The Stranglers & Friends Live in Concert

Infobox Album
Name = The Stranglers & Friends Live in Concert
Type = live
Artist = The Stranglers


Released = 1980
Recorded =
Genre =
Length =
Label =
Producer =
Reviews =
Chronology = The Stranglers live albums
Last album = "Live (X Cert)"
(1979)
This album = "The Stranglers & Friends Live in Concert"
(1980)
Next album = "All Live and All of the Night"
(1988)

"The Stranglers and Friends: Live in Concert" is a live album by The Stranglers.

Back in the spring of 1980, Hugh Cornwell found himself a "guest" at Pentonville Prison (for drugs possession). With two gigs scheduled at the London Rainbow for 3 April and 4 April, the management decided to turn things around by approaching a number of well known artists (including John Ellis, Toyah Willcox, Peter Hammill and Hazel O'Connor, amongst others) to fill in for the absent Cornwell. "The Stranglers and Friends: Live in Concert" chronicles this event for posterity. In 2002, this album was re-released on the Castle Music label with new art-work and sleeve-notes.

Track listing

#"Introduction: Jet Black"
#"Get a Grip" (with Hazel O'Connor & Robert Smith)
#"Hanging Around" (with Hazel O'Connor & Robert Smith)
#"Tank" (with Robert Fripp & Peter Hammill)
#"Threatened" (with Robert Fripp)
#"Toiler On the Sea" (with Robert Fripp & Phil Daniels)
#"The Raven" (with Basil Gabbidon & Peter Hammill)
#"Dead Loss Angeles" (with Phil Daniels & Wilko Johnson)
#"Nice 'N' Sleazy" (with Basil Gabbidon, Nicky Tesco & Nik Turner)
#"Bring on the Nubiles" (with Richard Jobson, Wilko Johnson & Toyah Willcox)
#"Peaches" (with Ian Dury, Wilko Johnson, Davey Payne, John Turnball & Toyah Willcox)
#"Bear Cage" (with Ian Dury, Matthieu Hartley, Wilko Johnson, Davey Payne & John Turnball)
#"Duchess" (with Toyah Willcox)
#"No More Heroes" (with Richard Jobson)
#"Five Minutes" (with Richard Johnson & Larry Wallis)
#"Something Better Change" (with Steve Hillage & Toyah Willcox)
#"Down in the Sewer" (with Jake Burns, Steve Hillage & All Guests)

Strangely enough, 1997 saw the release of another version of this recording. "The Stranglers & Friends Live in Concert" contains the same tracks (not in the same order), except "Grip", "Hanging Around", "Bear Cage" and "Peaches". The exclusion of these tracks certainly makes this package less desirable than the previous offering and its subsequent re-release.