Quiff Boy wrote:markfiend wrote:IIRC someone in one of the lost threads (PiB maybe?) suggested that Andrew has had writer's block more or less permanently since 1993...
that would probably have been mik.
Yup. A reliable source.
Now; when Mr Eldritch says he likes
writing you've got to take into account that theres a great deal of difference between
writing and
song writing, a gap that is only made worse by the quality of the previous work and the writers own personal high standards of his craft.
I have no doubt that he can churn out correspondence, essays, and articles for fun but when it comes to Sisters lyrics then there is a weight that I doubt will ever be lifted, and in some respects that might not be a bad thing
per se.
There were threads running through the catalogue from (imho) the finest work in the pre-FALAA era, right through to 'Vision Thing' and to a lesser extent 'Under The Gun' which arguably relied on an unhealthy mixture of amphetamines and failed relationships - an emotional seam that I suspect is mined out. Happy Healthy Andy = No Sisters Lyrics ?
Do I win a prize for the most metaphores in one post? Or are thay analogies?
Any way up, my only grumble is that there is the pretence of a work in progress that I think they should come clean about, and the fact that a man of his undoubted intellect can't find a role within, or without, the industry that would still allow him to strap some shades on and fire up the Doktor once every now and then to blow the cobwebs from our memories.
Heartland sing the faces shining
In the failing failing failing
Heartland make the places mine
Too much but never enough
Tear it up and watch it fall
Fooking genius
Ah. No more rood wurdz aloud.... But 'fook' is ok. Thank fook for that...
Something pithy.
) . There is Gary's interesting story about what happened between him and Andrew in 1995 when they've been trying to work together again.
"what keeps you so thin?" and his reply was "maybe it's the drugs, maybe it's the diabetes."
