HELLO FOLKS!
Some good news on a cold damp Tuesday! We're repressing our recent Monty Oxymoron LP - this time on ABSINTHE GREEN vinyl!
You can pre-order it now. We'll be shipping orders out early next year (though possibly even sooner if we can).
Also a reminder of the Quick Romance single! They're creating quite a buzz at the moment with plenty of gigs lined up for next year too!
MONTY OXYMORON - THE PIANO PLAYS 'TIL MIDNIGHT (DAMGOOD628LP)
COMING SOON ON ABSINTHE GREEN VINYL!
12-song ABSINTHE GREEN VINYL LP! (repress of 300 Copies),
Not many people realise…
That The Damned have produced a fine array of songs with melodic, harmonic and rhythmic sophistication; with a depth of imagination and atmosphere. They spearheaded British punk, and yet diverse musical influences went into the crucible: UK and US psychedelia, Canterbury prog rock, and even classical and filmic musical influences abound. Now, with the return of drummer Rat Scabies the line-up is the same as that which produced many of these songs… with Monty on keys.
Monty Oxymoron has played keyboards with The Damned since 1996, has written songs for the band, and played with Captain Sensible and Dr Space Toad before that. He is a retired psychiatric nurse and trained in art psychotherapy. Monty is keen on “free improvisation” and plays in and around Brighton where he lives. Monty has an almost impossibly eclectic collation of his music on Bandcamp, his YouTube channel, and shares ideas on various subjects on his Substack page (under his “real” name: Laurence Burrow.)
For more Monty info go to https://montyoxymoron.com/
QUICK ROMANCE - BRIAN JONES'S HAIR (DAMGOOD642-7")
This is their debut single and we think it's great...there will be more coming along too.
There are three different sleeves to pick from...so pick your favourite, the vinyl is the same for each one.
Here's the facts!
It’s time, Brothers & Sisters, to be seen on the scene with Quick Romance.
That’s, Quick Romance - as seen with Jon Spencer, The Briefs, Deaf Devils etc, and ripping it up in various small troll holes around the West Country.
Hayden James, on lead guitar, and Gabe Bonner on bass are the rock’n’roll bookends that were Wayne Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith, redrawn for the here and now. The boys see themselves as “two straws in the same Coke” (other gut-rotting, thirst-quenching, shit-coloured drinks are available).
Quick Romance singer, Matilda Scotland, slapped Ian Hunter down in the first round to relieve him of his shades, which she now wears proudly as she warns us of the perils of growing up in a big bad world. She likes clothes, music and Brian Jones’s hair.
Drummer Oliver Bull-Lifely, moves like a wind chime in a tropical storm, he is the time-keeper’s time-keeper. Unlike the White Rabbit, you can’t set you watch by him, but who wears a watch these days?
If you want to know what you are about to experience, why don’t you try imagining Poly Styrene joining The Sick Things for a chorus of “Bondage Boy”. If you don’t want to know, why don’t you…
And, for the record, teen punks Quick Romance will sing for Scotland Yard… if the price is right.
Coming soon to a stage near you. That’s Quick Romance!
“Hey, little girl, would you like a dance? Hey, little girl, want a quick romance?” Marc Bolan, from “Celebrate Summer”
These will be available in your favourite record shop or direct from us at https://shop.damagedgoods.co.uk/
IAN & DUNCAN