Hugh Cornwell dates have been announced for both sides of the Atlantic. Between March 3rd and March 13th, Hugh will be on tour in the UK with the full band. A solo gig on March 14th (Banbury) will finish off the first leg of the UK tour.

Then it's over to North America for solo "Plugged and Unplugged" dates, starting in Toronto on March 16th and finishing in Philadelphia on March 21st.

Returning to the UK, Hugh will then embark on a series of solo gigs from March 23rd-27th.

Full details can be found on the official Hugh Cornwell site.

No More Heroes will be playing at the Focsle & Firkin, Hull, on 20th February 1999. Apparently, Carl from TVG Raven, the Stranglers' merchandiser, will be at the gig with some special offers on Stranglers and No More Heroes merchandise.

Niki Greene tells us that Voiceprint (who run the Fan Club) have asked her to compile a list of people who have outstanding Strangled subscriptions and who have now subscribed to Voiceprint.

If this applies to you, please contact Niki directly (before Feb 2nd), detailing what you have received from Voiceprint, when the subscription commenced and how much you had left of your Strangled subscription.

Replies will be checked by Voiceprint for validity of the claim.

Niki Greene
5 Blacksmith Court
Market Street
Tunstead
Norwich
Norfolk NR12 8AH
England

Orange Alert is a Stranglers Tribute band based in Leeds, UK. Most of their gigging has been in the Yorkshire area, but they tell us that they are beginning to spread their net a bit wider.

They have just launched a web page at http://www.prisoner.force9.co.uk. They can also be contacted on email at: orangealert@bigfoot.com.

Humphrey Yoghurt has informed us that he has set up a mailing list "in celebration of Dave Greenfield and his Keyboard virtuosity", under the title of "De-gas: the Dave Greenfield Appreciation Society".

Subscription information can be found at: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/DEGAS

On February 23rd, Velvel will be releasing the latest Hugh Cornwell album in the U.S.. Renamed "Black Hair Black Eyes Black Suit" ("Guilty" in the U.K.), this release will feature new packaging and cover artwork, plus two new tracks -- "Jesus Will Weep" and "Not Hungry Enough" ("Five Miles High" will not appear on this release). According to Velvel, reissues of "Wired," "Nosferatu" and "Wolf" will follow later this year. For more information, check out the newly posted Hugh page on the Velvel website.

U.S. and Canadian Tour dates (Around March and April) will be confirmed shortly -- check out The Torture Garden for more details.

The Stranglers' mechandiser, T.V.G. Raven, tells us that, in addition to their regular merchandise list, a large quantity of vinyl LPs, singles, videos etc., is also available. Contact them for more details.

The Stranglers have been confirmed for the Sweetwaters Festival, New Zealand on 23-25 Jan 1999. This event will take place on the Puhinui Reserve, on the Manukau Harbour, near Auckland.

Further information can be found on the Sweetwaters web site.

In November '98, No More Heroes did an interview on Talk Radio in the UK. A Real Audio file of the interview can now be found on the band's page at: http://www.innotts.co.uk/~ashley/heroes.

On the morning of August 11th 1999 (not the 7th, as previously reported), a total solar eclipse will pass over the south west of England. To celebrate this event, a special Stranglers concert is being planned on August 7th. Appropriately christened "Black and White: The Eclipse Concert", the gig will take place in Bencoolen Meadows, near Bude (which will experience a 99% eclipse on the 11th). The cost of tickets is £19.99 and the hotline booking number is: 0191 5121109.

The current plan is film this concert, for future release on video.

Now the UK tour is over and we've waded through the back-log of email, etc., we've taken advantage of the (relative) lull to update some of over pages (particularly with regard to the tour and recent releases).

In the "Reference Articles" section, the following pages have been revised:

Gig Reviews: A review of three UK dates (with pictures).

Studio Albums.

Live Albums.

Discography.

Album Track-Listings.

We often get emails asking for help in getting Stranglers albums/CDs/tapes which are hard to find in that person's geographical location. While we do not set out to endorse any commercial concerns, we have compiled a short list of commercial sites on our "links" page who are known to deal in Stranglers material, in a hope that these will be able to help out our readers with their searches.

On the evening of December 15th, the Stranglers played a fore-shortened version of their UK tour set for an industry-only event at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, UK. This event was broadcast on the web, albeit plagued by sound and video problems (at least here in the US).

The set-list for this gig was:

God is Good (intro only); Skin Deep; Coup de Grace; Nice 'n' Sleazy; Thrown Away; Money; The Raven; Five Minutes; Toiler on the Sea; Always the Sun; Valley of the Birds; 96 Tears; Straighten Out; Brainbox; All Day and All of the Night; Duchess; Golden Brown; Hanging Around; No More Heroes.

For those unable to find the broadcast: unfortunately, the organisers moved the broadcast page at (literally) the very last minute (actually, they changed the file extension from html to asp, fooling anyone trying to go directly to that site). Not a change we anticipated (or were notified about). We hope that our posting, on this page, of the revised address during the broadcast was helpful.

Harold Zijp in the Netherlands has informed us that his (unofficial) newsgroup "alt.music.stranglers" is now operational.

Since not all internet service providers will necessarily carry the new newsgroup, it may be necessary to e-mail your newsmaster to add it.

Interestingly, Tony has alerted us to a statement, issued today, from Hugh, regarding the Stranglers. Check out the news page on The Torture Garden for details.

A Videography page has just been added to our Reference Articles page. Many thanks to Doug Kerr and Colin Mace for writing this new page for us.

The John Ellis page was updated today, with details of his ongoing projects, the release of "In Rhodt" and news of a very special limited edition CD.