Sorry meant to post this last night but fell asleep after a draining 30 minutes in the company of Alan Partridge! Here's 999 on the south coast back in 2010.
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-5D159jKLy1
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-wqJuNIAK0y
Tuesday, 26 February 2019
999 Champions Bar Bournemouth 25th February 2010
Sorry meant to post this last night but fell asleep after a draining 30 minutes in the company of Alan Partridge! Here's 999 on the south coast back in 2010.
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-5D159jKLy1
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-wqJuNIAK0y
Saturday, 23 February 2019
Abergavenny Music Festival Bailey Park 21st August 2005
Well, this morning's Stranglers offering was to be their gig at Durham University on 23rd February 1981. However, on playback, the quality is so poor that it really wasn't worth it. So instead I give you a festival set from Welsh Wales from 2005.
MP3 (as received): https://we.tl/t-JxF6i2l2WV
01. Waltzinblack (Intro)
02. Norfolk Coast
03. Skin Deep
04. Big Thing Coming
05. Peaches
06. All Day & All Of The Night
07. Always The Sun
08. Long Black Veil
09. Golden Brown
10. Nuclear Device
11. Summat Outanowt
12. Walk On By
13. Duchess
14. Lost Control
15. Who Wants The World?
16. I’ve Been Wild
17. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
18. Tank
19. 5 Minutes
20. No More Heroes
21. Meninblack (Outro)
Sunday, 17 February 2019
The Brighton Centre 17th February 1983
36 years ago tonight the band played what could have been/should have been my first Stranglers gig. A lot of my school mates went... changing in the toilets and sneaking out the back of the school. Mt mate did give me the current issue of Strangled and a Rat and Raven badge!
Does anyone have a lossless version of this that they can send me?
MP3: https://we.tl/t-o3CIQqfZqH
01. Nuclear Device/Toiler On The Sea
02. Ships That Pass In The Night
03. It's A Small World
04. Just Like Nothing On Earth
05. No More Heroes
06. Who Wants The World?
07. Never Say Goodbye
08. Baroque Bordello
09. Golden Brown
10. Princess Of The Streets
11. Midnight Summer Dream/European Female
12. Tramp
13. The Raven
14. Duchess
15. London Lady
16. Bring On The Nubiles (Cocktail Version)
17. Genetix
Saturday, 16 February 2019
Nagoyashi Kokaido Nagoya Japan 16th February 1979
I had forgotten how good this was! Last posted in February 2012 here it is again dusted down on its 40th birthday no less!
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-ulEwH1gvk1
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-oxWHXJw5yV
01. Ugly
02. Burning Up Time
03. Sometimes
04. Straighten Out
05. Dead Ringer
06. Bring On The Nubiles
07. Hanging Around
08. No More Heroes
09. Curfew
10. Threatened
11. Nice 'N' Sleazy
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Jilted John & John Otway The Junction 2 Cambridge 6th October 2018
This was an odd one and my presence here was solely down to my daughter. At 17, even she is somewhat older than the average Jilted John fan would have been back in 1978.
The Jilted one, or to give him his correct title, Graham Fellows, is something of a talent. Not only can he claim to be the hormonally fired up adolescent John, at the other end of the spectrum he has given us the keyboard playing philosopher John Shuttleworth…… he’s even been on Coronation Street!
In 1978 he has a surprise and solitary hit with the eponymous single ‘Jilted John’ which memorably related the disintegration of his relationship with a girl by the name of Julie who had fallen for the all-round bigger, stronger and better Gordon. In a year where it seemed be impossible to avoid for more than thirty a multitude of cheesy refrains lifted from the soundtrack of the year’s biggest blockbuster, Grease, hearing Johns wretched tale of lost love was a blessed relief to all….. unless your name happened to be Gordon! Apparently listeners of BBC Radio’s 6 Music voted ‘Jilted John’ to be the greatest one hit wonder of all time.
As a rule I never like to go to a gig with knowledge of one song and one song only. Therefore I made an effort and got hold of a copy of ‘True Love Stories’, a CD which on first hearing contained 13 variants of ‘Jilted John’…… seemingly only the titles had been changed! But I persevered and actually grew to like the album in a very short time. ‘Fancy Mice’, ‘Baz’s Party’ and ‘Karen’s Letter’ are great new wave novelty songs, even if they are firmly lodged back in 1978.
Support for the evening came from the brilliantly madcap John Otway who treated us not only to his hits (amounting to two since ‘Bunsen Burner’ was hyped into the charts by his fans as a 50th birthday present!) but also his ‘twelve’ string rendition of ‘Blockbuster’ along with a new song ‘Real Tears From Both Eyes’ which amongst other things references John’s famous, ball breaking debut on the Old Grey Whistle Test!
Shortly after John vacated the stage, a teenage 59 year old sporting a t-shirt bearing the slogan ‘Legend since 1978’ bounded on to the stage only to get into a wrestling match with his anorak as the band struck up with the opening chords of yeah guess what….. ‘Jilted John’. Well thought I, there’s a confident start, how’s he gonna follow that. But he did with a run through of most of the ‘True Love Stories’ album.
But has John been doing nothing for the last 40 years? Oh no! There’s the delights of ‘Kiera Knightly’ to enjoy with its appetising refrain…
‘Kiera, Kiera, eat your dinner,
Kiera, Kiera, you can’t get much thinner,
Go to a restaurant with Michael Winner,
Kiera, Kiera, eat your dinner’.
Cerebral stuff indeed.
'Jilted John' by Jilted John
The Junction Cambridge 6th October 2018.
The set drew to a close and no surprise, surprise ‘Jilted John’ got a second airing only this time with the added vocal talents of John Otway on backing…. However John O had neglected to learn the words! But this is punk rock ’78 style so who cares!
'It's 'Gordon is a Moron!' John!'
Gaining pearls of wisdom from Jilted John.
Sheffield City Hall 13th February 1985
Anniversary gig alert.... on this day in 1985..... Aural Sculpture in Sheffield!
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-ZgoNvwQlDl
01. Something Better Change
02. Nuclear Device
03. Uptown
04. Dead Ringer
05. No Mercy
06. Nice ‘N’ Sleazy
07. Thrown Away
08. Let Me Down Easy
09. Midnight Summer Dream
10. European Female
11. Ships That Pass In The Night
12. Golden Brown
01. Peaches
02. Death & Night & Blood
03. Threatened
04. Punch & Judy
05. Hanging Around
06. I Feel Like A Wog
07. Down In The Sewer
08. Nubiles (Cocktail Version)
09. Toiler On The Sea
10. The Raven
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