A Night Of A Thousand Vampires

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The Damned Release "Grimly Fiendish" From Upcoming Album A Night Of A Thousand Vampires". The Spill Magazine . Retrieved 20 June 2023.

Alan is wearing hooded cape. His first Damned gig was at The Barrowlands in 1988. He and Lorna, his gothic vampiress have just arrived from Glasgow. Adrian and Lara from York are dressed as The Count and Bride of Dracula. They first saw the band in Belfast in 1987. Starting over 25 years ago, Carl and Sarah from Newcastle have seen the band “Over fifty times”. While the fanged Ann and Tina just down from Wakefield, say they love “All of them”, when I ask for their favourite Damned album. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. As I scribble notes, a tall blond woman with fangs and blood dripping for her mouth interrupts me. Her friend has pushed her into approaching us to be included, and have their photos taken too, she tells us. Her name is Philippa, she has also seen them over fifty times, “Starting at Reading Uni when I was sixteen. I fainted in the crush and got dragged out, I’d do anything for The Damned.” She laughs, “Well within reason.” She is an art director who worked for four years on Game of Thrones as well as Dark Crystal. “I placed a Damned poster on Ashes to Ashes,” she says proudly. She’s talking about the BBC cop series. “I was in the art department,” she says. It’s starting to dawn on me, they are fanatical, all of them. What is it about The Damned that has created such fanatics? a b c Lanham, Tom (28 April 2023). "Dave Vanian Talks About The Damned's New Album Darkadelic". Paste . Retrieved 20 June 2023.I’m wondering how hot it must be for Dave, still in the coffin, as Pinch declares among his long list of thanks –“Dave Vanian, without whom all of this would not have happened”. a b Purdie, Iain (30 October 2022). "DVD Review: A Night of A Thousand Vampires – Live in London (The Damned)". The Moshville Times . Retrieved 20 June 2023. As someone who’s not familiar with The Damned’s musical output, this is a show I would have paid to see when it was on and left feeling that I’d been thoroughly entertained for the evening. It’s not a gig, it’s a spectacle and it’s been captured very well indeed for this release. There are very few bands out there who can manage to play Halloween-themed shows yet still avoid the novelty tag and play music any other time of the year. Arguably there are just three that come to mind: The Misfits, The Cramps, and, of course, The Damned.

a b c d Marwood, Lance (8 November 2022). "The Damned – "A Night of a Thousand Vampires – Live in London" [Blu-ray Review]". V13.net . Retrieved 20 June 2023. After casting them together in Curse of Frankenstein (1957) based on Mary Shelley’s novel, Hammer were keen to place their stars in another gothic, literary masterpiece. And thus the legendary vampire slayer Professor Van Helsing would pursue his bloodthirsty adversary in Dracula (1958) and numerous sequels.Circus of Horrors has warmed up the crowd. And now behind, dominating the proceedings, is an enormous screen running a classic Hammer clip of a fanged Christopher Lee peering through ruined cathedral columns, with a blood-red colour wash. On October 28, 2019, the legendary goth punk band The Damned played a Halloween themed show at London’s legendary Palladium Theatre. Billed as A NIGHT OF A THOUSAND VAMPIRES, the band churned through a remarkable set that was heavy on some of their darker, goth material naturally. a b Rowland, Kev (7 November 2022). "House of Prog Review". House of Prog . Retrieved 20 June 2023. In directing, Martin Gooch relies on customary forms of the concert film: cameras capture a long shot of the stage in full, along with close-ups of Captain Sensible stage right, Paul Gray on bass and Monty Oxymoron on keys stage left, and Pinch on drums up above. Yet Gooch scatters traces of the classic horror genre throughout — the film, like The Damned, is never just one thing.

Chart performance [ edit ] Chart performance of Blu-ray edition of A Night of a Thousand Vampires: Live in London Chart (2022)

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After the interval, what appears to be Vanian still in his Lugosi outfit comes on, but is murdered by a Nosferatu character who turns out to be the real Dave. He has only gone and shaved his head half way through the show! The second set leans slightly towards the earlier material with Neat Neat Neat and New Rose. And of course there’s a generous splattering of Machine Gun Etiquette over both halves. First to appear is Monty Oxymoron to play the slow, haunting, piano introduction Beauty of the Beast.

A huge gantry has been erected on the stage tonight, designed to look like the pillared entrance to a cavernous tomb. A sweeping staircase rises up one side to where Pinch, the band’s drummer, will take his position this evening for the last time. This evening there are over two thousand children of the night, and after surveying the auditorium, we decide to chat to a few of them. a b Sullivan, Damian (26 October 2022). "Review: The Damned – Night of a Thousand Vampires (2022)". Maximum Volume Music . Retrieved 20 June 2023. Interestingly, in the original novel, as opposed to Van Helsing’s pre-prepared, sharpened wooden stake, Count Dracula is stabbed in the heart with a Bowie knife while being decapitated with a Kukri, before crumbling to dust. a b c d Moore, John (27 October 2022). "New Noise Magazine Review". New Noise Magazine . Retrieved 20 June 2023.Creatively, it seems the band are also at their zenith. Sensible, much loved for his gobby banter, appears almost deferential this evening which allows Vanian to truly shine. The frontman long ago perfected his Vampire stage persona. And tonight, as he elegantly ascends and descends the gantry, cape flying, eyes flaming, his sharpened teeth bared, we see the full repertoire of his well-practiced movie mannerisms in all their glory. The Count’s creator Bram Stoker was born in Dublin in 1847, where he studied with fellow Irishman Oscar Wilde and began his writing career as a theatre critic for Dublin’s Evening Mail. In 1878 he married Florence Balcombe and the couple moved to London, where he would work as business manager at The Lyceum Theatre for the next 20 years. In this prominent position he was part of The Daily Telegraph literary staff and wrote numerous works of fiction. He spent seven years researching European folklore and stories of vampires before publishing Dracula in 1897. Ross, Phil (4 November 2019). "The Damned in 'A Night of a Thousand Vampires': London – live review". Louder Than War . Retrieved 20 June 2023. a b "A Night of a Thousand Vampires". Official Blu-Ray Chart Top 100. 30 October 2022 . Retrieved 20 June 2023. And then it dawns on me that I have the answer to my earlier question about Philippa, the art director and the other two thousand who have travelled from far and wide. It’s so clear, He is The Fanatic, and they are His Followers.