Nadia81 wrote:My german is even worse than my english! Are the first two questions about G**ths and how they got the name of the band?
Yes, it's something like:
(Please correct me anyone where I fail .... )
- Andrew, why is the band named The Sisters of Mercy?
Good question. I could have chosen a far shorter name, actually,
one that could have been printed in a larger letters ...
- Right, that's difficult now...
Should have thought of that, gone wrong ... well, then I'd seen a film
with a song of Leonard Cohen in it, where in a thunderstorm and through
a lot of mud some sluts lead by Julie Christie got to a village ...
- Hhm. As far as I gathered, you've somewhat got sort of an goth image
... that's what's being mentioned everywhere ...?
`No, no ... only some people do so ... and if you asked them why,
it 's only because they read it somewhere else before ...
- However, I have read it ... and I wanted to ask you ... you don't like
having an image as such? It' annoys you?
Yeah, yeah ... always. Well, I usually explain it this way:
If every journalist, be it out of dumbness or laziness or whatever,
would ask me how my wife is, then sooner or later
people might get the impression that I were married, which is wrong,
of course ... it's just not the point, somehow ...
- Hhm, and this image...
do you think you produced it yourself or where does it come from?
Probably, it comes from the very rude English press ...
- Ah, and what's so rude about them?
They steadily make up rude things in order to badmouth bands,
especially those coming from the North ... and it's very easy to just
copy this. And this term "goth" ... they also apply it to All About Eve,
or Alien Sex Fiend ...
I never really understood what, for example, these two bands had
in common to make them go under one and the same classification.
Maybe I'll get it someday ...
- So now, you would like to change your image?
Well, that's what I'm doing already by talking to you and by informing
people like you, for example ...