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English Agenda
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Concerts
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Pop Music
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Rock
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Summercase 2008
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Over the course of a thrilling career spanning thirty years this band have managed to reinvent themselves time after time without ever losing their razor sharp essence. Founded by Jet Black, Jean Jacques Burnel, Hugo Cornwell and Dave Greenfields in Guildford, England in 1974, their absurd and irreverent lyrics (sometimes likened to Monty Python) and their personal mixture of punk attitude and New Wave elegance soon turned them into a massive cult band. In 1977 they supported The Ramones on their first U.K. tour. That same year, The Stranglers released their own first album, 'Rattus Norvegicus', which went on to become one of the highest selling albums of the punk era in Great Britain. Between then and 1990, when Cornwell decided to leave the group, they released ten albums and notched up chart hits all over the world with unforgettable singles like 'Peaches', 'No More Heroes' and 'Golden Brown'. After the departure of Cornwell, the band began a new phase with John Ellis as guitarist. Ellis would later be replaced by Baz Warne, who now sings on the majority of their tracks alongside Burnel. This latest period with Warne has seen the release of 'Norfolk Coast' (2004), an album which marked a real renaissance for the band, as well as their latest offering, 'Suite XVI' (2006). Golden Brown
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