White, Paul (October 1985). "Tony Visconti". Home & Studio Recording (Oct 1985): 54–58 . Retrieved 14 December 2021. train to Crewe and taxi to Alsager and have a nice warm bed for the night. We’re up early in the morning for a bath and a breakfast of bacon, eggs

Larkin, Colin (2011). "Stranglers". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th conciseed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8. This week all the gigs are up north so myself and Dean have booked another week off work. We’re fully refreshed and raring to go. We’re really looking forward to going to Glasgow again, especially the legendary Apollo. Dean has never been before and doesn’t know what a good night he’s in for… Much of Dark Matters was put together remotely. “Finding these fragments that Dave had left us felt exciting,” Warne explains. “We got permission from his widow, which was important, then we realised we needed to pour it out.”Other highlights being Threatened, Baroque Bordello and Tank and the encore which Hugh introduces ‘Here’s a bit of cabaret’. He starts to sing along to Dave then the band launch into a full blooded version of Bring On The Nubiles–brilliant–and they finish off with Duchess and The Raven. As on the Gospel… tour, there’s not much early stuff, with nothing at all off Rattus, but there’s still more than enough to keep us happy. We meet Mark and Greg at the venue. Greg has started to help out S.I.S on the merchandise a few times. He is another one, like Gary Bainbridge, who went to follow The Stranglers on tour and ended up working for S.I.S. The Stranglers had initially been the most commercially successful band of the punk/ new wave period in Britain, but by 1981, their success had waned noticeably. La folie was a conscious attempt to deliver a more commercial product. [3] It is co-produced by the band with engineer Steve Churchyard and mixed by Tony Visconti. [4] [5] The band's record company, EMI, gave Visconti a brief to mix each song as a potential single. [3] a b Cornwell, Hugh (2001). The Stranglers: Song by Song. London: Sanctuary. ISBN 978-1-86074-362-7.

But that’s not the end… Dates had just been announced for a part two tour in January and February 1982. These really are golden times being a Stranglers fan! Two albums and two tours in the same year and another tour in a few months. Don’t forget, it had also only been 18 months since WWTW tour–golden times indeed… Years After: The Stranglers – "Tomorrow was the Hereafter" ". Songsmiths. 9 September 2020 . Retrieved 14 December 2021. One piece of good news I’ve arranged for us to stop at my Grandma’s house–bless her–who lives in Alsager near Crewe. So, we get the By then, Dave Greenfield’s glorious baroque playing was all over the charts. Before his death from Covid in May last year, the keyboard wizard had spent 45 years in the Stranglers, appearing on 23 top 40 singles and 17 top 40 albums as they established themselves as one of Britain’s most enduring bands. Next month, some of his final recordings will appear on the band’s 18th album, Dark Matters, which Burnel calls “our first genuinely grownup album”. The album contains untypical, beautifully raw ruminations on depression, ageing and mortality. Most of it was put together after Greenfield’s death, a process that singer-guitarist Baz Warne, a genial and open Wearsider, found cathartic. “We opened up a huge well of emotion,” says the 57-year-old. The Stranglers – Tomorrow Was The Hereafter". Discogs. 31 August 1980 . Retrieved 14 December 2021.It’s summer ’81 and The Stranglers have been busy rehearsing new material before recording starts at The Manor in August. Some good news is announced in Strangled, tour dates for November and December to promote the new album which is to be titled La Folie. Jet had previously informed us in our holy mag that it was all about The Stranglers take on love!! So waiting in eager anticipation….. Dave was 70, so he was put in quarantine,” Warne recalls. “He said, ‘I don’t know how I’ll cope.’ I told him to chill out, but I was desperately worried. The band had been his life for 45 years. He’d always needed something to focus on, so I was worried what sitting at home would do to him.” In the event, Greenfield died during a long stay in hospital for heart surgery. “He was already very poorly,” Burnel sighs. “Covid was the last nail in his coffin.”