Burning Up Time - The Stranglers and Hugh Cornwell Unofficial Forums

droopsnoot wrote: ↑20 Dec 2023, 13:02 Guilfest, June 29th 2024 just announced.

Oh wow, that's a blast from the past. Seen them at Guilfest 3 times I think, and the 2002 set was my first Stranglers gig.
Could be tempted by this to relive my yoof.

Edit: no, it was four! 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006.

The story goes that Dave and Jet thought the band still had more to do and convinced JJ to continue. JJ's book is quite positive regarding the About Time album. No Mercy is quite positive about In the Night, and possibly About Time as well (it's been a while since I read it). The copies of Strangled...

alaninblack wrote: ↑31 Oct 2023, 21:09 I appreciate the raw energy - well done

Thanks for listening, the frontman's whole thing is "keep up the energy!" so he'll be happy with that :)

Here's the new single "The Moderator": https://open.spotify.com/track/2HIto2P4 ... 9c1dd846c7
As I say, the music was written by me so it might be a bit more Stranglersy, but the lyrics weren't.

Ah Choosey Susie is obviously coming back for the tour,if they don't play it I will eat my Hat or Hats as I have quite a few including Panama,Trilby,Cap Etc. :smt005 MKII played Choosey Susie. Really? I never knew that.Major Kudu. Yeah, it's definitely on some of the 1995 bootlegs. I thought it was...

Greatkudu wrote: ↑23 Oct 2023, 12:02 Ah Choosey Susie is obviously coming back for the tour,if they don't play it I will eat my Hat or Hats as I have quite a few including Panama,Trilby,Cap Etc.

MKII played Choosey Susie.

I thought the comments on Paul were fairly well balanced but I thought the phrase "he wasn't a Strangler" wasn't needed - he literally was for over 15 years... poor old John Ellis though! I would think he meant he was nothing like an "Original" Strangler he's "stage "a...

Just finished this. Thought it was really good overall, some very interesting insights into the band and also just about the world in general. A nice companion piece to Hugh's one, although I think I preferred JJ's. I agree with whoever it was above that said there were things that could have been f...

Pre-orders for our debut album are now go: https://chainlinkuk.bandcamp.com/album/semi-autocratic Pink LP edition is available... It's better than the EP... I wrote the music to 3 or 4 of them so they have a bit of a Stranglers bass edge to them. One of those is the next single, "The Moderator...

I hardly think the size of venues Hugh has been playing recently could be compared to a toilet! Anyway, you're missing the point even if that's the case as JJ prefixed his statement with "Hugh must be bitter....." Jim "Toilet" is a well-known euphemism for "small music venu...

"Toilet" is a well-known euphemism for "small music venue", it has been in use for literally decades.
I don't think JJ was being ironic - Hugh plays much smaller venues as a headline act than the Stranglers do.
This is just objective fact.

Pre-orders for our debut album are now go: https://chainlinkuk.bandcamp.com/album/semi-autocratic Pink LP edition is available... It's better than the EP... I wrote the music to 3 or 4 of them so they have a bit of a Stranglers bass edge to them. One of those is the next single, "The Moderator&...