Hugh Cornwell Epic Norwich 6th November 2025

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.

Saturday, 3 January 2026

Hugh Cornwell Epic Norwich 6th November 2025

So this is the last one for today and perhaps I have saved the best to last. Here it is, 'Nosferatu' in all its gruesome, gothic glory. What's more Shadow 23 has applied some of his audio magic to make this one even better. Listening to these live versions of the Nosferatu tracks, it strikes me again how brave Cornwell and Burnel were in putting out the solo albums that they did at that time, since both deviated significantly from that 'Stranglers' sound. Burnel suffered rather for his art in this respect, especially when he took 'Euroman Cometh' out on the road (a factor in the fact that mooted Nosferatu live dates never materialised?.... it sounds like a plausible theory).