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

[@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..

[@thedamnedrose6665]

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

[@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!!!

[@vat_egg]

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

[@errcycoo]

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

[@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

[@lemncurry]

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

[@christopherhaley1964]

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

[@primate1234]

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

[@dscus]

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

[@BACALL1965]

Didn't nitice that until you pointed it out

[@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.

best keyboard solo ever !!!

[@chriswallace2407]

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

[@cosmicdrifter287]

this sums up my working 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 :)

[@Mel7vc]

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

[@Mr.Steve-O]

R.I.P. Algy Ward

[@hattertim]

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

[@poughkeepsiejohn1]

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

[@johnnyswitchblade]

One of the first proper punk bands.

[@l.salisbury1253]

RIP Algy Ward 1959-2023

[@jodibrooklyn1033]

That intro cracked me up!

[@RoryLynott]

Fucking priceless.

[@Omenuiwf]

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

[@barnowl01292]

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

[@elkiewernicke6257]

Wie immer toll von Anfang an

[@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.

[@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.

[@AlphaGoII]

Lovely stuff Lads

[@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.

[@cambelt2001]

Good to see this, what a band!

[@kevindobbs1031]

Great chaotic days never to be repeated.

[@carloscosta8603]

Rat is my favorite drummer ever!!

[@Kelly14UK]

Classic performance.

[@vat_egg]

raw power

[@markyboy531]

Stooges!!

[@Kelly14UK]

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

[@Fitzrovia_Productions]

lol thanks Wiggy =D

[@sunboy1000]

the best punk/goth band in the world

[@mkiswatoo]

Perfect Chaos.

[@andreaprodan5616]

As underrated as Sensible's T-Shirt!

[@axelazaryan]

LOVELY

[@donmajestic5258]

Live public access?

[@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

[@ChrisParsonsbethefly]

YES!!!!!!!!!!

[@martinfarrington7921]

What music is all about !

[@rosemarytaylor3933]

I love this! Funny as fuck!!! Hahahaha

[@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

[@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.

[@mookie2637]

Perhaps a trifle under-rehearsed.

[@gasutrias9961]

😍

[@Dats_Lyfe]

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

[@Menace1979]

Oh yeah ;)

[@Kelly14UK]

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

[@ianwhitehead691]

ThE DaMned 🧷 🇬🇧 ♥️

[@duffdeluxe]

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

[@the_dark_forest]

well there goes that then

[@Thejimislim]

the keyboard on this song is intense

[@adders45]

Art house

[@rudydynxx]

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

[@axelazaryan]

00:30 laugh Dave😂😂😂😂

[@DRFW1962]

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

[@rawkpig]

Totally priceless!!

[@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.

[@tobygibson3806]

Pretty much.

[@Smithlord]

encore! oh wait...

[@JMarinelli]

What a glorious mess!

[@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?

[@solonely8777]

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

[@melitosse]

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

[@CatapultYourMom]

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

[@krisscanlon4051]

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

[@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.

Poor organ xD

[@2206411411]

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

[@bkwannabe]

1:47-1:50 so funny

[@kentallard8852]

only thing missing is some stage divers

[@宮下勉-j1l]

ダムドグレイト

[@aude6728]

les damnés à la maison blanche ....

[@thoomoo]

Very punk

[@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.

[@Kelly14UK]

Vanian's been drinking

[@jean-pierrealbertini]

rat at work lol

[@raycroal]

3.17 i hear the bass player inventing RHCP hit rollercoaster

[@Shikta-poobah67]

😳

[@LarzGustafsson]

Childish and pointless destruction.

[@callumsutherland2954]

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

[@GilbertSyndrome]

Larz just turned 15.

[@christopherhaley1964]

Lovely.