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Tag Archives: The Stranglers
Exploring the story of Optic Nerve Recordings – in conversation with Ian Allcock
Ordering a few classic and soon-to-be classic indie records in recent times, I was surprised to find an emerging label I was getting to know through an impressive catalogue happened to be operating from just up the road in Preston, … Continue reading
West Coast aspirations, dreams and realisation – the Karima Francis interview
There’s a new single out from Karima Francis, 11 years beyond feted debut LP, The Author. And it signals a welcome return for this acclaimed Blackpool singer-songwriter, currently based in London after a spell in Los Angeles. ‘Orange Rose’ is … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackpool, COVID-19, Dan Austin, Flood, Get it Loud in Libraries, Hugh Cornwell, John Robb, Karima Francis, Katie Von Schleicher, Ken Nelson, Las Vegas, Orange Rose, Phoebe Bridgers, Sharon Van Etten, Shelf Life, The author, The Stranglers, Tim Carr, Venice Beach
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Three decades beyond 10 – having words with Hugh Cornwell
Almost 30 years after leaving The Stranglers, the legendary punk band with whom he made his name and managed more than 20 UK Top-40 singles and 14 Top-20 LPs over barely a dozen years, Hugh Cornwell remains a force to … Continue reading
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Tagged A Multitude of Sins, Alan Winstanley, Alexandra Palace, Beyond Elysian Fields, Clitheroe, Golden Brown, guildford, Hugh Cornwell, Jet Black, Lou Reed, Meninblack, Monster, Pat Hughes, Robert Williams, The Raven, The Star, The Stranglers, Totem and Taboo, Windsor McGilvray
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Still on The Vapors’ trail – back in touch with Dave Fenton
This time 40 years ago, The Vapors were about to set out on tour with The Jam on their biggest adventure to date, invited along for the ride on the latter’s Setting Sons tour by their co-managers, Jam bass player … Continue reading
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Tagged Brighton, Bruce Foxton, Ed Bazalgette, From The Jam, guildford, Howard Smith, John Weller, Lost 80s, Magnets, Michael Bowes, Mike Hedges, Mike Jordan, New Clear Days, Portmeirion, Rob Kemp, Setting Sons, Shalford, Steve Smith, Surrey, The Jam, The Prisoner, The Stranglers, The Vapors, Turning Japanese
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Still winning Hearts and Minds – in conversation with Carl Hunter
Carl Hunter was stir crazy at the airport when I tracked him down, delayed an hour and condemned to sit around talking to me while drinking Yorkshire tea, his days of rock’n’roll excess with The Farm possibly behind him. He … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan McGee, Ben Leach, Bill Nighy, Bootle, Carl Hunter, Crosby, Edge Hill University, Edwyn Collins, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Grow Your Own, Happy Mondays, Jet Black, Keith Mullin, Liverpool, Peter Hooton, Roy Boulter, Sometimes Always Never, Spartacus, Steve Grimes, The Clash, The Farm, The Stranglers, The Undertones, The Unforgotten Coat, Tim McInnerny
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Live and Direct in Guildford – back in my hometown revisiting The Star, the Boileroom and the Holroyd
It’s been a long month, and with Spring arriving deceptively early in late February (if only on a fact-finding mission), that last day of January when The Stranglers turned up at one of my old haunts seems an age ago. … Continue reading
The enduring appeal of Penetration and the Invisible Girls – the Pauline Murray interview
While Pauline Murray is now four decades down her chosen career path, it’s worth noting that the first incarnation of the band she co-founded as a teenager, County Durham’s pioneering punk outfit Penetration, was rather short-lived. It was certainly a happening … Continue reading
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Tagged Buzzcocks, Byker, Coming Up For Air, David Bowie, Don't Dictate, Electric Circus, Ferryhill, Gary Chapman, Gary Smallman, Generation X, Howard Devoto, Invisible Girls, John Maher, John Peel, Ken Goodinson, Moving Targets, Newcastle, Paul Harvey, Pauline Murray, Penetration, Pete Shelley, Polestar Studios, Preston, Resolution, Rob Blamire, Roxy Music, Steve Wallace, The Clash, The Continental, The Roxy, The Stranglers, Transfigure
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Celebrating 40 years of All Mod Cons with From The Jam
Somehow, while based in Lancashire for nearly 25 years now, I’d never visited The Grand in Clitheroe until last month, yet now I’ve caught two great bands there within a month, with two of my teenage heroes visiting – Hugh … Continue reading
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Tagged All Mod Cons, Andy Fairclough, Blondie, Bruce Foxton, Buzzcocks, Clitheroe, Down in the Tube Station at Midnight, Give 'Em Enough Rope, Love Bites, Mike Randon, paul weller, Pete Shelley, Ramones, Rick Buckler, Russell Hastings, The Clash, The Grand, The Kinks, The Stranglers, The Who
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Hugh Cornwell – Clitheroe, The Grand
Apparently, four punters needed St John Ambulance medical attention in Kendal the night before I got to see Hugh Cornwell and his band’s two assured sets in not so far off Clitheroe. With that in mind, Hugh told the … Continue reading
