A burly figure in boots and thick socks, he storms and rages through the songs, flaying chords with his hands and crushing the stage with his feet. Next to and in front of him, other guitarist Gary Marx has no such scruples. A slight a tremulous figure, how could he be caught up in this hideous barrage of sound? He won't tell me, and he won't have his picture taken. "'Adrenochrome' is like a theme for the band really," Spiggy reports, "inasmuch as I wake up a lot of mornings and I look at the wall, and I'm not sure if it's the wall or the ceiling, and I think, er, Hunter Thompson, he was twigging something."Īs Dr Avalanche pumps through the PA like a battery of AK-47s, the bespectacled Ben Gunn cowers beind his guitar at the back of the stage. Soon you will be able to purchase a single from the Sisters called 'Adenochrome', a double A-side with 'Body Electric' (sing it!). There's no reason we shouldn't be able to carry on playing more or less like we do at the moment and be IMMENSE." It's hard being a cult band when you really wanna be immense. There's no reason we shoudl be compressed into this sort of hicks-from-the-sticks mentality, which is so damning. Spiggy has a high opinion of himself and his group, "We're not a provincial band, we're a MAJOR ENTITY. "These legs are thinner than any of the Delta 5's legs. "These are the finest legs in rock'n'roll," he boasts later. No respecter of anything, the doctor careers ahead manically like slavering Doberman taking Norman Wisdom for a walk.Īttached to the mic like it was a failing life-support system is Spiggy, alias Andy, a skinny blackclad thing from the corners of the night, kept alive by ginger beer. Unleashed into the no-man's-land of Vanbrugh College dining room (c/o York University), The Sisters Of Mercy are four men in pursuit of renegade drum machine Dr Avalanche. Adam Sweeting has a terrifying experience with an extremly danerous group "From Detroit, pretending to destroy themselves before anybody else could, came Iggy & The Stooges." From Leeds, threatning to destroy everybody else in a multi-megaton pre-emptive strike, came The Sisters Of Mercy.
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