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Doors 7.30pm

Support 7.45pm

Hugh Cornwell 8.45pm

Times approx.

This is a mainly standing gig. There are a few seats available, but on a

first come basis.

Only a couple of  tickets remaining for Hugh Cornwell - call 07760 400 226 as they are no longer available from this web site.

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 “Hugh’s book is proof that every Stranglers lyric had a distinct origin, a reason for being written, a personal meaning- in some cases, so deeply personal it would have been unfathomable without his explanation. What a great thing it would be if other musicians and lyricists of stature wrote similar sorts of books, deconstructing (a word Hugh himself might use) their songs, talking about their lyrics and imagery."

Paul Theroux

September 2001

Autobiography

A Multitude of Sins  

Out Now 

New Album

  Beyond Elysian Fields

Out Now  

New Single

Under Her Spell 

Out Now

Back in April, Hugh was on tour with Jim Drury, but performed solo. We sold out well before the gig and there were a lot of very disappointed fans who could not get tickets.  Again, ticket numbers for this Cluny gig are limited and we expect another sell out, so don't leave it any longer - book you ticket now.

A very brief Hugh Cornwell background ....

Hugh Cornwell, the original guitarist, singer and main songwriter in the Stranglers, enjoyed massive success with ten hit albums and twenty-one top forty singles in the 17-year period that he was in the band. He has revelled in his musical freedom ever since he stepped off the stage after a Stranglers’ sold out gig at Alexandra Palace in the summer of 1990 and announced that it was the last time he would be fronting the group.

Hugh felt it was “a bit like having a noose” around his creative neck and that it was time to do something different. He said: “To leave a band you’ve been with for seventeen years is an emotional decision and you feel it internally. The hard thing was not being able to talk to anyone about it. But I wanted to do it and that was that. With the Stranglers no chances were being taken any more. Although we continued to experiment with our music, the band had become an institution which meant that all the danger and risk had gone".

Risk is clearly something Cornwell relishes: “I love venturing into the unknown. It is the only way to get emotional feedback and it drives the creative focus. If you carry on along the same safe and familiar route, you’ll never experience anything at a new level, and you begin to lose the ability to judge what’s good around you."

Hugh has released five other studio albums, ‘Nosferatu’ (1979) ‘Wolf’ (1988) 'Wired' (1993), 'Guilty' (1997) and 'Hi-fi' (2001) which included the song 'Leave Me Alone', featured in its entirety in the new Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly) film ‘Trigger Men’. In response to public demand he has also released ‘Mayday’, a full live band set; and ‘In the Dock’, a solo acoustic album, featuring many Stranglers’ classics. The catalogue is completed by the release of ‘Footprints in the Desert’, a compilation of rare and unreleased tracks from the last ten years.

The Stranglers etched themselves into the nation's musical psyche with many hit singles, including 'Peaches', 'No More Heroes', 'Golden Brown', 'Always The Sun', 'Grip', 'Nice N’ Sleazy', 'Duchess', 'Walk On By', 'Strange Little Girl' and 'Skin Deep', all of which were written against a background of spectacular success, dismal failure, drug dependency, infighting, misfortune and financial ruin.

October 2001 saw the release of the Tori Amos album 'Strange Little Girls', named after the Stranglers’ song  'Strange Little Girl', which was released as the first single on 1^st September in the USA. Cerys Mathews of Catatonia released a previously unheard Hugh Cornwell/Roger Cook composition, entitled ‘Chardonnay’, as the lead track of her first solo album, released in May of 2003.

In March 2004 Hugh completed his new album ‘Beyond Elysian Fields’ in New Orleans and NYC with Danny Kadar (My Morning Jacket) and Tony Visconti, who produced the last two David Bowie albums and co-produced tracks on the new ‘Manic Street Preachers’ album. Tony mixed the Stranglers’ two biggest worldwide hits, ‘Golden Brown’ and ‘Strange Little Girl’. Hugh has also contributed the lead vocal to the opening track ‘Underground’ on the latest ‘Mousse T’ album ‘All Nite Madness’ and also performed to a capacity house on the Left Field stage at Glastonbury 2004.

‘Beyond Elysian Fields’ was released on October 4^th 2004 on the legendary Track Record label, alongside his eagerly awaited autobiography ‘A Multitude Of Sins’, published by Harper Collins. He has completed the first leg of a very successful tour and book signing sessions across the UK have been incredibly well received, culminating in a Reading and Acoustic performance at Europe’s finest Literary Festival ‘Crossing Border’ in The Netherlands. He was also the only none Czech artist to be formally invited to perform at the Prague street Festival to celebrate 15 years of the Student uprising and to open Speakers Corner in the Czech Republic!  Hugh is one of this country’s finest song-writing talents and accomplished live performers.