Heartland

A Portuguese one here http://blogs.estadao.com.br/combate_ro ... aquinista/
- slightly more interesting than the Argentinian one IMHO.

Again google translate is not perfect but the meaning is clear throughout :

Fundamental band of the 1980s, the British group Sisters of Mercy, who played last Saturday in Sao Paulo, remains a landmark of the gothic rock. In a room at the Hilton Sao Paulo, hosted under the codename Spacey Austin, a British rock legend answered the phone.

"Yes, here is Andrew Eldritch," confirmed the guest to the entry of the State, with his thundering voice of the narrator of a series of fantastic literature. Ex-scholar of French literature and German at Oxford, singer and composer founded (with guitarist Gary Marx) the Sisters of Mercy in 1980 in Leeds (England) taking the band name from a song by Leonard Cohen. His foresight changed the face of pop - even the insight to use a machine to make a hit artificial dubbed Doktor Avalanche, was visionary.

Eldritch estimates that he played it four times in Brazil. There is touring with a new album, but says that half of the concert at Via Funchal will be filled with new songs, never recorded before.

He says he does not care what these songs appear on YouTube the next minute. "Do not bother me. What bothers me is to see that in some places, I can only see phones and cameras looking up instead of faces. I can not understand how someone spends their money to buy a ticket and then watch the whole thing on camera, "he said.

Copy your new songs, however, is not something that lets you upset. "Even before the music industry died, it was common practice to copy and sell something that does not belong to them. There is nothing you can do. "

What makes you angry is making the sound relationship between the Sisters of Mercy and the Goth culture. "It displeases me. I am a modernist, if not a futurist. We've covered some of the spiritual themes in our songs, but always as a metaphor for something else. "

Eldritch said deep interest in Italian painting of the '20s and '30s. "There's a guy named Crali (Tullio Crali, 1910-2000), who painted the canvas Diving on the City. It is one of my favorites. It's something that looks forward and celebrates the machinery. Sometimes it can take a reading fascist, sometimes not. But modernism speaks to me. "

Eldritch commented statements of the British Morrissey and Roger Waters on the Falkland Islands to Argentina, not Britain: "There is no dispute: it is a geographical inevitability. If I like it or not does not matter. I think that mining companies may argue otherwise. If you ask most English if they want to fight for an island a million miles away, will say, 'No!'. The topic is hot right now because it is election time. Many strange things tend to become noisy at times of election. But do not think it is something which the people of Argentina or the UK to care much at this time. "


Tullio Crali : http://artcontrarian.blogspot.com/2011/ ... urist.html

Fixed that for you


Sisters of Mercy, soundtrack to the machinist civilization

Fundamental band of the 1980s, the British group Sisters of Mercy, who played last Saturday in Sao Paulo, remains a landmark of the gothic rock. In a room at the Hilton Sao Paulo, hosted under the codename Austin Spacey, a British rock legend answered the phone.

"Yes, this is Andrew Eldritch," confirmed the guest to the report of the Estado(*newspaper), with his thundering voice of a narrator of a series of fantastic literature. Ex-scholar of French literature and German at Oxford, the singer and composer founded (with guitarist Gary Marx) the Sisters of Mercy in 1980, in Leeds (England) taking the band name from a song by Leonard Cohen. His foresight changed the face of pop - even the insight to use a machine to make an artificial beat, dubbed Doktor Avalanche, was visionary.

Eldritch estimates that he played around four times in Brazil. He's not touring with a new album, but says that half of the concert at Via Funchal will be filled with new songs, never recorded before.

He says he does not care what these songs appear on YouTube the next minute. "Doesn't bother me. What bothers me is to see that in some places, I can only see phones and cameras looking up, instead of faces. I can not understand how someone spends their money to buy a ticket and then watches the whole thing on camera", he said.

Copying his new songs, however, is not something that makes him upset. "Even before the music industry died, it was common practice to copy and sell something that did not belong to them. There is nothing you can do."

What makes him angry is making the relationship between the sound of the Sisters of Mercy and the Goth culture. "It displeases me. I am a modernist, if not a futurist. We've cover spiritual themes in some of our songs, but always as a metaphor for something else."

Eldritch declared deep interest in Italian painting of the '20s and '30s. "There's a guy named Crali (Tullio Crali, 1910-2000), who painted the canvas Diving on the City. It is one of my favorites. It's something that looks forward and celebrates the machinism. Sometimes it can have a fascist reading, sometimes not. But modernism speaks to me."

Eldritch commented statements of the british Morrissey and Roger Waters about the Falkland Islands belonging to Argentina, not Britain: "There is no dispute: it is a geographical inevitability. If I like it or not does not matter. I think that mining companies may argue otherwise. If you ask most English if they want to fight for an island a million miles away, they will say, 'No!'. The topic is hot right now because it is election time. Many strange things tend to become noisy on times of election. But I do not think it is something which the people of Argentina or the UK care about much at this time." [/i]

Yet another interview here - http://musica.terra.com.br/noticias/0,, ... ortas.html -boy does he sound cheesed off in this one. No wonder, looking through the questions

(Google translate on translation duties again)



The history of the Sisters of Mercy is curious. One of the leading names in British post-punk movement, the band has more than three-decade career, and does world tours each year, however, completely swimming against the tide of most groups on the planet, has only three albums under his belt - though he never stopped presenting new music to fans. And save them is not a plan for the quartet, which is one-off show in Sao Paulo on Saturday in Via Fuchal.



"We could record these songs on disk, but certainly it would cost time and money," said lead singer and founder of the quartet, Andrew Eldritch, 52, in an exclusive interview with Earth. "There's also the fact that it would be difficult to find a label to invest in it with the current reality of the music industry, since all labels are dead. There's no chance for them."

The speech marked by a heavy English accent, does not clash with much of that done by most artists in recent years, with the difference that Eldrich seems to care little for the problem. Long before the current crisis to impose on companies in the industry and its artists, have proliferated as sites for free music downloads on the Internet, his band had already decided not to go more in a studio to produce new material. Vision Thing, the last work of the Sisters, was released in 1990.

"Probably, this reality has ruined the business of most musicians. But I do not see as a big problem for us because we played enough live, giving us the opportunity to continue being professional musicians," he says. "Moreover, companies were warned that this would happen but did nothing to change. Now they only have themselves to blame, which should make them very stressed."

Eldritch, however, do not believe in order in the music industry monopoly. For him, the trend is that this just changes hands, continuing to enrich specific groups facing the entertainment. "Right now, everything will depend on the outcome of the battle between Apple and Amazon, the major marketers of music. There are, of course, the possibility of both remain in the market together, if they can provide good service at decent prices. I am convinced that if this is done, if there is warranty and product quality, people will be willing to pay for them. "

Discretion
There are many things Eldritch assumes you do not like. However, social injustices to the American Republican Party, the record for the title of Godfather of Goth, nothing seems to make him more uncomfortable than talking to reporters - as to have been 12 years without doing so, between 1997 and 2009 . "I really have nothing to say in an interview," the musician justified.

"I do not like to talk about my personal life, because I already say many things in the songs of the Sisters. They are not autobiographical, but provide the opportunity to understand the reason that prompted me to write it. And it really is enough for me "he explains, looking to the report noted that the criticism is not" personal. "

The title of Godfather of Goth is not something that appeals to the singer, having become another great reason to avoid the press. "It's only when I talk to people like you (journalists) that this type of issue arises," he laments. "The rest of the time, it really is not something we think about, and the audience definitely does not care about that. When you hear the Sisters usually know who is listening to the Sisters. And that's enough for me."

Mysterious Eldritch lets clear a few things, talking about them in the most superficial possible. For example, on the repertoire of the concert in Sao Paulo area, he claims to have the possibility to perform some songs still unknown to Brazilians, although not confirm this because prepare set lists in the afternoons just before their concerts. About what they like to do when touring abroad, confesses love to walk the streets where it is, so moody lamenting that this was not possible in this passage by Sao Paulo due to scheduled interviews.

In that staying in hotels, the musician always register with a nickname. And even the country where you live can become controversial for him: "I live in Europe and that's it. If I tell you more, I'll have to kill him," ends with laughter.

Honestly, I find it saddening that South American music journalists do come up now with the same idiot questions European and Australian music journalists had effectively abandoned for already about a year.

*sigh ... ...

Being645 wrote:Honestly, I find it saddening that South American music journalists do come up now with the same idiot questions European and Australian music journalists had effectively abandoned for already about a year.

*sigh ... ...

Journalism....

Guedzilla wrote: Sisters of Mercy, soundtrack to the machinist civilization

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Eldritch declared deep interest in Italian painting of the '20s and '30s. "There's a guy named Crali (Tullio Crali, 1910-2000), who painted the canvas Diving on the City. It is one of my favorites. It's something that looks forward and celebrates the machinism. Sometimes it can have a fascist reading, sometimes not. But modernism speaks to me."

That is a cool painting.