RIP Annie Nightingale 12th January 2024. Great D.J and pioneer of women in music media.

By far one of the best punk bands ever & still going hard today, cess it all.

The studio is haunted by The Who. LOL! She handled that well.

A performance with humour, that didn't happen so often in punk. In addition, "The Old Grey Whistle Test" was a great programme for me, because the musicians / groups had to show what they can do here on a small stage. So they often had to go back to their origins.

Aged 9, I can't decide what had a greater impact, Captain Sensible's keyboard solo, smashing up the keyboard or his fried egg tshirt. Quite frankly, it all seemed pretty outrageous when I went back to Barnsbury Primary school the next day.

"I just can't finish this song today"

'Don't wanna be a sucker like all the rest...' What a lyric!!

goddamned Dave Vanian was hot

That's Annie Nightingale introducing the band. She must have been aged at least in her early thirties or even aged around Forty at this point in time. She was very fashionable as a teenager early and in her early twenties ( check out photos of her in the 60s when I think she was a model some time in the 60s) She started to DJ back in the late 60s....she's now over 80 and still Radio DJing and is actually now big into Modern Techno music !!!

Rat Scabies: best name in rock.

Classic punk rock music from the masters

I've been chain-consuming Damned videos for over a week now and I've completely fallen for them as a band and for Dave as a one-in-a-lifetime specimen, this band deserves to be praised, and it's wonderful to grow old with them, in each one of their passionate phases they have been outstanding, they've experimented stuff... in a very honest way.. I confess back in the day I was too much into Siouxsie and..., J. Division, etc. and didn't pay much attention to Damned... but now I have converted myself!!! And as for Dave.... as a young punk kid, as a mysterious dark lover, as a rockabilly crooner or today's version of a classy but dangerously attractive gentleman... he never failed to surprise and please us all... and we love him for that!!! Love Captain too!

Haha Dave reaction at 6 min + when he finally put the mic down. Loved it.

Algy Ward.. RIP And forever keep smashing it up 😢

I'm in love with vanian!

How cool Dave looked then and still looks now in 2017.

6:12 the way Rat reacts to realizing he is now front and center with that stare kills me.

You need (ed) a sense of humor to truly appreciate The Damned. Still love them!

This is all kinds of cute. love it when the candleabra falls off the keyboard! :D

6:04 love it how Dave Vanian reaction is what was done with the drums when he also was so drunk love the reaction on his vampire face

I saw them live last week and must say they’re still very energetic and one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen.

Brilliant! remember watching this when it was broadcast and holding my old cassette deck up to the telly to record the sound :)

Dave, beautiful dark angel

Stunning Dave Vanian

We seen this at the time and we all next day started walking around school corridors like Dave dancing lol. Havoc.

Love Annie. RIP.

What a wonderful shambles.

I watched this on the new year best of show as a 13 year old. Changed my life. Many decades later I still put the damned on and marvel how great they were during that 5 year period .

Love how Rat gets all Keith Moon on the drums while Vanian and Algy are just like, okay, whatever, we're done huh?

RIP Algy.

RIP Algy and Annie.

That folks is how you pack your stuff up at the end of a gig

Vanian taped the mic to his hand xD

R.I.P Annie.

R.I.P Annie Nightingale. ❤

Homeboy up there has a Motorhead t-shirt...

RIP Annie 🙏 you'll be sadly missed.

The damned could play to 500 spitting punks in a sweaty club, or just as easily do a slot on a kids TV show.. Dave vanian was the original goth.. paving the way for lux interior, Nick fiend, Andrew eldritch and countless others.. what a band 😁

I have the fattest crush on Dave lmao. Viva THE DAMNED

first album was pure class up there with the clash and pistols.

Algy with the bass part at the very end cracks me up hahaha

I'm guessing Vanian was cracking up at 3:22 after Sensible's guitar and candles fell over and was trying to hide it.

LOL-THEY ROCK SO F'n HARD- I remember when I was following love and rockets- I met a girl who followed the dammed and she shared w/ me among other precious details that a)1 of her friends slept w/ rat & both were judged &hated 4 it?!?!?!(That still amazes me I mean WTF isn't that the point ) and that dave drank white vinegar to enhance his alabaster skin and assist in fitting into even tighter pants- At a time when 1 might turn up the volume so not to hear the sad sound of the hammer hitting yet another nail in the coffin of R'nR- This video is inspiring as a Battle Cry or a Banshees' Howl-now show your support & start signing your name in drawn blud

Annie Nightingale is 82.now.. Bless her.... She was on the punk rock Side when other radio 1 DJs constantly slagged it off. Even refusing to play it... She said if London Calling Made no1.she buy the clash a Cadillac.. She toured with the Police.

"Now pick all that up"

I seriously wonder if Keith Moon taught Rat Scabies how to play the drums?

Saw this many years ago on the O.G.W.T. Brilliant band totally underrated one of the best punk bands totally unique

Their 10th anniversary show was brilliant. Post-Captain but Roman Jugg was ace too. Annie was forever dreamy. Never knowingly uncool. Her and Peel kept new British music in the consciousness.

So much to laugh at in this 'performance'. Dave is so magnetic and sexy here.

RIP Annie Nightingale, 1940-2024.

RIP Algy

RIP Algy 🙏 💜

Well worth checking out the whole discography esp Black Album and Strawberries

This is really very good.

I miss Rat being in the band. Big part of their sound

Jesus christ, this is fucking incredible!!!

Before joining/forming The Damned Rat Scabies auditioned for a band who described themselves as `tasteful jazz-rock` .He `bashed fuck out the of the kit broke the snare drum stood up farted and waited for them to tell me to piss off- which they did `.

when bands played live....and acted on the spur of the moment!

Now that's entertainment!!

the sweetest nicest bunch of London Boys if ever there was one..God Love Their Souls!!

Shambolic brilliance,class!

Seen them three times in last few years, awesome live. The best band at Rebellion 2015 by a distance imo.

A fantastic performance and a wonderful tribute memory of Dear Anne Nightingale who introduced probably the best punk performance here that was on the show

what ever organ he was using Cullen he SMASHED IT UP lol fantastic I can remember watching this when a was wee

Smash it up - classic Damned track.

That look Scabies gives the camera at 6:12...😳

"There's a price on your... head, three times" who's cooler than Dave lol

Keyboards for Dummies!!!!!! Still works though.

I cannot heap enough praise upon The Damned. What a great fucking band!

such a polished performance

the candle fall down XD epic!!

I just saw them 2 weeks ago! What a great fucking show! I hadn't ever listened to their music. My most awesome gf said, I bought you a ticket because you should see them. My short little ass was right up there on the floor!!

What a band

RIP Annie Nightingale.

One of the greatest live TV performances by any band ever!

This version of Smash It Up stands head and shoulders over the studio version

Rat on drums never stops to amaze.

You know wat!!! The last time i saw damned on "Batofar" in Paris(small place for a big bang ,heu!!!! band) There was a rat dancing on the dock of the Seine.

i still remember seeing this, i was 12`ish at the time....never looked back

Truly one of the great band performances on TV.

Woman*you were the most wonderful host-Love this band*

Fuck, they're actually plugged in!

Ugh, they need to come to the NYC area soon. Missed em at Stone Pony last year. =(

RIP Annie Nightingale

puts down guitar. Declares "We're a Punk Band" and proceeds to play organ..... not quite a typical move.

Absolutely Brilliant.

Well they're definitely not Emerson Lake and Palmer.

I wonder Who they were emulating!

Damned Good !

tremenda banda!!!

this video always help me with my guilt and scruples when i have played a gig when the band was al over the place....

Thanks Graham Furay. I've spent more than 40 years trying to decipher the lyrics to Smash It Up and you've identified 'your blow wave hairstyles' Mind you, I'm not convinced that Dave's singing those words here!

2022 … still remember this when it came out on bbc2 ogwt.. proper …

"A New Rose" came out six months before the Ramones started IIRC. They were great too. In 2014 it would have to be "The Damned - brought to you by Fender and Premier Drums"...

Debacle! Love it.

"...we must bear in mind... " =DENG DENG= "...that.." =DENG DENG= "..these studios.." =DENG DENG= "...are haunted by the Who.. " ROFL ROFL ROFL X-)

Smash it up forever

Not the best time to read the keyboard Manuel during your televised live show, but that’s “The Damned.”

One of the best Whistle Test performances in history

2nd favourite band of this era, they did sound great and at times very very musical.. stood the test of time not like all from that era