The Damned to play at Looe Music Festival 2013

Place your hands on tickets to see Brit rockers Reef, and The Darkness on Looe beach this autumn. Looe Music Festival 2013 promises 60 bands, 3 stages … and 1 big party ?on the beach over the weekend of 27th - 29th September.

Place your hands on tickets to see Brit rockers Reef, and The Darkness on Looe beach this autumn. Looe Music Festival 2013 promises 60 bands, 3 stages … and 1 big party on the beach over the weekend of 27th - 29th September.

The Darkness, Reef and Dizraeli & the Small Gods will head a hefty line-up of rock, punk and modern ska talent that includes The Damned, Sham 69, Missing Andy and Simon Townshend fresh from his UK tour with The Who.
Folk fans can look forward to a busy weekend of performances from celebrated folk singer-songwriter and virtuoso fiddler Seth Lakeman (making the short journey across the Tamar to take Looe beach by storm on the Saturday night), plus BBC Folk Award winners (Best Folk Duo 2012) Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, singer-songwriter Judy Dunlop, and folk-pop starlet Lisbee Stainton.

If swamp-infested, Latin-American gypsy blues is more your style, Congo Faith Healers are one to catch. Listed as one of The Independent’s Top 10 Bands to see live in London. Carnival outfit Tankus The Henge have a reputation for whipping crowds into a frenzy too. Named as one of Glastonbury 2011’s top 10 bands, check them out for yourself at Looe Music Festival 2013. As always, LMF will be showcasing local talent from Looe, and seasoned performers from all over Cornwall and the South West. BBC Poetry Slam champion Dizraeli, with world Beatbox champion Bellatrix and a supernaturally gifted 7-piece band make Dizraeli & the Small Gods the ones to see on the Friday night at the beach.

Rockney heroes Chas & Dave will close the weekend in style supported by the pioneers of ‘oom-pop’ the lederhosen-clad, London-based Oompah Brass. Last year sold out … don’t miss the boat. Gertcha tickets for Looe Music Festival now at looemusic.co.uk.

Happy New Year one and all!

Happy new year to everybody and we hope you enjoyed the wacky setlist we put together for the Loco-A-Gogo tour in the UK.

Who knows what the next tour will bring!!!

We are currently trawling around for as many press clippings/reviews/news stories and general Damned related historical archives as we can collect, and we need your help for this mammoth task.

Wes needs a bunch of this stuff for the movie and you lot are the ultimate source for this. He is buried under a ton of footage from the last several tours with the band, as well as interviews he has conducted from many far flung visits with faces who absolutely HAVE to be in the movie.
We just want to make this thing as accurate as we can, so if you can scan to PDF, or even just take a good quality digital pic and send it to us, we will make good use of it all.

Happy new year to everybody and we hope you enjoyed the wacky setlist we put together for the Loco-A-Gogo tour in the UK.

Who knows what the next tour will bring!!!

We are currently trawling around for as many press clippings/reviews/news stories and general Damned related historical archives as we can collect, and we need your help for this mammoth task.

Wes needs a bunch of this stuff for the movie and you lot are the ultimate source for this. He is buried under a ton of footage from the last several tours with the band, as well as interviews he has conducted from many far flung visits with faces who absolutely HAVE to be in the movie.
We just want to make this thing as accurate as we can, so if you can scan to PDF, or even just take a good quality digital pic and send it to us, we will make good use of it all.

Things we need are- any and all press from printed publications in the past that no longer exist, as well as current magazine, newspaper and internet stories, saved in PDF format, that you lot seem to be amazing at unearthing. Nothing is out of bounds as long as it is Damned related, and it will be fantastic to have the fans of the band be a big part of the authenticity of this document.

Please send your PDFs and pics to damnedcomps@gmail.com and have a great new year.

Captain Sensible chats to Radcliffe and Maconie

Our good Captain interviewed on Radio 6 by Radcliffe and Maconie

Punk pioneer Captain Sensible joins Mark and Stuart to talk about the 35th anniversary of Damned Damned Damned.

Our good Captain interviewed on Radio 6 by Radcliffe and Maconie

Punk pioneer Captain Sensible joins Mark and Stuart to talk about the 35th anniversary of Damned Damned Damned.

Direct link to Radio 6 HERE