Here is another excellent recording of a Hugh gig in Essen courtesy of Peter. Cheers, highly appreciated as always! Although predating the release of 'Totem & Taboo' Hugh is obviously proud to be able to give the title track an early airing here.
I did stumble across a spat on one of the multitude of Stranglers related Facebook pages... the keyboard combatants were once again engaged in the 'Hugh's better, Hugh's best' type argument. This particular argument was based around an old article that someone had dredged up in which Hugh was bemaoning the fact that The Stranglers' had retained the name... there then followed the 'karaoke' Stranglers comments etc etc. Essentially we are talking about the same argument that that has rumbled on since 1990. That argument should have run out of steam by the mid-90's at the very latest, but still seems to trouble the minds of some 35 years on!
At a time when we are rapidly losing our the bands and the musicians that we love to the Grim Reaper as opposed to Test Match Special (as Hugh would have it) we should just relax, enjoy the bits that we like and ignore whatever it is that we don't like or that which annoys us whilst we still can.
Anyway... here's a bit of Hugh.
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-gUKX3RJ8PZ
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-9mwXGI7oB2
Thanks Adrian also thanks to Peter
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