... been through it so often, now ... I'm really fed up with this s**t in a way ... what's it called ... entertainment ? ...
(And with my own as well, of course ... but I'm incurable, anyway ...
... )
I do, however, somewhat remember having decided explicitly for the
production of the utmost possible bad taste in order to fend off risks ...
works properly ... Perhaps it's time, to subject this strategy to a certain revision ...
But, then again, what for? ...
Anyway, here you go, have fun ...
Female speaker commenting the compilation of sounds and pictures:
Since the beginning of the 80ies, The Sisters of Mercy are considered to be the ultimate voice of underground [music]. Although, the merciful sisters became famous for being typical goth-rockers, they proved by Temple of Love that gloomy rock can, in fact, be danceable. Their concerts became a legend and were always sold out. After a strife with his band cronies, The Sisters of Mercy became an Eldritch solo project with changing partners. And he became more elegant as well – the goth image had to go. For ten years, he’s been living in Hamburg and the fan community is wistfully waiting for new songs of the master … [:
:]
Host: Here, Andrew, if you like, something for breakfast …?
Andrew Eldritch: Oh, no. I had some, already. I’m long awake.
Host: When did you get up today?
Andrew Eldritch: Four.
Host: Four o’clock, hhm …. and you do this every day … you always get up early …
Andrew Eldritch: Mostly, yes.
Host: And then, why do you do this?
Andrew Eldritch: Don’t know, I take a walk to the harbour. Early in the morning,
it’s very beautiful there. And I can take a little care for my private life, before people
start phoning and sending faxes and …
Host: Oh yes, I know, you are your own manager and do everything yourself
and so on … Well, yes, that’s a good trick, actually … getting up early and so on.
But then, on the other hand, you go to bed early in the evening as well, I guess,
about nine or so ?
Andrew Eldritch: Yes.
Host: Ehm, a propos private life ... you’re somewhat always wearing these
sunglasses, one can actually never see you without them …
Andrew Eldritch: Oh yes!
Host: Ah yeah, right. I’ve seen you without them just before and, right, ha-ha, I didn’t recognize you …
Andrew Eldritch: Well, I always explain it in the way that when Peter Maffay, for example,
has to go to ALDI, he has to take some glasses on and people come and see him and say:
Hey, there’s Maffay with his sunglasses … I just take the glasses off and then … nobody disturbs me ….
Host: Yes, works perfectly fine, yeah. Tell me now, a few minutes before it was mentioned in the clip
that the music we were hearing … that it were called dark wave or goth or whatever and I guess that,
by now, you feel rather sick to hear this … don’t you?
Andrew Eldritch: Yes. Me personally, I’ve somewhat never felt it this way …
Host: Eh yes, well... how, eh,… how would you describe yourself what the band or you,
respectively, have made with The Sisters?
Andrew Eldritch: It’s rock music, somewhere between Motörhead and Pet Shop Boys …
Host: Between Motörhead and Pet Shop Boys! That’s, well, that actually meets the point quite precisely …
Andrew Eldritch: Yes, it is witty but hard. It’s fun, melodic … but it can be rather despiteful at times.
But that does not mean by far it were depressive, and the fact, that it is not so, so ... fleeing reality like
... like pop music mostly is ... that’s ... that’s nothing I ought to excuse myself for.
Host: Well, yes, ehm … depressive … but that’s what people simply assume just so … black clothes,
black sunglasses … but you’ve even done a performance in a white suit …
Andrew Eldritch: … plenty of times, actually …
Host: ... and you’ve tried to counteract this journalists’ jabbering, but nevertheless, there was
written again, eh … depressive rock music …
Andrew Eldritch: That’s because all journalists are stupid and lazy.
Host: Stupid and lazy! That’s what they are, those journalists. Right, and we’ve been telling now …
That’s how it is! By the way, you’ve got a wonderful sticker there … Let’s have a short look …
SISTERS GEGEN NAZIS, aha ... (to the audience: You might get one of these, by the way,
if you succeed in getting through here by phone … and in addition, you’re gonna receive
a Sisters’ CD, the most recent one …
Andrew Eldritch: Yes.
Host: Best of ... oh, ah, there’s someone on the phone. So I shall pick it up … Hello, who’s there?
Girl on the phone: Claudia.
Host: Claudia! Where’re you from …
Claudia: ... grmlrmlrml …
Host: I didn’t get that, now. Could you please repeat it …
Claudia: ... grmlrmlrml…
Host: Ah yes, ehm … and how old are you?
Claudia: Ten.
Host: Ten. Do you have any questions to Andrew?
Claudia: Yes, how he got to the name of the band …
Andrew Eldritch: I have stolen it … honestly said.
Host: Where?
Andrew Eldritch: Ehm, I’ve once seen a film where Julie Christie played a prostitute and she led her troop
through the mud to sort of a wild west town. That’s a good mixture between dogma and prostitution,
what you do as a rock band …
Claudia: Hhm …
Host: And you fall exactly in between ... in between all sorts of category, actually …
Andrew Eldritch: Hhm, yes.
Host: [to Claudia] Your question is answered?
Claudia: Yes.
Host: OK, you have won this sticker and a CD of the Sisters …Hold the line! … Ciao!
Claudia: Thanks. ... Thanks.
Host: A further thing … recently, a large – or rather small - German trend magazine invited you to a hash test …
we won’t tell the name here now … I can’t even remember the name ...
Andrew Eldritch: I know it, but I won’t tell. : [ But I do: TEMPO]
Host: And eh, it was about testing hashish and you were the only person who denied to participate. Why?
Andrew Eldritch: Yes. It doesn’t suit me. I have already gained my experience with it, what it is about and
… eh, in England it is still all over, as yet… but ... eh ... somehow you always get in touch with the stuff
… but it doesn’t suit me.
Host: But you have ... the others who were there – Die Fantastischen Vier were meant to come
but they didn’t - there were politicians there, Rolf Zacher was there, and all of them, they whiffed busily,
while you've even prepared a sort of manifest – well, this formulation is a bit exaggerated, but …
Andrew Eldritch: Yes. I wanted that there would be someone who might emphasize: Well, everything fine,
but you don’t have to consume immediately each and every thing, that is suddenly free and legitimate …
Assistant: Yoh. So, if I might interrupt you for a short moment … above everything allowed
and everything to want … we have established now: How far do you go in order to maim your body
… and, ehm, well here’s the results …
[including Eldritch disturbing several times with complaints about the haircut of that guy ...
and some further useless chat between the two assistants ...]
Assistant:
... it’s quite interesting, let’s have a look … I don’t believe it! 40% say only earrings is ok; piercings 11% …
and 38% would have themselves scarred. Well, that remains to be seen!. Send us a few photos! What it looks like!
But don’t hurt yourselves too much, that’s no good, That’s s**t. Not so much blood … that’s better …
Host: So, pretty soon now, we’re gonna reach the end. Do you have any piercings or tattoos? No. Or, do you?
Andrew Eldritch: That’s what you’d like to know … But you’re not my type …
Host: OK. I won’t get to see it …
And the rest is previews of the next "show"and remarks on this attack which had taken place in Solingen
where four people died in a house that was burned down by some Nazis a few weeks before …
I'm so glad we're in 2009 now ...
... however incurable I might be ...
: , so very well off mark ... it's just disgraceful 
... It's neither my business nor my decision. (I don't exist, anyway.)
... could be the flu, could ... 
:: ... 
...
I can translate written German alright, but my skills at doing it from the spoken word are...frankly, pathetic. 
