Aural Sculptors - The Stranglers Live

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.

Thursday, 10 January 2019

Segs and Ruffy Talk about The Crack 40 years on (London Live January 2019)

Wednesday, 9 January 2019

RESTORED LINK - The Rainbow 4th April 1980

One of the classic Rainbow gigs without Hugh that appeared as the 'And Then There Were Three' bootleg CD. Restored here.

U.E.A. Norwich 8th December 1993

Here's a good quality recording from the 1993 tour which featured Tim Bruce who was sitting in on drums for an incapacitated Jet.

FLAC: https://we.tl/t-3dcfpxi06d

01. Intro
02. Duchess
03. Someone Like You
04. English Towns
05. Gain Entry To Your Soul
06. Old Codger
07. Southern Mountains
08. So Uncool
09. All Roads Lead To Rome
10. Was It You?
11. Time To Die
12. Toiler On The Sea
13. This God Is Mine
14. I Feel Like A Wog
15. 96 Tears
16. Brainbox
17. All Day And All Of The Night
18. Sugar Bullets
19. Ugly
20. Tank
21. Strange Little Girl
22. Hanging Around
23. Sometimes
24. No More Heroes

Tuesday, 8 January 2019

RUTS DC Live stream event

From Ruts DC HQ:

'In A Rut' was released 40 years today on People Unite Records 11 January 1979.

An independent release picked up by John Peel, which then lead to the band performing live sessions for him on his legendary U.K radio 1 show - The Ruts were formed in 1977 but this was their first release and set them on their historic path.

To mark this special event they're going to do a live stream, play a few acoustic songs and talk about this legendary single release.

More details to follow.

Nicky Campbell BBC Radio 1 Session 10th August 1992

Here is a BBC Radio 1 session from 1992 that I stumbled upon whilst trying (in vain) to bring some order to my junk yard hard drives! The files are arranged as separated music tracks and a file of the whole show as broadcast with band interviews. Thanks to the sharer as always!

MP3 (as received): https://we.tl/t-NdqUQm7ssj

01. Brainbox
02. Sugar Bullets
03. Strange Little Girl
04. Never See
05. Full Show with Interview.

RESTORED LINK - Duffy's Minneapolis Minnesota 21st November 1980

The wonerful Duffy's gig restored here.

Monday, 7 January 2019

'The Modfather!'

Paul Weller

15cm x 20cm Linoprint

Black ink on dreadnaught grey art card.