Ep457: Hugh Cornwell - The Stranglers & Beyond
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Cornwell takes us through early records of his life, rare records of the Stranglers, solo materials, analogue recording and more.
Topic Include:
- Aussie tour, New Album
- Does Hugh have a record collection?
- Early music in the Cornwell household
- Hugh's early musical trainings
- Quitting PhD program to pursue music
- Formation and evolution of The Stranglers
- Recollection of the early UK punk scene
- Keyboards fill in a lot of sound
- United Artists investment in The Stranglers
- Bonus singles in early Stanglers albums
- Does Hugh have masters and tapes for post Stranglers material?
- Making materials available on vinyl
- Remixing and removing keyboards from recordings
- Running digital files to analogue provides improved sound
- Memories and learnings from Steve Albini
- Moments of Madness LP and road testing songs
- Leaving songs to be finished in the recording studio
- Song and lyric writing process
- Hugh's movie Podcast
- Discussion of Silent movies
- Interview wrap up
Hugh Cornwell's Aussie tour info here
Preorder new LP "All The Fun of the Fair" here.
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| 0:20.2 | vinyl guide. The podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:24.0 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:27.6 | Well, hey, everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:29.6 | Welcome to episode 457 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for fans and collectors of vinyl records. |
| 0:35.8 | And ladies and gentlemen, I'm still here in Los Angeles, recording this over the weekend, Saturday evening, July 27th. |
| 0:45.5 | Last night I saw Off's final performance. |
| 0:49.8 | It was powerful. |
| 0:51.5 | It was bittersweet. |
| 0:52.7 | Had a couple of great friends with me. |
| 0:54.8 | Brad and Ben had a great night. |
| 0:57.3 | And very glad I could be there to celebrate the bookend for a band that I love. |
| 1:03.3 | Hopefully one day off will reanimate. |
| 1:05.7 | But for now, they're going to do different projects. |
| 1:09.4 | And they've got a new movie out, free LSD. |
| 1:12.7 | That's going to be on streaming services. |
| 1:15.0 | There's some movie premieres, so you can Google them up if you want to see it on the big screen. |
| 1:19.4 | I'm keen to do that next week. |
| 1:21.0 | If it's playing near you, make an effort to go see it on the big screen. |
| 1:25.3 | It looks really good. |
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