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What is or was Candelmaesse?
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Is google broken? :innocent:

Music publisher?

or some sort of religious feast that featured loads of candles
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It was Eldritch's publishing company, right?
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Pista wrote:Is google broken? :innocent:
Not the sort of response I hoped for. Thanks anyway.
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Pista wrote: Music publisher?

or some sort of religious feast that featured loads of candles
candle m'ass: american-english mis-pronunciation can-dle my arse, a request to insert a candle or other wax phallus into the anal passage*




*presumably for sexual gratification rather than illumination.
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Skip Intro wrote:
Pista wrote:Is google broken? :innocent:
Not the sort of response I hoped for. Thanks anyway.
if only skip intro had followed his own advice, and read on.... :roll:
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Candlemass?

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Pista wrote:Music publisher?
That's what I thought too. I hadn't twigged there was a specific Sisters connection until I Googled and found the page on Discogs and it's all Sisters/Sisterhood and nobody else (apart from some group called Poesie Noire that I've never heard of, but closer inspection reveals they're only in the list because they do a cover of Marian).
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Maybe it's something like *shudder* Cleopatra Recs?

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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:candle m'ass: american-english mis-pronunciation can-dle my arse, a request to insert a candle or other wax phallus into the anal passage*

*presumably for sexual gratification rather than illumination.
Not to be confused with Arse Candle or "candlemear", a request to insert a candle or other wax phallus into the oral passage*

*presumably for sexual gratification rather than for any perceived health benefits.
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Candle In My Arse

Was the working tiitle of the Elton John song

He later found that he could use the same one to fit both Marilyn Monroe and Lady Di - amazing
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Can the mess, or can the mass, resp. ... :innocent:
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.... no, wasn't that by Suzi Quatro?
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million voices wrote:.... no, wasn't that by Suzi Quatro?
Indeed ... :P ... and even almost half a century ago ... :innocent: ...
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million voices wrote:.... no, wasn't that by Suzi Quatro?
Indeed ... :P ... and even almost half a century ago ... :innocent: ...
brilliantly covered by Ghost Dance....and still more than a quarter-of-a-century ago. :eek:
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:candle m'ass: american-english mis-pronunciation can-dle my arse, a request to insert a candle or other wax phallus into the anal passage*

*presumably for sexual gratification rather than illumination.
Not to be confused with Arse Candle or "candlemear", a request to insert a candle or other wax phallus into the oral passage*

* i think you mean aural passage mate....though choking someone to death with it sounds no less valid (especially if they've been getting on your wick... :innocent: )
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Candlemass?

IZ.
first thing i thought when i read the topic list :notworthy:
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Dan wrote:
Pista wrote:Music publisher?
That's what I thought too. I hadn't twigged there was a specific Sisters connection until I Googled and found the page on Discogs and it's all Sisters/Sisterhood and nobody else (apart from some group called Poesie Noire that I've never heard of, but closer inspection reveals they're only in the list because they do a cover of Marian).
... seems to have been the music publishing department of The Sisters very own record label Merciful Release ...
http://directors.findthecompany.co.uk/l ... d-Steemson ... is known as the office director of Merciful Release
and, IIRC, the tour manager of The Sisters and allegedly the co-writer of Giving Ground ...
*maybe I should create a file for him under http://sisterswiki.org/Members_%28past_ ... ntributors
... but heaven knows during which times he was there, or where to find a photo of him ...

For the Anglo-Saxon term see
https://books.google.de/books?id=BUaTAw ... se&f=false
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Image

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that there choo-choo train never made it out of Sodor... proper fooked! :innocent: :lol:

...lovely picture btw.
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Being645 wrote:... seems to have been the music publishing department of The Sisters very own record label Merciful Release ...
http://directors.findthecompany.co.uk/l ... d-Steemson ... is known as the office director of Merciful Release
and, IIRC, the tour manager of The Sisters and allegedly the co-writer of Giving Ground ...
Interesting that Stenson was appointed in 1991 (and apparently never active) when Candelmaesse is only mentioned on Sisters recordings from 1984-86 and no longer administers the 84-85 recordings (not sure about the Gift songs).

His alleged co-authorship of Giving Ground might explain why its words are credited only to Copyright Control while the music, and all the words and music to the rest of the album, are credited to Eldritch.
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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... but heaven knows during which times he was there, or where to find a photo of him ...
Wasn't he the CEO of that Total Rock Radio station?
Might be worth checking his linkedin profile. Might have some dates in there
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Chairman Bux might be the person to ask. IIRC he was some kind of legal eagle... pity no-one seems to have heard from him for yonks.
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Being645 wrote:
Dan wrote:
Pista wrote:Music publisher?
That's what I thought too. I hadn't twigged there was a specific Sisters connection until I Googled and found the page on Discogs and it's all Sisters/Sisterhood and nobody else (apart from some group called Poesie Noire that I've never heard of, but closer inspection reveals they're only in the list because they do a cover of Marian).
... seems to have been the music publishing department of The Sisters very own record label Merciful Release ...
http://directors.findthecompany.co.uk/l ... d-Steemson ... is known as the office director of Merciful Release
and, IIRC, the tour manager of The Sisters and allegedly the co-writer of Giving Ground ...
*maybe I should create a file for him under http://sisterswiki.org/Members_%28past_ ... ntributors
... but heaven knows during which times he was there, or where to find a photo of him ...

For the Anglo-Saxon term see
https://books.google.de/books?id=BUaTAw ... se&f=false
Steemson was the SISTERS manager, I have also seen him described as MR manager, James Ray Manager and office manager, I am guessing he started working with them early 84 when they signed to WEA as the major label would have required a more business orientated person. (Although not sure Steemson fitted that bill as I have read that James Ray thought him inept!) I believe he left the employment of MR / Sisters sometime around 1991/92 and had heard rumours of money being wasted on frivolous items such as leather bound tour itineraries and other extravagances although I don't know what those were! I don't think he was tour manager as I have never seen him named on the tour itineraries I have seen. He is now indeed the CEO of Total Rock Radio.
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