MUSIC: Stranglers rehearse new material for next album

AFTER a hectic year of touring the Southern Hemisphere, Europe and the UK, The Stranglers have also been busy writing and rehearsing new material for a forthcoming album.

First forming in 1974,the band's no bullshit attitude saw them embraced by the punk movement of the late'70s.

They released their first three albums within an astonishing 13 months of each other gaining hit singles with the likes of ‘Peaches’,’No More Heroes’ and ‘Walk On By’.

More success was to follow with the likes of ‘Always The Sun’, ‘Strange Little Girl’ and the mercurial ‘Golden Brown’, amongst many others.

Their eloquent and extensive catalogue now spans well over 40 years.

With record-breaking, sell out shows and festival appearances in the UK and throughout the world, demand to see and hear the band has never been so high, surely a true testament to their considerable musical talent.

 They play the Olympia Theatre on Friday, May 29.