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Meet: JJ Burnel talks about The Stranglers upcoming tour & past/ present relationships within the band.
After more than forty years of touring and releasing records it seems that The Stranglers are a band that can still electrify audiences, they have been playing to increasingly packed venues over the last ten years with an exciting live show that showcases the band’s hugely underrated back catalogue. I spoke to bassist JJ …
News: The Stranglers announce ‘March On’ Tour 2015
There are very few bands that I want to see every year, there are even fewer that I first watched as a teenager and still want to see now, and there is only one band that I have seen over the course of around 30 different tours. That band is The Stranglers, and there are …
Gallery: The Stranglers, Ruby Tour, Leeds. 21.03.2014 – view from the pit.
Riots. Hard drugs. Strippers. The Stranglers have been there worn the t-shirt ripped it off their backs and thrown it back for another go many many times. 40 years. 40 years of producing and performing songs that both mark and stand, the test of time. We covered their Ruby Tour show in Sheffield last week. …
News: Rebellion Festival 2024 Returns 1st-4th August At The Winter Gardens In Blackpool
Returning this summer over four days from the 1st to the 4th of August at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, Rebellion Festival has once again pulled together a line-up that runs the full length and breadth of worldwide alternative and punk rock culture. From the four iconic, genre-defining headline artists of The Stranglers, Sham 69, …
Introducing: Cherry Red Records
I bought my very first Cherry Red Records release in 1980, when San Francisco punk legends, Dead Kennedys, released their second single, the seminal “Holidays In Cambodia”, their first of four 7” records for the label. Celebrating their 45th year with a slew of anniversary releases, formed in 1978, Cherry Red Records is a British independent record …
Gallery: Hugh Cornwell – The Pepper Canister Church, Dublin 13.04.2023
Hugh Cornwell (Original Stranglers Frontman) played a fantastic solo acoustic show in the also fantastic setting the is Dublin’s Pepper Canister Church.Hugh Promised to bring a show to Ireland that features hits such as ”Golden Brown” ”Strange Little Girl” ”Always The Sun” and that he did, plus many more including a great catalogue of old …
Meet: Inspiral Carpets’ Graham Lambert, on the eve of their tour and album
It’s 4pm, and I meet Graham Lambert, via Zoom, at his mum’s house in Oldham, the same place she lived (and Graham grew up) in the 1980s. He’s comfortably positioned at what looks like the kitchen table, “where we wrote a lot of the songs in the early days and started the band”. Lambert, despite …