The Stranglers
Steel Workers Benefit Corby 23rd July 1980
This week I had an email requesting the abovementioned gig from a guy called Droo.'I was talking with friends earlier tonight about our 'first ever gigs' and was happy to have trumped the lot of them with my 35p entry to The Stranglers' Steel Workers Benefit Gig in Corby, back in 1980. Full of nostalgia, I've just been searching for any mention of the gig, and am delighted to have found your site. Please, please tell me that you have a copy or can point me in the right direction to where I might find it; it would be fantastic to have the chance to hear it again after all these years.'
Here's a link to a recording of the night, not from my collection. This version has been much cleaned up and again I want to thank Dom P for his work on this one.
http://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=16903
Here's the full artwork:
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Awesome...I was there...12 years old in my DM's and first pair of bondage trousers with leopard skin bum-flap...pissed-up on Woodpecker cider...covered in sick...
ReplyDeleteNice one....... Kind of!
ReplyDeleteI was there also, I remember Hugh getting upset with the spitters at the front...
ReplyDeleteYeah I was there - third (?) time I'd seen them. Opened with 'Hanging Around' and the whole place went mental...
ReplyDeleteI remember the police outside taking people's laces out of their boots... Everyone sitting as the gig started then it just going mad, brilliant
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