Unknown songs and demos, who wrote what, who sang what, the usual biographies, discography gubbins, photos of Eldritch with no sunglasses, etc, etc, etc, yadda, yadda, yadda....
this is a slight catch-22:
i read on the official site (though can't find it again on a quick scan) that the nice Mr Von has released other records not in his own name, but understandably did not want to say exactly what they are.
Does anyone know about these and can they name them, without causing all kinds of un-holy legal heck?
OR have i just dreampt the whole thing (again)
"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don't exactly know what they are!"
There was the mystery project The Leeds Underground... but I don't think a record ever came into the light.
It was mentioned on an old Merciful release flyer in the 90ties...
found it
(uncouth i know posting twice in a row in my own topic when it was a question in the first place but for the sake of clarity) http://www.the-sisters-of-mercy.com/gen ... ettext.htm
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Alexa Williamson 1997 In regards to new material and you personally - the last thing I am aware of you 'releasing' was some remixes for Die Krupps in 1994. What are you up to lately? Anything new since then - or in the works? Rumour has it that you've produced a couple of techno albums under various pseudonyms - any truth to this?
Andrew Eldritch 1997
You are very well-informed. That is a rumour I will not deny (although I prefer the description "ambient-pop-industrial-techno hybrid with tunes and intelligence"). Nor would I confirm it if it were true - because rumour has it that I actually performed the albums in question. My contract with East West prevents me from being a featured artist in any other arena, and East West are prepared to spend a lot of money in court to uphold their belief that the contract is still in force. Even if I had a pathological need to openly perform on records, I would need an awful lot of money to assert my freedom. I have neither, so it's not much of an issue.
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and now it is pst my bed time
ttfn
"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don't exactly know what they are!"
Moby wanted Eldritch to sing on a song but couldn't locate the bugger...
"The first single, Lift Me Up, was in Moby's mind a Sisters of Mercy tribute. He originally tried to get that group's frontman, Andrew Eldritch, to sing it, but couldn't find him." http://www.theage.com.au/news/Music/Phi ... 83067.html
radiojamaica wrote:There was the mystery project The Leeds Underground... but I don't think a record ever came into the light.
It was mentioned on an old Merciful release flyer in the 90ties...
"Am Anfang wurde das Universum erschaffen.
Das machte viele Leute sehr wütend und wurde allenthalben als Schritt in die falsche Richtung angesehen."
Andie wrote:....
Left home at sixteen and, after a while living in a housing co-op, answered a Melody Maker advertisement and moved to Leeds to play guitar for post-Goth power-pop band ‘Salvation’; an established group who had recorded several singles with the help and production of several notable Leeds musicians, including Andrew Eldritch (Sisters of Mercy), That Guitarist (Sisters of Mercy/The m*****n), and Si Denbigh (The March Violets/Sisters of Mercy). Salvation toured the UK extensively, charting in the Independent top ten with ‘All and More’.
Mills left Salvation in 1992 and formed ‘la Costa Rasa’ with bass player Jason Armstrong; combining 1960’s inspired garage-rock with sequencers, film-samples and drum-machines, using Steinberg’s Cubase whilst baby-sitting the computers of Leeds’ band The Utah Saints. Live sound and studio engineering was undertaken by Leeds punk DJ/sound engineer Claire Shearsby (Mekons/Sisters/Parachute Men/ETC). LCR were signed to Andrew Eldritch’s label ‘Merciful Release’ and a CD ‘Autopilot’ was made commercially available in 1994.
LCR toured Europe as guests of The m*****n (thanks to the m*****n's Drummer Mick Brown who covered hire of the Costa's transit van) LCR repayed the receptive European audiences by experimenting with lyrics - two latter LCR tunes having Dutch choruses. Later LCR toured Germany with The Sisters of Mercy, The Ramones and Monster Magnet. Although attracting audience and journalistic attention in Europe they secured little UK press. Their second LP was only ever demoed and they parted amicably with Merciful Release in 1995. La Costa Rasa may well record a new LP in 2007.
La Costa Rasa’s bass player, Jason Armstrong, and Mills recorded three studio sessions under the name ‘Sneetches’, which were never commercially released; now compiled, this has been made freely available on-line. Sneetches' Drummer James Griffiths went on to become a journalist for the Guardian newspaper, specialising in jazz. He now writes comedy...
Armstrong now plays for the duel-bassed stoner-rock band King Tonka
Mills has recorded some eight solo LPs with a Do-it-Yourself ethic, writing, recording, designing artwork, burning CDs and distributing copies in music shops and at live concerts. Almost all of these recordings have been made available over the Internet. Content ranges from computer-led loops of feedback, street-noises and John Bonham, to Acoustic Collections. Recently he has been experimenting with klezmer, caol gaidhlig and bluegrass, with folk duo padfoot. Mills plays a pretty mean banjo-mandolin.
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"they secured little UK press"
von never was any good at giving any other MR bands any degree of publicity was he?
What’s the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
radiojamaica wrote:There was the mystery project The Leeds Underground... but I don't think a record ever came into the light.
It was mentioned on an old Merciful release flyer in the 90ties...
jay wrote:Moby wanted Eldritch to sing on a song but couldn't locate the bugger...
"The first single, Lift Me Up, was in Moby's mind a Sisters of Mercy tribute. He originally tried to get that group's frontman, Andrew Eldritch, to sing it, but couldn't find him." http://www.theage.com.au/news/Music/Phi ... 83067.html
Did he check upstairs at Boots..?
"I won't go down in history, but I probably will go down on your sister."
Hank Moody
von never was any good at giving any other MR bands any degree of publicity was he?
It's a damn shame too, as Autopilot is a f**king great record.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
Purple Light wrote:Re the Sarah Brightman thingy, Von did some backing vocals on her 1995 album Fly.
any specific tracks?
He is on How Can Heaven Love Me, but not as the male volalist, but rather as a narrative voice midway through the track. He recites some German prose, but does not sing on the track.
Was the album Fly the last thing with Eldritch to be released on EastWest?
Thanx Vicus, that's the chappie 
