Media Alert - Marx interview in Friday's Guardian

[Karst]

Thanks for jumping in there Dave. Can I just say I loved your article on the Eves for the Keepsakes collection. Very well done. And the logo, ah well, just shows what fans have to contend with discussing with no album release for over 10 years. Btw. it is perfectly explained in FAQ on the offical site.

[Obviousman]

the scan for people who can't read Guardian, please

If you'd look through the thread you should see a linky to the article

[eotunun]

the scan for people who can't read Guardian, please

The link should do..
The one above, or previous page or whatever-anyway, in ths thread.

[eotunun]

The next one for Boudicca´s Heartland musical:
A choir singing "The Link"..

[Nic]

The enduring image of the Sisters live is of four black stetsons poking out of dry ice: a cross between Once Upon a Time in the West and horror flick The Fog

My favourite Sisters song is Last Exit for the Adrenochrome

[Nonesuch]

I thought Dave Simpson's opening paragraph in this article was fantastic.

I was one of the black-clad students who had enrolled at Leeds Poly, mainly because of the music coming out of Leeds at that time. Unfortunately my course was secondary. This was 1987, so The Sisters weren't holding court anymore - The m*****n were the new Kings - although the week I started was also the rebirth of The Sisters with This Corrosion being released.

When I heard about places like the Faversham and the Phono, they already seemed like the stuff of legend, and we just had to be part of it. Living in LS6 was funny because you'd always see somebody from 'the scene' when you were out and about. Ghostdance on the bus, Rose of Avalanche at the off licence, Salvation buying their fruit and veg. Yes, pure rock and roll action.

It brought a smile to my face when I read the start of the Guardian piece because that was about me - it's the absolute truth. And almost 20 years later, to be only slightly embarrassed about my former teenage self shows that there must have been something really worth getting excited about.

Nonesuch.

[Quiff Boy]

I thought Dave Simpson's opening paragraph in this article was fantastic.

I was one of the black-clad students who had enrolled at Leeds Poly, mainly because of the music coming out of Leeds at that time. Unfortunately my course was secondary. This was 1987, so The Sisters weren't holding court anymore - The m*****n were the new Kings - although the week I started was also the rebirth of The Sisters with This Corrosion being released.

When I heard about places like the Faversham and the Phono, they already seemed like the stuff of legend, and we just had to be part of it. Living in LS6 was funny because you'd always see somebody from 'the scene' when you were out and about. Ghostdance on the bus, Rose of Avalanche at the off licence, Salvation buying their fruit and veg. Yes, pure rock and roll action.

It brought a smile to my face when I read the start of the Guardian piece because that was about me - it's the absolute truth. And almost 20 years later, to be only slightly embarrassed about my former teenage self shows that there must have been something really worth getting excited about.

Nonesuch.

[scotty]

Salvation..........Sisters sound-a-likes .............f**k off!!!

Great pic' of Mr Fiend though

[Davehack]

cheers Nonesuch, write to the paper and get me a pay rise

dunno what this All About Eve article I'm sposed to have written is tho - not me guv, unless I've been cloned

[bismarck]

Claire was the DJ at the Phono, now goes out with Mick Brown but orig. was Andy's girlfriend. Played keyboards in a fledgling Sisters.

From what I understand from Marx's interview w GPS, Claire was the keyboardist in a band that most definitely pre-dated the Sisters, and did not share the name. Someone can post the relevant quote if they've got their GPSs at hand... #6 methinks...

[Karst]

Sorry Dave - had you confused with Dom Willis...

[radiojamaica]

indeed. Glasperlenspiel 06: interview with Gary Marx

...Can you remember any details about what happened before Damage Done and whether Merciful Release Records existed before then?
"The band didn't exist, but a band did. Andrew was the drummer, his girlfriend was the keyboardplayer, I was the guitarplayer (despite never playing guitar before in my life), the bassplayer was called Johnny (every band around that time was obliged to have at least one person called Johnny) and a local Leeds face called Keith Fuller sang. It's so long ago I can't remember if we ever had a name, we certainly never played a gig or recorded a note. We barely made it trough a rehearsal without scud missiles being deployed. The only thing that band did was throw me and Andrew together. The pair of us set up Merciful release to create a label identity for the Damage Done single."

et voilà, that clears things up then

[Davehack]

if i may confuse things further, in the embryonic period - according to Gary - they also considered the name Captains of Industry. Gary would have been "Captain Orange", Andy "Captain (of course) Black" It's some sort of homage to Devo. So now you know.

[Dark]

Gary also sang in the band Naked Voices before being in the Sisters.

[Badlander]

if i may confuse things further, in the embryonic period - according to Gary - they also considered the name Captains of Industry. Gary would have been "Captain Orange", Andy "Captain (of course) Black" It's some sort of homage to Devo. So now you know.

The official site says :

Still, it's important to remember that England was infested with punk bands of this calibre, and before they left the studio Andrew was showing Gary a sketch of the proposed logo, "Because we have to make some t-shirts". It was decided that the "band" would not, after all, be called 'The Captains Of Industry'.