera crew to begin filming they started drinking....and drinking...and drinking...note Algy Ward's 'almost too p*ssed to stand up' stance...Annie Nightingale made some comment after about the ghost of the Who haunting the building; she looked (professionally ) terrified.

[@otterspocket2826]

They weren't quite so blase about the kit at Coventry Theatre on the original MGE tour, when half the PA system got nicked in a stage invasion. Dave had to make an appeal for it to be returned so they could carry on (it was, eventually). The best live band of the era, I couldn't get enough of them (so I was glad they got it back). I met the Captain once outside the Lyceum Ballroom, when he'd been thrown out of a Slaughter and the Dogs gig for his own stage invasion. He really was as mad as his image, and a really great guy - probably still is.

[@Menace1979]

Oh yeah ;)

[@gasutrias9961]

😍

[@rawkpig]

Totally priceless!!

[@martinfarrington7921]

What music is all about !

[@axelazaryan]

00:30 laugh Dave😂😂😂😂

[@adders45]

Art house

[@Thejimislim]

the keyboard on this song is intense

[@rosemarytaylor3933]

I love this! Funny as fuck!!! Hahahaha

[@Kelly14UK]

I'd love to see Nightingale's famous reaction!

[@tobygibson3806]

Pretty much.

[@vcp93]

I'm guessing after this gig they decided to go get a "Monty" so the Capt. can do what he does best....which is NOT playing keyboard. What a beautiful disaster.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Long before Monty there was Roman Jugg

[@the_dark_forest]

well there goes that then

[@kemicon]

I feel like they were channeling the Stranglers on this one. Wes Anderson would approve.

[@haxio17]

Our culture isn't Holly wood en 😁

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Huh?

[@vegbloke]

A £2k Vox Continental, tipped over the stage, £3k Pearl kit smashed about beautifully. This beats KLF's £1M in notes bonfire by a mile. Mr Sensible is clearly a talented piano player, to do that in two fingers. Hey I'm not an insurance assessor - just a guess.

[@Kelly14UK]

Well they DID sing Smash It Up earlier on didn't they?

[@duffdeluxe]

I think the bass player started to play the Southbank show theme tune at the end.

[@rudydynxx]

dave vanian 54 this week,,all getting on a bit.seen the damned in the penthouse glasgow about 1983 xllent.

[@mookie2637]

Perhaps a trifle under-rehearsed.

[@Smithlord]

encore! oh wait...

[@DRFW1962]

Generally focus is on Rat and Captain, great as they were, Dave rules this album.

[@donmajestic5258]

Live public access?

[@solonely8777]

Captain Sensible should take responsibility for that one. launched his key board when signal failed.

Poor organ xD

[@thewhatorwhy]

Where did Captain get his sense of melody from? It's not The Doors, despite the keyboard sound being a bit similar.

[@jonblazeinc]

StartabandRoxy sounds kinda Dave Greenfield-ish . similar stranglers sound

[@thewhatorwhy]

Hmm ok. I haven't heard much Stranglers but Grimly friendish and Golden Brown have something in common.

[@jonblazeinc]

StartabandRoxy search on KZbin there's loads of stranglers on here , especially around this era 77-79

[@bkwannabe]

1:47-1:50 so funny

[@2206411411]

The captain without his beret? Must have been special-forces back then. A demolition unit, obviously. :)

[@user-vy2ro7kz8l]

ダムドグレイト

[@Dats_Lyfe]

He couldn't wait to the end of the song?

[@krisscanlon4051]

They have a candelabra on top of the organ...so Liberace 😅

[@aude6728]

les damnés à la maison blanche ....

[@CatapultYourMom]

I think I know what happened to Michael Jackson's other glove.

[@philkearney0577]

The funniest part of this is the fact that they've been knocking this shit out for the last 40 years and getting away with it.

[@thoomoo]

Very punk

[@melitosse]

@HydrowolfTD The Vines, Get Free, on the letterman show, almost as fucked up as this.

[@i.p.knightley6970]

Even The Damned have a sense of professionalism about them when it comes to performing so when `Sensible f++ks up the keyboard parts, then his amp bails, Dave Vanian gives up and Scabies gets so pissed off he does what any punk would do and that's; when a performance becomes this bad he destroys the set and takes it to legend level.

[@kentallard8852]

only thing missing is some stage divers

[@grahammcnamara4803]

Hey, the Who could 'afford' to smash up their instruments! At this point in their career i'm not so sure! Looked good however.

[@Kelly14UK]

Vanian's been drinking

[@raycroal]

3.17 i hear the bass player inventing RHCP hit rollercoaster

[@Shikta-poobah67]

😳

[@jean-pierrealbertini]

rat at work lol

[@LarzGustafsson]

Childish and pointless destruction.

[@callumsutherland2954]

What's wrong with childish and pointless destruction? :P

[@GilbertSyndrome]

Larz just turned 15.