Bonus points if you can link me to the interview somewhere on the web - even a scan of it - so I can get the surrounding context.Andrew Eldritch wrote:“There’s hyperlinks in all of it. If you can stick three words of T S Eliot into a line you’ve automatically involved and enveloped the whole of The Wasteland and that just enriches what you do. ‘Floorshow’ is a very brazen example.�
Source of Eldritch Quote
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Can any of you experts help me out - I need to cite the following quote from Eldritch in a thing I'm writing, but all I can find is the (unsourced) quote of the quote in the 2015 Quietus article. I remember reading it years ago, so it's probably from some article in NME/Sounds/MM or somewhere similar:
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Could it be the Virgin.net interview posted up on the official site?
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
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It looks like he makes the same point in the interview I was thinking of, but not nearly as directly or succinctly as in your quotation.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
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Ah, maybe it was the virgin.net interview I was thinking of, and the quote above is unique to the interview behind the Quietus piece
Thanks, sultan2075
Thanks, sultan2075
Just re-read the original post properly.
The quote from Eldritch was from a 90 minute phone interview conducted last year. So unless he's quoting himself verbatim, the quote is original to the interview.
He's probably said something similar in the past and rejigged if for The Quietus interview, but it's not a quote I took from elsewhere. For the one's that I did, I indicated the source: website, Whipping and Apologies fanzine.
Just those, I think. Everything else attributed to Eldritch in the piece is from the interview.
The quote from Eldritch was from a 90 minute phone interview conducted last year. So unless he's quoting himself verbatim, the quote is original to the interview.
He's probably said something similar in the past and rejigged if for The Quietus interview, but it's not a quote I took from elsewhere. For the one's that I did, I indicated the source: website, Whipping and Apologies fanzine.
Just those, I think. Everything else attributed to Eldritch in the piece is from the interview.
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Thank you! Yes, I think he's talked about this subject before (e.g. the Virgin.net interview that sultan2075 mentioned) and I mistook your interview quote for a quote of an older quote (sorry!)MAndrews wrote:Just re-read the original post properly.
The quote from Eldritch was from a 90 minute phone interview conducted last year. So unless he's quoting himself verbatim, the quote is original to the interview.
He's probably said something similar in the past and rejigged if for The Quietus interview, but it's not a quote I took from elsewhere. For the one's that I did, I indicated the source: website, Whipping and Apologies fanzine.
Just those, I think. Everything else attributed to Eldritch in the piece is from the interview.
Great piece, by the way