Aural Sculpture

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Tras el directo Live (X-Cert) (1978) el sonido y los textos del grupo cambiarían en The Raven (1979), adoptando posiciones mucho más pop y arty con canciones como "he Duchess". All the playing and travelling is gruelling and it’s so easy to let yourself go. So as well as making time for exercise, I insist on eating healthily: mostly protein and greens. I always eat breakfast – usually eggs, sometimes with bacon and brown sauce, but no bread and always fresh coffee. I’ll have a salad for lunch and in the evenings, at home, I like to cook fish, lobster, meat and veg. I’m partial to truffle oil and a dollop of crème fraîche. On tour we have a couple of cooks with us. If I do have to grab any junk food I’m filled with self-loathing!

The Stranglers' early sound was driven by Jean-Jacques Burnel's melodic bass, but also gave prominence to Dave Greenfield's keyboards.Across the summer the band played a number of festivals, including Weyfest and Glastonbury and T in the Park in the UK and Oxegen 2010 in Ireland, and concerts in Japan, Greece, Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria. The band also released a new live album and DVD, recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo in May 2010. [52] In March 2011, the band completed another UK tour. Burnel's long-term friend, Wilko Johnson, was invited to bring The Wilko Johnson band on the tour. In April, the band began touring Europe, with many gigs and major festivals lined up for the entire year. Vladimir Chronicles". www.stranglers.net. Archived from the original on 23 September 2011 . Retrieved 12 January 2022.

Touring is exhausting. You have to keep in good shape. It’s all down to respect for the people who’ve paid good money to see us. How many bands are still going strong after 50 years and can sell out the Royal Albert Hall in seconds? I used to be a punk and, as an angry young man, I was very anti-authoritarian and always getting into punch-ups. But this tour won’t be Last Night of the Punks. These days I’m much more disciplined. And I’m not ready to retire yet! Pero la verdadera naturaleza de los de Guilford es punk. La transgresión, las letras descarnadas y crudas y su actitud en contra de lo políticamente correcto desde el humor más ácido les sitúan en esa órbita. Las acusaciones de misoginia, por ejemplo, fueron una constante gracias a algunas letras y la presencia de bailarinas en topless en algunos conciertos. Todo era pura provocación -inteligente- que al pasar de los años parece casi inherente a la época. Copsey, Rob. "Manic Street Preachers win "titanic battle" against Steps to claim second Number 1 on Official Albums Chart". Official Charts. The Official UK Charts Company . Retrieved 18 September 2021.The Stranglers – producer on "Here and There", "In One Door", "Vladimir and the Beast (part 3)", "Head on the Line", "Hot Club", "Achilles Heel", "Place de Victoires" and "Spain" (live) [36] [37] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] Boyes, Emma. "Q&A: SUDA-51 on No More Heroes". Gamespot. CBS Interactive . Retrieved 25 October 2018.

Season 2, Episode 3 Hypocrisy: Don't Do It Transcript". TV Show Transcripts. TvT . Retrieved 13 September 2023. The Stranglers on 40 years of fights, drugs, UFOs and 'doing all the wrong things' - The Guardian. 12 March 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2021.

The Stranglers' final album with Cornwell, 10, was released in 1990. This was recorded with the intention of building on their "cult" status in America. Following the success of their cover of The Kinks' " All Day and All of the Night", a UK No.7 hit in 1988, the Stranglers released another '60s cover, " 96 Tears" as their first single from 10; it reached No.17 in the UK. Despite this success, the follow-up single "Sweet Smell of Success" only reached No.65. "Man of the Earth", which the band had high hopes for, was due to be the third single from the album, but Epic Records decided against it. In August 1990, Hugh Cornwell abruptly left Stranglers to pursue a solo career, following the band's failure to attain a tour in the US. [47] In his autobiography, Cornwell stated that he felt that the Stranglers were a spent force creatively, and cited various examples of his increasingly acrimonious relationship with his fellow band-members, particularly Burnel.

HA・GA・KU・RE ・ ARB with J・J BURNEL(The Stranglers)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014 . Retrieved 4 July 2011. Aural Sculpture" впервые появились и духовые инструменты (которые "Stranglers" использовали до конца декады), но этот релиз по сравнению с побывавшим в горячей десятке предшественником оказался менее удачным. Альбом "Dreamtime" был отмечен заигрываниями с этнической музыкой, а на десятом студийнике саунд группы местами приблизился к звучанию биг-бэнда. Тем не менее, Корнвелл посчитал, что команда исчерпала запас креативности, и ушел делать сольную карьеру, а освободившееся место заняли гитарист Джон Эллис и вокалист Пол Робертс. Реорганизация состава совпала с началом скитания "Stranglers" по маленьким лейблам, но зато группа избавилась от духовой секции, а ее работы перестали страдать от чрезмерного саунд-продюса. В неизменной конфигурации команда просуществовала до 2000 года и успела выпустить четыре альбома, прежде чем вместо Эллиса появился Баз Уорн. Aural Sculpture is the eighth studio album by the Stranglers, released in November 1984 by Epic Records. It was also the name given to a one-sided 7-inch single given free with a limited number of copies of their Feline album in 1983. The "Aural Sculpture Manifesto" on the 7" single was played before the Stranglers appeared on stage during concerts during both the 1983 "Feline" tour and the 1985 "Aural Sculpture" tour. [7] [8] These gigs will be more than three hours long, and mainly in seated venues, with an interval… or rather a comfort break – a lot of our fans have been with us since 1974. For one whole year, me and some of the other guys decided to take heroin to see if it inspired us creatively. We’d inhale lines of heroin (for a high) mixed with coke (for energy). It did produce a different kind of album! But I was going to bed at dawn and sleeping all day. I was 30 and in a pathetic physical state. As thin as anything, just skin and bones. Dave [Greenfield], our keyboard player, took charge. I went cold turkey, which was grim, and after two or three days I vowed I’d never touch the stuff again.

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SIS News Archive". Stranglers.net. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011 . Retrieved 16 February 2009. The Stranglers have never been seen as soppy, because we’ve never written love songs. But on our last album, Dark Matters, in 2021, two songs are about love. One [And if You Should See Dave…] for my friend of 45 years, Dave Greenfield, who we lost to Covid. Plus The Lines is about still being able to love yourself when you look in the mirror and have to face up to ageing. Welcome to Aural Sculptors, a blog aimed at bringing the music of The Stranglers to as wide an audience as possible. Whilst all of the various members of the band that have passed through the ranks since 1974 are accomplished studio musicians, it is on stage where the band have for me had their biggest impact. Goldsmith, Belinda (24 April 2013). "Stranglers break out of punk mould with classical and ballet". Reuters . Retrieved 11 June 2013.