first of all, let me say that you speak english better than i could speak italian!
i think it is sad, but yes. there probably are more Sisters fans in germany than in the uk.
germany has always been more open minded towards "dark" pop music.
in the uk, if it doesnt have blond hair, blue eyes & white teeth, then its marginalised. its put to one side, for the students, goths, and wierdos to like...
http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/gen/vn ... ettext.htm
Anyway, I'm constantly confronted by representatives of popular culture who are far more g*** than we, yet I have only to wear black socks to be stigmatised as the demon overlord. Luckily, this is a particularly British misconception, so we don't usually have to deal with it much. Mainland journalists very rarely ask questions like the one above, and then only in reference to British media practices...
People should think of the Sisters with awe. They should think of the Sisters with a savage smile in the higher cortex, and a certain moistness in the lower gusset. Thank you.
having said that, these days even the so called "alternative" music is made by shiny happy bright young things... be it "nu metal", that power-pop that calls itself modern day punk, or the farse that is modern day "indie".
germany also has more goths
andrew & leeds?
in his own words from an interview circa 1984 "leeds has been very good to us".
the sisters were born out of a frustration, a backlash, a form of expression about life in thatcher-ite northern britain.
eldritch himself has a few words to say on the subject here:
http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/gen/rrr1.htm
The Sisters were to form part of an anomalous rebellion along the M62, a motorway which crosses northern England and joins Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds. Nearby Sheffield can be considered a part of this enclave. Hull never bothered; it finally produced ...the Housemartins. Apart from New Model Army, Bradford could only ever boast fundamentalist traces of the few youth movements which had landed and promptly left. In each city, the rebellion had a different dominant flavour. Leeds, as the Sisters knew it, was a speed town, charged with a broadly political kind of gang warfare.
The subculture in Leeds was clearly divided at the time. The punks were almost exclusively left-wing (to varying degrees, but united in their contempt of the right-wing) and vaguely allied to the dub factions of Chapeltown and Harehills. On the other hand was a right-wing alliance of general Aryan types, skinheads, would-be mods and a few confused teds. There were regular skirmishes between the two sides. The right-wing would sally forth from the Whip and the Adelphi, adding to the routine violence of Tetley Bittermen at closing time. The F Club offered a relatively safe base for the punk contingent, and every visiting band would play there which was not big or mainstream enough for the university. It's where the first Sisters (and many of their lifelong friends) met each other.
The Sisters were not part of the art-school scene which threw up excellent bands like Gang Of Four, Mekons, Delta 5, and (indirectly) Scritti Politti. The Sisters belonged firmly to the non-student, city end of things. Their immediate forbears were the Expelaires, Music For Pleasure and Dance Chapter. The counterparts in Liverpool were The Teardrop Explodes, Pink Military and Echo And The Bunnymen; Manchester was primarily represented by Joy Division and The Chameleons. Sheffield had the mighty Comsat Angels, Clock DVA, Cabaret Voltaire and the Human League in their initial, fabulously Gerry Anderson phase. Indeed, Andrew says the best double-bill he ever saw was that incarnation of the Human League, with Père Ubu, on the F Club's tiny stage.
hope that helps
In Italy, for some ex-dark with a lot of memory, the Sisters were the dark group of "First and last and Always" and STOP !! 
Or the really Sisters fans are little but wherever ? When I see you in the Sisters' concerts i understand what mean to love the Sisters ! 
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Thanks so much for the *revolting* mental image, Quiffy... *Shudder* I think I'm going to need therapy to shut that one out! 