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, 19 February 2024

NME 24th to 31st December 1977

 


I am not sure whether visitors to this site will be interested in uploads of certain issues of the music press or not, even more to the point whether people are keen to see images of the gallic one's bare arse!

For my part I love to peruse old issues of the UK music weeklies that back in the day served as indicators on what we would spend our money on and how we would use our social lives! I have on many occasions (OK it is maybe a bit of a bloke thing to do... akin to making lists!) turned to the gig listings, picked a day in order to decide in whose company I would have spent that particular evening. 

What these old issues also provide is band histories as they happened. Snapshots of long careers. Given the very high price that the original papers (yellow papers as Gunta calls them) command online it is a shame that more are not digitised and put out there.

This was the infamous issue that featured our bass player as 'Stud Of The Year'. What is clear from this issue was that 1977 was unquestioningly the year of punk. The 'King of Rock 'n' Roll is dead 'Long live King Punk Rock!'. 

If anyone on here has old issues of NME, Sounds or Melody Maker etc scanned and would be happy to share please get in touch/

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