The Damned headlined a free all-day gig, promoted by the then Greater London Council in Brixton. Also on the bill that day were New Model Army, Spear of Destiny, The Fall, Benjamin Zephaniah, Strawberry Switchblade and some other acts I can't remember. This was, unknown to anyone there at the time, to be Captain Sensible's last appearance as a full-time member of The Damned for some years. The next time they played live (at Nostell Priory, see earlier post) he was no longer in the band. This remains, though, one of The Damned's landmark appearances. I remember having to drag my mate Wigg through the gates at Brixton tube station as staff tried to close the doors in the face of the crowds leaving the gig. We rode around the Circle Line to keep warm for a couple of hours before getting off at King's Cross to go home and bumping in to the others we'd gone down with and lost leaving Brockwell Park.
01 Intro
02 Love Song
03 Wait for the Blackout
04 Thanks for the Night
05 Disco Man
06 Stranger on the Town
07 Limit Club
08 Neat Neat Neat
09 Noise Noise Noise
10 Smash it Up
11 Looking at You
12 New Rose
13 Hippy Hippy Shake
14 Anarchy in the UK
15 Love Song
16 Nasty
Source: Audience Recording
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 86Mb
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Quality notes
Excellent:
Generally a soundboard or FM/digital radio recording
Very good:
The best quality audience recording, or a soundboard taken from a tape a few generations removed from the original
Good:
A very listenable audience recording
Average:
Typical audience recording on which there will be some audience intrusion etc
Poor:
Muffled, echoey, generally for the completist
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2 comments
Comment by janice171 on 17 June 2009 at 20:28
thanks so much for this, i never got to this gig sadly but knew a few people that came back with glowing reports.
It sounds pretty good to me.
thankfully they didn't break up after this and are still going strong today.
cheers.
Comment by Unknown on 31 October 2019 at 16:07
Brockwell Park is nowhere near Brixton. Any idea if Big Audio Dynamite played this gig?