Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

For other uses of "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", see Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (disambiguation).

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning is a live album by the Stranglers, released in 1993 by Castle Communications.

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Live album by the Stranglers
Released	June 1993
Recorded	11 August 1990
Venue	Alexandra Palace, London
Genre	Rock
Length	52:55
Label	Castle Communications
The Stranglers live albums chronology
Live at the Hope and Anchor (1992) Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (1993) Death and Night and Blood (1994)

By coincidence, it was guitarist Hugh Cornwell's last concert with the band that had been recorded for posterity. The tracks were mixed by Stuart MacMillan at Central Television Music Studio (Birmingham) in 1990. The mix session was attended by band members Jean-Jacques Burnel, Jet Black and Dave Greenfield, with Cornwell not attending. The title is a reference to the gig happening on a Saturday night and Cornwell announcing his departure the following day. It was also a title to a 1960 film.

The concert was split across an album and simultaneous VHS release, which contained different track listings. Between these releases all but one track ("School Mam") played at the concert are available. The video was given a DVD release in 2000, retitled Live At Alexandra Palace.^[1]

In addition, a live CD single from the same concert was released in January 1991 by Epic Records, containing the tracks "Always the Sun", "Nuclear Device", "All Day and all of the Night" and "Punch and Judy".^[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
The Great Rock Discography	3/10[5]

In a review for AllMusic, Alex Ogg gave the album two stars out of five, writing, "On this (generally) well-produced sound-desk recording, listeners are treated to a riot of traditional Stranglers fare, performed with typical, stony-faced aggression."^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Toiler on the Sea"		7:32
2.	"96 Tears"	Rudy Martinez	3:00
3.	"Always the Sun"		4:33
4.	"No More Heroes"		3:50
5.	"Golden Brown"		3:57
6.	"Tank"		3:15
7.	"Strange Little Girl"	Black, Burnel, Cornwell, Greenfield, Hans Wärmling	3:37
8.	"Something Better Change"		2:42
9.	"Hanging Around"		4:44
10.	"All Day and All of the Night"	Ray Davies	2:30
11.	"Duchess"		2:23
12.	"Was It You?"/"Down in the Sewer"		10:46
Total length:			52:55

All tracks are written by the Stranglers (Jet Black, Jean Jacques Burnel, Hugh Cornwell and Dave Greenfield), except where noted

Video track listing

1. "Toiler on the Sea"
2. "Something Better Change"
3. "96 Tears"
4. "Someone Like You"
5. "Sweet Smell of Success"
6. "Always the Sun"
7. "Strange Little girl"
8. "Hanging Around"
9. "Lets' Celebrate"
10. "Golden Brown"
11. "No More Heroes"
12. "Nuclear Device"
13. "Duchess"
14. "All Day and All of the Night"
15. "Punch and Judy"

Personnel

The Stranglers

• Hugh Cornwell – vocals, guitar
• Jean-Jacques Burnel – bass, vocals
• Dave Greenfield – keyboards, vocals
• Jet Black – drums

Technical

• Stuart MacMillan – mixing
• John Pasche – design

References

1. "Live At Alexandra Palace". Discogs. 5 December 1999. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
2. "Live At Alexandra Palace 11th August 1990". Discogs. 5 December 1990. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
3. "Saturday Night Sunday Morning - The Stranglers..." AllMusic.
4. Larkin, Colin (2011). "Stranglers". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
5. Strong, Martin C. (2002). The Great Rock Discography (6th ed.). Edinburgh: Canongate Books. p. 1012. ISBN 1-84195-312-1.