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Hugh Cornwell Jean Jacques Burnel Dave
Greenfield Jet Black
Gary Leeson,
Friars fan, writing for the Friars Aylesbury website in 2008:
"Friars
was not only the scene of some of my most happy musical memories it was
also the scene of one of the most embarrassing moments of my life.
After a fairly
unmemorable set by Roogalator I had to heed the call of nature, so headed
downstairs to the toilets, they were crowded with fans having a last
minute wee before the Stranglers came on.
Job done, I picked
up the loose loo roll and horrors of horrors it fell from my grasp and in
classic slow motion, bounced off the end of my boot and rolled out under
the door. The noise outside the cubicle subsided for a few seconds before
the cheering, sniggering and laughing started, my street credability
evaporated in seconds. Luckily I still held the end of the loo roll and
slowly started to reel it back in to the sounds of course and witty
remarks together with banging on the door as fans made their way back to
the hall.
I was so embarrassed that I
didn't leave the cubicle until the Stranglers
were well into their set. I found my mates who all assumed that I had
passed out in true rock n roll style some where in the Civic, I never did
tell them the real reason for my disappearance. "
David Stopps,
writing for the Friars Aylesbury website in 2011:
"Last week I reminded Hugh
Cornwell that he said to the audience "If you don't like us tell your MP.
What'll he do? Nothin'" He was amazed that I could remember it word for
word. He was actually very nice and chatty...not the agressive angry young
man I remembered"
From the Aylesbury Roxette 1976
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Stranglers official site
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