Dave Ling (ex Raw & Metal Hammer magazines, these days freelance but contracted to Classic Rock, whatever that means) does a pretty neat diary/blog, that I've been catching up on over the weekend.
I noticed this entry from 20/5/11:
Friday 20th May - Much of my morning was spent transcribing a recent phone conversation with Sisters Of Mercy singer/leader Andrew Eldritch. Regular visitors to these pages might surmise that I’m not really a fan of SOM, though I enjoyed my encounter with Eldritch – notoriously evasive and difficult to interview – who tuned out to have a brilliant, dry wit. I certainly didn’t expect him to be a fellow sports enthusiast, but somehow we got into a conversation about the ups ‘n’ downs of supporting yoyo football teams (i.e. ones that are perpetually promoted and relegated). I mentioned that I myself follow one such a club. “Please tell me it’s not West Ham?� retorted Eldritch, a fan of FC St Pauli “who he described as: “a German football team of very left wing renown.� “No… I’m a season ticket holder at Crystal Palace,� I told him. “Ah yes, that **is** a yo-yo team,� replied Andrew before going off on a slightly surreal rant about the merits of CPFC’s controversial former owner Simon Jordan. “I liked that guy a lot – a very entertaining and erudite man,� reckoned Eldritch. “His was a refreshing voice in a very tawdry industry.� At that point you probably could’ve knocked me down with a feather.
Full link here: http://www.daveling.co.uk/diary.htm
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