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"In the early days, it was actually Oasis supporting us, but that changed very quickly. I suppose it was easy to look at what was happening to Oasis and think, ‘I want a bit of that’": Former Verve guitarist Nick McCabe on Britpop and musical inspiration

“I could never see the connection with the Verve, really," says McCabe. "I had nothing against Britpop at all and there was some amazing music that came out of it, but it wasn’t the sound that we wanted to make"

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“It became cool to slag off prog, but what do you think these punk musicians did when they got home? Listened to the bands they’d been having a go at”: JJ Burnel on how Caravan inspired a Stranglers track

After falling in love with In The Land Of Grey And Pink, the bassist created Down In The Sewer as a response – and if that makes his band prog, he’s fine with it

Louder

‘Good evening Halifax’: how a Georgian cloth hall became one of the UK’s biggest open-air music venues

Noel Gallagher and the Stranglers are among this week’s acts at the Piece Hall, once the centre of the Yorkshire textile industry and now the UK’s go-to live venue

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“We took his trousers off, gaffer-taped him to one of the girders and left him there to be photographed by Japanese tourists.” That time The Stranglers gaffer-taped a journalist to the Eiffel Tower, 400 feet off the ground

UK punks The Stranglers were not a band to be messed with

Louder

The venue that came back from the dead

In the late 60s, a disused Victorian railway shed in North London hosted some of the most unforgettable and legendary gigs, raves and all-night freak-outs of all time

Metal Hammer

"Me, Bono and Bowie hijacked a Mini and drove to this restaurant where the Edge was to sing him Happy Birthday": What happened when we went record shopping with Joe Elliott

We gave Def Leppard's Joe Elliott £50

Louder

"The force that is in this music can never be extinguished": Read the letter U2's Bono wrote to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean hailing Smells Like Teen Spirit as a song that saved his life

"What a band. What a song. What a sound. What a voice."

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Hors du Temps (Suspended Time) review – lockdown memoir revives childhood bliss

Olivier Assayas’ thinly disguised autobiographical study of a film-maker’s Edenic experience during Covid isolation is a civilised pleasure

The Guardian - UK

"Our new record label thought we were awful, and they hated Golden Brown. They said, you're finished": Jean-Jacques Burnel on why The Stranglers' best-known song was "a threat to the powers that be"

In February 1982, Golden Brown became The Stranglers' highest-charting UK single, eventually selling over 500,000 copies. Not bad for a song their label didn't want to release

Louder

"For one whole year, me and some of the other guys decided to take heroin to see if it inspired us creatively": JJ Burnel on The Stranglers' unorthodox heroin experiment

Public Service Announcement: don't do this

Louder

“Though quintessentially punk records, their first two albums featured tricky time signatures, a four-part musical suite, and songs that clocked in at seven minutes”: The Stranglers were always more prog than you thought

Third album Black And White is Exhibit A in a case that also includes Robert Fripp, Peter Hammill, Steve Hillage and Nik Turner

Louder

10 terrible punk albums with one classic song

These punk albums are stinkers that only a mother could truly love, but each features one redeeming, gleaming diamond in the dirt

Metal Hammer

God Save the Punks: London braces for Iggy Pop’s new festival Dog Day Afternoon

The new one-dayer at Crystal Palace Park pays homage to the spirit and legacy of punk

Evening Standard

Security guards slammed for spraying brawlers with red paint 'that looked like blood'

A judge said that the security team who sprayed red paint at brawlers attending a Stranglers concert in Stoke-on-Trent made a bad situation worse as they thought it was blood

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Guitar World

The strange history of Hugh Cornwell’s Höfner S7L – the ‘Razorwood’ electric guitar made famous by The Stranglers

How a little known and short-lived guitar from Höfner found its way into the hands of The Stranglers’ Hugh Cornwell around the time of the band’s hit Golden Brown

The Guardian - UK

Ed Sheeran’s court victory reveals the paradox of putting creativity on trial

In a case that raises interesting questions about the dividing line between inspiration and plagiarism, the singer-songwriter took a stand for artistic freedom and won

Louder

The story of The Stranglers' controversial No More Heroes album: "We got away with murder"

Hugh Cornwell tells the story of the Stranglers' summer-of-punk-classic second album No More Heroes: "We definitely couldn’t get away with that now"

Newcastle Herald

The Stranglers are coming to Newcastle in April

"I'm always amazed that our music still has relevance to many despite never being completely mainstream."

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The Guardian - UK

Jet Black obituary

Founding member and drummer of the Stranglers who set up the group after a business career in home-brewing and ice-cream

Daily Mirror

Jet Black dead: The Stranglers' drummer dies aged 84 after 'years of ill health'

The Stranglers' drummer Jet Black, real name Brian John Duffy, has died aged 84 following 'years of ill health', his representatives have announced

The Independent UK

The Stranglers’ drummer Jet Black dies aged 84

The musician has been remembered for his unique style and a string of other talents including writing, business and furniture making

Chronicle Live

The Stranglers at Newcastle City Hall when pogoing fans brought the show to a halt

A show by punk band The Stranglers at Newcastle City Hall 45 years ago was brought to a halt when boisterous fans invaded the stage to pogo

Bristol Post

Bristol O2 Academy: The Stranglers pay homage to 'one of their favourite' places to play

"You have to crane your neck to see the folks at the very top…and you can see that they’re bracing their hands on the ceiling, so far up are they…just amazing."

Bristol Post

Stranglers are playing their final ever Bristol show tonight

The punk-rock/post-punk rock band have been performing since 1974

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