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.


Saturday, 16 May 2026

1981 Demos/Rehearsals


An odd little assortment of tracks here, perhaps again from Jet's place. Another version of 'Tomorrow Was' with JJ covering vocal duties, but not the best sounding. There is a much better (and dare I say it funnier version by virtue of JJ's Bobby 'Boris' Pickett vocals!) on here somewhere if you care to look.

I have no further information on the story behind this particular recording. A brief message exchange with Chatts has come up with the following scenario. Listening back to this collection, 'Tomorrow Was' is not live, it is the SIS version. Either whoever put these four songs together way back when just added it as a 'rarity' or something else was going on. Could it be that after release of 'Tomorrow Was (The Hereafter)' by SIS (SIS 001) in 1980 the song may have been considered for inclusion in the live set and inclusion here of the 1976 version was the initial step to working the song up to a gig ready state? If this was the case, it came to nothing. But perhaps the seed was sown in a way that resulted in the cocktail version of 'Nubiles' (the B-side of SIS 001) featured a couple of years later in the Feline tour set.

All pure speculation of course.






 

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