With Easy Action Records Unveiling the posthumous Brian James album Kicks & Diabolik Licks February 2026, we are making the back catalogue available at discounted prices in celebration of this great guitarist and man.
Punk Royalty Brian James ( Founder of the Damned : The First British punk band to release a single The Brian James penned “New Rose”. The First British punk band to release an album, predominantly written by James, Damned Damned Damned. The first British punk band to play America and the first punk band to split (with James walking out in early 1978). James later went on to have success with ex dead Boys singer Stiv Bator, Sham 69’s Dave Treganna and Barracudas Nick Turner in the Lords of the New Church)
Some of the seminal punk anthems of 1976 including the U.K’s first ever Punk Single ‘New Rose’ being re addressed by the man who wrote them with today’s sound. The link to the video is below.
Amusingly Adverts Bassist Gay Advert provides us with the spoken intro to New Rose. The Damned and Adverts toured famously under the Stiff Records banner “The Adverts know one chord, The Damned know two, hear all three chords at ...
Originally Released in 2013

1. New Rose
2. Born to Kill
3. You take my money
4. Feel the Pain
5. Sick of being Sick
6. Alone
7. I fall
8. Fan club
9. Neat Neat Neat