Mayday (Hugh Cornwell album)

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Mayday
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Live album by Hugh Cornwell
Released 1999 (internet download)
Recorded May 1, 1998
Genre Post-punk
Label HIS Records
Track Records
Hugh Cornwell chronology
Guilty
(1997) Guilty1997		Mayday
(1999)		 Solo
(1999) Solo1999

Mayday is a live album by Hugh Cornwell. It was a live show recorded at Sankey's Soap in Manchester on 1 May 1998, hence the title.

Hugh Cornwell English musician and songwriter, member of The Stranglers

Hugh Alan Cornwell is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk rock/new wave band the Stranglers from 1974 to 1990.

Manchester City and metropolitan borough in England

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 545,500 as of 2017. It lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous built-up area, with a population of 3.2 million. It is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation. The local authority is Manchester City Council.

With Cornwell are Mike Polson (guitar and backing vocals), Michelle Marti (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Justin Chapman (drums). The set list consists entirely of Cornwell's solo work taken from his first two albums recorded after leaving The Stranglers, Wired and Guilty , and from his 1979 collaboration with the Captain Beefheart drummer Robert Williams, Nosferatu .

The Stranglers English punk rock music group

The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rock scene. Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" bands to have originated in the UK punk scene.

<i>Wired</i> (Hugh Cornwell album) 1993 studio album by Hugh Cornwell

Wired is Hugh Cornwell's third solo album. It was released on 21 June 1993 on the Transmission label. The album was produced by Gary Langan, with the exception of "Ain't It Strange", which was produced by Cornwell. It was recorded in 1992 at Metropolis Studios in London. The album's progress was affected by contractual disputes. Cornwell was initially signed to Phoenix Records, but the label started to fall into difficulties and Cornwell cited them for breach of contract. A new deal was struck with NTV (Transmission) to finish the album. Phoenix then maintained that NTV had no right to release the album with arguments over the matter continuing until February 1994. As a result, the album was initially only released in Europe. Two singles were released from the album, "The Story of He & She" in 1993, and "My Kind of Loving" in 1994.

<i>Guilty</i> (Hugh Cornwell album) 1997 studio album by Hugh Cornwell

Guilty is a solo album by Hugh Cornwell released in 1997.

The album was initially an Internet download release from 1999 on Cornwell's own label, HIS Records (Catalogue number HIS CD002) and subsequently available on the Track Records label (catalogue number TRK1019CD, released October 7, 2002).

Track listing

  1. "Irate Caterpillar"
  2. "White Room"
  3. "Nerves of Steel"
  4. "Black Hair Black Eyes Black Suit"
  5. "Torture Garden"
  6. "Snapper"
  7. "Big Sleep"
  8. "Wired"
  9. "Mothra"
  10. "House of Sorrow"
  11. "Long Dead Train"

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