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The Stranglers 1983 concert dates

A UK theatre tour and European dates in February, a full North American tour in April–May, and a major European tour in September–October. 94 entries recorded, including three cancelled dates and four broadcast-only TV appearances.

🎙️ = a recording of this show exists

  1. 04 Jan 1983 🎙️
    BBC Radio 1
    London
    Hugh Cornwell interview on the Kid Jensen show; recording archive source
  2. 10 Jan 1983 🎙️
    DJ TVS
    (TV broadcast)
    Band appear on DJ TVS to perform "European Female"
    YouTube →
  3. 13 Jan 1983
    Top of the Pops
    (TV broadcast)
    Band appear on TOTP to promote "European Female"
  4. 21 Jan 1983 🎙️
    The Tube
    (TV broadcast)
    Tube appearance broadcast on Channel 4; band perform "Midnight Summer Dream", "European Female" and "Who Wants The World"
  5. 28 Jan 1983 🎙️
    Goldiggers
    Chippenham
  6. 29 Jan 1983 🎙️
    Coliseum
    St Austell
    X/Twitter photo →
  7. 30 Jan 1983 🎙️
    Arts Centre
    Poole
    Forum thread →
  8. 31 Jan 1983 🎙️
    Colston Hall
    Bristol
    Forum thread →
  9. 01 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Cardiff University
    Cardiff
  10. 02 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Odeon
    Birmingham
  11. 03 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Odeon
    Birmingham
  12. 04 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Apollo
    Oxford
  13. 05 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Royal Concert Hall
    Nottingham
  14. 06 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Apollo
    Manchester
  15. 07 Feb 1983
    Leeds University
    Leeds
  16. 09 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Apollo
    Glasgow
    Forum thread →
  17. 10 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Capitol Theatre
    Aberdeen
  18. 11 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Playhouse
    Edinburgh
  19. 12 Feb 1983 🎙️
    City Hall
    Newcastle
  20. 13 Feb 1983 🎙️
    City Hall
    Sheffield
  21. 14 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Verulam Arms
    Watford
  22. 15 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Hammersmith Odeon
    London
    Seats at front got smashed
    raysgigs.com →
  23. 16 Feb 1983
    Hammersmith Odeon
    London
    Cancelled
  24. 17 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Brighton Centre
    Brighton
    Support by "Attraction"
  25. 19 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Hof ter Lo
    Antwerp, Belgium
  26. 20 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Markthalle
    Hamburg, Germany
    Forum thread →Forum thread →Forum thread →Forum thread →Forum thread →Forum thread →Forum thread →
  27. 21 Feb 1983 🎙️
    De Vereeniging
    Nijmegen, Netherlands
  28. 22 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Paradiso Club
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  29. 24 Feb 1983
    (venue unspecified)
    Munich, Germany
  30. 25 Feb 1983
    (venue unspecified)
    Nuremberg, Germany
  31. 26 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Tivoli Hall
    Strasbourg, France
  32. 27 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Palais d'Hiver
    Lyon, France
  33. 28 Feb 1983 🎙️
    Maubert Mutalité
    Paris, France
    Une Vie de Concerts →
  34. 30 Mar 1983
    (venue unspecified)
    College Park, MD, USA
    Support from Wall of Voodoo; venue name not yet identified — listed on Concert Archives but the page couldn't be fetched directly to confirm it
  35. 01 Apr 1983
    The Ritz
    New York, NY, USA
  36. 02 Apr 1983
    The Ritz
    New York, NY, USA
    "Pawsher" recorded in a New York studio
  37. 05 Apr 1983
    Toad's Place
    New Haven, CT, USA
  38. 06 Apr 1983
    The Living Room
    Providence, RI, USA
  39. 07 Apr 1983 🎙️
    The Paradise Theatre
    Boston, MA, USA
    Kenny Everett Show broadcast on UK TV featured the band performing "European Female"
  40. 08 Apr 1983
    Le Spectrum
    Montreal, Canada
    Cancelled — band held at the Canadian border due to a problem with Hugh's entry; band and tour van searched
  41. 09 Apr 1983 🎙️
    Le Spectrum
    Montreal, Canada
    themeninblack forums thread →
  42. 11 Apr 1983
    Barrymore's
    Ottawa, ON, Canada
    Ottawa Punk History →
  43. 12 Apr 1983 🎙️
    Masonic Concert Hall
    Toronto, Canada
    Hugh mentions being delayed due to "the masons giving someone a golden handshake downstairs". A CFNY 102.1 "Thursday Night Live" broadcast recording of this venue was previously logged as a separate "1 May 1983" date (per two forum threads, linked), but that conflicts with the confirmed 1 May Seattle show below; setlist.fm, guestpectacular.com, and the forum's own 1983 US tour itinerary thread all place the Masonic Temple/Concert Hall Toronto shows on 12–13 Apr with no May Toronto date, so the broadcast is treated as a mis-dated recording of one of these two nights rather than a separate gig
    Forum thread →Forum thread →
  44. 13 Apr 1983
    Masonic Concert Hall
    Toronto, Canada
  45. 14 Apr 1983
    Bingeman Park
    Kitchener, Canada
    Support from Kinetic Ideals
  46. 15 Apr 1983
    St Andrew's Hall
    Detroit, MI, USA
  47. 16 Apr 1983
    Agora
    Cleveland, OH, USA
    Support from Wall of Voodoo
  48. 17 Apr 1983
    Agora
    Columbus, OH, USA
  49. 18 Apr 1983
    Bogart's
    Cincinnati, OH, USA
    Support from Wall of Voodoo
  50. 19 Apr 1983
    Park West
    Chicago, IL, USA
    Getty Images →
  51. 22 Apr 1983
    Eagles Ballroom
    Milwaukee, WI, USA
  52. 23 Apr 1983
    Thumpers Coon Rapids / St Paul Expo Centre
    St Paul, MN, USA
  53. 25 Apr 1983 🎙️
    Playhouse
    Winnipeg, MB, Canada
  54. 27 Apr 1983 🎙️
    McEwan Hall, University
    Calgary, AB, Canada
    Footage later surfaced on YouTube (per forum, "33 years later")
    YouTube →
  55. 29 Apr 1983
    Commodore Ballroom
    Vancouver, BC, Canada
  56. 30 Apr 1983
    Commodore Ballroom
    Vancouver, BC, Canada
  57. 01 May 1983
    Eagles Hippodrome
    Seattle, WA, USA
    Support by The Lifers
  58. 02 May 1983
    Starry Night nightclub
    Portland, OR, USA
  59. 04 May 1983
    Galactica 200
    Sacramento, CA, USA
  60. 05 May 1983 🎙️
    Kabuki Theatre
    San Francisco, CA, USA
    Support by Bambi
  61. 06 May 1983
    Palladium
    Los Angeles, CA, USA
    There's mention online of this being a support date to Roxy Music at Santa Barbara Bowl
  62. 07 May 1983
    Adams Avenue Theatre
    San Diego, CA, USA
    Support from The Vandals
    Smelly Eyeball blog →
  63. 08 May 1983 🎙️
    Country Club
    Reseda, CA, USA
  64. 09 May 1983 🎙️
    Beverly Theatre
    Beverly Hills, CA, USA
  65. 24 May 1983
    Playhouse
    Winnipeg, Canada
  66. 25 May 1983
    Playhouse
    Winnipeg, Canada
    Support by Johnny Zhivago (Wall of Voodoo failed to appear)
  67. 15 Jun 1983 🎙️
    Eindexamen Festival
    's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
  68. 16 Jul 1983 🎙️
    Elixir Festival
    Brest, France
    YouTube →
  69. 13 Aug 1983 🎙️
    De Panne Seaside Festival
    Ostend, Belgium
    Band hampered by crappy sound issues — full story in JJ's book
    Full story in JJ's book →
  70. 14 Aug 1983 🎙️
    Inside Festival, Halles Des Foires
    Liège, Belgium
  71. 26 Aug 1983 🎙️
    Thameside Arena
    Reading
    Reading Festival
    Forum thread →Forum thread →Forum thread →
  72. 19 Sep 1983 🎙️
    TV F.R.3 — "L'Echo Des Bananes"
    Paris, France
    TV broadcast; only 2 of 26 songs aired
    themeninblack forums thread →
  73. 21 Sep 1983 🎙️
    Studio 54
    Barcelona, Spain
  74. 22 Sep 1983
    Rockola
    Madrid, Spain
  75. 23 Sep 1983
    Rockola
    Madrid, Spain
  76. 24 Sep 1983 🎙️
    Lasarte Autodrome
    San Sebastián, Spain
  77. 26 Sep 1983
    Palais des Sports
    Toulouse, France
    Source lists date as "25.5.83" (a transcription error); corrected to 26 Sep per Concert Archives and Loudmemories/Songkick, and a ticket-holder's comment on MyConcertArchive explicitly correcting their own "25 May" listing to 26 September
  78. 27 Sep 1983 🎙️
    Salle du Grand Parc
    Bordeaux, France
  79. 28 Sep 1983 🎙️
    Salle du Grand Parc
    Bordeaux, France
  80. 29 Sep 1983 🎙️
    Espace Ballard
    Paris, France
    Une Vie de Concerts →
  81. 30 Sep 1983 🎙️
    Parc Exposition
    Lille, France
    A story in NME references this in relation to bootlegging — apparently some bloke recorded the gig then set up a shop on the ferry on the way home so people could buy it
  82. 01 Oct 1983 🎙️
    Omnisports
    Rennes, France
  83. 02 Oct 1983 🎙️
    Exocet 7
    Rouen, France
  84. 03 Oct 1983
    Europa
    Metz, France
    "when the band played the city of Metz in eastern France. We were staying in this little hotel right in the centre somewhere and when we got up in the morning we all had hangovers and badly needed something to eat. We were so late rising, we'd missed breakfast and the kitchen was deserted. Now anyone who knows Stranglers history will be aware that a hungry Jet is not a happy Jet, and after we spent about 10 mins trying - and failing - to find a member of staff, he lost patience. He marched into the kitchen, threw open the fridge, pulled out all the eggs and bacon he could find, and started a massive fry up. He ordered us all to sit down in the dining room, and every now and again he'd poke his head out of the kitchen door and say, 'Now who was it who said they didn't want mushrooms?' He took all our breakfast orders one by one! Brilliant - and one of the best fry ups I ever had." — Chris Twomey
  85. 04 Oct 1983
    Alp Expo
    Grenoble, France
  86. 05 Oct 1983 🎙️
    Palais des Sports
    Montpellier, France
  87. 06 Oct 1983
    Chapiteau
    Marseille, France
  88. 08 Oct 1983
    Teatro Tenda
    Rome, Italy
    Cancelled
  89. 09 Oct 1983 🎙️
    Teatro Tenda
    Bologna, Italy
    Forum thread →
  90. 10 Oct 1983 🎙️
    Rolling Stone Club
    Milan, Italy
  91. 11 Oct 1983 🎙️
    Maison des Sports
    Clermont-Ferrand, France
    Forum thread →
  92. 12 Oct 1983 🎙️
    Théâtre de Verdure
    Nice, France
    Source lists date as "12.11.83", inconsistent with surrounding October sequence — treated as 12 Oct, but a 2026-07-27 research pass found this genuinely unresolved: some sources read "12.11.83" as 12 Nov (DD.MM format) rather than a typo, and direct primary pages couldn't be fetched to settle it either way
  93. 13 Oct 1983 🎙️
    Palais d'Hiver
    Lyon, France
  94. 14 Oct 1983 🎙️
    Chapiteau
    Nancy, France
  95. 24 Dec 1983
    Spaceward Studios
    Cambridge, UK
    JJ Burnel produces and works with Belgian band Polyphonic Size

Source: themeninblack forums thread