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 17 May 2020

Ninkasi Lyon France 23rd November 2017


Here's the second installment of the weekend's collaboration, thanks again to all involved. Here's the band in Lyon and the punters for sure got a treat on this night with the inclusion of N'emmenes Pas Harry in the set!

Here's the background from Chatts99 himself:

The usual group of us decided to head over to France, via Geneva, to catch the first 3 dates of the November French tour, Annemasse, Lyon and Paris. There was a gig between Lyon and Paris but I cant remember if it actually took place. I know it was an almost impossible venue to get to for us as
we like our late nights and comfy travel.

So, this is night 2 in Lyon. Beacause of the logistics of the travelling we decided to stay here for an extra night before going on to Paris, a correct decision as the City surprised us and we thoroughly enjoyed the extra day exploring a little and drinking more.

I don't remember too much of the gig itself apart from it being very warm inside but the setlist was different enough from the previous night that it makes sense to upload these together, as far as I am aware the rest of the dates virtually follow this setlist with maybe GBG and ADAAOTN rotating in the encore.

So here it is. I have had an original file set on my FLAC player since the show and my fellow travellers have the same file set and I had traded it with one or two fellow tapers. This is not only a serious upgrade of an already very nice recording. But as the work has been done on the raw WAV file this is to be viewed as a completely different version.

Notes directly from Shadow23 on his work are as follows.
"Loaded file into Adobe Audition and rack up a bunch of effects to add more life and sparkle. I used a 20 band EQ to boost the keys and guitars at one end and the mid bass at the other, along with some stereo expansion and light multiband compression to even things out"

He has previously told me that this is basically saved on his PC as the "Chatts99" setting.

A couple of pics are included and I believe another fellow Stranglers fan, DIME member Adriana will be adding some artwork as well.

This needs to be played often and loud. It had brought back some great memories of another great trip with the best friends. With the passing of Dave Greenfield the future is unknown, but the music remains and yes this isn't the Band of the 77-82 musical perfection, it doesn't have Hugh Cornwell
at his sarcastic and quick witted best. BUT it is the band that even just over the last 6 years, since I have been recording them, have given me so much to remember.

FLAC: https://we.tl/t-3WIDQCq8Sj

Artwork: https://we.tl/t-DKSPxjbiPb

Alternative artwork (sleeve): https://we.tl/t-fSLtUSOPh7

01. Intro-Toiler On The Sea
02. Was It You?
03. Sometimes
04. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
05. 15 Steps
06. Nice 'N' Sleazy
07. Midnight Summer Dream -European Female
08. Always The Sun
09. N'emmenes Pas Harry
10. Golden Brown
11. Bear Cage

01. Walk On By
02. Relentless
03. Peaches
04. Norfolk Coast
05. Hanging Around
06. 5 Minutes
07. Tank
10. Encore- All Day & All Of The Night
11. Go Buddy Go
12. No More Heroes


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