Hugh Cornwell

An acoustic solo evening with Hugh Cornwell, former lead singer and principal songwriter of the Stranglers, at Komedia in Bath. The show combines older songs with material from a forthcoming album.

Hugh Cornwell fronted the Stranglers and wrote most of the band's best-known songs across ten albums, during the period when the group enjoyed its greatest success. His lyrics drew on history, myth and political ideas, and the band was admired both for its experimental approach and for its commercial reach. Since leaving that group, Cornwell has built a solo career of ten albums, the most recent being Moments of Madness.

This tour is a solo acoustic show: Cornwell alone with a guitar and a microphone. The set draws on the Stranglers'catalogue and his own solo songs, and includes new material from the next studio album, Succubus, which is being performed for the first time on this tour. Cornwell has also set aside time for an open question session, in which audience members can ask him questions and he answers them where possible. He has described this as his final solo acoustic tour, and his previous UK solo acoustic dates were in 2017.

Komedia is a venue in Bath that hosts concerts and shows. The evening will appeal to listeners following Cornwell's songwriting, whether through the Stranglers'records or his later solo work.