Damian Lewis performing “Suck My Blood” at Epic Studios, Norwich during the second leg of his Mission Creep UK Tour, March 2024
It’s Damian Lewis’ Song of the Week time again—and this one feels particularly special because we’re not exploring just one song, but two different incarnations of it.
Damian’s second album, Sweet Chaos, was released on June 5, and it includes “Fix Me Up,” a new arrangement of “Suck My Blood,” which was originally released on The Radleys soundtrack.
But “Fix Me Up” is more than a renamed version of the same track.
The original was a solo recording created in the vampiric world of The Radleys. The new arrangement is a wonderfully seductive duet between Damian and Alison—and some significant changes to the lyrics appear to have transformed the meaning of the song along with its sound.
So today, we’re sinking our teeth into the original “Suck My Blood,” before exploring how it was reworked into “Fix Me Up”—a song that may no longer be about vampires at all.
Damian first introduced “Suck My Blood” on Instagram just in time for Halloween in 2023. During the second leg of his Mission Creep UK tour in spring 2024, he brought it to the stage for the first time.
Before performing it, Damian told us about The Radleys, the vampire film he had recently completed. In the film, he plays twin brothers Peter and Will Radley.
And in Stroud, Damian absolutely brought the house down when he spotted a man in the front row getting up—presumably to go to the bar or the restroom—and deadpanned:
“Sir, I’m not a real vampire.”
Classic Damian. Perfect timing. People couldn’t stop laughing.
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