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[TheFoe]

Cool, not sure who I was rooting for in the second one. The house was very nice.

[Helen The Melon]

TheFoe wrote: "Cool, not sure who I was rooting for in the second one. The house was very nice."

Yeh, there are some ace ones on there. I was rooting for the cute spider. Love his goooogly eyes.

I remembered a song. LAM's Spider and The Fly - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tJu1N5R...

[TheFoe]

Glad you still post links for music on this thread Helen. Feeling a bit goth recently what with the gloomy weather, my black biker jacket and Sisters Of Mercy face mask, (yes I actually bought one). Long may this thread continue!

[Helen The Melon]

TheFoe wrote: "Glad you still post links for music on this thread Helen. Feeling a bit goth recently what with the gloomy weather, my black biker jacket and Sisters Of Mercy face mask, (yes I actually bought one)..."

Aaw, thanks Foe. I know you don't always have time to post comments in response to stuff, so thanks for that.

I was watching an old TOTP the other night and the Sisters popped up (followed by Cliff. Only on TOTP eh?!) Nice shirt Bruno. - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NafWJoW...

I've always quite liked the flowery shirt and longish hair of that phase of Eldritch. The music, not so much :-(

Edit: Btw, nice new pic. I like it when people post photos, even if it's just boring stuff like pictures of their shoes ;-)

[TheFoe]

Agree about the music Helen, Vision Thing verged a little bit too much on bog standard rock for my liking, I prefer their earlier stuff, slow ploddy and gloomy.

Thought it was about time I changed my profile photo, though miss the days when I had long black hair. :-(

[Val]

Very youthful looking grandad!

[TheFoe]

Val wrote: "Very youthful looking grandad!"

Ah thanks Val. :-)

[Helen The Melon]

Time for some new music:-

LEBEN OHNE LICHT by XTR HUMAN - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw9Vsle...

When It Comes by A Cloud Of Ravens - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CpjLBZ7...

Tranquil by Paradox Obscur - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NLkup6c...

The Glow by Academy Order - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yv3xsOO...

Glow by Bleib Modern - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BrTT9Sm...

[Helen The Melon]

Helen The Melon wrote: "I was watching an old TOTP the other night and the Sisters popped up (followed by Cliff. Only on TOTP eh?!) Nice shirt Bruno. - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NafWJoW...

I've always quite liked the flowery shirt and longish hair of that phase of Eldritch. The music, not so much :-( ..."

Aargh. Nooooo. I've only just discovered that the god-awful Meatyloafed one did a cover version of "More". It makes me think of the original in a whole new light now.
Sorry to inflict this on you - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnJlapK...

[TheFoe]

Helen The Melon wrote: "Helen The Melon wrote: "I was watching an old TOTP the other night and the Sisters popped up (followed by Cliff. Only on TOTP eh?!) Nice shirt Bruno. - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NafWJoW...

I'..."<

As bad as this is, and let's face it, it sucks balls, it reinforces my view that 'Vision Thing' was just a soft rock album, nothing more nothing less. It's also why it rarely gets a listen by me.

Not a darkwave or goth song, but one I enjoyed from last year.

Rats On Rafts - 'A Trail Of Wind & Fire'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFHvH...

And a song that, ironically sounds like 'Temple Of Love'

Eyes Of The Nightmare Jungle - 'Shadow Dance'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQm_B...

[Helen The Melon]

Yeh, I hardly ever listen to Vision Thing either. I think Sera appreciates it more than we do?

The Rats on Rafts song reminds me of something but I can't think what. Something by Foals maybe, not sure, memory not working as usual :-(

I've always liked Shadow Dance even if it is derivative cheesy goth. But, you can have a good dance to it (& sing along if you do that sort of thing) & it's catchy as hell!

[Craig White]

i know very little of tsom after 'floodland', but the totp clip for 'more' sucks hugely. i see eldritch was suffering from 'astbury syndrome' at the time, the 'i so much wanna be a huge RAWK star' condition that so many previously decent to brilliant bands got infected with. another strain of the disease is 'gillespie's mainstream peculiarity'.

[Helen The Melon]

Tech XXIII wrote: "i know very little of tsom after 'floodland', but the totp clip for 'more' sucks hugely. i see eldritch was suffering from 'astbury syndrome' at the time, the 'i so much wanna be a huge RAWK star' ..."

I like this bit v much - "another strain of the disease is 'gillespie's mainstream peculiarity'." Hee hee.

Amongst Sisters fans, the topic of Vision Thing is definitely divisive. I wouldn't miss it if it went awol from my collection. The Blogging Goth (Tim, a huge Sisters fan) wrote an interesting piece on it last year (he loves it) - https://theblogginggoth.com/2020/10/2...

Excerpt: "Approaching Vision Thing can be a challenge – do we take it as read that it was Andrew Eldritch’s ongoing parody of rock’n’roll, now embracing the gung-ho faux metal style of the late Eighties? Early guitarist Ben Gunn scorned the Paramount Leader’s attitude of 'taking the piss' and departed in 1983, so was he onto something?

Is Vision Thing a subtle and wry jab in the kidneys to the American Dream of George H.W. Bush’s neocon United States? Or is it a cynical move to appeal to the burgeoning American market from a jaded mastermind exercising complete creative control?"

[TheFoe]

Helen The Melon wrote: "Yeh, I hardly ever listen to Vision Thing either. I think Sera appreciates it more than we do?

The Rats on Rafts song reminds me of something but I can't think what. Something by Foals maybe, not ..."

I did actually get a Foals vibe from it, thought they were from up North or Scotland, (which is up North you idiot). They're from Holland .

[Sera69]

Helen The Melon wrote: "Yeh, I hardly ever listen to Vision Thing either. I think Sera appreciates it more than we do?

The Rats on Rafts song reminds me of something but I can't think what. Something by Foals maybe, not ..."

It's feckin brilliant

[suzysunshine7]

Oooh? - a lovely long List of Links to enjoy listening to tomorrow!

... thanks Helen ... x ;o>

[Helen The Melon]

Foe - I'm sure you must have seen this slightly surreal Depeche Mode vid before. I hadn't. What a treat 😂 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qR7fGTd...

[suzysunshine7]

LOL!!! ... I remember coming across this on YouTube a few years ago and just thinking ... "what the Hell?!!" ... ! ;o>

And then I found the explanation for it a few weeks later, Helen, in an Interview with Dave that I'll try and find for you in a minute.

In the meantime though, have you read the Comments Section and seen the first Post put up by Tatiana Bubchikova? - LOL!!! ;o> ...

"Can't you understand
What makes a hen
Hate another hen
Help me understand

Chicken are chicken
So why should it be"

[suzysunshine7]

Here it is - the Interview with Dave! ;o> ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFlbg...

[Helen The Melon]

suzysunshine7 wrote: "Here it is - the Interview with Dave! ;o> ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFlbg..."

Yeh, thanks Suzy, I was just watching that a few mins ago. :-)

[suzysunshine7]

Ahhh the glamour of the Showbiz World, hey?

Barely minutes before performing and it's ... "Here! - hold this Chicken and sing!"

[TheFoe]

I've never seen that video before Helen, thanks for posting. One of the strangest things I've seen in recent times, pretty trippy! :-) Do like Dave's little dance, he's a cool dude!

Don't know if anyone has ever seen this before, some punk/goth teens getting interviewed by a total plank. John was brilliant in this grilling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDogh...

[Helen The Melon]

TheFoe wrote: "Don't know if anyone has ever seen this before, some punk/goth teens getting interviewed by a total plank. John was brilliant in this grilling."

I think that Irish TV one must be doing the rounds, Foe. The YouTube algorithm spewed it out into my recommendations a month or two ago.

It also showed me this cringey one from '85, TVAM Star Date, with some really dreadful interviewer, Ian Astbury, Buster Bloodvessel & Blancmange - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VtpVnYp...

Sorry, it's not v interesting it just stuck in my v poor memory 'cos of the bizarre combo of guests.

[Helen The Melon]

Random question/topic...your thoughts on The Rose of Avalanche?

I was thinking about '80s notgothgoth bands from Leeds (after nominating The March Violets on Val's theme thread). Out of the main Leeds bands I think The Rose of Avalanche are the only ones I've never bothered exploring, don't know why. It looks like CD versions of their albums are not cheap anyway, most of their discography seems to be only accessible on vinyl.

Amazon have this - https://www.amazon.co.uk/L-Rain-Expli...

So, where is the best place to start? Best album? Etc etc.

[TheFoe]

Helen The Melon wrote: "Random question/topic...your thoughts on The Rose of Avalanche?

I was thinking about '80s notgothgoth bands from Leeds (after nominating The March Violets on Val's theme thread). Out of the main L..."

Sorry Helen I've never heard of them.

Edit - the interviewer in your last link was really irritating!

[Helen The Melon]

TheFoe wrote: "Sorry Helen I've never heard of them.

Edit - the interviewer in your last link was really irritating!"

That's ok Foe, I wasn't sure who on here was familiar with them or if I'd get any response.

Yeh, she was truly awful, wasn't she? V annoying.

[Helen The Melon]

Waiting For Another War - A History of The Sisters Of Mercy - Volume 1 - 1980-1985 is now available as a Kindle Edition on Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waiting-Anot...

But "some photos are not licensed for the Kindle version, and the paperback remains the definitive collectors' edition."

Recentish interview with the author Trevor Ristow (yes, I forgot to post this at the time) - https://post-punk.com/a-history-of-th...

And no, I've still not bought it. I just cannot justify spending £35+p&p on a book at the mo. Had a whopping elec bill last month. And I need to buy a new vacuum cleaner too :-(

Edit: and I don't "do" eBooks at all.
Some day, some day,
Some day, Iwillbuyit.

[Sera69]

Helen The Melon wrote: "Random question/topic...your thoughts on The Rose of Avalanche?

I was thinking about '80s notgothgoth bands from Leeds (after nominating The March Violets on Val's theme thread). Out of the main L..."

I had a blind spot for them back in the day. I bought everything i could find by them even though i knew i'd probably be disappointed. So much promise and so much disappointment. Never Another Sunset or LA Rain: The Singles would be the best place to start. They're a Stooges, drone, dark wave type band that always, always left a nagging feeling that they should be better than they were.

[Helen The Melon]

Sera69 wrote: "I had a blind spot for them back in the day. I bought everything i could find by them even though i knew i'd probably be disappointed. So much promise and so much disappointment..."

Thanks Sera, that's helpful. There's not much of their stuff on Spotify for me to research so I thought I'd ask on here. It sounds like I might be disappointed by them anyway so they are being moved to the bottom of my list for now. More enjoyable things I need to spend my musicmoney on ;-)

[Helen The Melon]

Skeletal Family are another band from that era & part of the world that I must explore more. Had my eye on this for a while - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eternal-Sing...
(How odd, digital version more expensive than cd version.)

She Cries Alone - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uVVZ678...

Promised Land - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XwtRs2X...

[Sera69]

Skeletal Family are a much better prospect. Also recommend Ghost Dance, Anne and Gary's post Skeletal Family/Sister's band, if you're not already familiar with them. Their Stop The World album is poppy alternative, but gorgeous.
Rose of Avalanche aren't bad, don't let my disappointment put you off a youtube wander!

[Helen The Melon]

Sera69 wrote: "Skeletal Family are a much better prospect. Also recommend Ghost Dance, Anne and Gary's post Skeletal Family/Sister's band, if you're not already familiar with them. Their Stop The World..."

Ok, you've persuaded me, that Skeletal Family box set is now officially on "the list". :-)

Yeh, I have listened to Gathering Dust several times but not Stop The World.

You must not encourage me to faff about on YouTube any more than I already do, you naughty man! I have important vacuum cleaner research I should be doing.

[Helen The Melon]

S'pose I should catch up with some new releases:-

Our Moments Αre Answers by Kalte Nacht - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4rll2B6...

Lamb by Terminal Serious - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4PEfxNq...

A Flowering and a Flattering by Raven Said - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qXkSB...

Where Are You Now by No Trust In Dawn - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnUbTf...
(New single from The Cure?)

Feel The Breath by Ohne Nomen - https://on-ohnenomen.bandcamp.com/tra...

[Helen The Melon]

As you've probably noticed by now, for some reason it amuses a small part of my teeny brain to watch old TOTP stuff. Recently I re-watched "Top of the Pops - The Story of 1988". I had forgotten that it features one Mr. W. Hussey.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uC7hwfm...

Wayne talking about The Mish is from 32min - 37min mark approx.

Wayne & Tim Bricheno (VT era Sisters guitarist) talking about the infamous TOTP appearance of All About Eve is from 49min - 55min mark.

[suzysunshine7]

I was wandering around sort-of not quite awake and yet not asleep and was mostly lost in the moment of checking over and de-misting all of the Pot Plants in the early hours of this morning when a Programme all about Siouxsie & The Banshees came on the Radio.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n...

I can't say that I really took much of it all in - but what I heard of it made for interesting enough listening all the same - and so I shall definitely have to have a re-listen to it over the next few days ;o> ...

'Spellbound, Siouxsie & The Banshees' ... Radio 4 Extra ...

"As the bright white heat of punk faded few bands survived and emerged from the aftermath, stronger and more unique than Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Led by the unmistakable force of Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin, the Banshees carved a musical legacy that is without parallel.

Originally meeting as part of the 'Bromley Contingent' that gravitated around punk pioneers The Sex Pistols, Susan Janet Ballion met Steven Bailey at a Roxy Music concert at Wembley in 1975, bonding over suburban boredom, a love of Bowie, Hitchcock and 'Cabaret' style nocturnal fun.

Armed with a handful of ideas, suburban isolation, borrowed equipment, the duo entered the furnace of punk intent on smashing down the established musical order and sculpting a dark and alluring legacy.

Miranda Sawyer talks to Siouxsie about the legendary gig at the infamous 100 Club as well as her and Steven Severin's part in TV folklore by appearing on the Today show where the Sex Pistol's Steve Jones and John 'Rotten' Lydon' swore at presenter Bill Grundy revealing to the nation the filth and the fury of punk rock.

Through Banshee's biographer and fan Mark Paytress, journalist Alexis Petridis and acclaimed producer Nigel Gray, Sawyer unearths how the band quickly bolted from the fading spark of punk and carved out an unparalleled legacy of five albums in five years.

From 1978's stark, Velvet Underground inspired 'The Scream' through band fall-outs, commercial and critical success, to the neo-psychedelic, post punk of 'Kaleidoscope', the hugely influencial dark wave 'JuJu' and the quixotic, exotic and erotic and 'A Kiss in the Dreamhouse' this a unique insight into a genre and era defying band"

(Producer: James Roberts ... First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Oct 2012)

[suzysunshine7]

Helen The Melon wrote: "As you've probably noticed by now, for some reason it amuses a small part of my teeny brain to watch old TOTP stuff. Recently I re-watched "Top of the Pops - The Story of 1988". I had forgotten tha..."

I love watching these, Helen - although it sometimes completely throws me when I suddenly come to realise just how long ago it was when I was first watching all of these Bands performing on these TOTP shows.

It makes me feel a lot older than I actually am sometimes - but also makes me feel rather special and blessed too because I'm SO very glad that I was a part of a Generation that got to watch Shows like these ... before there was ever anything else that was anything quite like it ;o>

[Craig White]

foe, he's all yours!!!!! x

danielromano.bandcamp.com/album/kissi...

[TheFoe]

2 weeks of hot steamy sex and that's the title he comes up with?! ;-)

[Craig White]

tbf, he does look traumatised!

[suzysunshine7]

You two!!! ... I'm crying with laughter here!!! ;o>

[Helen The Melon]

suzysunshine7 wrote: "I was wandering around sort-of not quite awake and yet not asleep and was mostly lost in the moment of checking over and de-misting all of the Pot Plants in the early hours of this morning when a Programme all about Siouxsie & The Banshees came on the Radio."

Nice one Suzy. Thanks for that. Hopefully I'll give it a listen over the weekend.
:-)

[suzysunshine7]

Yeah, I don't know if there was anything new being said, but it was a very pleasant surprise to suddenly be hearing something a bit different than just another episode of a Play or a Short Story that I had very likely already heard several times before.

I had to keep the Volume right down on the Radio though because it was somewhere around 3am and I had to keep on with going in and out of the Kitchen carrying Pot Plants - so I didn't get to hear it all or to take all that much in at the time ;o>

I love that we can now get to listen to, or to watch, Repeats in our own time ;o>

[TheFoe]

Tech XXIII wrote: "tbf, he does look traumatised!"

:-)

[Helen The Melon]

Yay. German old school post-punkers Pink Turns Blue have released a new single today and say:
"Dear friends, as of April we will be releasing new songs. First of all some singles as digital releases and then later on when we have a better idea about the lockdown / live concert situation also a new album as CD and vinyl and digital."

There Must Be So Much More - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P2HC_Yh...

Strangely, If Two Worlds Kiss has been sat on my coffee table in my lounge, staring at me, waiting to be listened to, for at least a week.

[Helen The Melon]

Gothicat seem to have some new merch in. Just what you all wanted. Get your cushions (& other things) here:
https://www.gothicat.net/shop/?orderb...

[Helen The Melon]

I'm quite tempted to get a new doormat: Meow Division. Cute. Doesn't really go with my décor tho'. :-(
https://www.gothicat.net/product/meow...




And there are even some suitable cushions for Mr & Mrs Tech ;-)





Or some bat wings for Bob Z?
https://www.gothicat.net/product/bat-...

[Craig White]

hmmm, the wee s****'s batty enough!

[Helen The Melon]

Of interest to only Sera, probably, and he seems to have gone awol (hope he's ok).

The Sisters of Mercy's three BBC radio Sessions are being released on vinyl for RSD, 17th July. Previously only available as bootlegs and then finally digital in 2019 & 2020.

https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRel...

Would love to see them officially released on CD 'cos they're rather good & they buggered up the tracklisting on the digital versions :-(

[Helen The Melon]

Catching up with some 2021 releases:-

Heavy Sleep Heavy Heart by SANG FROID - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo6i2AD...

Tuzak by Ductape - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HzRnOtS...

In The Blood by Ground Nero - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GdiXA2_...

Book of Ezekiel by Octonomy - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0H01vP...

Once You Break (The Seventh Seal) by Sweet Ermengarde - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cBLu8q6...

[Helen The Melon]

And more new releases. Here come the capital letters:-

Like Suicide by ACTORS - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zLoqT_T...

Solitudinarian by Carnal Machinery - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JDq2M3D...

Lifeline Part One by The Last Cry - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WXk320t...

On Winter Leaves Embrace by IAMTHESHADOW - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRFEASF...

Another Day In Hell by JE T'AIME - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UhyUggY...