What Brian Did Next - Tanz Der Youth Music Machine London 10th August 1978

 

This month, 'Vive Le Rock' magazine must be congratulated on the publication of their 'Damned Annual', a brilliant compilation of articles, interviews, Q&A sessions with key players in the band's long career. As good as the annual undoubtably is, it set me to thinking about all of the side projects, new bands etc etc that have an association with 'brand Damned'. It's a job for Pete Frame I reckon!

The White Cats

King

Doctors of Madness

Lords of the New Church

The Doomed

Naz Nomad

The Phantom Chords

The Sensible Grey Cells

Professor and the Madman

...

The list goes on and on.

One of the first new ventures was from Brian James who formed a band called Tanz Der Youth after departing from The Damned.

Sounds (20th May 1978)

New Musical Express (20th May 1978)

Record Mirror (20th May 1978)

Sounds (10th June 1978)

New Musical Express (30th September 1978)

Sounds (30th September 1978)

Blink and you will have missed them. In their brief existence they released one single on Radar Records, 'I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry' backed with 'Delay'. Their other 'achievement' was getting a support slot on Black Sabbath's 'Never Say Die!' tour, another short lived venture with TDY quitting the tour seven dates in after successive bottle receptions!

Although there is only one official release to their name, they left some traces in the record, in the form of this gig from August 1978 at the Music Machine in Camden and a John Peel Session (both released unofficially). 

So that was Tanz Der Youth, an sonic experiment that Brian's audience were perhaps not yet prepared for. The music very much brings to mind early XTC and Magazine, so quite a departure from anything that he had done with The Damned!

Next stop Euroman Cometh with his old pal Jean Jacques.

I have included what I believe to be the correct track listing on the artwork (versus the file names). Thanks to the original Dime uploader (theGrape).

FLAC: https://we.tl/t-ggbhjZkf6LCbR3rX

Artwork: https://we.tl/t-QnMScNkyJuY1Lomm