1994

Full 3-week club tour of France, announced in the HIS Newsletter No 2 (early 1994) as "TOUR AFOOT"; band was Chris G, Chris B, Stevie and Phil

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary

Corrected from a previously-assumed 16 Mar: the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary (contemporaneous with the tour) lists New Morning, Paris on Monday 14th March, and 14 Mar 1994 was indeed a Monday; the recorded setlist (Hot Cat On A Tin Roof; Make It With You; No Mercy; Mr Insignificant; Story Of He And She; Golden Brown; Stop; You're So Sexual; I Can't Handle It; Wasted Tears; Grip; Jesus Will Weep; Peaches; My Kind Of Loving; When It Blows It's Stax; Interview) is presumed to belong to this date

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary

Per the HIS Newsletter No 2 tour itinerary. Per Hugh's own account in the HIS Newsletter No 3 (May 1994), this was the best gig of the tour and its last date: "two thousand students in ball gowns and bow ties all going wild and dancing on the rows of desks"

Channel 4 *Don't Forget Your Toothbrush* (Chris Evans, with Jools Holland's band). epguides.com assigns Hugh to series 1 episode 8 (2 Apr 1994); Lulu is the 9 Apr guest, which resolves the HIS Newsflash (16 Mar 1994) "2nd or 9th April" fork. Played "Peaches" coupled with a new arrangement of "Sweets 4 My Sweet" (recorded during the *Wired* sessions but never finished) after clearance for a planned "I've Got You Under My Skin" cover fell through, per the HIS Newsletter No 3 (May 1994). An earlier HIS Newsflash (10 Mar 1994) had announced a 12 Mar broadcast that did not happen

Television appearance, singing "The Tender Trap" and "Last Bus To Babylon"; per the HIS Newsletter No 4 (Aug 1994), originally billed as "Live And Uncut" and scheduled for 22 Jul, then postponed a week. Date independently corroborated in the HIS Newsletter No 5 (Nov 1994) by a member recalling "29th July, I believe", and by a HIS Newsflash (26 Jul 1994) reporting in real time that the 22 Jul date "DID NOT HAPPEN" and was rescheduled to 29 Jul

Barry Avenue. Daily Mirror (6 Oct 1994): "Windsor Old Trout, Barry Avenue... Hugh Cornwell (Oct 6, 8pm)". Same-day Wokingham Times / Bracknell Times: plus support, finish 11pm, £5 members / £6 non-members. Independently previewed in the Beaconsfield and Amersham Advertisers (5 Oct 1994). A HIS Newsflash (16 Sep 1994) had this date listed as tentative ("subject to confirmation or change"); the touring line-up that autumn was Hugh plus six, including Ted Mason (guitar) and Paul Gunter (percussion). Three other tentatively-listed October dates on the same Newsflash — 2 Oct Cambridge (Boat Race), 4 Oct London (Orange), 5 Oct Milton Keynes (Woughton) — were explicitly cancelled and correctly do not appear here

Per a member photo published in the HIS Newsletter No 6 (Apr 1995), captioned "taken at City Hall, Salisbury on 10th October 1994"; the venue was still "to be confirmed" per a HIS Newsflash (16 Sep 1994), which lists this date as tentative

North End Crescent, West Kensington. Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Gazette and Southall Gazette (both 7 Oct 1994): "TUESDAY: Hugh Cornwell, Wendy Chamlin. Orange Club... 8pm. £6." Per the HIS Newsletter No 5 (Nov 1994), Robert Elms' GLR show "Listed Londoner" also carried a live spot with Hugh and the band this same Tuesday. Listed as tentative on a HIS Newsflash (16 Sep 1994)

Per a Kent & Sussex Courier listing (7 Oct 1994) on the British Newspaper Archive, as part of a run of new-talent nights: "Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers on Friday October 14". Venue name "Forum" per a HIS Newsflash (16 Sep 1994), which lists this date as tentative

Listed as a tentative date on a HIS Newsflash (16 Sep 1994); not independently corroborated

Setlist (setlist.fm, longer than the earlier bootleg extract): If You Wanted To; Not Hungry Enough; Wasted Tears; First Bus To Babylon; Five Miles High; Jesus Will Weep; Stop; I Can't Handle It; Peaches; Mr Insignificant; Long Dead Train; My Kind Of Loving; Audacity. A HIS Newsflash (16 Sep 1994) instead tentatively listed this date as "Gwent, venue to be confirmed" — the well-evidenced Orange Club recording suggests the Gwent booking, explicitly flagged as subject to change, did not go ahead

Listed as tentative on a HIS Newsflash (16 Sep 1994). Daily Mirror gig guide (13 Oct 1994) lists "Hugh Cornwell (Oct 18, 8pm)" in a garbled column that also names Marquee Cafe, Greek Street — treated as this Orange Club date rather than a second Soho show, unless a clearer listing appears

Pershore Road / Stirchley. Friday papers treat this as 21 Oct: Dudley & District Chronicle (21 Oct, "TONIGHT (Friday)") and Birmingham Mail (21 Oct, "GIGS TODAY"). Saturday papers treat it as 22 Oct: Birmingham Daily Post (22 Oct, "ROCK: Today"), Shropshire Star (22 Oct, "Saturday 22nd"), and Birmingham News (20 Oct, "this Saturday"), which also says he is previewing tracks from a new album due next year and had recently appeared on the James Whale Show. HIS Newsflash (16 Sep 1994) tentatively listed 22 Oct. Kept as 21 Oct on the two same-day Friday TONIGHT listings; the Saturday ads are flagged rather than adding a second night

Venue and ticket price (£6) confirmed by two Portsmouth Evening News listings (15 Sep and 6 Oct 1994). Portsmouth Evening News (20 Oct 1994, Thu) previewed him heading south on Sunday: "if you're expecting a revamped Stranglers sound, forget it. Hugh and his new band will be playing just one song from his days with the meninblack." Listed as tentative on a HIS Newsflash (16 Sep 1994)

Per the HIS Newsletter No 5 (Nov 1994): the newsletter organiser had hoped to attend on returning from holiday (19 Oct) but it "didn't work out". Listed as tentative on a HIS Newsflash (16 Sep 1994), whose author notes this is the only date of the run they expect to attend themselves

In-store appearance

Television appearance; one song. Birmingham News (20 Oct 1994) says Hugh "has recently appeared on the James Whale" show, so the broadcast had gone out by mid-October

Filmed a hypnotist cameo for the BBC wrestling comedy *Rumble* (six-part series, aired 1995). Official history dates the filming to autumn 1994