The Stranglers

[The Auditor]

Top band

you tube clip just for Uncle Spielberg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdIZVhKUnIY

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

The best band of all time FACT. Anyone heard The Rat's Lair , their latest album

 

[The Auditor]

Not so keen on recent stuff...havent heard The Rats liar..live they are either brilliant or bollox..not much inbetween...not the same since hugh left

 

[Braders]

very good band got a few albums and they are fantastic.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Chapman, Uncle Buck , MOH, Les Biehn and other such whippasnappers should listen to Rattus Norvegicus and they would realise the error of their ways in listening to all the strange and weird " music " they do

 

[Trufflehound]

..live they are either brilliant or bollox..not much inbetween...

Agreed. "Live X-Cert" is brilliant, but every time I saw them (about 4 times) they were dreadful. Maybe I was just unlucky.

They were truly appalling supporting The Who at Wembley in 1979.

 

[The Auditor]

Chapman, Uncle Buck , MOH, Les Biehn and other such whippasnappers should listen to Rattus Norvegicus and they would realise the error of their ways in listening to all the strange and weird " music " they do

Rattus released in 1976/7 is still a great listen today..all top tracks

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Agreed. "Live X-Cert" is brilliant, but every time I saw them (about 4 times) they were dreadful. Maybe I was just unlucky.

They were truly appalling supporting The Who at Wembley in 1979.

If I remember correctly that was the gig with AC/DC, Stranglers, Nils Lofgren and The Who. The same day as albions first day in the old first division when we lost 4-0 at highbury. I was there - at Wembley that, not Highbury !

 

[Trufflehound]

If I remember correctly that was the gig with AC/DC, Stranglers, Nils Lofgren and The Who. The same day as albions first day in the old first division when we lost 4-0 at highbury. I was there - at Wembley that, not Highbury !

Yup. That was the one. Except we lost at home, not at Highbury. Huge Cornball only spoke to the audience twice. The first thing he announced was "If you're a Brighton fan they lost 4-0." Then when the fight broke out at the front he said "If you want to fight go to a football match" (or something like that).

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Yup. That was the one. Except we lost at home, not at Highbury. Huge Cornball only spoke to the audience twice. The first thing he announced was "If you're a Brighton fan they lost 4-0." Then when the fight broke out at the front he said "If you want to fight go to a football match" (or something like that).

Ha, I stand corrected. AC/DC lost their PA for about 20 mins I think. Twas the first big gig I ever went to, age 16, and my first time at Wembley. Nils Lofgren had a trampoline on stage.

Blimey, it seems like a long time ago.

 

[Trufflehound]

Ha, I stand corrected. AC/DC lost their PA for about 20 mins I think. Twas the first big gig I ever went to, age 16, and my first time at Wembley. Nils Lofgren had a trampoline on stage.

Blimey, it seems like a long time ago.

The AC/DC thing was hilarious. It was only the outward speakers that went, and they didn't notice and kept playing for the first five minutes (their stage speakers were working).

Enjoyed Nils Lofgren's stage somersaults.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

The AC/DC thing was hilarious. It was only the outward speakers that went, and they didn't notice and kept playing for the first five minutes (their stage speakers were working).

Enjoyed Nils Lofgren's stage somersaults.

I got to see The Who twice more after that, both at the Brighton Centre. Never got to see AC/DC again, although they are one of the bands whose albums I listen to most. Saw the Stranglers at the Brighton Centre too, but can't remember whether it was before or after Wembley.

 

[METALMICKY]

The Stranglers were one of the few quality bands of the punk era who could actually play their instruments and write a decent song. And don't forget that Dave Greenfield came from Brighton.

Personally i thought their last great album was The Raven and i totally lost interest when Hugh Cornwall departed.

Their autobiography is a great read and clearly demonstrates why they were always getting into aggro with both the law and fans. Hugh & JJ always up for a scrap and their unofficial crew were a bunch of Hells Angels called the Finchley Boys.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

The Stranglers were one of the few quality bands of the punk era who could actually play their instruments and write a decent song. And don't forget that Dave Greenfield came from Brighton.

Personally i thought their last great album was The Raven and i totally lost interest when Hugh Cornwall departed.

Their autobiography is a great read and clearly demonstrates why they were always getting into aggro with both the law and fans. Hugh & JJ always up for a scrap and their unofficial crew were a bunch of Hells Angels called the Finchley Boys.

Wasn't Hugh Cornwall local too, I certainly went to school in Shoreham with his nephew.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Spooky I saw them at the Brighton Centre when BHAFC were at home to the Arse in the evening and Hugh announced Brighton drew 0-0 before ripping into something from The Raven. Fly straight with perfection, find me a new direction

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

the Northern Seas are cold but their our own, we'll sail your Southern Seas before too long

thundering bassline from JJ Burnel

The Raven / The Raven

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Peasant in the big shitty
Toiler in the sea
Down in the Sewer
No more heroes
Grip
Walk on By

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Goodbye Toulouse
Theres always the Sun
Something better change
Dagenham Dave
5 Minutes
Nice N Sleazy
Peaches

 

[Northstander]

Nice n sleazy

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Golden Brown