Naz Nomad and the Nightmares
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Naz Nomad and The Nightmares was a one-off project featuring the members of British punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 and gothic rock
Gothic rock
Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...

 band The Damned.

Naz Nomad and The Nightmares released one album
Album
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 entitled Give Daddy The Knife Cindy in 1984. The album was packaged to look like the re-issue of a 1967 soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

 album to a (fictitious) low budget American
United States
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 horror film
Horror film
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. A copyright notice on the front cover claimed the film was "Copyright 1967 American Screen Destiny Pictures", and credits are given for the film's stars, director and producer.

The album itself featured covers
Cover version
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 of songs by garage rock
Garage rock
Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

 and psychedelic
Psychedelic rock
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 acts who had influenced the Damned, plus two original numbers in the same style. Each member of the band took on pseudonym
Pseudonym
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s different from those used in The Damned for the project.

Members

  • Dave Vanian as Naz Nomad – vocals
  • Roman Jugg
    Roman Jugg
    Roman Jugg is a keyboard player and guitarist. He began his career in the Welsh punk band Victimize in the late 1970s....

     as Sphinx Svenson – guitars; also as Ulla – keyboards
  • Rat Scabies
    Rat Scabies
    Christopher Millar , better known by his stage name Rat Scabies, is a musician best known for his tenure as the drummer for The Damned....

     as Nick Detroit – drums
  • Bryn Merrick
    Bryn Merrick
    Bryn Merrick is a musician who was a member of Cardiff-based punk band Victimize and who later joined The Damned between 1983 and 1989. He recorded the bass for albums Phantasmagoria and Anything. He replaced Paul Gray in 1983, when Paul went to UFO...

     as Buddy Lee Junior – bass

Discography

  • Various Artists - The Whip (1983)

  1. "The Whip" - Dave Sex Gang
  2. "Scream Like An Angel" - Brilliant
  3. "The Hungry Years" - Andi/Marc Almond
  4. "32nd Piano Concerto In A Minor" - Mathew Best
  5. "Hide And Seek" - Brigandage
  6. "Tenterhook" - Dave Vanian
  7. "Bloodstains, Pleasure" - Play Dead
  8. "Weetabix And Bran Flakes" - A Short Commercial Break
  9. "ShMYhShVh" - Blood And Roses
  10. "Slave Drive" - Slave Drive
  11. "Oh Funny Man" - Sex Gang Children

(Naz Nomad And The Nightmares, performing an early version of Just Call Me Sky, make a guest appearance at the end of Dave Vanians Track)
  • Give Daddy The Knife Cindy – (1984)

  1. "Nobody But Me" – (The Human Beinz
    The Human Beinz
    The Human Beinz is an American rock and roll / frat rock band from Youngstown, Ohio. Originally known as The Human Beingz, the band initially featured John "Dick" Belley , Joe "Ting" Markulin , Mel Pachuta and Gary Coates -Early career:The Beinz started in 1964 as The Premiers, launching their...

     cover)
  2. "Action Woman" – (The Litter
    The Litter
    The Litter was an American psychedelic and garage rock band, formed in 1966 in Minneapolis. They are best remembered for their 1967 debut single "Action Woman." The group recorded an album in 1972 but would re-unite in 1990, 1992, and again in 1998, when they recorded a new studio album consisting...

     cover)
  3. "The Wind Blows Your Hair" – (The Seeds
    The Seeds
    The Seeds were an American rock band. The group, whose repertoire spread between garage rock and acid rock, are considered one of the pioneers of punk rock.-History:...

     cover)
  4. "Kicks
    Kicks (song)
    "Kicks" is a song by American rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders. Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote the song for The Animals, but the band's lead singer Eric Burdon turned it down....

    " – (Paul Revere and the Raiders cover)
  5. "Cold Turkey" – (Big Boy Pete cover)
  6. "She Lied" – (Rockin' Ramrods cover)
  7. "I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)" – (The Electric Prunes
    The Electric Prunes
    The Electric Prunes are an American rock band who first achieved international attention as an experimental psychedelic group in the late 1960s. Their song "Kyrie Eleison" was featured on the soundtrack of Easy Rider...

     cover)
  8. "The Trip" – (Kim Fowley
    Kim Fowley
    Kim Vincent Fowley is an American record producer, impresario, songwriter, musician, film maker, and radio actor. He is best known for his role behind a string of novelty and cult rock pop singles in the 1960s, and for managing The Runaways in the 1970s...

     cover)
  9. "I Can't Stand This Love, Goodbye" – (Others cover)
  10. "I Can Only Give You Everything" – (Them
    Them (band)
    Them were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard "Gloria" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career...

    cover)
  11. "(Do You Know) I Know"
  12. "Just Call Me Sky"

  • Various Artists - A Pretty Smart Way To Catch A Lobster : Live At Alice In Wonderland (1986)

  1. "Lost In Heart" - Voodoo Child
  2. "7 Light Years" - Underground Zero
  3. "These Boots Are Made For Walking" - Gwyllym And The Raspberry Flavoured Cat
  4. "Oh Yeah" - The Spooks
  5. "Aimless Flight" - Underground Zero
  6. "Voodoo Child" - Voodoo Child
  7. "Gloria" - Gwyllym And The Raspberry Flavoured Cat
  8. "Son Of Man" - Webcore

(The Spooks are in fact Naz Nomad And The Nightmares, also of interest Gwyllym and the Raspberry Flavoured Cat Are really Doctor And The Medics)

Single

Title Date of Release US Chart Position UK Chart Position
"I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)" 1984 - -
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