Sisters "History" according to Yahoo launch (and V

[Andy TG]

"Liberated" the following from the Launch Yahoo site - the site also contains a link for you to watch the "Detonation Boulevard" video (which is noice!)

Point your browers this away -

http://launch.yahoo.com/artist/artistFo ... ID=1024629

Coalescing out of the industrial gloom of Leeds, England, the Sisters Of Mercy began as frontman Andrew Eldritch and a drum machine called Doktor Avalanche. Well versed in the legacy of Gothicism (which encompasses everything from the gargoyles on Notre Dame to the Rolling Stones), the Sisters Of Mercy helped expand Goth vocabulary to include metallic inflections and the power of deep dance floor grooves.

On their debut, First & Last & Always, the Sisters (expanded to a quartet), combined melancholy melodies with inky imagery. Though they glowered effectively, the album suffered from too many spells of Swans-like sluggishness and murky production. In 1985, Eldritch, That Guitarist, Craig Adams and Gary Marx parted ways under less than optimal circumstances and a flurry of legal battles ensued over ownership of the band name. While the courts determined who the Sister were, Eldritch released a five-song EP called The Gift under the name The Sisterhood. By 1987, Eldritch had won the name (the others went on to form the m*****n UK), and with the aid of former Gun Club bassist, Patricia Morrison, and Doktor Avalanche, Eldritch recorded Floodland, an album that features some of the Sisters' finest music. With production input from Jim Steinman (best known for Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell) the sound is rich and intoxicating. "This Corrosion" soars past, powered by rhythms that are as spry as they are muscular. Equally compelling, "Lucretia My Reflection" is a meditation on the nefarious Borgia family of renaissance Italy.

Vision Thing, the result of a full band line-up featuring three-guitars, is a much rockier affair. Driving numbers like "More" and "Detonation Boulevard" plunge into rock conventions with gusto that veers between genuine enthusiasm and ironic overstatement. Some of the most interesting Sisters material wasn't on any of their official albums, but appeared on several EPs and bootlegs released through Merciful Release, the label Eldritch established to distribute The Gift. In 1992, Mute Records released a compilation of all the Merciful Release material. At last report, the Sisters were reduced to Andrew Eldritch and Doktor Avalanche once again.


This Biography was written by Sandy Masuo

[James Blast]

Thank you Andy.
Nice prose, poor research Sandy, Monkey Spunk in fact.

regards
Blast