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  Andrew Eldritch: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
The grim visage and ominous baritone of Andrew Eldritch proved to be more influential than any chart placements would suggest.
Neither Eldritch nor Pairman used their real names so they could receive welfare support and still be in a group; Pairman used the pseudonym Gary Marx.
Eldritch complemented the Sisters of Mercy 's sinister gothic rock by dressing in fl and hiding his eyes behind dark shades; his gloomy delivery, a cross between Jim Morrison 's reptilian hiss and Leonard Cohen 's despondent croon, would provide the blueprint for numerous other goth vocalists.
www.music.com /person/andrew_eldritch/1/biography   (382 words)

  
  Andrew Eldritch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrew Eldritch (born Andrew William Harvey Taylor, May 15, 1959) is the frontman, singer, songwriter and the only remaining original member of The Sisters of Mercy, a band that emerged from the British post punk scene and, in later years, also flirted with pop and hard rock.
Andrew Eldritch was born in the small city of Ely of East Anglia in the UK in 1959, the same year as fellow post punk icons Robert Smith of The Cure and Morrissey (originally of The Smiths).
Though Andrew Eldritch is often called the "Godfather of Goth" [5], The Sisters of Mercy (the main artistic vehicle of Andrew Eldritch), despite being formed in 1980, were originally not very popular in the post punk sub-genre that the British press, in the early 1980s, had labelled, both the artists and their audience, Goth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Eldritch   (862 words)

  
 The Sisters of Mercy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The band was formed in Leeds, England in 1980 by F-club regulars Gary Marx and Andrew Eldritch to satisfy their intent to hear themselves on the radio; somewhere in the process band t-shirts were made and a single, "Damage Done/Watch/Home of the Hit-men", was recorded and released.
Meanwhile, Eldritch protested their usage of Sisterhood name as too similar to The Sisters of Mercy and a name that had been applied to fans of The Sisters of Mercy, and in an attempt to stop the practice released the single Giving Ground by his own band, The Sisterhood.
Eldritch stated in an interview, which also featured Morrison, that Morrison's role was as a sounding board to help him define the direction of his music.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Sisters_of_Mercy   (2305 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Floodland - Sisters Of Mercy at Epinions.com
Andrew Eldritch did decide to hire a new member, former Gun Club bassist Patricia Morrison (who is now married to Dave Vanian, singer for The Damned).
Andrew hated the association people made between his work and the Gothic movement, and it seems that "Floodland" was his attempt to distance himself from the fl-clad, bat-winged multitudes.
Andrew expresses his desire to see Mother Russia rain down on our Yankee heads, and kicks out poetry like "there's a lighthouse in the middle of Prussia, a white house in a red square/I'm living in films for the sake of Russia, a Kino runner for the DDR".
www.epinions.com /content_173494603396   (1772 words)

  
 Hallucienate's The Sisters Of Mercy website - Interviews
Andrew Eldritch, by his own admission "a very bad drummer", becomes by default the band's lead singer as Gary Marx concentrates on guitar and Craig Adams is recruited on bass.
Eldritch is expected to leave the stage with his usual "Goodnight!" but tonight it's "Goodbye".
Andrew Eldritch starts remixing industrial dance records and is rumoured to be active in trance music.
www.zsd.co.za /~lucien/sisters/interviews/interview.php?id=11   (6776 words)

  
 Andrew Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Taylor   (124 words)

  
 Splendid Leaves the House -- The Sisters of Mercy
Eldritch immediately launches into "First and Last and Always" -- which, since it isn't one of the handful of Sisters singles that has received ex-post-facto radio airplay, doesn't gain immediate recognition from the entire audience.
First of all, the sound quality is horrible, and Eldritch (who's apparently recovering from an illness) sometimes loses his vocals in the sea of guitars, drums and, I suspect, backing tapes.
After ditching the white mandarin-collared jacket in which he made his entrance, Eldritch reappears in what seems to be a psychedelic Hawaiian shirt -- probably the most brightly-colored piece of clothing in the entire building, and a garment that might even have lost him a few fans.
www.splendidezine.com /features/slth/sisters   (1473 words)

  
 The Sisters of Mercy: album reviews and ratings
In 1987, Andrew Eldritch revived The Sisters of Mercy by teaming up with bassist Patricia Morrison and releasing Floodland, an album where keyboards layering and bass guitars defined and re-defined goth rock for generations to come.
Eldritch sings his disgust, in his deep and broken voice, with the state of the world.
The keyboards are kept to a bare minimum, and the baritone voice of Eldritch is clear amid the storm.
www.musicfolio.com /modernrock/sisters.html   (942 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: Andrew Eldritch
Despite these comments, Eldritch and the Sisters of Mercy are still known as two of the flagship figures for the goth subculture.
Andrew Eldritch is the lead singer of the Sisters of Mercy.
tags andrew eldritch sisters of mercy goth gothic underground.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=Andrew+Eldritch   (229 words)

  
 Sisters Apollo review
Eldritch continues to bitch savagely about his record company, East West, and their utter uselessness in promoting his records compared to say, Simply Red's.
To be blunt, all is not well on Eldritch Boulevard; the speculators are moving in, some of the foundations have been declared structurally unsafe and unlikely to last another ten years without replacement, and there's a rusting white Merc on the sidewalk that hasn't had its tank filled for several months.
Eldritch's paranoid posturing and frantic ducking and weaving came more and more to seem like the sad parody I, in company with others, attempt in our bedrooms while dancing to the records but are too cool to ever admit to.
homepage.ntlworld.com /adrian.rixon/music/sisters_gig.html   (2150 words)

  
 Sisters Lyrics: Pre-First and Last and Always
Eldritch refers to this quote in UTR 8: "The mentally wayward child of the Goethe quote is of course, Alice".
Allegedly recorded single-handedly by Eldritch (though there is evidence that Craig Adams wrote the bass lines to some of the songs), the songs are characterised by stark, tense drum patterns, and brutally sharp guitar riffs, over which Eldritch laid his reverb-heavy baritone vocals.
Eldritch, for once, misses his target as the Band Aid/Live Aid organisations in late 83/84 demonstrated that famine was the one thing that was still horrific enough to shock the populace out of their complacency.
www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Club/1217/prefla_notes.html   (2392 words)

  
 Sisters Lyrics: Floodland era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Eldritch is a noted Bowie fan and often cites seeing Starman (also from Ziggy Stardust) on Top of the Pops as the reason why he became a rock star.
The comparison between guns and drugs is a typical Eldritch riff, notably "a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside" from Temple of Love.
The two ways of using the Ring can be likened to the two meanings of this line: Eldritch uses The Ring as a means of ultimate power ("kissed and toll'd"); the bell toll'd for Hussey's version of The Sisterhood, and RCA were forced to kiss Eldritch's in the form of a cheque for 25 grand.
www.1959.tsom.org /flood_notes.html   (3343 words)

  
 Black Planet: Introduction
Sensing that something horribly huge is within their grasp, the duo decides to "start again properl." Andrew Eldritch, by his own admission "a very bad drummer" becomes by default the band's lead singer as Gary Marx concentrates on guitar and Craig Adams is recruited on bass.
The Sisters Of Mercy are celebrating the first pinnachle of their existence, Eldritch is expected to leave teh state with his usual "Goodnight!" but tonight it's "Goodbye." He has already decided that this will be the only Sisters' performance to be filmed, that the resulting film is to be titled "WAKE".
Eldritch parts company with his Merciful Release management team, Bricheno and Bruhn depart to pursue colo projects, and the band is "stood down" for a sabbatical.
www.student.nada.kth.se /~d95-dli/sisters/introduction   (3257 words)

  
 Disc of the Week (6/26/2002): The Sisterhood: Gift
Eldritch was furious, since the Sisterhood was another name for the Sisters.
Apparently, Hussey and Eldritch were also both signed to RCA at the time (and not very happy with their contracts, either), and it was made clear that the first band to come up with publishable material under the name Sisterhood would get a fat advance.
Eldritch had the last laugh, as always: he erased the drum track before submitting the master to EastWest, effectively destroying what little interest it held.
www.thegline.com /disc-of-the-week/2002/06-26-2002.htm   (952 words)

  
 Sisters FAQ II
Eldritch, Adams, Hussey, and the Doktor play loud, hard, and flawlessly, and the atmosphere in the auditorium is charged as seldom before.
Eldritch is expected to leave the stage with his usual "Goodnight!" but tonight it's "Goodbye." He has already decided that this will be the only Sisters performance to be filmed and that the resulting film will be titled "WAKE".
The keyboards are kept to a bare minimumm, and the baritone voice of Eldritch is clear amid the storm.
www.obscure.org /~vlad/gothic/sisters.html   (3433 words)

  
 Floodland by Sisters Of Mercy CD
Songs are built with punishing and/or danceable drum machine tracks, guitars that alternately moan and crash, touches of '80s keyboards, and Eldritch's deeply resonant, undertaker voice, for a sound that made the Sisters one of the leading lights of the '80s Goth movement.
By 1987, Andrew Eldritch had risen from the goth underground which he had been mired in (to his dismay) for much of the 80's, and he had successfully shaken off the limp hippy influences of the insufferable Wayne Hussey to emerge bigger and better than ever with Floodland, a work wholly and completely his own.
Andrew Eldrich proves that he is truely a genius with this, the second release by The Sisters of Mercy.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1095489/a/Floodland.htm   (526 words)

  
 An Interview With Andrew Eldritch, By The Express & Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Andrew Eldritch, who has lived in Germany for almost ten years, will be steering clear of record shops during his current visit to England.
Eldritch is returning to England for three sell-out concerts, two in London and one at Birmingham NEC tonight.
Born Andrew Taylor, on May 15, 1959, he formed the band with guitarist Gary Marx and recorded a debut 1,000 issue single 'The Damage Done', because the Duo wanted to hear themselves on the radio.
www.fourth-floor.co.uk /revint/interviews/expint.htm   (1284 words)

  
 James Ray
Created by Andrew Eldritch (of the Sisters of Mercy) in response to legal problems he was having with ex-members of his band (later to become the Mission).
James Ray was brought in as Eldritch was unable to sing because of legal restrictions.
Andrew Eldritch has done his own version of 'Colours', available on the CD version of Floodland.
www.users.zetnet.co.uk /jspackman/music/jray   (443 words)

  
 The Sisters of Mercy | Vampires.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Meanwhile Eldritch protested their usage of Sisterhood name as too similar to The Sisters of Mercy, and in an attempt to stop the practice released the single Giving Ground by his own band, Sisterhood.
Allegedly, by doing the releases Andrew Eldritch won over Hussey and Adams in the race for the 25,000 GBP advance offered by the publishers offered to the first member of The Sisters of Mercy to release any output.
Eldritch called this "my Saturday job", but was interested enough to revive the band for a short tour every year until 2003.
www.vampires.com /the_sisters_of_mercy   (1696 words)

  
 alt.gothic FAQ v3.2 - faqs.org.ru
Andrew Eldritch chose the phrase as the name of this band from a Leonard Cohen song of that name.
The Sisterhood was a one shot band created by Andrew Eldritch to stop Wayne Hussey using the name when Hussey left the Sisters of Mercy.
Andrew Eldritch and Carl McCoy are the singers from The Sisters of Mercy and The Fields of the Nephilim respectively.
faqs.org.ru /en/music/alt-gothic-faq-2.htm   (1718 words)

  
 Sisters of Mercy - Sex & Violence
Dressed in fl and steeped in an even darker humor, Andrew Eldritch, the brains, guts and soul behind eminent gothsters Sisters Of Mercy, really might pepper his bedroom talk with the Marxist approach to Bach or a heady discussion of Vienesse fin de diecle literature.
Eldritch has come back from what he terms another "hugely successful absence," three years after he faded from view with *Floodland*, a dark, brooding, keyboard-driven affair between himself and ousted bassist Patricia Morrison.
Eldritch offers up a timely anecdote from the *Floodland* days, when the Sisters traveled to Jordan, in the then-less-turbulent Middle East, to lens their truly epic "Dominion" video.
www.vamp.org /Gothic/Text/sisters-interview.html   (1469 words)

  
 Sisters Lyrics: Vision Thing era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Andrew supposedly has numerous anecdotes about Mexico, presumably relating to his trip there in 1985.
The band were stuck in LA for a few days waiting for a flight back to England, so Andrew and John Martin, the tour manager, decided to hire a car (despite neither holding a driving license) and headed way down Mexico way.
The methods used tended towards the extreme, and the name Torquemada is usually used as a symbol of cruelty and sadistic zeal, although recent revisionist histories have suggested that the Spanish Inquisition have suffered from a bad press over the years.
www.1959.tsom.org /vt_notes.html   (2502 words)

  
 Sounds Articles 22/02/86
The Sisters' vocalist Andrew Eldritch claims, among other things, the rights to the name 'The Sisterhood', and brought out a single under that name recently.
Andrew Eldritch is happy, the rest of us are just confused.
Andrew appears saddened at finding his old chums, Craig Adams and Wayne Hussey (both ex Sisters Of Mercy) claiming rights to the Sisterhood tag.
web.ukonline.co.uk /siseurope/pages/articles/soundsints.htm   (2769 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on First & Last & Always - Sisters Of Mercy at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Huddled in front of the microphone, gloved hands clasping it as though there is no other anchor in the world, enormous sunglasses hiding the windows to his soul, and a wide brimmed hat shadowing all the remaining features of his face, Andrew Eldritch croons in his broken voice.
Now almost two decades ago, after Eldritch spent years studying language at Oxford and Leeds, taking drugs, and realizing he couldn’t play the drums, The Sisters of Mercy’s first LP (and their only old recording still in print), was released.
Eldritch (born Andrew Taylor) would prefer not to be called goth.
www.epinions.com /content_94101343876   (1221 words)

  
 Goth Bothering, by Gavin Baddeley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Andrew Eldritch is the King of the Goths –; just ask anybody.
Meanwhile among Goth’s embattled traditionalists, Andrew Eldritch continued his ongoing futile feud with his fanbase, things reaching a head in 1997 when the Sisters were booked to headline the Dark Harvest festival in Philadelphia.
At the last minute Eldritch’s outfit threatened to cancel unless two of the support acts were removed from the bill, according to festival organizers because the singer said they looked ‘too Goth’;.
www.ninehells.com /~pete/gavin.htm   (1249 words)

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