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On Sep 6, 2002 9:23pm, Ben Gunn wrote:
A class act!
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http://www.vamp.org/Gothic/Text/3interviews.html
[Eldritch, Hussey and someone else, possibly Gary Marx are standing around in what looks like a dressing room, probably after a concert. They are all wearing old style Sisters gear, with black coats, hats and sunglasses.
Interviewer, who is Belgian, is struggling with the words in his questions. He is holding a copy of "First and Last and Always". It must be about 1985]
[First part of interview missing.]
I: ... to deal with the absence of hope like I thought I heard in some of your songs?
A: No. It's all about being very constructive, is this ... [points to record.]
I: Yes?
A: It's *realistic*. [Holds up record and leans forward to the camera.]
I: What kind of constructiveness?
A: Well, it's a grim world. Even in Belgium, it's a grim world.
I: Yeah?
A: So we feel it necessary to point that out and use that as a basis for everything else. [to the camera again:] Again, not unreasonable.
[part of No Time to Cry is played]
A: Well, that album's just about ... how you can deal with the world as it is. Through the medium of women, drugs, and roads, mostly. [drinks from beer.]
I: Yeah, but can you be a bit more clear about that. What's the real constructive concept of "First and Last and Always"?
[Eldritch bends down to put down beer and pick up a guitar case, unhurriedly.]
A: No, there's no one particular concept; it breaks itself down into, I dunno, five or six primary ideas.
[bends down to put down guitar case.]
I: Like?
A: Like how you deal with people, properly. How you have a good time without doing too much damage to yourself, and preferably very little to those around you that you care about. How you do the most damage to people you don't like. [puts cigarette in mouth and starts to light it.] Stuff like that ... [shrugs, lighter in hand and cigarette in mouth.]
I: When do you think that a concert is really satisfying?
A: When I collapse at the end of it.
I: You mean that?
A: Yeah.
[part of Walk Away is shown.]
I: In this country you're charting at this moment, for instance with "Walk Away" ...
[video disappears here for a second. Interviewer obviously asks Andrew whether the Sisters' chart success bothers them.]
A: [philosophically] No, we were brought up on chart acts. When we grew up, the only people that you got to know about were in the charts, so we don't find it strange to find ourselves there.
I: So you don't mind about, for instance, Killing Joke going for number one these days?
A: Well, we don't like fascists, otherwise we think they're great.
[End.]
