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THE STRANGLERS RELEASE ‘GIANTS’ ON MARCH 5TH 2012.

The Stranglers, who are still the UK’s most dangerously eccentric band, release their eagerly awaited new album, ‘Giants’ on 5th March 2012. The record coincides with an extensive European tour, kicking off with eighteen dates in the UK commencing 1st March.

The Stranglers are Jet Black (drums), JJ Burnel (bass and lead vocals), Dave Greenfield (keyboards) and Baz Warne (guitar and lead vocals). Giants features JJ Burnel and Baz Warne on shared vocal duties and boasts those trademark Stranglers bass lines and keyboard runs as well as a waltz (!) and the first instrumental the band have recorded since 1980. The full track listing runs: Another Camden Afternoon, Freedom Is Insane, Giants, Lowlands, Boom Boom, My Fickle Resolve, Time Was Once On My Side, Mercury Rising, Adios, 15 Steps.

In recent years the Stranglers have appeared at Glastonbury, T in the Park, V Festivals, Hyde Park and Isle of Wight in the UK as well as their counterparts across Europe. The band’s UK tour details are as follows:

1 March    Leeds O2 Academy
2 March    Dunfermline Alhambra
3 March    Glasgow O2 Academy
5 March    Liverpool O2 Academy
6 March    Nottingham Rock City
8 March    Cambridge Corn Exchange
9 March    London Roundhouse
10 March    Birmingham O2 Academy
12 March    Oxford O2 Academy
13 March    Portsmouth Pyramids Centre
15 March    Lincoln Engine Shed
16 March    Brighton Dome
17 March    Bristol O2 Academy
19 March    Leamington Spa Assembly
20 March    Guildford G-Live
22 March    Newcastle O2 Academy
23 March    Sheffield O2 Academy
24 March    Manchester O2 Academy

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Reviews

Times supplement, March 2012

Times supplement, March 2012

Times supplement, March 2012

Mojo, Review

Vive Le Rock, Review

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