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suzysunshine7 wrote: "A friend of a friend played Violin on two of my favourites ;o> ... His Voice always sends shivers of plea..."
Didn't realise you liked them, Suzy. "One Night" is probably one of my favourites of theirs too.
Yay! Red Temple Spirits' two albums, "Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon" (1988) & "If Tomorrow I Were Leaving for Lhasa, I Wouldn't Stay a Minute More..." (1989), are being remastered & reissued with some bonus material & demos.
3cd limited edition set - https://redtemplespirits.bandcamp.com/
Seems expensive with shipping from US but just look at the crazy prices on Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dancing-rest... & https://www.amazon.co.uk/tomorrow-lea.... Just ridiculous. I think even on Discogs each album was about £25+ for CD versions last time I looked. So, this latest Bandcamp offering isn't too bad after all, £30ish for the set. Will be great to get physical copies of these albums at last. Hurrah.
Oh, they're sort of psychedelic post-punk meets goth for those that haven't heard of these great albums. Interesting music with themes of Native American culture & Tibetan mysticism.
Dark Spirits - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LA42FW4...
Exodus From Lhasa - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-GEiEOs...
Yay! ;-)
Psychedelic? ... absolutely most definitely completely not for me then ;o>
New songs:-And May Love Conquer All by Altar de Fey - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BRFNJQO...
Una Notte Che Non Passa by Ascending - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpioNvQ...
Tavel's Gavel by Swan Wash - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=flE6XBJ...
Kiss Me Deadly by Caput Medusae - https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=y...
Arbeit by Front Line Assembly - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zgl2d57...
Helen The Melon wrote: "Yay! Red Temple Spirits' two albums, "Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon" (1988) & "If Tomorrow I Were Leaving for Lhasa, I Wouldn't Stay a Minute More..." (1989), are being remastered & reissue..."
Enjoyed those 2 songs, nice one Helen.
This early mix from 1984 of "A Rock And A Hard Place" was uploaded recently. It says "the entire vocal performance is a unique recording with only 2 x 'far aways' ". (Yes, of interest to us Sisters nerds/fans only.)https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ie1wHo...
It also sounds a tiny bit faster than the album version? And it sounds like there are a couple of extra words after "from the valley of the"? Answers on a postcard please.
And she came to look for me
Sold me name and innocence
Took my key
And told me to follow her
Down from Igor with her bangles and her reference
One from the church, from the valley of the *
Well she wanted a haven and a place to hide, so I
Gave her an alibi, took her inside, but a
Rock and a hard place wait for me
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Everything I ever did right or wrong
Hid out of sight where I belong
And I didn't have the heart to tell her why
And there wasn't a part of me that
Didn't want to say goodbye, but
Cause and effect go hand in hand with the
Devil may care but I don't mind, and I
Thought she'd never quite understand so I
Left her there that night and will she
Find me? I don't think so, no
When you go, you go alone
And I'm gone
Far away
Far away
And I didn't have the heart to tell her why
And there wasn't a part of me that
Didn't want to say goodbye, but a
Rock and a hard place wait for me
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Everything I ever did right or wrong
Hid out of sight where I belong etc. etc.
* Sounds like he sings toilet brush to me 😁 Hee hee.
Dear Forum Santas,This year I have been a very good girl (as usual, of course) and I would be most grateful if you could send me this for Christmas - Waiting For Another War - A History of The Sisters Of Mercy - Volume 1 - 1980-1985.
Available here - https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/trevor-...
Thank you,
H X
Dear Helen,My Spider spies have been watching you all year and have reported back to me that you haven't always been quite as good a Girl as you could-of been on numerous occasions.
Having taken this and also one of your more recent Posts into full consideration ... here is your 2020 Christmas Gift from Santa Claus and all of the Elves at the North Pole ...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tatay-Toilet...
Kindest regards as always,
S ... X
Dear Forum Santas,The spiders are lying. I haven't done anything remotely naughty this year :-( And I have been very kind to the spiders - talking to them nicely, keeping them warm, not killing them, letting them bungee jump from the ceiling/lights, playing them soothing music etc.
But it's ok, I'll make do with a new toilet brush & holder if you're going to be mean to me. Not a black one tho' please - I'd rather it was stainless steel/chrome or even just a plain white one.
H X
A couple of the chaps from October Burns Black have released a cover of the Lorries' "Nothing Wrong" - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9qw-A63...It's not too bad I s'pose & all proceeds are going to be donated to Cancer Research UK - https://octoberburnsblack.bandcamp.com/
Original version - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ_XXbp...
Helen The Melon wrote: "Dear Forum Santas,The spiders are lying. I haven't done anything remotely naughty this year :-( And I have been very kind to the spiders - talking to them nicely, keeping them warm, not killing t..."
So, you love Dark Music but you don't like Dark Toilet Brush Holders?!! ;oO
HA HA HA HA HA!!! - LOL!!! ;o>
I don't really "do" much black stuff, Suzy. Didn't realise it was compulsory! I'm naturally v v pale with dark hair so I don't wear much black clothing even. Sorry to disappoint you. Makes me look even more dead than usual :-) And I certainly don't want gloomy decor & accessories around my house.
Nah! - you could never disappoint me, Helen, I was only joking with you ;o>I've been taking a longer look at that Book on Rough Trade and also on ... https://www.gkwfilmworks.com/sisters ... and it definitely looks like it is a must-have Book for all Sisters of Mercy fans ;o>
Did you see this answer in a Q&A with Trevor Ristow? ...
"Volume II - When I printed the hardcovers I got a lot of inquiries about a second printing. Now I am getting some questions about a second volume. I think that's a good sign. Yes, I do plan to do a second volume covering the years 1986-1993. And then, I hope, a third volume covering 1993-the present. But exactly when I'll find the time to do that is an open question. Keep your eyes peeled on Facebook, and I'll alert the newsletter"
Helen The Melon wrote: "I don't really "do" much black stuff, Suzy. Didn't realise it was compulsory! I'm naturally v v pale with dark hair so I don't wear much black clothing even. Sorry to disappoint you. Makes me look ..."Plastic Goth!!
:P
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Nah! - you could never disappoint me, Helen, I was only joking with you ;o>I've been taking a longer look at that Book on Rough Trade and also on ... https://www.gkwfilmworks.com/sisters ... and ..."
Yeh, Suzy, I've had my eye on that book since it came out in hardback earlier this year: I think it was nearly £50 to buy it then, direct from USA. It's only just become available in UK this Dec, & in paperback format. It will have to wait until the New Year now anyway. Money money money :-(
I'm really liking the cover photo of Carl McCoy though 😁
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/aa...
Damnit, cannot get pic to load up directly on here today.
Sera69 wrote: "Plastic Goth!!:P "
I don't even know what that properly means but I am offended. Help! I'm being picked on 😥
Note to self: must wear more black like Siouxsie, Robert, Andrew et al.
Ohhh no, Plastic Goths aren't real?!You can be a White Goth, a Pastel Goth, or a Cyber Goth, you know? ;o>
Gotta have this on here ;o> ...
Helen The Melon wrote: "Note to self: must wear more black like Siouxsie, Robert, Andrew et a..."Andrew E's troos, now that's fashion! I had a waist like that when i was about 5!
I'm a Sunshine Goth ;o>"Someone who loves all things Goth on the inside but expels happiness and brightness on the outside"
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Ohhh no, Plastic Goths aren't real?!You can be a White Goth, a Pastel Goth, or a Cyber Goth, you know? ;o>"
All true Goths deny their Gothism vehemently :)
How do you tell if Goth really is a Goth?Do a Blood Test to check their levels of Emoglobin ;o>
Ha ha. Was just about to say that there's no such thing as all those supposed different types of goths. That's just modern day & internet rubbish. Emo is not goth. Marilyn Manson is not goth etc etc. It's just about the music you know ;-) Nothing else matters.
Today I am mostly wearing black jeans & a plain cobalt blue jumper. Black & white striped cashmere hand/wrist warmers. Dark grey eyeshadow, black eyeliner, black mascara. Hope that's ok. Oh & my socks are dusky pink.
You can be anything that you want to be ... inside and out ;o>
Thanks for getting that photo up, Suzy. Oh yeh!I couldn't get it to work in my previous post at all.
Sometimes an Image is copyrighted and won't allow you to use it - and other times the 'file' thingymajummybob part of them doesn't work when you try to Copy and Post it up on here.You can tell by the way I talk that I'm obviously a technological expert, can't you?!!
LOL!!! ;o>
Sera69 wrote: "Well well well, Christmas is here"
Nice one Sera, glad you got it. Have you played it yet or are you just going to look at it? ;-)
Great picture of them "floured up" here - https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Pd3...Damnit, it's happened again today. I must be kiss of death to image sharing :-(
"McCoy’s good looks certainly played their part in the rise of Fields Of The Nephilim from odd bods in the outpost of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, to top dogs of the UK goth scene. But there were undoubtedly other factors, too. The doom-laden, atmospheric, Velvet Underground-filtered-through-a-spaghetti-western music also played its part. And so did Mother’s Pride.
The band – McCoy, guitarists Paul Wright and Pete Yates, bassist Tony Pettitt and drummer Alexander ‘Nod’ Wright – got plenty of attention when they first emerged in the mid-80s because they had the habit of covering themselves in flour before going on stage. The obvious question now is ‘why?’
'We had to develop something because we were such an odd-looking bunch,' says McCoy. 'We didn’t look like a band, so we mixed the Victorian clobber that we tended to pick up from charity shops for everyday wear with some sort of Spanish/Mexican spaghetti western vibe and basically covered it all in a load of shit, so we at least looked like we belonged together. It was a bit of a response to all that post-punk glam thing that was around at the time too, that whole Hanoi Rocks vibe. We weren’t comfortable with that. We were from Hitchin! But we didn’t really think about the flour that much. It just happened.'
It was inevitable that there’d be a Spinal Tap-style ‘mix up’, given the resemblance between the stage prop and nose candy.
'That happened at Nottingham Rock City,' laughs McCoy, again. 'A lot of our fans used to get involved with the ritual of it all and they’d bring flour to the gigs in plastic bags to chuck up in the air when we came on stage. Well, some of them came back to the hotel after the show that night and a cleaner found one of these bags. She called the police and the next thing we knew we were being hauled out of bed in the middle of the night and marched off to the nick in handcuffs! They searched our tour bus and found 13lbs of what they thought was cocaine, but of course it turned out to be flour! They couldn’t work us out at all. They must have thought we were heavily into our baking! Still, it got us half a page in The Mirror, I suppose!'
Of course the whole business with the flour was a godsend for writers hungry for something to hang a story on. And not least because it seemed to be so at odds with the Nephilim’s po-faced persona. So was it really all so doomy, so serious?
'The thing is, we weren’t morose people at all,' says McCoy. 'We had a good giggle a lot of the time. But for us the music was always very serious, even if maybe it wasn’t to other people.' "
I'm not sure why but, when I click on the Link, it asks me if I will accept and open and run a downloaded File, Helen? - so I think you might be trying to Copy & Paste a whole File Address rather than just the Image?
I've opened it up, done a Web Search, found the Image on ... 'https://www.revimage.org/fields-of-th...' ... so I'll see if I can get it to Copy & Paste? ...
EDIT: Got it! ... was this it, Helen? It's a fantastic Photo ;o>
Dunno what's going on, Suzy. I'm just doing what I normally do. Definitely just the image file. Managed to post those other pictures up yesterday.Thanks Suzy. I was just going to try again with a different file, same photo.
Yeh, love the fact he's sniffing some flour off a spoon. Po-faced goths eh? No sense of humour. 😁
Well, I've never Right Clicked and then used a Web Search on an Image before so, through you and this, I've got to learn something new, interesting, and very useful today ;o>
Catching up with a load of new releases:-Bleach by Grundeis - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=08ehdW3...
Untitled by Selfishadows - https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=y...
Borrowed Time by True Faith - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q4_mh-Y...
1983 by Camlann - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a_VR2Or...
♪♪Faut Pas Faire Chier Albert Roche by Raskolnikov - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bh3md3l...
Enter Life by Future Faces (ft. Marc Dwyer - Buzz Kull) - https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=y...
Black by A Covenant of Thorns - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IY4wQor...
Dead Plants by Tricor - https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=s...
suzysunshine7 wrote: "...I'm betting that you probably do have Spiders-in-plants though, Helen - as you seem to have them popping up everywhere else in your Home! - LOL!!! ;o>We've currently have a single tiny pale brown Spider that seems to be living between two Stems at the base of our large Peace Lily ;o>"
Helen The Melon wrote: "Not sure if I have any in my houseplants, I've not seen any when I've been watering/talking to them. ;-)..."
Suzy! I found a large spider in one of my baby succulent houseplants the other day. I took a picture especially for you, thought you'd appreciate it ;-) See photos in my profile. I think it's a vampire spider?
Helen The Melon wrote: "Suzy! I found a large spider in one of my baby succulent houseplants the other day. I took a picture especially for you, thought you'd appreciate it ;-) See photos in my profile. I think it's a vampire spider? ..."Scary stuff! Are you sure it doesn't have a gift tag on it? "Love from Suzy"
Nope!!! - I'm NOT looking AND you CAN'T make me, SO THERE!!!I'm NOT looking! ... I'm NOT looking!! ... I'm NOT looking!!! ;oO
... I'm just going to take a teeny-tiny-itsy-bitsy little peek? ...
! ! ! AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH ! ! !
I have very carefully removed the tiny brown Spider from hanging off the bottom of our Peace Lily Pot three times now?! ... and put him nearby on the Dresser so that he can make his own Mind up on where he would much rather be instead? ... and I keep on finding him right back where he was!!!So? ... his choice and he can stay there ... but I've warned him that it will be entirely all of his own fault if he accidentally drowns in the Shower when I water the Lily twice a week! ;o>
Robert Smith performed three songs from "Seventeen Seconds" (1980) for a 24-hour charity livestream (Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People) shown yesterday (Sat) - In Your House, M and Play for Today.Robert prerecorded his solo set, barefoot, & accompanied by a drum machine, (probably) at his home studio. It looks like it's got one hell of a fluffy floor covering. Actually it looks like loft insulation stuff. :-)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J7nPfKk...
And some silliness I came across last month but didn't bother posting at the time. Made me chuckle, anyway:Robert Smith Leaves Flaming Bag of Fried Chicken on Morrissey’s Porch Again
The Cure founder and noted prankster Robert Smith left another flaming bag of fried chicken on Morrissey’s doorstep last night, sources close to the singers allege.
“I can’t believe he fell for it again — this is twice in a month! He deserves it for calling me a whingebag in the 80s and then spending the next 30 years literally moaning into a microphone and canceling shows because the sun was too bright or whatever. Hypocrite,” said Smith, peering out from behind a bush 50 yards from Morrissey’s front door. “This is just one of my little, poetic ways of screwing with him. Once in 1996, I tricked him into attending a Spice Girls show — he was so excited when he saw all of the Union Jack flags, he thought he was at a pro-England rally.”
Morrissey, visibly shaken from stomping out the flaming bag of meat, has suspected for years that Smith has been torturing him.
“It was that Blackpool arsehole — I know that fright wig of his from anywhere, skulking in the darkness. Why couldn’t he just put shit in the bag like a normal person?” said Morrissey while clutching a cricket bat and staring out the window. “To have those innocent souls set ablaze and trampled underfoot. Such indignity! So what if I trashed him in the press for a decade? I’ve never done anything in my life to deserve this.”
While Scotland Yard responded to Morrissey’s frantic 999 call, they were confident further action would not be necessary.
“While it does appear Morrissey is being targeted, we’ve little reason to believe that the culprit is the lead singer of a universally beloved goth band. If anything, it’s just neighborhood children playing pranks on an old man,” said constable Terry Worthingham. “We’ve been called several times to this address for acts of mischief in the last month, and each time he has either blamed Mr. Smith or immigrants.”
Smith was later seen in a telephone booth with singer Siouxsie Sioux, each stifling their laughter as they called Morrissey pretending to be Johnny Marr and saying “Meat is Murder” was the worst song he’s ever written.
https://thehardtimes.net/culture/robe...
I'm laughing SO much I'm crying here, Helen! ... ;o> ... ;o> ... ;o>
A new version of Dominion was released earlier this month - https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=y...Get to the 1'30 mark...
Some day, some day, some day
Dominion
Come a time
Some day, some day, some day
Dominion
Some say prayers
I say mine
Thought you'd linked to the wrong video there! Works quite well and a trancy dance motif. A bit VNV Nation,
Good to have a bit of a Sing and a Boogie to with Mitz - on a very dark and rainy day while in the Kitchen making myself a yummy Bacon Butty ;o>
Sera69 wrote: "Thought you'd linked to the wrong video there! Works quite well and a trancy dance motif. A bit VNV Nation,"😁 Hee hee, yeh I s'pose my post was a bit niche & of mild interest to only yourself & Foe (& me). They have been very lax with their credits. Any acknowledgement of their, ummm, inspiration/source has only been made in the last few days.
Actually, I don't mind it either.
Grauzone (best known for the song "Eisbär") are releasing a limited edition box set (looks like it's vinyl & digital only) next year to celebrate their 40th Anniversary - https://wrwtfww.com/album/limited-edi...The box set will comprise their whole discography: Grauzone (1981) album reissue; all additional songs from their back catalogue; Live at Gaskessel 1980 LP; plus a fanzine & a poster.
Schlachtet! - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-oAR3jp...
I don't know if anyone on here has heard Lab 4's 'Hellboy', it's a hundred miles an hour industrial techno song that heavy samples Sisters Of Mercy choir bits from 'This Corrosion'. I would leave a link but can't find it anywhere. You've got to be in the right mood to listen to it as it's pretty full on.
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Curepedia: An A-Z of The Cure (other topics)The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth (other topics)
The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth (other topics)
Paint My Name in Black and Gold: The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy (other topics)
Paint My Name in Black and Gold: The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy (other topics)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NF4L...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkOe7...
His Voice always sends shivers of pleasure up my Spine ;o>