piątek, września 08, 2006
Unexpected Guest
We realized what we'd got...there was a movement -there. We d also done an interview with Steve Keaton in Belgium when "Unexpected Guest" came out and he d foreseen this - it s gonna be a movement and we re going "nah, we'll be gone in six months". He said you've got to get a name for it, it s not punk, it s not dance, or alternative or New Pop or mod...and I remember saying we re into The whole Gothic Thing ...and we sat there laughing about how we should have gargoyle shaped records and only play churches. Course he put it all in the interview, comic strip writer that he was. For six months everything went quiet, then when the album came out everyone was asking, what s this Gothic thing you re into? And it s a total joke! I've still got the interview this girl from Harrow gave me and just seeing this little word mentioned once in a whole interview...
That s why to me bands like Sisters Of Mercy are a total joke...having seen Blood & Roses ten years ago I don t see them as anything of substance, it s just a big facade hidden behind black clothes and scowling. Listening to the records, fine, but all this about getting off being part of a scene and a following,..shit...especially as at that time we were at the hub of it and never contrived anything.
All the bands at the end - like Southern Death Cult, got offered a big deal and Ian came round and said We've been offered a 100,000 deal, I don't want it, he was very shrewd because in a very short space of time he'd realized that as soon as he stepped into that big label monster his future was gone, basically. They might sell a lot of records but what they'd have to do for it wouldn't have been very enjoyable. I was actually rehearsing with Billy Duffy and had written four or five songs and we couldn't get on, that's how him and Ian got together to form Death Cult, who I thought were really exciting and would go on to big things. If they'd told me they would go on to be a straightforward rock/heavy metal band Id have been amazed! -Abbo-
Hoy me toca pinchar en el under, noche vampirica, joder. Pondran "gotico" se sentiran parte de algo que en realidad era broma,chiste local. Se emocionaran con Sisters of Mercy sin preocuparse que habia antes, a que sonaba lo de antes. La vida es bella =(undedo at 04:39