Years After: The Stranglers – "Tomorrow was the Hereafter" ". Songsmiths. 9 September 2020 . Retrieved 14 December 2021. Get the train to Newcastle, the Railcard is proving it’s worth again. There’s snow on the hills and it’s really cold. Get to the venue and see a couple of faces we’ve seen a few times, Mark Senior from Sheffield and Greg Herman from Wolverhampton. We’ve also seen Gary Bainbridge a few times. Greg is pretty quiet but Mark is the life and soul, a very lively character. He’s a big fan of Taxi Girl and gets to know them, even travelling to some gigs with them.

Much of Dark Matters was put together remotely. “Finding these fragments that Dave had left us felt exciting,” Warne explains. “We got permission from his widow, which was important, then we realised we needed to pour it out.” a b Cornwell, Hugh (2001). The Stranglers: Song by Song. London: Sanctuary. ISBN 978-1-86074-362-7. Warne watched all this from afar at home in Sunderland. He was a childhood fan who was “Bonnie Baz” in Wearside punks Toy Dolls before joining the Stranglers in 2000. It has not always been easy. “The week after joining, I was singing to troops in Kosovo, a war zone,” he says. “I had hair and a waistline before I joined the Stranglers.” Not that there haven’t been highs, such as “an unforgettable day at Glastonbury in 2010, when we played to 80,000 people – apparently more than U2.” I get the tube to Finsbury Park to the legendary Rainbow, my favourite London venue, that has been the scene of some great Stranglers nights.

a b c d "Stranglers | Artist | Official Charts". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 30 April 2013. The lyrics to "Ain't Nothin' to It" are credited to American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow. The band compiled expressions from Mezzrow's autobiography Really the Blues, which contains many passages of jive talk, and used them for the lyrics of the song. [8] The Stranglers – Tomorrow Was The Hereafter". Discogs. 31 August 1980 . Retrieved 14 December 2021.

We missed this gig. For some reason we couldn’t go tonight so that’s the first missed gig on the tour… Dave was 70, so he was put in quarantine,” Warne recalls. “He said, ‘I don’t know how I’ll cope.’ I told him to chill out, but I was desperately worried. The band had been his life for 45 years. He’d always needed something to focus on, so I was worried what sitting at home would do to him.” In the event, Greenfield died during a long stay in hospital for heart surgery. “He was already very poorly,” Burnel sighs. “Covid was the last nail in his coffin.” Brilliant gig tonight, really enjoyable helped by unobtrusive bouncers. The night ends with a train to Bristol and another night in the waiting room… Go and make my way inside and watch Taxi Girl for the last time. It’s a great atmosphere tonight which builds up waiting for the MIB. The venueWe then go to the venue which is a big hall and watch the support acts. First it’s ‘Dr Spratt and his 21st Century Motets’–or something like that! Didn’t really like them though. Next up are a band from France ‘Taxi Girl’ (left) and pretty good they are too.

Cornwell, Hugh; Drury, Jim (2001). The Stranglers Song By Song. Sanctuary Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-86074-362-5. It’s a great atmosphere tonight, the Odeon is a great venue and the gig ends with quite a few on the stage.

White, Paul (October 1985). "Tony Visconti". Home & Studio Recording (Oct 1985): 54–58 . Retrieved 14 December 2021.

Greenfield came up with the music for their most famous song, 1982’s Golden Brown, a harpsichord piece in 6/8 waltz time, which lyricist Cornwell later said was about both heroin and a girl. When the record company rejected it, the band invoked a contractual clause to make them put it out. “They released it at Christmas, expecting it to be drowned in a tsunami of Christmas singles,” Burnel recalls with relish. “After it was a hit all over the world, they asked for ‘another Golden Brown’. So we gave them a seven-minute song in French.” This was La Folie, which made allusions to Japanese necrophiliac murderer and cannibal Issei Sagawa. It charted at No 47. The Stranglers had initially been the most commercially successful band of the punk/ new wave period in Britain, but by 1981, their success had waned noticeably. La folie was a conscious attempt to deliver a more commercial product. [3] It is co-produced by the band with engineer Steve Churchyard and mixed by Tony Visconti. [4] [5] The band's record company, EMI, gave Visconti a brief to mix each song as a potential single. [3]Meanwhile, Greenfield’s condition gave him a highly idiosyncratic approach to making music. “He couldn’t improvise,” says Burnel, “and if we wanted any last-minute changes to the setlist, he’d just freak out.” However, Greenfield’s devotion to creativity was such that he thought nothing of taking three days to learn the electronic pattern on the song Genetix, note by note. “He ‘programmed’ himself,” smiles Burnel. “People thought it was a sequencer. It was a human being.” train to Crewe and taxi to Alsager and have a nice warm bed for the night. We’re up early in the morning for a bath and a breakfast of bacon, eggs It’s summer ’81 and The Stranglers have been busy rehearsing new material before recording starts at The Manor in August. Some good news is announced in Strangled, tour dates for November and December to promote the new album which is to be titled La Folie. Jet had previously informed us in our holy mag that it was all about The Stranglers take on love!! So waiting in eager anticipation….. Get the train on my own as Dean has gone earlier. Meet up with Greg and Mark, who’s on top form tonight as it’s his home town gig. It’s a milestone for me too as it’s my 50th Stranglers gig! We have several beers and go and enjoy ourselves down the front–great gig. This is the last day of the tour so I want to enjoy the whole day. I get the train early and arrive in London late morning and even see a few sights.