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All the Fun of the Fair. Hugh Cornwell.

Rollup, roll up…October saw the release of Hugh Cornwell’s live album and Alex Plumb gives a big thumbs-up in his summary:

‘Following on from 2022’s very successful Moment of Madness album this double CD release is really Hugh’s first proper live release universally as a solo artist recorded in early 2024. Previous efforts have been restricted to mail order and fan club so Hugh obviously felt confident it was the right time to put this out.Continue reading...

JJ Burnel on 'Full Chat' Motorbike podcast

STRANGLERS’ FANS AROUND the world have long been aware of JJ’s legacy as one of the coolest and iconic people in rock and punk, just as much as his obsessive devotion to Karate, but also motorbikes. However, did you know JJ can literally eke out sonic inspiration while on two wheels?Continue reading...

Golden crown: new live vinyl out this August…

August 16th to be precise and this limited edition three-record release is now available to pre-order from the official merchandise page. Here’s the magnanimous gold top crème de la crème track list taken from the recent 50th anniversary tour. What a package!

50 Years In Black Tour

Celebrating their 50 year anniversary, The Stranglers have some dates planned in 2024!

Stranglers’ founder and drummer Jet Black has died.

Drummer Jet Black had bravely switched from successful businessman in midlife crisis to drummer of a rock band. He registered the name in September 1974 and just three years on, they were in the charts with Peaches, Something Better Change and No More Heroes. Hits followed, and the rest is history.Continue reading...

New Stranglers’ LP in Top 5?

Amid a sea of press superlatives lauding a pre-launch Dark Matters, reviewers got it spot on. The Stranglers’ eighteenth album has just been rewarded with the band’s first UK #4 placement since January 1983’s seventh LP, Feline. Through sad hardship of losing dear Dave Greenfield in 2020, the band finished off in honour of him and sonically flourished with a fresh and magnificent piece of work: production is perfect, as is performance. It wouldn’t be a surprise to imagine Dave looking down upon us with a raised glass of Stella in celebration!

Stranglers’ eighteenth LP tagged as Dark Matters.

The Stranglers’ eighteenth LP is out Friday 10th September 2021, three-quarters of which features our dearly departed keyboards wizard Dave Greenfield - but will it form the band’s swansong? That remains to be seen and I for one am very much looking forward to hearing this despite the myriad of drip-feed teasers in the run-up. What’s been witnessed is an accomplished, eclectic, unfettered collection of songs, probably their best since, well, whenever! Far superior to the previous let’s say.

And If You Should See Dave... video!

New single out 14th May. Video just released...

Dark Matters : And If You Should See Dave...

It has been a tough twelve months all round especially since the sad passing of our keyboard hero Dave Greenfield due to Covid. Life goes on for the band and most of the tracks for the next album feature Dave and are near completion; a ray of light in dark times. Continue reading...

UK dates update, European tour 2021...

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Belgium date added for 2021...

Another live date has been added...

Update: Autumn Final UK Tour Rescheduled to 2021

The Final UK Tour this autumn has now been rescheduled to 2021...

Full Final Tour And Album Update

A message from JJ, Baz and Jim.

David Paul Greenfield (29th March 1949 - 3rd May 2020)

Dave Greenfield, keyboard genius extraordinaire will never be forgotten.

He was the sound of The Stranglers since joining the band in 1975 and brought us the music of Golden Brown as well as lead vocals on Peasant in the Big Shitty, Dead Ringer, Do You Wanna, Genetix and Four Horsemen. Sincere condolences to his wife, Pam. Rest in peace, Dave.

The Final Full UK Tour 2020...

The Stranglers' Final Full UK Tour 2020 is a step-down from the extensive tours of full-on production consisting of 21 dates over October and November this year with a London finish line at the 02 Academy Brixton. It's a great pity for lots of fans who have enjoyed many gigs on each tour which just got bigger and better along the way as the band's live profile has increased immeasurably. Continue reading...

Live In 2020

Following the Portuguese festival, The Stranglers make a return to the Wizard of Aus for a fistful of dates in early February; mid-February they go on to New Zealand for three gigs; March sees the band visit Switzerland for one date. Continue reading...

There Goes The Charabang: The Stranglers in Iceland

Jill Furmanovsky
© 2019 Hanging Around Books

Jill writes: "The two-day trip to Iceland was certainly one of the most unusual press junkets I’ve ever attended. On May 2nd around 50 of us left Heathrow Airport on a chartered plane heading for Reykjavik’s Keflavik Airport.Continue reading...

Did Video Kill The Radio Star?

More on The Stranglers videos with those who made them...

Live review...

Back On The Tracks live review.

Live dates update...

Can you tell me what they call someone who comes from Corsica..?

8x10s mystery solved!   Journos in jeopardy!

The strange case of the mystery 8x10s ditty is solved. Probably!

Plus, how frosty relations develop between the band versus press back in the day and the impact...

Live dates update...

Back On The Tracks Tour

The Stranglers have just announced their March 2019 "Back On The Tracks" tour, with 19 gigs across the UK and Ireland.

Tickets are on sale now.

Just Like Nothing On Tape

As Strangled's cassette collection comes along nicely, there's a brand new addition to the tape family.Continue reading...

The Stranglers: the movie

There will be a film of The Stranglers and it is due for release in Spring 2019. The Stranglers are calling on their long-standing and devoted fan base to help their official photographer and director David Boni (Go Boogie Films) make the first ever feature-length film charting their unique story.Continue reading...

Summer gig update...

As The Stranglers' UK Definitive Tour draws to a close, those cancelled Irish dates are now rescheduled for April. Plus new Summer festival dates have been announced for UK, Israel and France.Continue reading...

JJ interview on Retropopic Radio

We featured a great radio interview with JJ Burnel last week on Strangled Facebook where JJ talks about the story of The Stranglers. So we thought we would find out the story of Neil Saint, the man behind the interview.Continue reading...

JJ featured in Bass Guitar magazine

JJ is interviewed in the current edition of Bass Guitar magazine

Dates Down Under

The Stranglers will be playing in Australia and New Zealand, and then the Definitive Tour of the UK

Aus and NZ dates are with special guests Ruts DC.

The Definitive Tour

The Stranglers have just announced "The Definitive Tour" of the UK in March 2018 with 19 gigs across the country.

Tickets go on sale 15th September at 9am.

Jean-Luke Epstein

News has just come to us overnight of the sad death of Jean-Luke Epstein. J-L was art director and photographer on many Stranglers records and CD covers, as well as many other artists. J-L was a friend of the band and a friend of Strangled: years back, he kindly got in touch to tell us how much he had enjoyed reading one of our PDFs. J-L was himself involved in Stranglers between 1984 and 1992. J-L was also a confirmed fan of The Stranglers, when he told us:... Continue reading...

Loft, lost and found

It's been a busy time behind the scenes what with all the updating to the new version of Strangled. Thanks to webmaster Ian, it's a smart new site that can be viewed clearly in all formats. We didn't lose the old articles, we just archived them at the end of each tab. One plan was to upload Strangled reader Duncan's disc of Strangled Volume 2 magazines where he lovingly scanned each page like he did for the first volumes in Stranglers Magazines tab.Unfortunately, the disc has disappeared... Continue reading...

Tours de Force...

The Stranglers announce more Classic Collection concerts for November and December in France this year: the gig at Limoges is off but there's an addition to the UK summer gigs, and there will be the return of the infamous Wonky Bus taking in a couple of European dates with overnight stay. It is understood the bus is already fully booked, according to one concerned French-based HGV hydraulics company. More listings (ahem) when we get it, Here's the UK summer gigs update:... Continue reading...

57 Varieties of Talk Soup

Barry Cain

© 2016 Red Planet Books

Does what it says on the tin...

BARRY CAIN IS a soup-erstar! Here he continues his tasty music memoirs on from '77 Sulphate Strip with his enviable and unique knack... Continue reading...

Peaches: a Chronicle of The Stranglers 1974-1990

Robert Endeacott

© 2014 Soundcheck Books

Nice 'n' Easy read...

BOB HAS AMASSED input from other Stranglers fans and played of dozens of live gig tapes to make a choking good read, focused on Hugh Cornwell's ever... Continue reading...

Stranglers IV Rattus Norvegicus

Here's wishing The Stranglers' debut LP a very happy 40th birthday!

Way down under in Australia

The Stranglers are strangling classically and collectively way down under in 2018: the band return to Australia and New Zealand for the first time since 2016 in February next year with seven dates. Tickets are on sale now... Continue reading...

Tour de Force

The Stranglers 'Classical Collection' Tour of the UK begins at Lincoln and tickets are already going fast with sell-outs at Aberdeen, Glasgow, Cambridge and Liverpool. Dazzling dub-punks Ruts DC are in support, so make sure you tear yourself away from the bar to catch them. Not to be missed... Continue reading...

BLOG: TIME TO FLY

BLACK AND WHITE swept the UK like Hurricane Kate earlier this year. Doesn't seem like a year ago, does it? But performing that third album was something we championed yonks back in the Wish List. Fans can be so demanding can't they? But now there's more to be demanded, but that's later. Meanwhile, thanks must surely be in order for drummer Jim Macaulay for making some mighty meaty bangs and crashes at the back... Continue reading...

Thrown Away!

INDEED IT was. During an office move, one of our readers made this amazing photographic discovery of The Stranglers on Top of the Pops performing Thrown Away. The weekly BBC show aired each Thursday and filming took place on the Tuesday beforehand, dating this image to 27th January 1981. No audience members are visible. This is because we are seeing the band in rehearsals... Continue reading...

Seven Days In Nice

Jet Black

© 2011 Coursegood Books

Jet’s new updated account of being banged up in the south of France. Originally appearing in 1981 as Much Ado About Nothing - see below – Seven Days In Nice is a reminder of what happened... Continue reading...

Much Ado About Nothing

Jet Black

© 1981 SIS

June 20th 1980 was the final date of The Stranglers’ tour but there was a venue change. Nice University became the place the band would never forget. Jet relays how word came back from the road crew... Continue reading...