This one is more interesting than you can expect....
Andrew is giving answers to things that we have disguss in this forum
So i will contribute to this by give you the full translation of the interview in 4 parts like the original interview is...
I hope you will enjoy this......
Sisters of Mercy (Andrew Eldritch): We are the Rolling Stones only we have more brain! (Part A')
Date: 31/03/2006
Script-Interview: Alexis Broulis ("Avopolis.gr")
Don't believe anything from what you've heard about Andrew Eldritch. The impression that have most of us for the historic leader of Sisters Of Mercy, is one of an extraneous self-destroying egomaniac, among them the writer (Alexis Broulis is talking about his previous opinion)."I Was Wrong" then, as Andrew Eldritch wrote 16 years ago. He is a common mortal man with his only "weakness" being shine for his sharp, sarcastic humor and the fact that he has the luxury ofvocalizing his opinion without many rotations. Something most other peoples call just honesty.
After 26 live gigs in America and Canada, some broken ribs and have already start the "Sisters Bite The Silver Bullet" tour that celebrates 25 years of live performances of the band (16/2/81 Leeds – 16/2/06 Las Vegas), Eldritch and his company stands in Athens, for their firt european performances, in Athens and Thessaloniki in 1 & 2 April respectively.
First image: one small, thin englishman with sunglasses and sportswear is approaching us at the lobby of the hotel, alongside with the his young full piercing - mohican friend. Introduction, hand-shaking and immediately to the elevator. Second image: inside the elevator Andrew says that he didn't accomplish to do many things in the few hours since he arrived in Athens, as long as he is forced to meet guys like us that contiusly asking things. That was the critical point. We pass the humor-test in which we were just tried and all the rest become more easier with Andrew and Chris being in good spirit. If you are interested about his famous sunglasses, nope he didn't move them out a moment but he did gave us the chance (purposly perhaps?) to verify the blue colour of his eyes...
Q-There are 9 whole years since your last (and only) visit in Athens. What memories do you have from that?
A-Megadeth! We 've played together with New Model Army, which is always nice. We meet them a lot.
Q-Do you know that it was arranged to play in Athnes the same date, but their concert moved for a week after?
A-We 've disgussed this with Justin Sullivan in the line of american embassy in London, some time ago. We meet NMA all the time but we didn't expect to meet them both in Athens and London. We expect to meet them in a supermarket in Yorkshire! I thought they were to perform here last week.
Q-Do you feel something special now that you are here again?
A-I like the weather. Last time we didn't have the chance to look at many things. Now we have 3 whole days but we have many interviews to do..... It is not heavy but it's annoying, i would like to be somewhere outside, in a cafe.
Q-We could do that now.
A-Nah. It's too difficult because Athens is too noisy to make a conversation when you are outside.
Q-Was a specific reason to avoid to come to Athens all that years?
A-You have to ask promoters for this. Nobody calls us, while in Belgium we perform all the time (translators comment:Lucky bast**ds) cause they call us all the time.
Q-The same thing has told Justin Sullivan before.
A-He again?
Q-You have just come back from the american part of the tour. How did things go there?
A-Two of us went to the hospital, that means very well if you consider that we 've bein there for only 5 weeks
Q-How did you break your ribs?
A-I really don't know. Our quitar player was in worst condition, he had cramps and it was very painfull. All the others was fine, we saw snow, we saw sunshine.
Q-A lot of people are complaining about your live - sound being not good.
A-They are usually complaining most for the smoke
Q-You are carrying 4 smoke machines in this tour. Why so many?
A-Cause almost always half of them don't work when you need them! About the sound... Sometimes we bring our own trucks and equipment, something that is very expensive, especially for a city like Athens. So, sometimes we use the equipment that promoter of the concert is giving to us. Sometimes this equipment is good, sometimes is totaly crap, but we always try to do our best possible.
Q-What is the percentage of this?
A-In this tour because of the big time length and we have not the economic ability to have 2 trucks with equipment and full crew. It needs more money for the crew, for the hotels, for food. At least we are always ask from the promoter specific sound systems but we are not able to know if indeed he will follow our instructions.
Q-I was thinking yesterday that maybe your live sound is bad cause...
A-I don't think that sound is bad! It is always different and this is a good thing i believe. Maybe it could be boring to travel with 2 trucks and in every concert your sound sounds the same. The problem mostly has to do with the accoustic of the building and the worst places for something like this are closed playgrounds or basket arenas. They are a little bit different from the Skala of Milan...
Q-So, you are not so optimistic for the concert...
A-I don't know where we will play.
Q-In a closed basketball arena!
A-I can assure you from this moment that this is not our fault!
To be Continued in Part 2
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(in a PERFECT world, of course 
