Category Archives: Interviews
18 Feb 2016 Interview: JJ Burnel, Spark
12 Feb 2016 Interview: JJ Burnel, Western Gazette
YOUR WEEKEND: Jean-Jacques Burnel from The Stranglers on touring Black And White
westerngazette.co.uk
""You've put the idea in my head now," Jean-Jacques smiles. "We'll see. La Folie was meant to be a pop album. It started as pop and then went off somewhere odd – a bit like us, really.""
31 Jan 2016 Interview: Baz Warne, Bristol 365
Interview with Baz Warne from The Stranglers playing in Bristol on 19 March 2016
365bristol.com
"Yes, it really is. I’ve sat over countless years learning the songs that I’ve been asked to learn, thinking “Oh Lord, I’m not looking forward to doing this” and then “Oh, is that all it is; it’s so easy”. It’s just the way it’s all been thought through and recorded."
19 Jan 2016 Interview: JJ Burnel, Falkirk Herald
Life’s black and white for punk legends The Stranglers
falkirkherald.co.uk
"We had to turn down an American tour because it’s just too much"
14 Jan 2016 Interview: Hugh Cornwell, All Access
An Interview With Influential Punk And New Wave Musician, HUGH CORNWELL On His Past Music With The Stranglers and Current Solo Work
allaccess.com
"Mose Allison is one of the all time greats of modern music, and one day will be talked about in the same breath as Cole Porter and Jerome Kern. He’s one of my only inspirations who is still alive."
23 Dec 2015 Interview: JJ Burnel, Louder Than War
INTERVIEW : March 2016 The Stranglers tour the iconic Black and White album : in depth chat with JJ Burnel
louderthanwar.com
"Yes! he just doesn’t know about clothes at all."
22 Nov 2015 Interview: Hugh Cornwell, BBC Radio Surrey
14 Nov 2015 Interview: Hugh Cornwell, The Telegraph
The Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell looks back: 'We played America, but that was never our focus'
telegraph.co.uk
"Being at school in the early 1960s, with all the music that was exploding at the time, was incredible."
10 Nov 2015 Interview: Hugh Cornwell, nodepression.com
Hugh Cornwell: From Pub Rock to Punk, with a Hint of Richard Thompson
nodepression.com
"“The banjo belonged to my grandfather,” he explained. “[He] played it for fun in the pubs around the East End. It seemed right to put it on to Train. I tuned it to an open chord and it's the only time I've played it.”"
07 Nov 2015 Interview: Hugh Cornwell, BBC Radio Devon
BBC Radio Devon
bbc.co.uk
"Hugh Cornwell joins Richard Green on the Retro Show to chat about his career. both inside and outside of the legendary "punk" band."
02 Nov 2015 Interview: Hugh Cornwell, Garry Bushell
Whatever Happened To… The Stranglers?
litopia.com
"Here Hugh talks about his formative years in Kentish Town, North London, the band he formed with schoolmate Richard Thompson (later of Fairport Convention fame), and why he decided to go solo."
31 Oct 2015 Interview: Hugh Cornwell, Ipswich Star
Bury St Edmunds bound Hugh Cornwell interviewed
ipswichstar.co.uk
"One of the most important figures in punk and new wave music, former Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell talks to entertainment writer Wayne Savage ahead of his Bury St Edmunds gig."
28 Oct 2015 Interview: JJ Burnel, talkSPORT
26 Oct 2015 Interview: JJ Burnel, Jaymag
JJ Burnel (The Stranglers), intervista
jaymag.it
"L’anno scorso gli Stranglers hanno superato brillantemente le Nozze di Rubino, nonostante un paio di divorzi – più o meno pacifici – di un certo rilievo."