THE STRANGLERS TO PLAY FESTIVAL WARM UP GIG AT KK’S STEELMILL NEXT WEEK
The Stranglers announce a special festival warm up show in Wolverhampton, it will be the first time the band have played in Wolves since 1999, and will perform at KKs Steelmill on Thursday 4th August 2022.
First formed in 1974, The Stranglers ‘no bullshit’ attitude was embraced by the punk movement of the late 70s. But their musicianship and menace transcended the genre, creating a sound unique to themselves. With their first three albums (Rattus Norvegicus, No More Heroes and Black and White) being released within an astonishing 13 months of each other, scoring hit singles with ‘Peaches’, ‘No More Heroes’ and ‘Walk On By’.
Further success was to follow with ‘Always The Sun’, ‘Strange Little Girl’ and the mercurial ‘Golden Brown’,
amongst many others, earning the group 24 Top 40 singles and 19 Top 40 albums in a career spanning six
different decades.
With this unique Stranglers sound, combining a brilliant melodic touch with a dark aggression and effortless cool, The Stranglers are now recognised as one of the most credible and influential bands to have emerged from the punk era.
The band’s latest album Dark Matters reached the UK top 5 in 2021 and was their highest charting album for 38 years showing The Stranglers are still a creative force to be reckoned with. Dark Matters contained the single ‘And If You Should See Dave…’ which weas dedicated to their much-missed keyboard player Dave Greenfield, who tragically passed away last year from Covid-19.
Watch the video below:
On the song, JJ Burnel says “We wanted to create a feeling of space, after all one of us was missing. Dave was a bit of a petrol head, he loved fast cars. The only time we made a video with a car was when we were in L.A and with the help of a Hollywood cameraman and a Stranglers’ friend, Dave Stump, we drove around the city in a 1964 Ford Mustang. That was the video for ‘All Roads Lead to Rome’. It felt appropriate to use that west coast psychedelic feel of the music to convey the mystery of Dave.”
The album achieved wide critical acclaim and was described by many music mags as ‘their best album for forty years’.
The band have just finished a sell out 2021/2022 final headline tour around the UK and for tickets for this very special warm up show, head over to KK’s Steelmill website
For full tour details and more information click here
