Andrew Eldritch
Andrew Eldritch
Andrew Eldritchis the English frontman, singer, songwriter and only remaining original member of The Sisters of Mercy, a band that emerged from the British post-punk scene, transformed into a gothic rock band and, in later years, flirted with hard rock...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth15 May 1959
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Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
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I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.
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The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
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I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.
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Unfortunately, in the current litigious climate I'm one of the very many artists who receive tapes and chucks them straight in the bin.
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I think that's one reason why football is so popular again - it's a game which the citizen can focus on, where the rules are defined.
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Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.
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We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.
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I don't like doing gigs. We're pretty good at it, but it takes too much time and energy. Time and energy I'd rather spend on other things.