Yesterday true pioneers of the London punk scene played in the Patronaat in Haarlem. The Damned claim to be the first. They released the first UK punk single, "New Rose", the first UK punk album, "Damned Damned Damned", and were the first British punks to tour the United States. The band released a new film and album, 'A Night of Thousand Vampires'.
The current members of the Dammed are Dave Vanian (vocals). Captain Sensible (Raymond Ian Burns. Guitar), Paul Gray (bass), Will Taylor (drums) and Monty Oxymoron (keyboards). After they reformed in 1996, the latter replaced Dave Grunfeld, who admired his former band from the first row of the crowd.
The Damned play a punk influenced by psychedelic and garage rock and epic pop songs. Their dark lyrics and Dave Vanian's rich baritone vocals catapulted The Damned to the forefront of the Goth-Rock genre.
Support was by the Smalltown Tigers, a punk band from Rimini, Italy. The three girls raised the heat in the venue populated by the mainly male elderly fans of the Damned
