The Stranglers toured in a converted ice cream van in their early days, and they played The Refectory at Bangor Uni on this day. I think it was part of a week long music festival, which also included Steve Hillage, Van Der Graaf and many more.
Speaking in 2014 after hearing about the death of Stranglers roadie Carey Fortune, Jean-Jaques Burnel said, ‘Carey became a roadie for us with Dick Douglas in 1976. One famous incident was where we got hassled big time at Bangor University (where Carey had studied) and he just launched himself off the stage into the crowd. There was a mass punch up and the ice cream van ended up with all four tyres slashed. We started to call him ‘Mutant’ due to the pallor of his skin…’
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Roy Harper also appeared that week, He was an hour and a half late, and his excuse was,He’d taken a travel pill, and hadn’t landed yet. LOL
Was there also ….I remember some skinhead giving Hugh Cornwall some stick over something …So he just smashed the Base of his Mike stand in his face …Good times ….
My first stranglers gig Hugh was winding everyone up it back fired on him! Brilliant gig though if only we had mobile phones in them days would of been some great pics.