A Night Of A Thousand Vampires

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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. It’s an absolute treat. The band’s set has been arranged in two halves with an interval. The first half in my mind, leans towards the 80s post-punk Goth side of the band. It climaxes in a wonderful version of Eloise in which the mini orchestra conducted by a Vanian, completely in his element, really comes into its own. And draws to a close with the magnificent Curtain Call in its full 18 minute splendour. Chart performance [ edit ] Chart performance of Blu-ray edition of A Night of a Thousand Vampires: Live in London Chart (2022) The band has asked everyone to help them set a Guinness World Record for having the most vampires assembled in one place. And virtually everyone is in costume. It also becomes apparent that many, if not most people have travelled great distances for A Night of a Thousand Vampires in this Grade 2 listed theatre in London’s West End.

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.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. 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. The Damned Release "Grimly Fiendish" From Upcoming Album A Night Of A Thousand Vampires". The Spill Magazine . Retrieved 20 June 2023. New Noise Magazine described the album as a "remarkable set" that includes much of the Damned's "darker, goth material." They felt that the band is "still playing at their best," and that the addition of strings and trumpet "just adds to the ghoulish atmosphere." Besides some of the band's own songs, they highlighted a cover of the Doors' " People Are Strange" and an "inspired medley" of " Neat Neat Neat" and Bauhaus' " Bela Lugosi's Dead." [1] 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?

As musicians The Damned are now possibly at their peak, and this is shown by two fine renditions of classic songs, The Doors’ People Are Strange and Bauhaus’ Bela Lugosi’s Dead which creeps out in a medley in the middle of Neat Neat Neat. 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. 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.

a b c Lanham, Tom (28 April 2023). "Dave Vanian Talks About The Damned's New Album Darkadelic". Paste . 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.For the uninitiated, the Hammer film company started life in 1935 just a few minutes walk away in nearby Regent Street. By the 1950s it had relocated to the legendary Hammer House, 113-117 Wardour Street. And its name became synonymous with a golden age in British Cinema that gave us one of cinema’s great pairings – Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. 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. Vampira dancers and performers from The Circus of Horrors, who appear onstage in varying forms throughout the night, bring a bizarre and affecting beauty to the music of The Damned. 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”. 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.