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Human Punk in conjunction with\u00a0Vive Le Rock Magazine\u00a0have announced a special one-off concert by the recording lineup of Professor and the Madman. The group \u2014 which features Alfie Agnew (Adolescents, D.I.), Sean Elliott (D.I., Mind Over Four), Rat Scabies (The Damned, The Mutants) and Paul Gray (The Damned, Eddie & the Hot Rods, UFO) \u2014 will take the stage at the 100 Club in London on August 10, 2018.\u00a0Tickets<\/a> are on sale now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
Professor and the Madman released its third album,\u00a0Disintegrate Me, to international acclaim on February 23. Choosing P&TM as one of its \u201cBands to Watch in 2018,\u201d\u00a0Classic Rock Magazine\u00a0declared \u201cDisintegrate Me\u00a0is an infectious cocktail of power-pop\/rock, \u201860s British Invasion and melodic psychedelia. It\u2019s rich, quality stuff.\u201d The album is available for download on iTunes and Amazon while the CD and clear vinyl LP can be ordered at\u00a0http:\/\/professorandthemadman.com\/patm_store\/<\/a>.
The 100 Club show will be a rare \u2014 if not\u00a0only\u2014 chance to see the recording lineup of Professor and the Madman together on the same stage. Due to the distance between Agnew and Elliott in Southern California, and Scabies and Gray in the UK, logistics make it difficult for the quartet to convene for live performances. No additional performances by this lineup are being considered at this time.\u00a0
\u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true to be playing the 100 Club,\u201d says Agnew. \u201cGrowing up in Southern California, my brothers and I would try to imagine having attended those ground zero punk gigs at the club in 1976. Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Damned, Buzzcocks, plus the infamous live debut of Siouxsie and the Banshees featuring Sid Vicious on drums.\u201d The \u201cbrothers\u201d Agnew references are Rikk and Frank, a pair of musicians who helped form the bedrock of the original Los Angeles punk scene as members of Social Distortion, Adolescents, Christian Death, 45 Grave, and others.\u00a0
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Elliott is excited about the 100 Club concert for another reason: \u201cThe Damned are, without a doubt, the #1 most influential band for Alfie and me. To actually share the stage with the rhythm section from\u00a0The Black Album\u00a0is going to be amazing.\u201d
The origins of Professor and the Madman reach back to the early 1990s, when both Agnew and Elliott were guitarists in the Orange County punk band, D.I. Playing together, the pair hit if off immediately, both musically and personality-wise. However, Agnew left music for well over a decade to pursue an academic career (he\u00a0is, actually, a professor) and didn\u2019t reunite with Elliott again until 2014 when the pair formed Professor and the Madman. An unexpected third member arrived as a Christmas gift in 2015. Agnew and Elliott were playing a holiday-themed gig with a local Los Angeles punk covers band, introducing the Damned\u2019s \u201cSmash It Up\u201d as an encore, when Scabies was coaxed on stage to join them. Scabies happened to be in town and some friends had brought him to the show. The trio were exhilarated by the performance and Scabies offered to drum on all the tracks for Professor and the Madman\u2019s first pair of digitally-released indie albums,\u00a0Elixir I: Good Evening, Sir!\u00a0(July 2016) and\u00a0Elixir II: Election\u00a0(November 2016). In related news, Scabies is set to release his debut solo album,\u00a0P.H.D. (Prison, Hospital, Debt), via Cleopatra Records on May 18.\u00a0
Elliott reached out to Gray via Facebook in 2016, and he was soon on board to provide basslines for\u00a0Disintegrate Me. Earlier this year, Gray (who recently reunited with the Damned after two decades) told KnowYourBassPlayer.com that \u201cAlfie and Sean are continuing the legacy in a way that immediately spoke to me. It was absolutely honest music, the most exciting I\u2019d heard in eons, and chock full of melodies. I knew what I could add straight away. They may or may not agree with me but my first thoughts were Damned meets vintage Cheap Trick via The Kinks \u2014 that\u2019s a pretty heady mixture!\u201d<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/70376abbfc415ff1272f3d931\/images\/a43a4fd0-ce2a-4e81-89b9-2c038c0bdf21.jpg\")
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