Captain Sensible
| Born | April 24, 1954 |
| Hometown | Balham, United Kingdom |
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The Damned's Captain Sensible admits Lemmy 'saved' The Damned
- Captain Sensible admitted that Lemmy was the one who encouraged the band to carry on.
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- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
The Damned: ‘For the Sex Pistols, it was all about flogging clothes on the King’s Road’
Under a railway arch in Shepherd’s Bush, the final manoeuvre in original British punk rock is being plotted, at extreme volume. Forty-six years on from the infamous summer of 1976, the founding members of The Damned – Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies, Captain Sensible and Brian James – are preparing to make an implausible comeback, with a run of five UK gigs beginning tomorrow at Hammersmith Apollo. Implausible, because they’d always intimated that certain members hated each other.
- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
‘People are ready for live music’: how The Damned are refusing to lie down before lockdown
Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t. That seemed to sum up the attitude of the original punks when, last month, they announced a reunion in the middle of a global pandemic. “It’s probably the worst time to get the band back together,” frontman Dave Vanian (aka David Lett) admitted. “I’d hate to be standing over one of our graves saying, ‘We should have done that reunion,’” shrugged drummer Rat Scabies (aka Christopher Miller). Given that The Damned are all in their mid-sixties and sporting Cov
- NewsThe Guardian
The Damned: how we made New Rose
‘It was just chaos every night’ … Captain Sensible, Rat Scabies, Dave Vanian and Brian James outside a church. Mick Jones and Tony James – who’d later play in the Clash and Generation X respectively – were starting a band called the London SS. Mick and Tony liked Rat’s drumming, but said he didn’t look right because he had a shabby overcoat and messy hair.
- NewsThe Telegraph
On board ITV's The Cruise: Meet the man who spent nearly 50 years at sea
On board ITV's The Cruise: Meet the man who spent nearly 50 years at sea
- NewsSky News
Damned Good! Group Win Gong After 36 Years
The Damned have been rewarded for their outstanding contribution to music, 36 years after making their recording debut.
