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The Damned: Live Performances - 1976
Sunday 26 December - Roxy theatre, Harlesden, London
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Wednesday 22 December - 400 Ballroom, Torquay
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Tuesday 21 December - Woods Centre, Plymouth
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash. The Damned were no longer on this tour.
Monday 20 December - Town Hall, Birmingham
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Sunday 19 December - Civic Hall, Guildford
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Saturday 18 December - Kursaal, Southend
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Friday 17 December - City Hall, Sheffield
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Thursday 16 December - Caird Hall, Dundee
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Wednesday 15 December - Apollo, Glasgow
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Tuesday 14 December - Top Rank, Cardiff
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Monday 13 December - Colston Hall, Bristol
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Tuesday 12 December - Top Rank, Cardiff
Comments: Originally intended date for the Cardiff gig on the Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash. Show rescheduled for Tuesday 14 December.
Saturday 11 December - The Stadium, Liverpool
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Friday 10 December - Charter Theatre, Preston
Comments: Intended Anarchy Tour date with The Sex Pistols & The Clash that was scheduled as a replacement for Lancaster that day - CANCELLED (?).
Friday 10 December - Lancaster University
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED and rescheduled for Preston.
Thursday 9 December - Electric Circus, Manchester
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols, The Clash & The Buzzcocks. The Damned were no longer on this tour.
Wednesday 8 December - Polytechnic, Leeds
Comments: Originally intended date for the Leeds gig on the Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash. Show rescheduled for Monday 6 December.
Tuesday 7 December - Hope & Anchor, London
Set included: New Rose and Help.
Comments: Also on the bill were Eater. New Rose video filmed at this gig.
Tuesday 7 December - Sheffield University
Comments: Rearranged gig also not played - PA system was in Berkshire.
Tuesday 7 December - Village Bowl, Bournemouth
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Monday 6 December - Polytechnic, Leeds
Set: unknown.
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash. The Damned sacked / pulled out of the tour following this gig.
Sunday 5 December - City Hall, Newcastle
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Saturday 4 December - Kings Hall, Derby
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols, The Clash and Johnny Thunder's Heartbreakers - CANCELLED. The Damned were the only one of the 4 acts to agree to perform for Derby councillors to assess whether the gig should go ahead... thus antagonising the other bands.
Friday 3 December - Norwich University
Comments: Anarchy Tour with The Sex Pistols & The Clash - CANCELLED.
Sunday 28 November - The Electric Circus, Manchester (Punks At The Circus)
Set: unknown.
Comments: Supported by Slaughter & The Dogs.
Saturday 27 November - Teeside Polytechnic, Middlesborough
Set: unknown.
Friday 26 November - Eric's, Liverpool
Set: possibly included: Feel The Pain, Born To Kill, So Messed Up, Stab Your Back & a cover of Iggy Pop's '2970'.
Sunday 21 November - Fox at the Greyhound, Croydon
Comments: Intended support to Flamin' Groovies, with The Troggs also on the bill. However, The Damned had quit the Flamin' Groovies tour by this time.
Saturday 20 November - Friars, Aylesbury
Comments: Intended support to Flamin' Groovies, with The Troggs also on the bill. However, The Damned had quit the Flamin' Groovies tour by this time.
Friday 19 November - Brunel University, Uxbridge
Comments: This gig was supposedly to be in addition to the Finchley gig below. Intended support to Flamin' Groovies, with The Troggs also on the bill. However, The Damned had quit the Flamin' Groovies tour by this time.
Friday 19 November - Manor Hill Upper School, Finchley (Punks At The High School)
Set: unknown.
Comments: This gig was in addition to Uxbridge show above. Also on the bill Slaughter & The Dogs and Eater. Gig known to have taken place.
Thursday 18 November - Lacy Lady, Ilford
Set: unknown.
Comments: Show stopped after one number after promoter paid the band off and asked them to leave.
Thursday 18 November - Pavilion, West Runton
Comments: Advertised gig supporting the Flamin' Groovies - The Damned had quit the Flamin' Groovies tour by this time.
Monday 15 November - Polytechnic, Oxford
Comments: Supposedly support to Flamin' Groovies but the Flamin' Groovies dropped out. Instead, The Tyla Gang headlined and The Stranglers, The Vibrators and The Damned played the show. ' A contributor to the site stated 'A great night, and to this day the best value I ever had for 50p. Within months the 3 support acts would be chart successes'.
Sunday 14 November - Roundhouse, London
Set included: Help, I Feel Alright.
Comments: Supposedly support to Flamin' Groovies & The Troggs... however, Flamin' Groovies failed to appear (apparently having bad colds) so The Damned went on followed by The Troggs.
Saturday 13 November - Keswick Hall Students Union, Norwich
Set: unknown.
Comments: Gig confimed as having taken place.
Saturday 13 November - Barbarella's, Birmingham
Comments: A Flamin' Groovies gig date but whether The Damned were due to support or not is unclear. As it was, The Damned apparently only played 2 dates of The Flamin' Groovies tour... Redcar(?) & London.
Friday 12 November - Eric's, Liverpool
Comments: A Flamin' Groovies gig date but whether The Damned were due to support or not is unclear. As it was, The Damned apparently only played 2 dates of The Flamin' Groovies tour... Redcar(?) & London.
Thursday 11 November - The Coatham Bowl, Redcar
Set: unknown.
Comments: Support to Flamin' Groovies.
Wednesday 3 November - University of Kent, Canterbury
Set: unknown.
Comments: Support to Eddie & The Hot Rods. Gig known to have taken place from press comments of the time.
Tuesday 2 November - Hope & Anchor, London
Set: unknown.
Comments: Gig known to have taken place - from the press at the time "The sound was terrible at The Damned's gig at the Hope & Anchor this week (out demons out!) on account of using someone else's PA, but the rapport was high twixt band and audience, and they played H-O-T".
Saturday 30 October - Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre, Leighton Buzzard
Set: unknown.
Comments: Show ended in violence involving Hell's Angels. Also on the bill - Caught in the Act.
Tuesday 26 October - Victoria Palace, London
Set: unknown.
Comments: Gig known to have taken place. Support to Graham Parker & The Rumour. Tyla Gang also played.
Thursday 21 October - Red Cow, Hammersmith
Set: unknown.
Comments: A contribution to this site, mentioning this gig, states "Shane Mcgowan narrowly avoiding a beating by the roadies for pogoing".
Thursday 14 October - Nag's Head, High Wycombe
Set included: Neat Neat Neat, Born To Kill, So Messed Up, Fish.
Comments: First headlining gig? Support from Jack The Hat?
Friday 8 October - Royal Hotel (or White Swan), Luton
Set: unknown.
Comments: Evidence suggests a) ... 6 numbers, 4 played twice (after a break because the amps blew?) or an account that was submitted for this site b) ... Once the set was over the promoter wondered why the band was packing up, the audience expected at least two hours or else they might get nasty. So The Damned played the set again. "Jaws were dropping". After the gig there was some unpleasantness with a department store window, the police were called, and charges proffered.
Thursday 23 September - Nag's head, High Wycombe
Set: unknown.
Comments: Support to The Vibrators.
Tuesday 21 September - 100 Club, London (Punk Rock Festival - 2nd Night)
Set included: 1 of the 2, New Rose, Help, Comfort, Fan Club.
Comments: Female audience member blinded in one eye from thrown glass. Comfort is the original title for Alone.
xx August - 100 Club, London
Set: unknown.
Comments: First headlining gig?
Saturday 21 August - Mont De Marsan bullring, France (Punk Festival)
Set included: 1 of the 2, New Rose, Help, Fan Club, I Feel Alright, Feel The Pain, Fish, See Her Tonite, I Fall, So Messed Up.
Comments: 5th gig? Possibly played more than one set? Also on the bill - Eddie & The Hot Rods, Hammersmith Gorillas, Pink Fairies, Nick Lowe, The Count Bishops, The Tyla Gang and Roogalator.
August
Comments: Some evidence to suggest that The Damned played their 3rd gig, at The Nashville Rooms, London on 6 August.
Thursday 15 July - The Nashville Rooms, London
Set included: Help.
Comments: Support to S.A.L.T. and some evidence to suggest that this was their 4th gig (but see also August). Encouraged by the audience, and having finished their short set, the band began playing the set again - the headliners brought the curtain down on the band 3 songs into the repeat set... Rat Scabies hurled his drumkit through the curtain.
July
Comments: It is possible, though as yet I have found no confirmation, that during July The Damned played the Nag's head, High Wycombe (2nd gig) and the Art College, St. Albans (3rd gig).
Tuesday 6 July - 100 Club, London
Set: 1 of the 2, New Rose, Not Me, Help, Fan Club, 1970, Feel The Pain, Fish, Circles, See Her Tonite, I Fall, So Messed Up.
Comments: Debut performance - supporting the Sex Pistols. '1970' later know as 'I Feel Alright', 'Circles' - cover of The Who song.
June
Comments: There is some conflicting information for this time. It seems likely that The Damned rehearsed for 4 weeks in a church hall (possibly just Saturdays and at Lisson Grove), probably during June... but maybe June to July being as there was a Saturday prior to their first proper gig.
Unknown
The Royal Academy of Music, Kensington
Set: unknown.
Comments: Possibly September - gig known to have taken place. May well have been the first appearance of 'the nurse's uniform'.
Live Performances Index
2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990
1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980
1979 1978 1977 1976
Naz Nomad & The Nightmares The Phantom Chords Captain Sensible
Selected Miscellany Unresolved issues Site updates
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