The Stranglers Live in concert
taken with my (very average) phone so not the greatest of photos.
In the late seventies and eighties I saw the original line up quite a few times. Last year I saw Hugh Cornwell do the complete Rattus album live. For some reason I didn't really want to see the new band ( erm actually one new member in over 30 years!) just in case it spoiled the memories of the old days. I needn't have worried - they were great. Such fabulous musicians. How Jet Black manages with such a small drum kit I'll never know.
Instead of going to see them somewhere twenty minutes away which I could've done I set off on a motorcycle round trip of over 400 miles in freezing (yes freezing) conditions.
At the weekend I was out with a friend of mine who spends his working life removing tumours from peoples bowels (mmm not nice) which often takes over five hours of sheer concentration and we reckoned that a long trip on a motorbike probably required a similar amount of concentration and one slip can be a matter of life or death. Riding a bike over a long distance can be a pretty sublime experience. He said that in the car you can be listening to the Cd, talking on the phone (hands free of course) whilst slurping a Capri Sun whilst enjoying the ambient temperature. Riding a bike is pure.
Motorcycling and The Stranglers in the same weekend? Bliss. It was even better than that actually but thats another story involving food, single malt whisky and football.
The Stranglers Live in concert
taken with my (very average) phone so not the greatest of photos.
In the late seventies and eighties I saw the original line up quite a few times. Last year I saw Hugh Cornwell do the complete Rattus album live. For some reason I didn't really want to see the new band ( erm actually one new member in over 30 years!) just in case it spoiled the memories of the old days. I needn't have worried - they were great. Such fabulous musicians. How Jet Black manages with such a small drum kit I'll never know.
Instead of going to see them somewhere twenty minutes away which I could've done I set off on a motorcycle round trip of over 400 miles in freezing (yes freezing) conditions.
At the weekend I was out with a friend of mine who spends his working life removing tumours from peoples bowels (mmm not nice) which often takes over five hours of sheer concentration and we reckoned that a long trip on a motorbike probably required a similar amount of concentration and one slip can be a matter of life or death. Riding a bike over a long distance can be a pretty sublime experience. He said that in the car you can be listening to the Cd, talking on the phone (hands free of course) whilst slurping a Capri Sun whilst enjoying the ambient temperature. Riding a bike is pure.
Motorcycling and The Stranglers in the same weekend? Bliss. It was even better than that actually but thats another story involving food, single malt whisky and football.