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Welcome to this very special episode of The Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show, which for this week only has been renamed The Paranoid Squirrel Punk Rock Show to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of “New Rose” by The Damned which was released on the 22nd October 1976.
Last Saturday on the actual anniversary day Croydon hosted a celebration of thislandmark event at the end of St. George’s Walk under the Nestlé’s building by the side of the now closed Greyhound venue that in its day saw the likes of The Ramones, The Damned (obviously), Motörhead, Black Flag, The Buzzcocks, ELO, Johnny Moped, Deep Purple, Status Quo, Queen and The Ruts treading its boards. Kicking things off was Captain Sensible bassist on the “New Rose” 7” with an introduction from Councillor Stuart Collinsand then a Q&A from John Bownas,before the Captain took us through an acoustic version of “New Rose”, “Happy Talk” and of course “Croydon”. Then after shortly afterwards the man and legend that is Johnny Moped, aided and abetted by Slimey Toad, ramped it up for even more acoustic shenanigans. Consequently, this week’s show is slightly shorter than usual as you just can’t substitute quality for quantity.