{"id":33354,"date":"2018-02-26T13:26:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=33354"},"modified":"2018-02-28T12:02:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T12:02:20","slug":"neat-neat-neat-punk-legends-the-damned-summon-their-evil-spirits-to-smash-it-up-at-londons-camden-koko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/02\/neat-neat-neat-punk-legends-the-damned-summon-their-evil-spirits-to-smash-it-up-at-londons-camden-koko\/","title":{"rendered":"NEAT NEAT NEAT – Punk Legends The Damned Summon Their Evil Spirits To Smash It Up At London’s Camden KOKO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Light the fuse – The Damned in full flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Damned’s<\/strong>\u00a0place in history is secured as one of the triumvirate of London bands that kick-started the punk rock revolution.<\/h4>\n

And yet despite being first out of the traps with a bona fide punk single,\u00a0New Rose<\/strong><\/em> in 1976, they’ve often been dismissed as the jokers in the pack.<\/h4>\n

For the sheer effrontery of having a sense of humour, they’re not always afforded quite the same reverence as\u00a0John Lydon<\/strong>‘s snarling\u00a0Sex Pistols<\/strong>, or\u00a0Joe Strummer<\/strong>‘s Situationist, sloganeering Clash<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Now more than 40 years on, the time to correct that injustice is long overdue.<\/p>\n

On stage founder members\u00a0Captain Sensible<\/strong> and\u00a0Dave Vanian<\/strong> may look like living cartoons, but behind the outfits and the giggles, there’s a skill and substance to what they do.<\/p>\n