Re: Damned tour dates 2025

The lineup from the 2024 gigs remains intact -- Paul Gray, Rat Scabies, Captain Sensible and Dave Vanian. The Bellrays and the Adverts are slated to open on this tour!

10 May: The Masquerade, Atlanta
12 May: House of Blues, Orlando
13 May: Revolution Live, Fort Lauderdale
14 May: Jannus Live, St Petersburg
16 May: Civic Theater, New Orleans
17 May: Radio East, Austin
18 May: Granada Theater, Dallas
20 May: House of Blues, Houston
21 May: Paper Tiger, San Antonio
23 May: The Van Buren, Phoenix
24 May: The Observatory North Park, San Diego
30 May: The UC Theater, Berkeley CA
31 May: Ace of Spades, Sacramento

The first few dates were left off:

May 1 Thu – White Eagle Hall @ 7:00pm – Jersey City, NJ, United States
May 2 Fri – 9:30 Club @ 7:00pm – Washington, DC, United States
May 3 Sat – Union Transfer @ 7:00pm – Philadelphia, PA, United States
May 5 Mon – TBA @ 7:00pm – Cleveland, OH, United States
May 6 Tue – The Majestic Theatre @ 7:00pm – Detroit, MI, United States
May 7 Wed – The Bluestone @ 7:00pm – Columbus, OH, United States
May 9 Fri – Brooklyn Bowl Nashville @ 7:00pm – Nashville, TN, United States

Bellrays open 5/1-5/14 and Adverts 5/16-5/31

Thanks for the update, Heff. (Still no Seattle date, damn it.)

Apparently, the band reads these posts because they added a Seattle (and Vancouver) date:

Jul 25 Fri The Showbox Seattle, WA, United States
Jul 28 Mon Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Yes! Now I just need to wait till my employment sitch stabilizes. (Layoffs at my company over the next month or so.)

If we're both still employed after the first of the year, then I'll see if any tickets remain.

When was the last time 3/4 of the original line-up played the U.S.? (I realize the full original line-up recently did a run of shows in the UK. If I had the money to burn, would've flown to the UK for that.)

> When was the last time 3/4 of the original line-up played the U.S.?

I saw this lineup five months ago, here in Seattle. The Avengers opened.

...and I saw them in NYC that same month. We got the Dictators and Lenny Kaye. There were a few other dates as well.

I know it seems greedy to see them twice in the span of a year ... but jeez, seeing The Damned, the Adverts and the Bellrays on the same bill would be terrific.

Man, really slept on that one! Not surprising I missed it, that was a pretty hectic time of the year for me.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/19/2024 08:40PM by belfast.

FWIW, in the first episode of the new Netflix spy-thriller series Black Doves, Rat Scabies appears as the owner of a music shop. I'm digging this trend of casting rock musicians from the punk and post-punk era.

Check out 24 Hour Party People. It's a dramatization of the Manchester music scene, from the late '70s through the '80s. Several musicians from that scene make cameo appearances in other roles. Howard Devoto's cameo is brief, but especially hilarious.

Update: The Damned has had to cancel their dates in the Pacific Northwest. Apparently, something awful has just happened for at least one band member back home.

I saw that yesterday too. I had been waffling on whether to get out to the Project Pabst show on Saturday, as Iggy, Devo, and the Damned were supposed to be performing. The Damned's cancellation has made up my mind for me, alas.

Captain Sensible posted that one of the member's house needs emergency repairs so at least it is not as catastrophic as the cancellation message led me to believe.