1979

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JAPANESE TOUR

9.2.79 Tokyo, Japan, TV Gig
13.2.79 Fukuoka, Syonenbunka Kaikan
14.2.79 Osaka, MainichiHall
15.2.79 Kyoto, Seibukodo
16.2.79 Nagoya Nagoyashi Kokaido
17.2.79 Tokyo, Korakuen Hall
18.2.79 Tokyo, Korakuen Hall
19.2.79 Tokyo, Korakuen Hall

Also this month - A social gathering was held at Shinjuku Loft, which also served as a press conference.
23.2.79 Live X-Cert Album Released

AUSTRALIAN TOUR
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22-24.2.79 Sydney Stage Door Tavern
25.2.79 Sydney State Theatre
27.2.79 Brisbane Queens Hotel. support from Fuller Banks and The Humans. V2 kicked in the Head by JJ after spitting at him constantly. - "police violence" at this one
28.2.79 Collangatta The Patch
1.3.79 Brisbane Festival Hall
The Stranglers caused a riot in Brisbane on March 1, 1979. This was at the Queen's Hotel, long since buried under high rise, down near where the Riverside Centre is now.

This was the second night at the venue. The first night Jean-Jacques Burnel beaned local punk V2 on the head with his bass. At the next gig, as Cornwell came forward to sing for the first time, a beer glass sailed from down the back and caught him on the brow. He shrugged it off and kept playing, blood and all.

After about 10 songs of this the band trashed their gear and took off for their hotel. The mood inside turned nasty, or nastier, at which point . . . well, discretion the better part of valour and all that, so I missed the riot and the arrests.
Cornwell still remembers it well, he told me on the phone the other day.
"I thought it was getting incredibly hot and I was sweating, so I got a towel and wiped my brow thinking I'd see water and it was blood. But whenever you get a cut there it looks worse than it is."

(band accomodation at Park Royal Motor Inn in Alice Street Brisbane.)
2.3.79 Brisbane Queens Hotel. Band Trash the Drums and walk off after 35 Mins.
4.3.79 Newcastle Civic Theatre
5.3.79 Canberra Theatre
6-9.3.79 Melbourne Press and TV. Appearance on Countdown was cancelled by the Producer after disagreements about what Song they were gonna play. It was filmed @ the Studios of the ABC in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea. It was screened Sunday night from 6:00pm to 7:00.
10.3.79 Adelaide Apollo Stadium
11.3.79 Crystal Ballroom at the SeaView Hotel, Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, Melbourne
12.3.79 Melbourne, Bombay Rock (Brunswick) - support from The Boys Next Door http://home.iae.nl/users/maes/cave/live/bndgigs.html
13.3.79 Melbourne La Trobe Union Hall (Tickets $4.50)
14.3.79 Melbourne Dallas Brooks Hall
18.3.79 Sydney Bondi Lifesaver

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JJ Burnel Solo Tour - EUROMAN COMETH

06.4.79 JJ`s Euroman Cometh solo album released
15.4.79 Glasgow Pavillion
16.4.79 Manchester Apollo
17.4.79 Liverpool Erics (quite possibly the gig where Mike Score named his band "We were at one of their concerts (The singer) yells out, “a flock of seagulls.” We were in the front row. He looked like he looked right at us and called out, “a flock of seagulls.” We took it as a sign")
18.4.79 Derby Assembly Rooms
20.4.79 Birmingham Digbeth Town Hall
21.4.79 Brighten Dome
22.4.79 Bristol Locarno
23.4.79 Canterbury Odeon
24.4.79 Portsmouth Locarno "this gig was cancelled due to poor ticket sales. I know, I had a ticket and it took me six months to get a refund."
25.4.79 Hemel Hempstead, Pavillion - Released on the 1992 Euroman CD Re-Issue
26.4.79 Newcastle Mayfair
27.4.79 Edinburgh Odeon
28.4.79 Bradford St.Georges Hall
29.4.79 Ilford Odeon
30.4.79 Theatre Royal Drury Lane - Cancelled
1.5.79 Hammersmith Odeon - Cancelled

Some time here the band decamp to a house in Perugia, Umbria, Italy. Baroque Bordello is written. https://thestranglers.co.uk/the-raven-in-retrospect/

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Raven sessions recorded around July 79

7th May '79 Two Sunspots was along with Meninblack. Session recorded at Eden Studios in Chiswick with Rushent/Winstanley again. This was the planned single & got as far as the acetate stage.
26.5.79 Loch Lomond Festival Image
10th July '79 Fools Rush Out was then reworked & the finished version coupled with Duchess on 22nd July '79.

10.8.79 Duchess single released - makes no.14 in charts
15th August '79 Social Secs arrangements by Steve Churchyard at Air studios. There are 6 different versions of SS listed as:
Full with vox, full no vox, Halfspeed with vox, H/S no vox, Backwards with vox, B/W no vox. Assuming the last one became the released version YCUF6.
17.8.79 Ellesmere F.C. Liverpool (Cancelled)
18.8.79 Wembley Stadium - Support to The Who

30.8.79 Band appear on TOTP to promote Duchess


THE RAVEN TOUR

21.9.79 The Raven album released
21.9.79 Taunton Odeon
22.9.79 Cambridge Corn Exchange
28.9.79 Cascais Pavilion, Portugal
1.10.79 Arcadia Hall, Cork, Ireland
2.10.79 Arcadia Hall, Cork, Ireland
3.10.79 Dublin Chariot Inn
4.10.79 Belfast Ulster Hall http://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/v ... 22&t=15236
6.10.79 Bridlington Spa Pavilion
7.10.79 Glasgow Apollo The Curves support.
8.10.79 Carlisle Market Hall
10.10.79 Blackburn St.Georges Hall (Replaced Newcastle)
11.10.79 Derby Assembly Rooms
12.10.79 Lancaster University
13.10.79 Leeds University
14.10.79 Sheffield Top Rank - Human League support. Hugh watches them from the audience and quite enjoys them.
"1979 Sheffield top rank The Raven Tour, the band turned up in a coach about three, signed off on the fans lookin for autographs.
The gig was packed me and my mucker Dave had a few ales in a near by pub, we went upstairs i remember the plastic glasses of Arctic Light lager
and two girls from Barnsley. The gig was outstanding 5 minutes, Shah Shah a Go Go, the Raven and on to Ice! Nubiles was out of this world with Hugh asking if the Yorkshire Ripper was here that night and this was for him, Toiler was the stand out number and all to soon they were gone. To see Sewer, The Raven and Toiler in one set is the dream ticket , after the gig Dave and me went to the train station with the girls from Barnsley, the first taste of open air sex hahaha. Later after tryin to sleep in Sheffield station the cops nicked us we were thrown in the Black Maria taken to Sheffield nick into the lift for a friendly good beating then back to the station dumped off ready for the milk train back to Lincoln. Battered and bruised we were at the next Raven gig. I did 8 on the Raven tour and nothing has ever come close, this was the time when the Stranglers should have exploded into the biggest uk band ever!

One last thing for now the Raven Tour was played at a frantic pace. Straight after 5 minutes Hugh screamed out "Which ways East?! that way!" and straight into Shah Shah a Go Go this is still the best tour ever!" Carl Greenwold

15.10.79 Birmingham Top Rank
18.10.79 Southampton Gaumont
19.10.79 Rainbow, London
20.10.79 Rainbow, London
20.10.79 Nuclear Device single released makes no.36 in charts
21.10.79 Leicester Granby Hall
22.10.79 Liverpool Romeo & Juliet (Cancelled?)
23.10.79 Portsmouth Locarno
25.10.79 Manchester Apollo
27.10.79 Coventry Theatre
28.10.79 Bristol Colston Hall
29.10.79 Oxford New Theatre
30.10.79 Brighton Centre
31.10.79 Cardiff Top Rank (Band appear at the famous Spillers records in the afternoon to sign copies of The Raven)
1.11.79 London Rainbow (Hugh nicked in early hours ("about 3am" Hugh) of 1st Nov at police roadblock in Hammersmith, West London with a bag "like a chemist's shop").



08.11.79 Brussells L'Ancienn Belgium
09.11.79 Brussells L'Ancienn Belgium
10.11.79 Le Paradiso Amsterdam
11.11.79 Paris Empire
12.11.79 Paris Empire (filmed for Chorus TV show)
13.11.79 Paris Le Palace
14.11.79 Palais De Hiver, Lyon
16.11.79 Salle Des Fetes Du Grand Parc, Bordeaux

*other dates here missing?*


16.11.79 Hugh releases Nosferatu album
21.11.79 Metropol Theatre, Berlin
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23.11.79 Saarbrucken, Aula University (Dickies support)
27.11.79 Hamburg, Musikhalle


JAPANESE TOUR

01.12.79 Don`t Bring Harry single released - makes no.41 in charts
06.12.79 Band appear on TOTP to promote Don't Bring Harry

10.12.79 Sapporo Ohyakaikan
11.12.79 Nagoya Kohkaido
12.12.79 Fukuoka Tsukushikaikan
13.12.79 Tokyo Korakuen
14.12.79 Osaka Mainichi Hall
15.12.79 Kyoto, Kyohoaiseibukohodo
16.12.79 Tokyo Korakuen
"I bathed in sun and walked in rain
It taught me how to laugh again"
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