Feb/March - recording Aural Sculpture - ICP Studios Brussels - album originally planned to be released in May but band not happy with results.
TIme in between these recording sessions JJ joins Japanese band A.R.B
27/28 May - Jet produces and plays on "My Young Dreams"
July - band back at ICP Studios Brussels - the bulk of the tracks recorded here are the ones that make the album
August - JJ spends time looking after his father.
25.09.84 Skin Deep single released - makes no.15 in charts
04.10.84 Band appear on TOTP to promote Skin Deep
17.10.84 Hugh appears on "Collectors Choice" on Radio 1 with Janice Long to choose "his favourite records"
22.10.84 JJ and Hugh in Paris for promotional photos etc
30.10.84 Aural Sculpture "Unveiling" event at The Belfry, 11B West Halkin Street, London SW1 6pm - 10pm
17.11.84 Aural Sculpture album released
01.12.84 No Mercy single released - makes no.37 in charts
07/12/84 ITV Studios Performance for "The Tube"
21/12/84 Dusseldorf Phillipshalle, Germany
This is a real obscure one: The stranglers played in the big hall called
the Philipshalle at Duesseldorf on a festival called "Halleluja".
They were not announced on the ticket but they showed up there.
I remember the hall was not just filled with many people, perhaps there were about 1000 people.
I was there to see and tape Johnny (R.I.P.) Thunders, was very much surprised by
a man called Billy Bragg playing a short solo set.
The Stranglers did not get much applause there as you clearly can hear on my recording up here.
It sounds like they were playing in an empty hall with just a few people around my microphone.
They did not play an encore!
1984
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