Stranglers in Frome

Me and Tex went out for our evening scour of the town. We like to walk through the alcohol induced violence, the trendy over dressed 'in' wankers, coked up, looking for the feeling thier fading testosterone has deprived them of, the fast food fights, the desperately seeking impregnation look fading females hoping a baby could save them. Caught the offy afore it shut, bought backy and special brew. Wandered down town, had a chat with the crack selling witch, then sat outside the Cheese and Grain where I could hear the Stranglers playing their last few numbers. My back against the wall, Tex sniffing fast food discards, I listened to them play, 'Down in the Sewer', I bought Rattus Norvegicus 30 years ago for £2.80. It still sounds good despite their ostrasizeation for using strippers, 'I feel like a wog', and their use of heroin, not to mention their battering the middle class Strummer types. They still stand tall. The Clash were pretty crap, politicizing the Sex Pistols art. If history is written true, from the front of the stage, The Sex Pistols came first, the Stranglers second and the Clash were for the students, but they mixed with thier school mates and ex public school boys may think them significant. The Stranglers did it without political, public school , bum chummery. The Stranglers, had they not coincided with punk would be legends. Well, they are, just not in that tight little knot that write history. The Stranglers, like Mark E Smith were banned from Glastonbury till this year, Mark for one sarky line in a song about CND. The Fall are a bit above the heads of Eavis and co. Lets face it, bumpkins aren't too worldly.