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On this day 23- October 1977, New wave/Punk band The Stranglers played Cardiff’s Top Rank with support from American punk band The Dictators on the band’s No More Heroes tour.
The band had just released their second album No More Heroes. five months after their debut album, Rattus Norvegicus. The album peaked at no 2 in the UK album charts.
Formed as the Guildford Stranglers in Guildford, Surrey, in early 1974, they originally built a following within the mid-1970s pub rock scene.
While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude had them identified by the media with the emerging UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre, and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from new wave, art rock and gothic rock through the sophisti-pop of some of their 1980s output.
Setlist
No More Heroes
Ugly
Bring On the Nubiles
Sometimes
Dagenham Dave
Dead Ringer
Hanging Around
5 Minutes
Something Better Change
I Feel Like a Wog
Straighten Out
Burning Up Time
London Lady
Peaches
(Get a) Grip (on Yourself)
