Burning Up Time - The Stranglers and Hugh Cornwell Unofficial Forums

If anyone cares that is!

Just heard on the grapevine that Jerry Dammers was present, can anyone confirm!?!?

To the musicologists out there please tell me how any of the above link is relevant to the Stranglers.

you guys missed out Peaches, which was totally reggae inspired, owing to Hugh and JJ lending their PA for reggae parties, the demo version spounds a lot more reggae than the UA version I find. That live version of Sleazy on the Hugh Cornwell prison gig is to die for punk rock reggae ;) OK - apart f...

MiB81 wrote:

ThruBeingCool wrote:You're both completely mad....IMHO.

I agree.
And the closest The Stranglers got to reggae was Permission.
Which is probably for the best too.

The Stranglers never touched reggae.

Not over-rated at all, they deserve every bit of their 'legendary' status.

You just saw AN olympic torch go past your house, they are mass produced and each torch bearer gets to keep their torch at the end, there are thousands of them, a massive con.

Sounds great, will you be going next year?

The funniest thing ever more like.

Oh dear! Just correct me if I'm wrong but are we talking about Stranglers gigs here? Ok, granted, there's sometimes 'over the top' behaviour down the front and when the girls get hurt it's a no, but c'mon, get real, what the fuck do you expect?? Yes, you are totally right, you are not alone! neithe...

mickinblack wrote:I note 4 brummies will be closing the show.
Sabbath are a great band seen the org line up in 1999 at the NEC crap venue but god they was good.

3 Brummies (and a yank) by the looks of things.......