Search - Damned :: Live at Newcastle

A garage recording

John R. Chaney III | Louisville, KY | 02/10/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It sounds like someone took a cassette recorder that otherwise would have gone into the trash and took it into the 15 X 20' pub to record this album. That's why I love it: it contains all the energy, audacity, drunkeness, and madness that a band like the damned should have at a crowded, dingy little pub in the middle of a working-class town, in the middle of a nation where class-oppression is the norm. You have to be on your way to a party or with people who know of the damned for it to be of any use. If you listen to this on your way to work, travelling up I-64 West at 6:13 am, half-awake, getting ready to process HUD forms all day, it will probably be depressing due to the fact that you didn't get to be in that band and have the adventures they did nor did you get to play in any band who wanted to go all the way because all the musicians around here have no ambition, and refuse to show up for practice for no good reason whatsoever. But hey, that's just me...."

DAMNED CHAOS IN NEWCASTLE

John R. Chaney III | 06/02/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Another live by the lads this time in NewCastle in 83. The lads really thrash the material and their instruments for this one excellent."