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Too much good stuff on the first two albums, and after a while I got to like the Raven. Slightly later fave was midnight summers dream when I think that they were at their most intersting. All a bit down hill after that sadly.


Saw them at five different venues but not at the Hope and Anchor.


My Hugh Cornwall story is that whilst he was in Pentonville Jimmy Lydon (John's brother) started a campaign to keep him in there.

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Something of a guilty pleasure in that I liked some of the tunes but thought the band were winkers. Saw them twice in Coventry 77-78, Jean Jaques Tosseur jumped off stage for a 'fight' on both occasions and at the 78 gig the crowd booed them off and chanted for the support band (Steel Pulse) to come back on.
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but true - they were a little bit sneered at at the time as "not real punk" and all that rot, hence they were a guilty pleasure (and one i rarely admitted to back then). I don't think they liked Coventry very much.
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Malumbu has nailed the Stranglers in that post. Some great early stuff, but it was the Feline album which genuinely impressed me. Shame it didn't lead anywhere


The other useful part of this thread is I now know who Lady D is, thanks to a parallel splurge on facebook

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"Hippies with short hair" - John Lydon



...I do like Rattus though. JJB made a stage appearance with Riff Raff (the Essex Bard's first group) when I saw them in a very small venue...."Jean Jaques Burnel je Suis Un Rockstar", sums him up nice

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StraferJack Wrote:

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> The other useful part of this thread is I now know

> who Lady D is, thanks to a parallel splurge on

> facebook



True but I think I know who you are now too.

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