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For anyone interested in Mark Lanegan, here's a recent interview with him from Louder Than War: http://louderthanwar.com/mark-lanegan-interview/ For anyone not that interested in him, at least he professes his love of The Stranglers in one the questions (below). Good man, Mark... LTW: You mentioned ...

We're not going to win it, so fuck it, get the beers in and enjoy ourselves.

Paul

Blur win 'Outstanding contribution to music'. I like Blur and will admit to owning one of their albums but to me they haven't really been around that long enough and contributed much to music to receive these type of awards.. Im still glad that The Stranglers are forever the outsiders and hated by ...

scotticusnorvegicus wrote:It takes f**kin ages to do this and there's nothing worse than negative comments. Save them for the cunts that run the government.

Paul

Happy to vote for them, RiB, but who are they?

Paul

Thanks and congratulations Jim. You have clearly put in a lot of time and effort with this site, and I really do appreciate it. I'm not the most frequent of posters as I'm not as knowledgable, witty or eloquent as others, but I'm a huge fan of the site. Again, I really appreciate your efforts.

Paul

Thanks for the review TBC. 8) I would also heartily recommend his solo stuff, he's brought out some mighty fine CDs (imho) - I've also read a couple of his books, essentially tour diaries, which are really good, in which he describes how he kips on people's floors, probably makes very little money, ...

Thanks for posting Hammer. I'm really looking forward to the new album, and am still trying to come up with a suitable KJ/Stranglers tour schedule next March. Can't wait.

Paul

History Of The World for me. Sick Of Being Sick, love that one. Also, Torture Me - essentially a Captain solo track but it was a b-side of one of the Strawberries singles (Generals??) - the heartfelt way that Captain sings that one..."and if I could suffer more, and if I could suffer more"...

Hugh in Black wrote:Here's that Howard Devoto interview as promised:

http://pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePag ... px?id=6233

Thanks for posting, an informative and interesting read. I really must get the new album.

Paul

ryaninblack wrote:I think every Clash album up to Combat Rock is brilliant, seems like im the only one!

No mate, I'm completely on your side. As for London Calling, one of my favourite albums.

Paul

A mate of mine filmed quite a bit of the Birmingham gig, including all 15 mins or so of Curtain Call, quite some feat. This is a link to his youtube channel, and aswell as The Damned, there's also some Stranglers, Killing Joke etc.

http://www.youtube.com/user/macworld77

Paul