| Secondary Performers | Mike Peters [support] - vocal,
Jonny Rubbish [support]
Gary Biggs (Les Cargo - The Trifle Tower),
Fred Zeppelin - The Sour Kraut, Kaiser Bill's Fat Man,
The Organ Donor - Cliff White from Dover,
The Boston Globe - Elvis McMuffin,
Mad Maurice - The Belgian from Melksham (World Champion) - gut barging contestants |
| Orchestra or Band | The Stranglers (Jet Black - drums, Jean-Jacques Burnel - bass guitar, Dave Greenfield - keyboards, Paul Roberts - vocal, John Ellis - guitar)
The Electra Strings [18 piece string orchestra] |
| Set List | Mike Peters
Jonny Rubbish
The Gut Barging Championships
INTERVAL
The Stranglers:
'Waltzinblack',
'Valley of the Birds',
'Skin Deep',
'Always the Sun',
'Face',
'Daddy's Riding the Range',
'Strage Little Girl',
'Still Life',
'Let Me Down Easy',
'Golden Brown',
'Lies and Deception',
'European Female',
'All Day and All of the Night',
'Duchess',
'Down in the Sewer',
'5 Minutes',
'No More Heroes' |
| Performance Notes | To mark the twenty first anniversary of their original recording contract with United Artists Records, The Stranglers played to a sold out Royal Albert Hall with an eighteen piece string orchestra (the Electra Strings).
The concert was recorded and released on DVD as 'The Stranglers - Friday the Thirteenth, Live at the Royal Albert Hall'.
Gut-barging was a kind of sumo-wrestling for beer-bellies. Gut-bargers must dislodge opponents from a small mat using only their stomachs. This segment was organised by the World Gut Barging Association (WGBA). It has been referred to as the 'Brawl at the Hall'. The bouts are begun with the phrase 'Gut's Up, Barge On' and traditionally, bombay mix was thrown in the ring, similar to rice or salt being used in Sumo wrestling. |