of the UK's finest song-writing talents, will be rocking at The Brook next weekend.

As the original guitarist, singer and main songwriter in The Stranglers, Cornwell, pictured right, enjoyed massive UK and European success with ten hit albums and 21 top forty singles in the 17-year period he was in the band.

The Stranglers etched themselves into the UK's musical psyche with many hit singles, including Peaches, No More Heroes, Always The Sun, Grip, Nice N Sleazy, Duchess, Walk On By, Strange Little Girl and Skin Deep.

The Stranglers' most successful song, Golden Brown, also featured on the soundtrack to Guy Ritchie's Hollywood blockbuster Snatch while Peaches appeared in its entirety in the opening sequence of the hit film Sexy Beast as well as in a Nike TV ad for 2002's Football World Cup.

However, Cornwell has revelled in his musical freedom ever since he stepped off stage after a sold-out Stranglers gig at London's Alexandra Palace in the summer of 1990, when he announced that it was the last time he would be fronting the group.

He felt it was a bit like having a noose around his creative neck and it was time to do something different.

He has released six solo albums, Nosferatu (1979), Wolf (1988) Wired (1993), Guilty (1997) Hi-fi (2001) and Beyond Elysian Fields (2004). The studio catalogue is completed by Footprints in the Desert, a compilation of rare and unreleased tracks.

Meanwhile, a triple live album, People Places Pieces contained 45 tracks recorded at London's Carling Academy in April 2005, spanning the whole of Cornwell's career while Dirty Dozen was released as a 12-track single CD containing selections from this triple offering.

Cornwell is currently supporting this release with a UK tour which comes to The Brook on Saturday.

He will be accompanied by Robert Williams on drums (The Beefheart Band) and his current bass player, Caroline (Caz) Campbell.