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Source of Eldritch Quote

Posted: 01 May 2017, 11:46
by lazarus corporation
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:

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.�
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.

Posted: 01 May 2017, 13:23
by sultan2075
Could it be the Virgin.net interview posted up on the official site?

Posted: 01 May 2017, 20:23
by sultan2075
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.

Posted: 02 May 2017, 07:00
by lazarus corporation
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

Source of Eldritch Quote

Posted: 05 May 2017, 17:36
by MAndrews

Source of Eldritch Quote

Posted: 06 May 2017, 18:43
by MAndrews
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.

Re: Source of Eldritch Quote

Posted: 07 May 2017, 08:10
by lazarus corporation
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.
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!)

Great piece, by the way