Burning Up Time - The Stranglers and Hugh Cornwell Unofficial Forums

Some of JJ's comments / stories obviously need to be taken with a pinch of salt.. Even the banana stuff, I mean I don't doubt the stunt itself was attempted. But come on bananas are soft and squiggy and it just wouldn't work properly IMO. Sent from my moto g62 5G using Tapatalk Without a doubt it d...

really ? Where's the evidence, were you involved? Sent from my moto g62 5G using Tapatalk Yes I supplied Organic Bananas for ease of use got them from a man called Arthur at the East India docks,the Stranglers manager at the time used to give me a pony for them and back stage pass so I could witnes...

Btw didn’t JJ & Hugh say there were many Bananas going up multitudes of bottoms at Stranglers gigs in the 80’s? I thought that might have something to do with all the JJ haters on here but from what I saw it was JJ who only held the Banana recipient. It was actually Hugh who was doing all the hi...

A few on here seem to be judging JJ,only he knows the answer to why the Stranglers continue,I think JJ would be laughing if he read some of these comments,Think Tank seems to obviously know how JJs inner soul works.Major Kudu. :smt005 Still in denial Kudo :grin: I certainly don't know his inner ars...

https://open.spotify.com/track/44XfO3ROT8OfiVqAj8mofY?si=a95a66fa15b64dbc https://open.spotify.com/track/7BN9lyaHkqbJn0Csk1QEjw?si=31c919b6c889439c What the? Great stuff, I remember hearing some band creating original 8 bit pop songs back in the 00’s, think it was YMCK https://www.youtube.com/@offi...

I think deep down JJ just misses his old mate.
Shame they couldn’t have gotten together at both Dave & Jet’s funeral for a few beers and buried the hatchet.

Just finished this - a great read from an interesting and charismatic man. A key point in the final pages when JJ is discussing Toby, "...he plays the way Dave did twenty five years ago, respecting every note.Nowadays, The Stranglers is almost like classical music." I think this is why Ba...

markorbit wrote: ↑09 Nov 2023, 14:52 Just to add to this one... wasn't the guy from The Icicle Works (Ian McNabb) in the running as Hugh's replacement? I'm sure I read that somewhere.

I think they made the right choice in selecting an unknown like Paul Roberts. As much as I like Ian McNabb that would have been totally disastrous.

10 faves this week are

September Gurls Big Star
Celestica Crystal Castles
Rolling Blackouts Go! Team
Blowtorch Go! Team
Catch Me On The Rebound Go! Team
Reason Left To Destroy Go! Team
Junior Kickstart Go! Team
Everyone's A V.I.P. To Someone Go! Team
Saturn 5 Inspiral Carpets
Outsiders Suede

I'm a couple of chapters in so far, seems like a great read to me. It's a real shame we didn't get one like this from every original member.. Sent from my moto g62 5G using Tapatalk Yep that would have been great, such a shame we never got to hear Dave & Jet's side of the story, also would have...

Keef ain’t the best guitar player in the world but who cares? Not Keef.
He took the ‘Open G’ tuning originally intended for slide guitar and instead used it for rhythm, thus creating one of the most instantly recognisable guitar voices on the planet

Just finished a great read and another worthy addition to my Stranglers book collection of seven, but I must admit I’d like more! I always thought it’d be great if JJ could do his version of ‘Song By Song’ and talked about every Stranglers song recorded from ’77-21’ and another book on his solo &...