Live eventBasingstoke

Hugh Cornwell

Anvil ArtsBasingstoke

25 November 2026 · 19:30

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AN INTIMATE EVENING OF SONGS AND STORIES, PLUS AN OPEN Q & A SESSION AS LEAD SINGER & SONGWRITER OF THE STRANGLERS DURING THEIR GOLDEN PERIOD HUGH CORNWELL CAST A SPELL MIXING FACT, HISTORY, MYTHOLOGY & IDEOLOGY WITHIN THE LYRICS OF THE SONGS. IT WAS A HEADY MIX, LEADING TO THE BAND’S SUCCESS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, AND THEY BECAME CHAMPIONED FOR EXPERIMENTATION & COMMERCIALITY IN EQUAL MEASURES. HUGH WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF THE BAND’S MOST MEMORABLE SONGS ACROSS TEN STELLAR ALBUMS THAT CONSOLIDATED HIS STATURE AS A UNIQUE SONGWRITER AND MUSICIAN. HIS LYRICS TO ‘GOLDEN BROWN’ ARE A SONGWRITING MASTERCLASS. HIS SOLO CAREER HAS LED TO TEN ALBUMS OF CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SONGS, CULMINATING IN ‘MOMENTS OF MADNESS’, DESCRIBED AS A ‘LATE FLOWERING CLASSIC’ & A ‘MODERN-DAY MASTERPIECE’. HUGH LAST PERFORMED ACOUSTIC SOLO PERFORMANCES IN THE UK IN 2017 AND WILL BE HEADING OUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY T