The Stranglers: Come and Join the Unruly Escapades
Keith Cameron, MOJO, August 2002
HANS WARMLING was fed up of life in the ice cream van. He'd come to England from his homeland of Sweden to play guitar and write songs in a band with his friend Hugh. However, ever since moving into the flat above the Courage off licence in Guildford, Hans had become disenchanted.
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