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.


Monday, 28 March 2016

Concert Hall Perth 3rd March 2016

Black & White in Perth
3rd March 2016

As promised, here is the first recording that I have from the recently completed and hugely successful Black & White tour. As is often the case with opening night's there were a few teething problems that had to be resolved, most notably Dave's keyboards that weren't playing ball on this evening. Replacements were rushed in from base. As a punter, I thought that the band were being a little harsh on themselves and the problems weren't so bad. Many thanks to Chatts99 and to MeAnIe, a great collaborative effort folks!

FLAC: http://we.tl/RoINMsuS94


Saturday, 26 March 2016

Gunta Inked!

Thrilled to get this through the post last week. Gunta Andrews captured in Steve Beaumont's unmistakable style. Cheers Steve!

Footage Of The Band in Calgary, Canada, 27th April 1983


Here's some live and interview footage that I have not come across before from Calgary on the Feline tour. Thanks to MeAnIe for sending it over.


Friday, 25 March 2016

Gary Numan Troxy London 2nd April 2011


Here's a Numan set from the Back To The Phuture festival which celebrates electronic music of the late '70's and early '80's. Notable for the inclusion of some rarely aired Tubeway Army tracks.

MP3 (as received): http://we.tl/CtdQNq3kJw

Artwork: http://we.tl/DkXEzHk50s

01. Intro/Down In The Park
02. Films
03. That’s Too Bad
04. Crash
05. Big Noise Transmission
06. I Die : You Die
07. Jagged
08. The Fall
09. Everything Comes Down To This
10. Zero Bars (Mr Smith)
11. Listen To The Sirens
12. Are ‘Friends’ Electric
13. Haunted
14. Crawl
15. Pure
16. Cars
17. Halo
18. A Prayer For The Unborn

Ancienne Belgique Brussels 9th November 1979


A bit slow out of the blocks with this one. The Stranglers in the beleaguered city of Brussels on The Raven tour. Enjoy and give a thought for those forever damaged by such acts of mindless terror.

FLAC: http://we.tl/rwnnncxRmt

Artwork: http://we.tl/9Tcdh8WZij

01. Intro
02. 5 Minutes
03. Shah Shah A Go Go
04. Ice
05. Down In The Sewer
06. Hanging Around
07. The Raven
08. Dead Loss Angeles
09. Baroque Bordello
10. Curfew
11. Tank
12. Burning Up Time
13. Bring On The Nubiles
14. Nuclear Device
15. Genetix
16. Duchess
17. Toiler On The Sea
18. Outro


Sunday, 20 March 2016

Sleaford Mods Rolling Stone Weekender, Wangels, Germany 7th November 2015


One for 'angry young man' Owen Carne. Nice radio broadcast from Germany. Thanks to the original Dime uploader.

FLAC: http://we.tl/uxje3t6jg6

01. Live Tonight
02. Tiswas
03. Tied Up In Nottz
04. Jobseeker
05. Tarantula Deadly Cargo
06. Tweet Tweet Tweet
07. Radio Outro

Flux Of Pink Indians The Action Space Theatre London 19th September 1980


A bit of self indulgence on this one I'm afraid. Scouring through some old music press yesterday I came across this ad. Flux of Pink Indians having recently evolved from The Epileptics were playing just down the road from my house. This band were the only musical claim for the town (discounting Shakatak of course).

Here's another early set recorded a month or so later than the Stortford date.

FLAC: http://we.tl/KvJOFANMfP