The Damned have just released a new video and track, “You’re Gonna Realise,” in advance of the forthcoming studio album from which the song is taken. Inspired by a theme of international espionage, the video is directed by Martin Gooch who is responsible for the recent A NIGHT OF A THOUSAND VAMPIRES concert film, as well as The Damned’s “Beware Of The Clown” and “The Invisible Man” videos.
UK music pioneers The Damned return with new studio album, DARKADELIC, next Friday April 28th. Released via earMUSIC, DARKADELIC is distributed by BFD/The Orchard in North America. Alongside Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, Paul Gray and Monty Oxymoron, William Granville-Taylor joins the band on drums. The album has already been receiving rave reviews from worldwide media with the UK’s Vive Le Rock declaring, “Some of their finest recorded performances. The Damned have pulled a blinder”. Mojo (UK) referred to the album as “A late-era joyride full of grace and power”.
DARKADELIC is produced, engineered and mixed by Thomas Mitchener (La Roux/Tyler, The Futureheads, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster) for Big Life Management and mastered by John Davis (U2, The Killers, Gorillaz) at Metropolis Studios. DARKADELIC was recorded at Kore Studios, Acton And Broadfields Studio, Watford. DARKADELIC will be available as a CD, as 1 LP black vinyl, limited edition 1 LP transparent vinyl including DARKADELIC Slipmat and digitally. Click here to access the DARKADELIC album cover. Click here to pre-order the album. In other news, The Damned have confirmed a short run of headlining United States tour dates on the West Coast next month. Please see below for the itinerary.
Ground-breaking rock band The Damned exploded on to the British music scene more than forty-five years ago. Following their formation in 1976, The Damned became the first UK band in the punk rock genre to release a single (“New Rose”) and then an album (DAMNED, DAMNED, DAMNED). Initially associated with the British punk rock movement and then gothic rock, the band went on to release ten studio albums and several UK-charting singles which ran the gamut from punk rock to gothic to even the pop genre. They have legions of hardcore fans worldwide and have firmly established themselves as one of most powerful and theatrical live bands in the world.
The Damned US Tour dates:
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20 – The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
21 – Belasco Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
23 – The Ventura Theatre, Ventura, CA
24 – House Of Blues, Anaheim, CA
25 – The Observatory North Park, San Diego, CA
26 – Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival, Las Vegas, NV (non-headlining)
