POX: the DaMnEd

FWIW, these are the shows: https://dice.fm/artist/the-damned-b98g?lng=en-US

I still dig them, they put out an EP a couple of years ago with an anthem about saving the bees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR2W8ZoU8EU

Opening for Blondie in DC Sunday. It must have been on another thread and in a Jack Rabid FB post that the Damned on this US tour will not contain all the same members who have done recent UK gigs

They've not done them yet

I think they might be talking about Captain Sensible not being allowed in the US because he's antivax and they had a vaccination requirement to enter the country. not sure if that's still the case but he had to skip US dates earlier in the year

Yeah, apparently Troy Van Leeuwen of Queens of the Stone Age filled in.

Life Goes On from Strawberries

Looks like it wasn't a single, but this has a huge number of plays on Spotify. Is is just another case of the algorithm identifying a sleeper hit, or was it in a soundtrack recently, perhaps?

Sounds to me like a Flying Nun/Chills song.

"Strawberries" is their most underrated album. Arguably their most consistently strong release, not a duff track on it unlike their other work.

May have something to do with the fact that the riff is basically Come As You Are, predating Killing Joke’s “Eighties” (the usual culprit for Come As You Are’s origin story) by a few years. Anyway, rabbit holes, etc likely explains the big Spotify numbers.

like i was a damned fan like a year after strawberries dropped and i seem to remember seeing it in cutout bins everywhere and i was always like "why is this always here?" at least i think that's how i rememeber it. fuck maybe i'm creating this memory out of some other album in cutout bins