Here is one of those rare occasions where a taper goes the extra mile and records a support band for posterity. As you know, The Stranglers had this thing going for sometime in the 1980's where their support acts seemed to be selected solely on their potential to confound and more often than not rile the audience, but that stopped in 1986 (if you side step Keith Allen's Wembley slot when he appeared as Jerry Arkwright, the Northern Industrial Gay!) when serious support came in the form of Hamburg's Xmal Deutschland. Here's their set from Cardiff on the Dreamtour.
The following is definitely from back in the day, courtesy of Chatts's 'Box of Tapes', cassette bootlegs acquired at great cost on Camden High Street, record fairs and the like. Cheers.
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-zmigiwH64n
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-E7hsD33rjP
I was prompted to put this up when someone sent me a link concerning a planned album of new material from lead singer, Anja Huwe. I listened to a snippet and it sounded great!
'Invited by her long-time friend Mona Mur, Huwe reconsidered her decades-long hiatus from music and decided to join Mur in her studio in Berlin. Together, they worked for a year and a half, composing, performing and producing the tracks from scratch, which would eventually become the album 'Codes'.
Xmas very kindly put me on their Guestlist for the whole tour and also remember having a very nice cup of tea with Anna and Co at a motorway services somewhere North of Watford...that's rock and roll for you.....
ReplyDeleteXmal not Xmas....
ReplyDelete