Well it seems to be a busy and poignant week this week for The Damned. Friends are on the Continent this Easter weekend for European dates leading up to their big 50th gig at Wembley Arena. As such it seems right and proper to upload something from them in acknowledgement of another milestone that the band's of '76/'77 did not in their wildest imaginings expect to see, least of all The Damned.... they first threw in the towel 49 years ago in 1977!!
In 1988 they were in Switzerland playing the Hot Point Festival and what a festival it promised to be with a line up of The Damned, Motorhead, Johnny Thunders and Siouxsie & The Banshees. Maybe Switzerland was the place to congregate if you could claim that you were once in a punk band. The Stranglers had played the Paleo Festival the previous month in Nyon, a little further along the banks on Lake Geneva.
I wonder who the surprise guest was?
At this stage in the game, Dave was in the process of metamorphosing from Nosferatu to Dark Elvis... his Phantom Chords project was not far around the corner at this stage.
DVD image: https://we.tl/t-7zcOU0aaiYypvM9c
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-GckMuFq9qU9ebTCx
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