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
@isabellahopeferris-green28973 жыл бұрын
Not my favourite Damned song, but by far my favourite live performance ever. A fantastic mess!
@deb84982 жыл бұрын
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..
@thedamnedrose66659 жыл бұрын
Dave looking at scabies like "wtf" 😂 I adore the damned!
@Thazion Жыл бұрын
Love the fact that Vanian taped the mic to his hands😄
@vat_egg15 жыл бұрын
i love the way vanian magically makes the captain start playing the keys. great little performance touch
@errcycoo14 жыл бұрын
this is just flat out one on th best live performances ever recorded
@primate123414 жыл бұрын
Love it when the candles fall off the keyboards!!!!!
@l.salisbury1253 Жыл бұрын
RIP Algy Ward 1959-2023
@stuartmorley38363 жыл бұрын
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
@christopherhaley19642 жыл бұрын
Dave is so industrious, catching up on his vampire literature in between.
@Mia-N-Dan2 жыл бұрын
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!!!
@dscus3 жыл бұрын
I love how Dave wants to Laugh when Captain's guitar and candelabra fall.
@BACALL19654 ай бұрын
Didn't nitice that until you pointed it out
@mikebryan706029 күн бұрын
Bloody amazing. . Still great today 45 years later.
@chriswallace24079 жыл бұрын
Cheers for posting, The Damned the only band i never tire of listening to or watching ...
15 жыл бұрын
best keyboard solo ever !!!
@Mr.Steve-O Жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Algy Ward
@PunkInDrublic199314 жыл бұрын
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.
@mikebryan706029 күн бұрын
Proper punk rock. The best ever. Saw them live last week. Just wow.
@Mel7vc15 жыл бұрын
Oh Dave... forgotten how gorgeous you were (are). the good ol' days.... originality ruled.
@cosmicdrifter28710 жыл бұрын
this sums up my working day.
@primate123414 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@johnnyswitchblade15 жыл бұрын
One of the first proper punk bands.
@poughkeepsiejohn114 жыл бұрын
We're The Damned! We're a punk band! And this is called "Cahnt B Happee 2-Day"!
@hattertim15 жыл бұрын
Kudos to wiggy for posting this...seeing them in May...looking forward to it even more now!
@Omenuiwf12 жыл бұрын
3:16 Dave's looking at the drum kit like "What the fuck Rat?"
@jodibrooklyn10337 жыл бұрын
That intro cracked me up!
@Tiger823114 жыл бұрын
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.
@joeydanielski9624 жыл бұрын
Spoken like a true out of touch old person.
@reetthen2 жыл бұрын
@@joeydanielski962 Posted 2 years ago. old person.
@barnowl0129213 жыл бұрын
Fucking brilliant! One of the best bands ever...
@elkiewernicke62574 жыл бұрын
Wie immer toll von Anfang an
@carloscosta86036 жыл бұрын
Rat is my favorite drummer ever!!
@otterspocket28266 жыл бұрын
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.
@RoryLynott Жыл бұрын
Fucking priceless.
@sunboy100015 жыл бұрын
the best punk/goth band in the world
@kevindobbs10316 жыл бұрын
Great chaotic days never to be repeated.
@foff4strings14 жыл бұрын
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.
@cambelt200117 жыл бұрын
Good to see this, what a band!
@AlphaGoII4 жыл бұрын
Lovely stuff Lads
@Kelly14UK14 жыл бұрын
Classic performance.
@vat_egg15 жыл бұрын
raw power
@markyboy5313 жыл бұрын
Stooges!!
@mkiswatoo13 жыл бұрын
Perfect Chaos.
@andreaprodan561613 жыл бұрын
As underrated as Sensible's T-Shirt!
@axelazaryan10 ай бұрын
LOVELY
@Fitzrovia_Productions15 жыл бұрын
lol thanks Wiggy =D
@ChrisParsonsbethefly13 жыл бұрын
YES!!!!!!!!!!
@martinfarrington792110 жыл бұрын
What music is all about !
@kemicon Жыл бұрын
I feel like they were channeling the Stranglers on this one. Wes Anderson would approve.
@haxio1710 ай бұрын
Our culture isn't Holly wood en 😁
@Shikta-poobah679 ай бұрын
Huh?
@Kelly14UK14 жыл бұрын
Well they DID sing Smash It Up earlier on didn't they?
@axelazaryan10 ай бұрын
00:30 laugh Dave😂😂😂😂
@gasutrias99613 жыл бұрын
😍
@ianwhitehead6914 ай бұрын
ThE DaMned 🧷 🇬🇧 ♥️
@Kelly14UK14 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see Nightingale's famous reaction!
@Menace197912 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah ;)
@rosemarytaylor3933 Жыл бұрын
I love this! Funny as fuck!!! Hahahaha
@rudydynxx14 жыл бұрын
dave vanian 54 this week,,all getting on a bit.seen the damned in the penthouse glasgow about 1983 xllent.
@Thejimislim15 жыл бұрын
the keyboard on this song is intense
@vegbloke5 жыл бұрын
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.
@duffdeluxe13 жыл бұрын
I think the bass player started to play the Southbank show theme tune at the end.
@rawkpig15 жыл бұрын
Totally priceless!!
@DRFW196212 жыл бұрын
Generally focus is on Rat and Captain, great as they were, Dave rules this album.
@vcp937 жыл бұрын
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-poobah679 ай бұрын
Long before Monty there was Roman Jugg
@donmajestic52582 жыл бұрын
Live public access?
@the_dark_forest4 жыл бұрын
well there goes that then
@adders4514 жыл бұрын
Art house
@Smithlord13 жыл бұрын
encore! oh wait...
@tobygibson380611 жыл бұрын
Pretty much.
@Dats_Lyfe3 жыл бұрын
He couldn't wait to the end of the song?
@mookie263713 жыл бұрын
Perhaps a trifle under-rehearsed.
@solonely877713 жыл бұрын
Captain Sensible should take responsibility for that one. launched his key board when signal failed.
@thewhatorwhy7 жыл бұрын
Where did Captain get his sense of melody from? It's not The Doors, despite the keyboard sound being a bit similar.
@jonblazeinc7 жыл бұрын
StartabandRoxy sounds kinda Dave Greenfield-ish . similar stranglers sound
@thewhatorwhy7 жыл бұрын
Hmm ok. I haven't heard much Stranglers but Grimly friendish and Golden Brown have something in common.
@jonblazeinc7 жыл бұрын
StartabandRoxy search on KZbin there's loads of stranglers on here , especially around this era 77-79
@JMarinelli5 ай бұрын
What a glorious mess!
@220641141114 жыл бұрын
The captain without his beret? Must have been special-forces back then. A demolition unit, obviously. :)
@philkearney05777 жыл бұрын
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.
@i.p.knightley69702 жыл бұрын
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.
@bkwannabe16 жыл бұрын
1:47-1:50 so funny
5 жыл бұрын
Poor organ xD
@melitosse13 жыл бұрын
@HydrowolfTD The Vines, Get Free, on the letterman show, almost as fucked up as this.
@krisscanlon4051 Жыл бұрын
They have a candelabra on top of the organ...so Liberace 😅
@CatapultYourMom14 жыл бұрын
I think I know what happened to Michael Jackson's other glove.
@宮下勉-j1l2 жыл бұрын
ダムドグレイト
@grahammcnamara48034 жыл бұрын
Hey, the Who could 'afford' to smash up their instruments! At this point in their career i'm not so sure! Looked good however.
@aude67284 жыл бұрын
les damnés à la maison blanche ....
@thoomoo13 жыл бұрын
Very punk
@kentallard88523 жыл бұрын
only thing missing is some stage divers
@Kelly14UK8 жыл бұрын
Vanian's been drinking
@raycroal3 жыл бұрын
3.17 i hear the bass player inventing RHCP hit rollercoaster
@Shikta-poobah679 ай бұрын
😳
@jean-pierrealbertini5 жыл бұрын
rat at work lol
@LarzGustafsson15 жыл бұрын
Childish and pointless destruction.
@callumsutherland29547 жыл бұрын
What's wrong with childish and pointless destruction? :P