One for Algy!
In some ways, 1979 saw the birth of The Damned as we know them now. Of course Brian's Damned came first and did everything first, much to Malcolm and Bernie's chagrin no doubt. For the three original members of The Damned who emerged through the maelstrom of '76-'77, recording 'Machine Gun Etiquette' must have seemed like a second coming. The firsts that The Damned racked up included the first to implode and what followed for the individual musicians was not especially pretty. Dave had a stint with Richard Strange in The Doctors of Madness, Rat became a White Cat and Captain a King. However what these failed solo ventures proved was that 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts' and such was the case for The Damned.
I guess that having experienced at such close quarters just how fickle the music business is, the ambition to make something of a revitalised Damned was strong. Certainly this came across in the shows that the band played throughout 1979!
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