From: william@sage.cc.purdue.edu (jon)
Subject: interview w/Eldritch
Keywords: Eldritch, Sisters of Mercy
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: alt.gothic
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 06:32:35 GMT



NME, a British newsrag, which is uniformly horrible (in case you live in
America and don't know) printed this article amid all its Glastonbury hype
(yawn).  Its like a questionnaire, a sort of 'whats your favourite things' type
thing rather than a complete interview or article.  Typical of the sort of
junior school ideas the NME comes up with.... Anyway - this week its the turn
of uncle Eldy...

                           ---- Material World ----

                          ---- Andrew Eldritch ----

WHERE ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE THE VIBES LIKE?

Andrew Eldritch lives in heaven.  His hobbies are talking to God and go-go
dancing

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?

Breakfast

WHAT WAS THE LAST VIDEO YOU RENTED?

Total Recall

WHAT WAS THE LAST GOOD BOOK YOU READ?

Not Wanted On The Voyage - Timothy Findley

FAVOURITE POLITICAL FIGURE

Imelda Marcos

WHAT TV SHOWS DO YOU TRY NOT TO MISS?

Fruhstuckfernsehen (SAT1), because of Susanne Holst.(*1)  Anything by Gerry
Anderson (except Terrahawks), Crossfire (CNN), Married With Children (Fox), and
all the ones I'm supposed to appear on.

WHAT SPORTS ARE YOU GOOD AT?

Fencing

WHICH PUBLIC FIGURES DO YOU MOST DESPISE?

Margaret Thatcher and Morrissey

FAVOURITE CITIES

Amsterdam, Hamburg, San Francisco

FAVOURITE TV SHOWS OF YESTERYEAR

The Prisoner, Batman(*2), Doctor Who, Star Trek, Sapphire and Steel, Match of
the Day

MOST EMBARRASSING RECORDS IN YOUR COLLECTION

808 State and the last Tanita Tikaram album (record company freebies)

PUNCHLINE TO FAVE JOKE

You can't wash your hands in a buffalo

FAVOURITE JOURNEYS

Anywhere with cherry trees
Anywhere in an Indian taxi
A slow boat from China

NAME THREE GREAT SONGWRITING PARTNERSHIPS

Paul & Barry Ryan
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Richard Butler and the Psychedelic Furs (*3)

WORST LYRIC YOU'VE EVER HEARD

Too difficult a decision.  My favourite very bad lyrics would be 'Eisbar' by
Grauzone, 'MacArthur Park', and anything in Norwegian

FAVOURITE HISTORICAL CHARACTERS

Hereward The Wake and Alistair Sim(*4)

WHO'S OVERRATED?

Anyone that writes for the NME, anyone that's in it

WHO'S UNDERRATED?

Klaus Kinski, Nicholas Cage and The Dutch(*5)

WHO SHOULD REPLACE BILL WYMAN IN THE ROLLING STONES?

Tony James

FAVOURITE PUNK ROCK RECORDS

Pere Ubu: 'Datapanik In The Year Zero'
The Stooges: 'Funhouse'
Motorhead: 'Louie Louie' (*6)

WHAT SCARES YOU?

The prospect of imminent physical distress

WHAT BORES YOU?

Conversation

CAN YOU QUOTE A LINE OF POETRY?

More than you can shake a stick at

FAVOURITE ABBA RECORD

'Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)'

WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO RETIRE TO?

No intention of retiring, thank you very much

NAME A SONG THAT CAN MAKE YOU CRY

'Jerusalem', in certain circumstances

WHEN WERE YOU LAST DRUNK?

Last Thursday

WHAT WAS THE LAST DREAM YOU CAN REMEMBER?

Martin Luther King's.  Shame no-one else remembers it

THREE FAVOURITE GOTH RECORDS

Fleetwood Mac: 'Golddust Woman'
Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra: 'Some Velvet Morning'
Scott Walker: 'My Death'

THREE RECORDS GUARENTEED TO MAKE YOU DANCE

Gary Glitter: 'Rock 'n' Roll Part II'
Deep Purple: 'Hush'
Gary Glitter: 'Didn't know I Loved You, Til I Saw You Rock 'n' Roll'

WHAT CAN YOU COOK?

Anything that doesn't require an oven

MOST IRRITATING ADVERTS ON TV

CNN's trailers for CNN

WHERE DO YOU GO TO CHILL OUT?

Sorry, hep-dude posse-person, I don't chill out: I relax.  If I can't go home,
I try to find some water to look at, or a cat to play with

WHAT WAS THE LAST GREAT RECORD YOU HEARD?

Pearl Jam: 'Ten'

MOTTO

Same as everybody else's:  "Never eat anything bigger than your head"



Well, there you go.  Told you the NME was crap.  However, call me a
train-spotter, but I tend to think that practically EVERYTHING Eldritch writes
or says is important, so I thought I'd type it in.

NOTES:

*1 German list people> who is Susanne Holst?
*2 In an interview in 1990, Eldritch said he wouldn't see the film Batman for a
while because a/it was too hyped, and b/because he loved the original so much
*3 Same interview of 1990 (Melody Maker, Jan) Eldritch said that he felt
Richard Butler was the only person in his field lyrically, "when he's bothering
to be in the same field at all"
*4 British comedy actor espec. popular in the 50s - well known parts include
being in drag to be headmistress of St. Trinians!!!!
*5 Eldritch nominated Kinski as his favourite actor in that 1990 interview, coz
Kinski had such an immense opinion of himself, yet, almost as if he thought
that he was too good for anyone to appreciate, did a whole load of awful parts.
Never seen him meself, but apparently Nosferatu is good...  The Dutch: if this
is not a band, and refers to the people, it could be a ref to the Danish vote
against European unity - Eldritch's reservations on that, with particular ref
to the Germans and the French, are manifest, and who can blame him (grin).
*6 One of Eldritch's fave records when asked to select them on a Radio One prog
in 1988


         -Thank you to the original writer of this article.

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