Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible
was a member of The Damned:
"We were a bunch of spotty oiks,
basically four yobby blokes
who were pretty anti-social.
It was demented, lunatic, insane.
It was so fast and so violent-looking.
We were drunk most of the time
that nobody could really believe us."
"One of the most unfortunate aspects
of punk was that
people used to spit at you on stage.
And The Damned
have been accused of starting that,
rightly or wrongly.
You'd get covered in it.
I didn't like it in me hair,
so I thought I'd wear a hat.
And of course
it's not very nice
having gob in your eyes,
so eventually it evolved
into a beret and glasses.
It was practical on stage.
But it became a trademark. "
"I think my mum and dad
only stopped saying, 'Get a job',
when then they saw me on the telly
and then they thought,
'Maybe there is something in all this'.
After that it was madness.
We lived in a tiny house
in South Norwood
and we'd get
all the blinking press round,
banging on the door
wanting some quote about this or that.
I enjoyed that celebrity
to a certain extent
'cos working class people
don't usually get the voice,
and I used it
whether people liked it or not"
