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Lucretia is played by them as my old band used to do, guitar instead of bass, so I can't complain. I wouldn't want them to drop "This Corrosion" as they have now reached a version that is simply great without having to employ a choir. What I could do without is "When I'm On Fire"...

Agreed, fantastic interview and Marx is a perpetually interesting man. The Ex-Sister who still feels the most like a Sister. I'd also be very thrilled if Ghost Dance were to enjoy a wider critical reappraisal. I think the greatest riff he ever wrote was A Deeper Blue though. That beautiful descendin...

Yeah he's definitely introducing the song as Satellite Of Love. I think it's just a joke about the vaguely similar piano parts between Here and SoL

Saw the UK Subs about a decade ago. I was never a fan of those second wave UK punk rock bands that cropped up after the first wave had already started to move on to more interesting sounds, so I wasn't expecting to have a brilliant time but sometimes you just pop along to a gig because the opportuni...

...or, as the case may in fact be, lifting the odd song from another band.

My definition of a good Sisters gig, honestly, is any one where Andrew comes in with a big booming voice on "we are rievers by conviction..."

I don't really need more than that, in order to consider it a good gig.

The most recent stated position from Eldritch on this is that they play the songs with hard rock arrangements because that's what they find fun. I sort of get it - the snaky, squirming tension of Lucretia, and the way it erupts into theatrical bombast on the record rather requires the singer to perf...

That's the stuff.

Oh this is just marvellous this is.

Bartek wrote: ↑26 Sep 2024, 11:40 In it's essence any genre at some - rather quick - point, will fall and stop to evolve

I don't think I've encountered a statement I've agreed with less in my life, I'm afraid.

...then again, I just looked up another Miazma song called "Mary Gone Bad", and it will surprise precisely nobody to learn which band they pattern themselves after, in a fairly embarrassing way.

It's pretty easy to imagine Ben or Dylan being familiar with a band of that type. That's a rather disappointing lift - I struggle with chalking it up to pure coincidence.

Sorry but it just literally is the case that performance royalties matter. If the BBC's assessment is correct and it's £1.50 per ticket if the ticket is 50 quid then presumably that is spread out over a lot of people then. Everyone that contributes to the Sisters setlist (including Dolly Parton if ...

You're talking about two different things. Ben doesn't choose his income streams; he's paid whatever he's owed in royalties, hes paid whatever his touring fee is, and he's retained by whatever retention agreement exists with Andrew. The question of which source generates more income for the band as ...

The band doesn't pay performance royalties for live covers. The venue pays that. I'm an entertainment lawyer who worked for a major label for around 30 years. Believe me, I know how it works. You misunderstand me. My point is that the setlist needs to contain enough songs written by people currentl...

The band doesn't pay performance royalties for live covers. The venue pays that. I'm an entertainment lawyer who worked for a major label for around 30 years. Believe me, I know how it works. You misunderstand me. My point is that the setlist needs to contain enough songs written by people currentl...

We know who the real-life counterparts of the people in the song likely are, based on Eldritch's comments, but that probably doesn't matter here because I wouldn't swear to the idea that Don't Drive On Ice refers to the same people, time or events. But there is something tying the songs together. W...

Couldn't find a thread for this one, funnily enough. I think it's stating the obvious to say that water runs through a lot of Eldritch's work, often in naval and nautical contexts, but the motif of being trapped underwater comes through again and again too. As early as Marian, we're hearing about pe...

I think it's still somewhat improvised/swapped. Something about the 'stars' has shown up a few times in the past.

A question for Mark, if he happens to see this. Has Eldritch shared his view with you, regarding what you propose to do in "Here"? I wouldn't ask you to give details; I'm just curious as to whether he has an opinion on it at all, to your knowledge. Basically, I gave him the chance to tell...

I'm assuming that Slept is permanently retired due to lyrical content that the band can't fully stand by anymore (and to be fair that is a total assumption) but that spaghetti western riff from Pearson was a real 'moment in time' for me in my walk with the Sisters. It'd be nice if they snuck in a re...

Husek wrote: ↑20 Sep 2024, 01:26

Suzanne, von really singing it the way God intended

That's a really lovely treat.

This doesn't mean that Johnny will start touring as The Smiths, it will just prevent Morrisey do the same. And about Wayne Hussein and Billy C., I guess the name of the band would be The Sisters of Baldness? Marr has put out a characteristically level headed response today. He claims to have actual...

Gawd, remember rapidshare...?

Whatever the song was, it weren't by the Sisters.

I'm saying this to anyone who will listen: Marr is CRAZY if he doesn't try to make Rick Astley the new Smiths frontman.