Aural Sculptors - The Stranglers Live 1976 to the Present


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.

As a collector of their live recordings for many years I want to share some of the better quality material with other fans. By selecting the higher quality recordings I hope to present The Stranglers in the best possible light for the benefit of those less familiar with their material than the hardcore fan.

Needless to say, this site will steer well clear of any officially released material. As well as live gigs, I will post demos, radio interviews and anything else that I feel may be of interest.

In addition, occasionally I will post material by other bands, related or otherwise, that mean a lot to me.

Your comments and/or contributions are most welcome. Please email me at adrianandrews@myyahoo.com.


Sunday, 8 June 2025

Hugh Cornwell Grend Kulturzentrum Essen 25th September 2011

 

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



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