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Posted: 04 Aug 2014, 04:58
by Yggdrasil
Bartek wrote:It's still not about a number of clicks and registered users,
Please note that I never said that. You're arguing with yourself here.
Bartek wrote: but active people (still, not "like"), and i guess that here and on FB is relatively small. Yet, of course, fact that they are still touring is a positive sign, or at lest should be, for them.
Of course. That's pretty much why I keep proposing what I'm proposing. If you can tour and sell T-shirts, then you can sell albums, too. And it would revitalize the whole thing.
Posted: 07 Aug 2014, 22:23
by Nikolas Vitus Lagartija
Ben :" it may be fair to assume that nothing new is hoping to happen any time soon". As you were.
http://www.rockoverdose.gr/news_details.php?id=32805
Posted: 08 Aug 2014, 08:43
by copper
I very clearly remember how lost I felt at the beginning of ’07. Without being part of a band, I had felt I had no identity, and I think I might feel the same if NxN disbanded tomorrow. I NEED my own band to feel as if I am myself. Yes, I was in TSoM, which was a hell of an accolade.
The issue was that I want to WRITE and CREATE within a band; I have so many musical ideas that need an outlet and this just wasn’t possible in The Sisters, because, stylistically, the ideas about which I was most passionate weren’t compatible with their aesthetic, not to mention that they weren’t showing a great deal of interest in creating a new record.
Eldritch has made enough albums for himself, there's no internal impetus to make another. By touring and royalties, he gets what's called 'f**k you money' and it takes away the financial necessity.
He's more into
channeling Dante or Boccaccio nowadays, which is probably a nice way for him to spend his time. Playing around with the language, those little twists of words, that's where he's happiest.
Posted: 08 Aug 2014, 15:21
by Bartek
That's a very realistic and pragmatic view, no illusion, no dis-illusion. Kudos for Ben.
Posted: 08 Aug 2014, 15:31
by Being645
Very good interview! Thanks for diggin' it up and posting...
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Posted: 08 Aug 2014, 20:46
by EvilBastard
Being645 wrote:Very good interview! Thanks for diggin' it up and posting...
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Indeed!!
Although, based on this pik...
...NxN's frontman is Tim Minchin...
Posted: 08 Aug 2014, 23:47
by markfiend
Posted: 11 Aug 2014, 14:43
by robertzombie
Has Ben left the Sisters?
Posted: 11 Aug 2014, 15:06
by Bartek
What made you think that?
Posted: 11 Aug 2014, 15:43
by Norman Hunter
Too good a (reasonably) regular cash-cow to do that.
Posted: 11 Aug 2014, 15:57
by markfiend
He does seem slightly negative about the Sisters in that interview. Also...
Ben wrote:At the moment, my future and NxN’s future are pretty much one and the same; the band takes up so much of my time that I don’t really think about much else.
Posted: 11 Aug 2014, 16:52
by radiojamaica
I like Ben, he seems a cool guy and he tells it like it is with the Sisters. De Robo seems to talk more like Eldritch and yeah, why bother you know...
Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 09:42
by Joy
July 29, 2014
"Obviously I love being in the Sisters’, its fantastic."
http://screamermagazine.com/interviews/ ... y-arrived/
31 July 2014
"Being part of The Sisters of Mercy has been an wonderful experience for me, as I have made some fantastic friends in the band and crew, played to some huge sized audiences and travelled all over the globe."
http://www.metal-temple.com/site/catalo ... hristo.htm
Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 12:43
by markfiend
I stand corrected. And I'm glad of that.
Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 14:29
by Bartek
It can be read either this or that way; he's young, he has some music ideas, he wants to record - hard to blame him for the last one; some may say that it also means that there will be no more TSOM gig(s) in next few months. (That's, obviously, about your quote Mark)
Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 14:57
by Joy
All this is just brainstorming, of course, as there is no precise information, but at the end of this interview Ben’s plans with NxN is a tour in Europe in September and October… So both September and October are out of possible dates for a Sisters tour.
"We want to be on the road as much as possible as we need to promote the album; our issue at the moment is that we don´t have a live agent to continuously coordinate our gigs – an incredibly important role.
Saying that, we are in the procces of confirming shows for Sept/Oct in the UK and Europe (Poland, Czech Repubic and possibly Germany)."
http://hardrockhaven.net/online/2014/07 ... -by-night/
Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 15:10
by Bartek
oh, not my cup of tea, but if they going to play in my city and I'll have time and money I'd probably go see them.
Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 15:32
by Being645
Joy wrote:All this is just brainstorming, of course, as there is no precise information, but at the end of this interview Ben’s plans with NxN is a tour in Europe in September and October… So both September and October are out of possible dates for a Sisters tour.
"We want to be on the road as much as possible as we need to promote the album; our issue at the moment is that we don´t have a live agent to continuously coordinate our gigs – an incredibly important role.
Saying that, we are in the procces of confirming shows for Sept/Oct in the UK and Europe (Poland, Czech Repubic and possibly Germany)."
http://hardrockhaven.net/online/2014/07 ... -by-night/
Yes, and in November Chris is planning another Eureka Machines pledge album PLUS a solo album ... so that makes further Sisters gigs for this year most unlikely ...
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But hey, perhaps, well quite perhaps,
is also preparing something nice in the meantime ...
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Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 15:55
by Joy
Being645 wrote:
Yes, and in November Chris is planning another Eureka Machines pledge album PLUS a solo album ... so that makes further Sisters gigs for this year most unlikely ...
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But hey, perhaps, well quite perhaps,
is also preparing something nice in the meantime ...
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Oh… let us keep some hope for December
… and yes, also that Von may be preparing something…
now that the previous tour was so successful.
Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 16:22
by Bartek
Being645 wrote:
But hey, perhaps, well quite perhaps,
is also preparing something nice in the meantime ...
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Like some translation work?
Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 16:28
by Being645
Bartek wrote:Being645 wrote:
But hey, perhaps, well quite perhaps,
is also preparing something nice in the meantime ...
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Like some translation work?
Is translation work something nice ...
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Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 17:28
by Bartek
Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 18:13
by EvilBastard
Joy wrote:All this is just brainstorming, of course, as there is no precise information, but at the end of this interview Ben’s plans with NxN is a tour in Europe in September and October… So both September and October are out of possible dates for a Sisters tour.
Unless, of course, somevon decides to kill 2 birds with one stone and tour with NxN as the support act...
Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 18:16
by Being645
EvilBastard wrote:Joy wrote:All this is just brainstorming, of course, as there is no precise information, but at the end of this interview Ben’s plans with NxN is a tour in Europe in September and October… So both September and October are out of possible dates for a Sisters tour.
Unless, of course, somevon decides to kill 2 birds with one stone and tour with NxN as the support act...
Haha ... never say never ...
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Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 18:20
by Joy
EvilBastard wrote:Joy wrote:All this is just brainstorming, of course, as there is no precise information, but at the end of this interview Ben’s plans with NxN is a tour in Europe in September and October… So both September and October are out of possible dates for a Sisters tour.
Unless, of course, somevon decides to kill 2 birds with one stone and tour with NxN as the support act...
Indeed, that is something I have not thought of.
