The Damned / Captain Sensible & The Softies - Wait For The Blackout / Jet Boy, Jet Girl
Original Release Date
1982Release Information
UK 7” 1982 (Big Beat - NS 77)
UK 7” 1982 (Big Beat - NSP 77). Picture disc
1 The Damned - Wait For The Blackout 3:51
2 Captain Sensible And The Softies - Jet Boy, Jet Girl 3:27
Chart Placings
UK Indie Hit: 3, 17 wksCredits
1: Produced by The Damned
2: Produced by Jan Rietman
Additional Credits
1:
Dave Vanian - vocals
Captain Sensible - guitar, vocals, keyboards
Paul Gray - bass
Rat Scabies - drums, vocals
Recorded May/June 1980 at Rockfield Studios / Engineered by Hugh Jones
2:
Recorded 1978 by Captain Sensible And The Softies
Reviews & Opinions
PUNKY GIBBON: The poppiest cut from The Black Album two years earlier is coupled with an even older recording that isn't even The Damned. 1978's 'Jet Boy Jet Girl' was recorded and released by Captain Sensible And The Softies and is a great version of Elton Motello's non-hit. Lovely picture disc, too.
PUNK LIVES #2, 1982: Sitting in front of me now, having freed my hands from this bondage a little, is a distressing symptom of the dread capitalist disease. An Ace Records (NSP 77) picture disc Damned single that would cost £1.95 should anyone be foolish enough to crave this sort of credibility. Called 'Wait For The Blackout' (an average moddy/Jam type work-out) its only saving grace is 'Jet Boy, Jet Girl' on the b-side, a paen to homosexuality that I remember coming out a few years ago under the name 'The Softies', not worth £1.95 though.
Additional Notes
This was reissued again in 1985 by Big Beat.
Images
UK 7” 1982 (Big Beat - NS 77). Picture sleeve. Click here for more
UK 7” 1982 (Big Beat - NSP 77). Picture disc. Click here for more
