If you could ask Andrew Eldritch one question...

[stufarq]

I'd ask YCBTO-- yes or no.

Thread won.

[Bartek]

Yup, we can now lock that thread - no one ever will have better question.

[Bellatrix]

Hi, like your chat, funny!!!!!

[eastmidswhizzkid]

Hi, like your chat, funny!!!!!

hi Bellatrix!(Great name!) welcome to Heartland.

Yup, we can now lock that thread - no one ever will have better question.

agreed. @EmmaPeelWannaBe:

[EmmaPeelWannaBe]

Ah shucks

[EvilBastard]

Why TSOM didn't play live for five long years; from 1985 - 1990?

Was it because of the lack of a good guitarist during those years?
Or some another reason?

Short answer: spite. was so tired of people showing up wearing black to see what them play, even though TSoM was not a goth band, that he figured that if they stopped playing live then the black-clad masses would grow up and start wearing brightly-coloured garments so he could look out from the stage and see a sea of yellows and blues. He figured that 5 years was long enough, and took the extra step of touring in the US with someone who was clearly not a goth band, but it turns out that we didn't get the message and showed up wearing black again. He's made it clear in any number of interviews that there won't be a new album until people start showing up to gigs wearing lycra, football shirts, bright pinks and pastels, but it seems that we're incapable of helping ourselves. Le sigh.

[Alex66]

The first time I saw The Sisters I wore a quite dandy Gold and Silver embroidered coat, bright coloured trousers and equally colourful shirt. Also I had peroxide hair, if he wanted bright colours he could have taken me on tour. That was 83/84 so perhaps people should have followed my lead and looked like dandy groovestars and there would have been more shows.

Why TSOM didn't play live for five long years; from 1985 - 1990?

Was it because of the lack of a good guitarist during those years?
Or some another reason?

Short answer: spite. was so tired of people showing up wearing black to see what them play, even though TSoM was not a goth band, that he figured that if they stopped playing live then the black-clad masses would grow up and start wearing brightly-coloured garments so he could look out from the stage and see a sea of yellows and blues. He figured that 5 years was long enough, and took the extra step of touring in the US with someone who was clearly not a goth band, but it turns out that we didn't get the message and showed up wearing black again. He's made it clear in any number of interviews that there won't be a new album until people start showing up to gigs wearing lycra, football shirts, bright pinks and pastels, but it seems that we're incapable of helping ourselves. Le sigh.

[Pista]

Why TSOM didn't play live for five long years; from 1985 - 1990?

Was it because of the lack of a good guitarist during those years?
Or some another reason?

As I understand, didn't really have a "band" he could take on tour until Vision Thing came to being.
It was just him, Patricia (sort of) & the Doktor.

[sultan2075]

The first time I saw The Sisters I wore a quite dandy Gold and Silver embroidered coat, bright coloured trousers and equally colourful shirt. Also I had peroxide hair, if he wanted bright colours he could have taken me on tour. That was 83/84 so perhaps people should have followed my lead and looked like dandy groovestars and there would have been more shows.

First time I saw them (Philly 97, I think?) I wore light blue jeans, a white Sick Of It All t-shirt, and my hair was at most 1/4 of an inch long (and still naturally red). Probably combat boots or oxblood Doc Martens. Kind of stuck out in that crowd.

[EmmaPeelWannaBe]

i think i still have my ticket for the cancelled Berkeley and Sacramento shows. But I would definitely have worn lots of black.

Why TSOM didn't play live for five long years; from 1985 - 1990?

Was it because of the lack of a good guitarist during those years?
Or some another reason?

Short answer: spite. was so tired of people showing up wearing black to see what them play, even though TSoM was not a goth band, that he figured that if they stopped playing live then the black-clad masses would grow up and start wearing brightly-coloured garments so he could look out from the stage and see a sea of yellows and blues. He figured that 5 years was long enough, and took the extra step of touring in the US with someone who was clearly not a goth band, but it turns out that we didn't get the message and showed up wearing black again. He's made it clear in any number of interviews that there won't be a new album until people start showing up to gigs wearing lycra, football shirts, bright pinks and pastels, but it seems that we're incapable of helping ourselves. Le sigh.

[stufarq]

Why TSOM didn't play live for five long years; from 1985 - 1990?

Was it because of the lack of a good guitarist during those years?
Or some another reason?

As I understand, didn't really have a "band" he could take on tour until Vision Thing came to being.
It was just him, Patricia (sort of) & the Doktor.

And people might have found out whether Patricia really could play, which would never do.

[Microcosmia]

I would probably ask him

"Did you and Patricia ever have a squirrel?"

The world needs to know.

[EmmaPeelWannaBe]

I would probably ask him

"Did you and Patricia ever have a squirrel?"

The world needs to know.

[markfiend]

* Since this was written, the Legal Aid system has been tightened up a little. Coincidentally, there has been a dramatic upsurge in claims of date-rape, which is a criminal offence that police are obliged to pursue for at least as long as it takes to sell mud to the same newspapers which decry the spread of Compensation Culture. Ain't life grand?

I'd not spotted that date-rape thing before. Rape victims are just after the publicity? Stay classy Andrew

[Microcosmia]

Nor had I markfiend. Now having read that I'd re submit my question to ask what on earth he meant by that and how is such a statement consistent with calling yourself a humanitarian.

[Being645]

Nor had I markfiend. Now having read that I'd re submit my question to ask what on earth he meant by that and how is such a statement consistent with calling yourself a humanitarian.

He wasn't sleeping for too many nights and days, so he didn't know what he's talking about; the reality for him got blurred in those moments?!?

Everybody knows about the difficulties in such cases ... even nowadays the rule "No is No." does not apply in every country and lenghty trials with unsatisfactory results ensue. Insofar, I take this as a comparison not too far fetched.

[paint it black]

@age. It is generally known Eldritch is a bit of a knob. Get over it, else you're going to win a green biro

[stufarq]

It's well documented that he got the name from the Philip K Dick novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

[elamanamou]

@age. It is generally known Eldritch is a bit of a knob. Get over it, else you're going to win a green biro

Just scrolling through. Typical of you PIB!

Do you come here often and have you seen that guitarist?

[Afflikönig]

Bacon sandwich - red or brown?

[Swinnow]

He's lived up north long enough, so must be a HP man by now.

[mh]

Why not red and brown? Yum!

[abridged]

Why not red and brown? Yum!

And you compain about my ahem purple fixation!

[Afflikönig]

Why not red and brown? Yum!

Well that's just obscene

And since when has HP sauce been a northern thing???

[Swinnow]

We decided during our college days, back in prehistory, that the choice of HP or Ketchup was a dead good guide as to someone's origin.