For what it's worth, another BBC mention.

[Prescott]

http://blogs.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia ... sh-mopers/

The last line says it all though.

[ribbons69]

’80s Music Week: Five Great British Mopers
By: Fraser McAlpine Posted: Wednesday, November 9th, 2011


The Sisters of Mercy

As this video clip, from the BBC’s Whistle Test in 1985, amply demonstrates, there’s an ideal way to capture the visual experience of the Sisters of Mercy for television. First make sure they appear in front of spotlights that shine directly into the camera lens, then add dry ice, then some dry ice, and more dry ice, and finally, garnish with dry ice. Then turn all the other lights off. Nothing visually embodies their Davros Sings The Byrds aesthetic like four solid minutes of televised black cloud, with some shadows moving around in the background – one in a hat – looking a bit bored. Thankfully, by the time they had a proper Top 2o hit with the remade “Temple of Love� in 1992, Andrew Eldritch had become a bit more confident about appearing on camera, and the Byrds had become Led Zeppelin (or Meat Loaf, depending on your point of view). Davros remained, however.




The bit about The Cure was quite fun as well.

[silentNate]

Article with JaMC and tSoM! I feel spoiled

[Being645]

’80s Music Week: Five Great British Mopers
By: Fraser McAlpine Posted: Wednesday, November 9th, 2011


The Sisters of Mercy

As this video clip, from the BBC’s Whistle Test in 1985, amply demonstrates, there’s an ideal way to capture the visual experience of the Sisters of Mercy for television. First make sure they appear in front of spotlights that shine directly into the camera lens, then add dry ice, then some dry ice, and more dry ice, and finally, garnish with dry ice. Then turn all the other lights off. Nothing visually embodies their Davros Sings The Byrds aesthetic like four solid minutes of televised black cloud, with some shadows moving around in the background – one in a hat – looking a bit bored. Thankfully, by the time they had a proper Top 2o hit with the remade “Temple of Love� in 1992, Andrew Eldritch had become a bit more confident about appearing on camera, and the Byrds had become Led Zeppelin (or Meat Loaf, depending on your point of view). Davros remained, however.




The bit about The Cure was quite fun as well.

Great link! Thank you, Prescott ...

[Salome]

Thanks for sharing!
Loved the precise review. The only thing they forgot to mention is the bored-shadow-with-the-hat's famous "microphone stand hump hip-move" which is one of the only things you can actually see clearly in the vid