We come from totally different places, creatively and everything else, but somehow when we hit it off, it’s just magic, you know?” One time we got up in the tree and had breakfast. And we used to go to this tree and have breakfast at six in the morning. So we just stuck the microphone out of the window.’ĭavid: “We worked all through the night, it was amazing. It was ‘Oh no Rats getting up!’ One morning I heard the dawn chorus outside the window and said, ‘Listen to that’. With Rat Scabies become frustrated at the time Captain and David were taking with the song, much of it was recorded at night while Rat was asleep (along with other experimental songs by Captain and David like Thirteenth Floor Vendetta).Ĭaptain: “That’s why there’s the dawn chorus on there. A classical piece of music, ‘Scheherazade’ by composer Rimsky Korsakov, was later added to the middle section.Ĭurtain Call was completed at Rockfield Studios. The song was originally recorded in two sections at Wessex Studios while the band were recording demos. became the obvious choice for Theatreland to be used in the chorus.” On the inspiration for Curtain Call David says: “The inspiration had its seed in a shop sign which I passed on the bus going up Oxford Street tucked away in a side street just visible were the words ‘Theatreland’… Curtain Call, which is autobiographical and has its links to the old adage ‘the show must on’ etc. Before we knew it, it was 18 minutes long.” Every time we did any demos we’d write another bit. That became the first part, the Captain added his guitar lines. It used to creak and groan and I’d put a microphone in the back of it and tape it.
I had bought a harmonium for £40 when I lived in a basement flat in Islington.
Almost all of it was hummed in my ear and transposed to guitar.”ĭavid Vanian: “Curtain Call took ages. As Captain explains, “Vanian had it all in his head. We were given free rein, grudgingly.”Ĭurtain Call was written by David Vanian with the assistance of Captain Sensible. We were more than up to the job to produce it ourselves, even though the record company thought we were doing the wrong thing. The Black Album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales and produced by The Damned themselves.ĭavid Vanian: “I fired the producer. Curtin Call is the final track from The Damned’s Black Album, released 17th November 1980 (40 years ago this week).
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