Music

Gig of the Week: Fifty years on, The Stranglers remain a musical force to be reckoned with

Jean-Jacques Burnel gives the audience bang for their buck with two sets spanning 28 songs

Jean-Jacques Burnel and Baz Warne: The Stranglers are not what they once were, but perhaps are all the better for it

The Stranglers, Olympia Theatre, Dublin, March 12, rating: ****

There’s an old thought experiment, The Ship of Theseus, that poses the question as to whether an object is the same object after having had all of its original components replaced.

It’s a musing that comes to mind as The Stranglers stroll on to the Olympia stage on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. The band hasn’t quite shed all of its original parts, but just ...