Monthly Archives: August 2013

25 Aug 2013 The Stranglers at the Galtres Festival

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8,000 revellers brave the elements to attend Galtres Parklands Festival
yorkpress.co.uk
"About 8,000 revellers descended on Duncombe Park, Helmsley, for a line-up including The Stranglers, Maximo Park, Reef and The Undertones. "

Review: Galtres Festival, day three: Pirates, lumberjacks and Stranglers
yorkmix.com
"Finally it’s on to headline act The Stranglers. Alfie’s stag do are all there, slightly worse for wear. It’s the largest and most animated crowd I’ve seen all weekend. "

Peaches
The Stranglers - "Peaches" - Galtres Festival, 25th August 2013

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12 Aug 2013 The Stranglers at the Proms

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Prom 40: 6 Music Prom, FT Laura Marling, Cerys Matthews and others (****)
independent.co.uk
"Always more than three-chord wonders, the once-belligerent punk veterans returned for the gorgeous harpsichord-inflected 'Golden Brown', the black-dressed four-piece and the classical ensemble weaving a bewitching tapestry of obscure time signatures."

Prom 40: 6 Music Prom, The Stranglers, Laura Marling, London Sinfonietta
theartsdesk.com
"The first Radio 6 Prom collides, with mixed results, the Stranglers and Berio, Laura Marling and Xenakis"

Live | Laura Marling, Cerys Matthews, The Stranglers & the London Sinfonietta @ Royal Albert Hall
forfolkssake.com
"The Stranglers were as commanding as you’d expect but finale ‘Golden Brown’ felt more messy than it should – a near-perfect pop song that didn’t especially benefit from added depth and complexity and a bit of confusion around time signatures."

Proms 2013: 6 Music Prom, Royal Albert Hall - music review
standard.co.uk
"The first 6 Music Prom saw The Stranglers smothered by London Sinfonietta, but Laura Marling shone through with songs that showed the worlds of pop and classical can do perfectly well without each other"

Prom 40: 6 Music – The Stranglers, Cerys Matthews, Laura Marling, Anna Stéphany, London Sinfonietta
classicalsource.com
"We had come full-circle, and The Stranglers were back with a triptych of hit songs. ‘Always the Sun’ and ‘Duchess’ gave the band a chance to settle-in further, Jean-Jacques Burnel’s resonant vocals audience-supported."

Prom 40: The 6 Music Prom with London Sinfonietta, The Stranglers, Laura Marling and more
bachtrack.com
"It was just a pity that piling the heavily-amped electric instruments on top of the Sinfonietta’s playing resulted in a somewhat cacophonous sound; the Royal Albert Hall’s acoustic was largely to blame."

Golden Brown
Stranglers at the Proms - Golden Brown

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12 Aug 2013 The Stranglers, Metro

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The Stranglers – From Golden Brown to golden boys at the Albert Hall
metro.co.uk
"But the announcement earlier this year that The Stranglers – whose leeringly macho single Peaches was banned by the BBC in 1977 – would be performing at the 119th iteration of Henry Wood’s annual Beeb-supported classical music festival still managed to raise a few eyebrows. Punks at the Proms!"

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