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So Baz can't hate the album that much

I think it's JJ that (in the end) decides the songs they work on for a tour although I trust the young lads suggest some songs too.

I dunno if he likes it or he doesn't tbh but many on here say he doesn't and that's up to him on his opinion of the album He told me when I interviewed him some years ago I too miss one track rolling into another like Mk1 were so good at doing more of the pasts same please....sewer/was it you and m...

Baz doesn't like the Gospel according to the MIB lp at all but hey, the money's still good

Hallow,I would say it's the hardest Stranglers song to play live Not sure if it is but it is certainly amongst the most challenging ones. A fabulous composition. I love them to revisit their creative highlight but it's interesting to see what the young lads make of it. Goes for most of the MIB lp. ...

I suspect we'll get this at a couple of dates at the start then dropped in favour of ADAATN or similar.

As per usual yes

Exactly what they should do.

Yep - that lp is the artistic highlight of their 50 year career. Hope the young lads get the hang of this material - JLNOE, Second Coming, Four Horsies.... cannot really see Barry doing those....

That sounds great. Good to read JJ is still having fun, a bit ambitious and still interested in the past and present of this world.

True but you gotta base your poster on some loose notion of the actual lineup.

Of course. It's just not that big a suprise the stranglers are 'somewhere in the middle', some of the other names above (Blondie, Adam A., Duran) are just way more popular in the US of A.

This is a poster, not the itinerary, cannot predict when the stranglers will be on and before or after whom.

I would go for Tolhurst & Budgie who released the best album of this year

Madness are doing a tour soon and they are playing huge arenas Just as the Stranglers, the boys from Madness had a very impressive row of hits in 1979 - mid eighties. The whole ska/ two tone thing was for many people really big and for many this will be a lovely trip down memory lane. And, whereas ...

was a rush job,a marriage of convenience.A lazy, half arsed effort to continue the band.Ellis was already in place as a guitarist and much easier to find a stand alone singer as opposed to a singer/guitarist.And of course as we all know,JJ had lost confidence in his singing. It probably was a rush ...