HW: Damned by the curse of Damned (was Re: Greasy Truckers Party 2001)

[Nick Medford]

In message <200110201843.OAA06539 at listserv.spc.edu>, Doug Pearson
<jasret at MINDSPRING.COM> writes
>I was thinking about this subject, and I'm continually amazed at how RIFE
>the Damned are with Hawkwind connections (some mighty tenuous):

>* The second Damned album, 'Music For Pleasure', was produced by Nick Mason
>of Pink Floyd.  After leaving Pink Floyd, original guitarist Syd Barrett
>played two gigs with Stars, featuring Twink on drums ... Twink played in
>the Pink Fairies with Paul Rudolph ...

There's yet another: a much more direct link between that album and HW:
the cover design by Barney Bubbles.

So it's quite cool that these two very different but very *righteous* bands
should have so many connections.

Still waiting for anyone to say a good word about Culture Club though!

BTW on the subject of the Damned, they recently brought out their first
new material in 13 years- the "Grave Disorder" album, which has all the
important ingredients: Sensible, Vanian, Patricia Morrison's distinctive bass,
a high octane drummer and a suitably doomy keyboard player: and it
contains some of the tastiest, crunchiest psychedelic-Goth-punk-power-pop
you're likely to eat all year!

Are Vanian and Patricia M partners or do they just look like they should
be?
--
Nick Medford