1990

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1990

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STRANGLERS TOUR -- U.K.
05.02.96 - 96 Tears single released - makes no.16 in charts
19.02.90 - Colston Hall, Bristol
20.02.90 - Poole Arts Centre
21.02.90 - Torbay Leisure Centre
22.02.90 - Newport Centre / Band appear on TOTP to promote 96 Tears
23.02.90 - Leicester De Montford Hall (Cancelled due to bomb scare)
24.02.90 - Brixton Academy
26.02.90 - Crawley Leisure Centre
27.02.90 - Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
28.02.90 - Newcastle City Hall

March
01.03.90 - Wolverhampton Civic Hall
02.03.90 - Bradford St. Georges Hall
03.03.90 - 10 Album Released
04.03.90 - Aberdeen Capitol
05.03.90 - Edinburgh Playhouse
06.03.90 - Carlisle Sands Centre
07.03.90 - Preston Guildhall
08.03.90 - Futurist Theatre, Scarborough https://themeninblack.co.uk/forums/view ... hp?t=14383
09.03.90 - Manchester Apollo
10.03.90 - Sheffield City Hall
11.03.90 - Birmingham Hummingbird
13.03.90 - Portsmouth Guildhall
14.03.90 - Gloucester Leisure Centre (BBC2 Broadcasts "Rapido" featuring band on tour footage and tour rehearsals in Bath)
15.03.90 - Leicester De Montford Hall (Rescheduled from 23.02.90)
16.03.90 - Folkstone teas Cliff Hall
17.03.90 - Cambridge Corn Exchange
18.03.90 - Reading Hexagon
19.03.90 - Guildford Civic Hall
20.03.90 - Southend, Cliffs Pavillion
21.03.90 - Brixton Academy, London


06.04.90 - Band appear on MTV Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1hoEtQeanM
21.04.90 - Sweet Smell of Success single released makes no.65 in charts

18.05.90 - Linz, Austria
19.05.90 - Austria, Vienna
20.05.90 - Orpheum Gasse, Graz, Austria
21.05.90 - Belgrade, Yugoslavia
22.05.90 - Zagreb, Yugoslavia
24.05.90 - Theatre de Verdure, Nice, France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMBjd42CNkE
25.05.90 - Transbordeur, Lyon, France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uuCHOjglw4
26.05.90 - Rock Am See Konstanz, Germany
27.05.90 - Stadtpark, Hamburg, Germany
28.05.90 - Phillipshalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
29.05.90 - Lille, France
30.05.90 - Le Grand Rex, Paris
01.06.90 - Fort Regent, Jersey, C.I
02.06.90 - Beau Sejour, Guernsey, C.I

Late June - Puerto de Mazzaron in Murcia, Spain - free gig on the beach

02.07.90 - Band perform 96 Tears on French TV "Nulle Part Ailleurs"
24.07.90 - Nyon festival Switzerland



11.08.90 Alexandra Palace, North London - The next day Hugh Cornwell announces that he is leaving the band
12.08.90 Hugh contacts each band member to inform them of his decision to leave the band then goes to Japan to spend time with his girlfriend. Following that he works with CCW and commences his solo career.

(apparently there was a small US tour planned here which had to be cancelled)

19.11.90 Greatest Hits album released - spends almost a year and reaches no.4 in charts

December - Feb 1991 Band record initial ITN demos at "Dojo Studios" - These are later reworked in May 1991
"I bathed in sun and walked in rain
It taught me how to laugh again"
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