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[Em] This album title, Vision Thing, being a reference to the [N] lack of George Bush's vision thing,
that doubt is dispelled by a lyric in the title track where you talk about the million
points of light.
Ah, Bush Noriega, can we get a close up of his wondrous shirt?
It says on the back, a desperate choice for desperate times.
Now did you read about Bush's lack of vision thing in the press?
How did you, is that widely reported in Europe?
It came from his own mouth, yes it is very widely reported in Europe.
Not only widely reported but probably more widely listened to than in America.
And you've been living in Hamburg for the past, what, few years now?
Yeah, about six years now, on and off.
And since we're talking politics, what do you think of Mr Bush's war?
I wish it wasn't his war, I think there has to be a war.
But I wish it wasn't so much his war, that's not his fault, that's the fault of other people
for not joining in enough.
I just wish he was doing the right thing for the right reasons.
Why does there have to be a war, do you mean between Islam and Christianity or just about
this specific issue?
About Kuwait.
I don't like the Kuwaiti government more than anybody else but it's the government.
Now as an album, Vision Thing is probably as horrific and intense as pretty much anything
including classical music.
When you're writing songs
It's a very jolly record.
Oh yeah, right.
A barrel of laughs, right?
It is, it is.
Anyway, yes.
Are you in a rage when you write lyrics?
No, I was in a very droll mood when we wrote Vision Thing.
I don't think it's a very angry record, it's a gung-ho record but it's not angry because
it's very confident.
I think people only get angry when they're frustrated and for me there's no sense of
frustration or victim on this record.
It's wonderfully cruel, wonderfully arrogant and very droll, I think.
I think it's a very jolly record.
[C] More on Vision Thing, right here, the first video.
This is more from the Sisters of Mercy.
[Cm]
[N] Sisters of Mercy.
Andrew, who are the women appearing in that video?
If they'd taken their masks off at any stage I'd be able to tell you.
They're people from Los Angeles.
It's like a life form which is kind of like similar to New York people but substantially different.
Now also making an appearance in that video, the Sisters of Mercy's newest member, Tony
James of Zig Zig Sputnik.
I want to ask you just why you hooked up with him in the second 60 of 120 Weeks.
Zig Zig Sputnik.
Of Generation X.
I tend not to think of him as a person, Zig Zig Sputnik.
Do you admire him more for his work with Jan Axe than Sputnik?
As a bass player, undoubtedly, because Sputnik weren't really a musical phenomenon.
I respect Tony as a person more for what he did with Sputnik but I would not dream of
enjoying them through their records, which really were peripheral.
Now also in your new line-up, Andreas Brün.
Very good.
Thank you.
Where is he from?
He's from Hamburg.
He lives around the corner from me in Hamburg.
We started working together about 18 months ago when I knew I wanted someone else to work
with, someone who could play the guitar, someone who could play the rock guitar real heavy
but real tight, when I wasn't sure that we wanted a band.
So really it's him and me that put the album together and the band took shape while we
were making the record.
Now the last album, Floodland, had Patricia Morrison playing bass on it.
Why didn't she work out?
That's an assumption which a lot of people make.
She didn't actually play bass?
Well I'm not
At liberty to say?
I'm not at liberty to say but obviously I question the assumption.
What about some of the darker elements of your music?
Do you personally not take that very seriously, as you sometimes imply in your interviews?
I think our music just reflects the world as it is.
No, I do take that very seriously.
But although we make records for a hard world, we make records for a hard world that you
can get by in and that you can have fun in and that you can get off on.
And really that's what the records are about.
One, it's a damn hard world.
Secondly, you can get by in it and it ain't so bad.
The one-two punch on the Sisters of Mercy's new album, Vision Thing.
Do you have tour plans?
We've just come off the road in Europe and we're about to go on the road in Europe.
And how about the States?
We're looking at the States.
The problem with America is that our audience here is not very big.
It's loyal but it's not very big and we are not a club band.
That may surprise a lot of people over here but we are not a club band.
It's a long time since we've played in front of less than 5,000 people and we don't intend to start.
So we'll see.
If the record goes great, we'll be here.
If it doesn't, we'll fly over America on the way to somewhere else.
It's sad but that's the way it is.
I've got three tracks, I've got three buses, I've got 30 people in my crew.
I've got to pay them.
I can't come here and leave money I don't have.
Well, it's the carrot and the stick approach.
Buy Vision Thing and maybe you'll get to see the Sisters of Mercy live.
Andrew, thanks very much for coming by.
You're very welcome.
Good luck.
And right here, a video of the Sisters of Mercy's last album, Floodland.
This corrosion.
that doubt is dispelled by a lyric in the title track where you talk about the million
points of light.
Ah, Bush Noriega, can we get a close up of his wondrous shirt?
It says on the back, a desperate choice for desperate times.
Now did you read about Bush's lack of vision thing in the press?
How did you, is that widely reported in Europe?
It came from his own mouth, yes it is very widely reported in Europe.
Not only widely reported but probably more widely listened to than in America.
And you've been living in Hamburg for the past, what, few years now?
Yeah, about six years now, on and off.
And since we're talking politics, what do you think of Mr Bush's war?
I wish it wasn't his war, I think there has to be a war.
But I wish it wasn't so much his war, that's not his fault, that's the fault of other people
for not joining in enough.
I just wish he was doing the right thing for the right reasons.
Why does there have to be a war, do you mean between Islam and Christianity or just about
this specific issue?
About Kuwait.
I don't like the Kuwaiti government more than anybody else but it's the government.
Now as an album, Vision Thing is probably as horrific and intense as pretty much anything
including classical music.
When you're writing songs
It's a very jolly record.
Oh yeah, right.
A barrel of laughs, right?
It is, it is.
Anyway, yes.
Are you in a rage when you write lyrics?
No, I was in a very droll mood when we wrote Vision Thing.
I don't think it's a very angry record, it's a gung-ho record but it's not angry because
it's very confident.
I think people only get angry when they're frustrated and for me there's no sense of
frustration or victim on this record.
It's wonderfully cruel, wonderfully arrogant and very droll, I think.
I think it's a very jolly record.
[C] More on Vision Thing, right here, the first video.
This is more from the Sisters of Mercy.
[Cm]
[N] Sisters of Mercy.
Andrew, who are the women appearing in that video?
If they'd taken their masks off at any stage I'd be able to tell you.
They're people from Los Angeles.
It's like a life form which is kind of like similar to New York people but substantially different.
Now also making an appearance in that video, the Sisters of Mercy's newest member, Tony
James of Zig Zig Sputnik.
I want to ask you just why you hooked up with him in the second 60 of 120 Weeks.
Zig Zig Sputnik.
Of Generation X.
I tend not to think of him as a person, Zig Zig Sputnik.
Do you admire him more for his work with Jan Axe than Sputnik?
As a bass player, undoubtedly, because Sputnik weren't really a musical phenomenon.
I respect Tony as a person more for what he did with Sputnik but I would not dream of
enjoying them through their records, which really were peripheral.
Now also in your new line-up, Andreas Brün.
Very good.
Thank you.
Where is he from?
He's from Hamburg.
He lives around the corner from me in Hamburg.
We started working together about 18 months ago when I knew I wanted someone else to work
with, someone who could play the guitar, someone who could play the rock guitar real heavy
but real tight, when I wasn't sure that we wanted a band.
So really it's him and me that put the album together and the band took shape while we
were making the record.
Now the last album, Floodland, had Patricia Morrison playing bass on it.
Why didn't she work out?
That's an assumption which a lot of people make.
She didn't actually play bass?
Well I'm not
At liberty to say?
I'm not at liberty to say but obviously I question the assumption.
What about some of the darker elements of your music?
Do you personally not take that very seriously, as you sometimes imply in your interviews?
I think our music just reflects the world as it is.
No, I do take that very seriously.
But although we make records for a hard world, we make records for a hard world that you
can get by in and that you can have fun in and that you can get off on.
And really that's what the records are about.
One, it's a damn hard world.
Secondly, you can get by in it and it ain't so bad.
The one-two punch on the Sisters of Mercy's new album, Vision Thing.
Do you have tour plans?
We've just come off the road in Europe and we're about to go on the road in Europe.
And how about the States?
We're looking at the States.
The problem with America is that our audience here is not very big.
It's loyal but it's not very big and we are not a club band.
That may surprise a lot of people over here but we are not a club band.
It's a long time since we've played in front of less than 5,000 people and we don't intend to start.
So we'll see.
If the record goes great, we'll be here.
If it doesn't, we'll fly over America on the way to somewhere else.
It's sad but that's the way it is.
I've got three tracks, I've got three buses, I've got 30 people in my crew.
I've got to pay them.
I can't come here and leave money I don't have.
Well, it's the carrot and the stick approach.
Buy Vision Thing and maybe you'll get to see the Sisters of Mercy live.
Andrew, thanks very much for coming by.
You're very welcome.
Good luck.
And right here, a video of the Sisters of Mercy's last album, Floodland.
This corrosion.
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_ _ [Em] This album title, Vision Thing, being a reference to the [N] lack of George Bush's vision thing,
that doubt is dispelled by a lyric in the title track where you talk about the million
points of light.
Ah, Bush Noriega, can we get a close up of his wondrous shirt?
It says on the back, a desperate choice for desperate times.
Now did you read about Bush's lack of vision thing in the press?
How did you, is that widely reported in Europe?
It came from his own mouth, yes it is very widely reported in Europe.
Not only widely reported but probably more widely listened to than in America.
_ And you've been living in Hamburg for the past, what, few years now?
Yeah, about six years now, on and off.
_ And since we're talking politics, what do you think of Mr Bush's war?
_ I wish it wasn't his war, I think there has to be a war. _ _
But I wish it wasn't so much his war, that's not his fault, that's the fault of other people
for not joining in enough.
I just wish he was doing the right thing for the right reasons.
Why does there have to be a war, do you mean between Islam and Christianity or just about
this specific issue?
About Kuwait.
I don't like the Kuwaiti government more than anybody else but it's the government. _
_ _ _ Now as an album, Vision Thing is probably as horrific and intense as pretty much anything
including classical music.
When you're writing songs_
It's a very jolly record.
Oh yeah, right.
A barrel of laughs, right?
It is, it is.
Anyway, yes.
Are you in a rage when you write lyrics?
No, I was in a very droll mood when we wrote Vision Thing.
_ I don't think it's a very angry record, it's a gung-ho record but it's not angry because
it's very confident.
I think people only get angry when they're frustrated and for me there's no sense of
frustration or victim on this record.
It's wonderfully cruel, wonderfully arrogant and very droll, I think.
I think it's a very jolly record.
[C] More on Vision Thing, right here, the first video.
This is more from the Sisters of Mercy.
_ _ [Cm] _
[N] Sisters of Mercy.
Andrew, who are the women appearing in that video? _
If they'd taken their masks off at any stage I'd be able to tell you.
They're people from Los Angeles.
_ _ It's like a life form which is kind of like similar to New York people but substantially different.
Now also making an appearance in that video, the Sisters of Mercy's newest member, Tony
James of Zig Zig Sputnik.
I want to ask you just why you hooked up with him in the second 60 of 120 Weeks.
Zig Zig Sputnik.
Of Generation X.
I tend not to think of him as a person, Zig Zig Sputnik.
Do you admire him more for his work with Jan Axe than Sputnik?
As a bass player, undoubtedly, because Sputnik weren't really a musical phenomenon.
I respect Tony as a person more for what he did with Sputnik but I would not dream of
enjoying them through their records, which really were peripheral.
Now also in your new line-up, Andreas Brün.
Very good.
Thank you.
Where is he from?
He's from Hamburg.
He lives around the corner from me in Hamburg. _
_ _ We started working together about 18 months ago when I knew I wanted someone else to work
with, someone who could play the guitar, someone who could play the rock guitar real heavy
but real tight, when I wasn't sure that we wanted a band.
So really it's him and me that put the album together and the band took shape while we
were making the record.
Now the last album, Floodland, had Patricia Morrison playing bass on it.
Why didn't she work out?
That's an assumption which a lot of people make.
She didn't actually play bass?
Well I'm not_
At liberty to say?
I'm not at liberty to say but obviously I question the assumption.
_ What about some of the darker elements of your music?
Do you personally not take that very seriously, as you sometimes imply in your interviews?
I think our music just reflects the world as it is.
No, I do take that very seriously.
But although we make records for a hard world, we make records for a hard world that you
can get by in and that you can have fun in and that you can get off on.
And really that's what the records are about.
One, it's a damn hard world.
Secondly, you can get by in it and it ain't so bad.
The one-two punch on the Sisters of Mercy's new album, Vision Thing.
Do you have tour plans?
We've just come off the road in Europe and we're about to go on the road in Europe.
And how about the States?
We're looking at the States.
The problem with America is that our audience here is not very big.
It's loyal but it's not very big and we are not a club band.
That may surprise a lot of people over here but we are not a club band.
It's a long time since we've played in front of less than 5,000 people and we don't intend to start.
_ So we'll see.
If the record goes great, we'll be here.
If it doesn't, we'll fly over America on the way to somewhere else.
It's sad but that's the way it is.
I've got three tracks, I've got three buses, I've got 30 people in my crew.
I've got to pay them.
I can't come here and leave money I don't have.
Well, it's the carrot and the stick approach.
Buy Vision Thing and maybe you'll get to see the Sisters of Mercy live.
Andrew, thanks very much for coming by.
You're very welcome.
Good luck.
And right here, a video of the Sisters of Mercy's last album, Floodland.
This corrosion. _ _ _
that doubt is dispelled by a lyric in the title track where you talk about the million
points of light.
Ah, Bush Noriega, can we get a close up of his wondrous shirt?
It says on the back, a desperate choice for desperate times.
Now did you read about Bush's lack of vision thing in the press?
How did you, is that widely reported in Europe?
It came from his own mouth, yes it is very widely reported in Europe.
Not only widely reported but probably more widely listened to than in America.
_ And you've been living in Hamburg for the past, what, few years now?
Yeah, about six years now, on and off.
_ And since we're talking politics, what do you think of Mr Bush's war?
_ I wish it wasn't his war, I think there has to be a war. _ _
But I wish it wasn't so much his war, that's not his fault, that's the fault of other people
for not joining in enough.
I just wish he was doing the right thing for the right reasons.
Why does there have to be a war, do you mean between Islam and Christianity or just about
this specific issue?
About Kuwait.
I don't like the Kuwaiti government more than anybody else but it's the government. _
_ _ _ Now as an album, Vision Thing is probably as horrific and intense as pretty much anything
including classical music.
When you're writing songs_
It's a very jolly record.
Oh yeah, right.
A barrel of laughs, right?
It is, it is.
Anyway, yes.
Are you in a rage when you write lyrics?
No, I was in a very droll mood when we wrote Vision Thing.
_ I don't think it's a very angry record, it's a gung-ho record but it's not angry because
it's very confident.
I think people only get angry when they're frustrated and for me there's no sense of
frustration or victim on this record.
It's wonderfully cruel, wonderfully arrogant and very droll, I think.
I think it's a very jolly record.
[C] More on Vision Thing, right here, the first video.
This is more from the Sisters of Mercy.
_ _ [Cm] _
[N] Sisters of Mercy.
Andrew, who are the women appearing in that video? _
If they'd taken their masks off at any stage I'd be able to tell you.
They're people from Los Angeles.
_ _ It's like a life form which is kind of like similar to New York people but substantially different.
Now also making an appearance in that video, the Sisters of Mercy's newest member, Tony
James of Zig Zig Sputnik.
I want to ask you just why you hooked up with him in the second 60 of 120 Weeks.
Zig Zig Sputnik.
Of Generation X.
I tend not to think of him as a person, Zig Zig Sputnik.
Do you admire him more for his work with Jan Axe than Sputnik?
As a bass player, undoubtedly, because Sputnik weren't really a musical phenomenon.
I respect Tony as a person more for what he did with Sputnik but I would not dream of
enjoying them through their records, which really were peripheral.
Now also in your new line-up, Andreas Brün.
Very good.
Thank you.
Where is he from?
He's from Hamburg.
He lives around the corner from me in Hamburg. _
_ _ We started working together about 18 months ago when I knew I wanted someone else to work
with, someone who could play the guitar, someone who could play the rock guitar real heavy
but real tight, when I wasn't sure that we wanted a band.
So really it's him and me that put the album together and the band took shape while we
were making the record.
Now the last album, Floodland, had Patricia Morrison playing bass on it.
Why didn't she work out?
That's an assumption which a lot of people make.
She didn't actually play bass?
Well I'm not_
At liberty to say?
I'm not at liberty to say but obviously I question the assumption.
_ What about some of the darker elements of your music?
Do you personally not take that very seriously, as you sometimes imply in your interviews?
I think our music just reflects the world as it is.
No, I do take that very seriously.
But although we make records for a hard world, we make records for a hard world that you
can get by in and that you can have fun in and that you can get off on.
And really that's what the records are about.
One, it's a damn hard world.
Secondly, you can get by in it and it ain't so bad.
The one-two punch on the Sisters of Mercy's new album, Vision Thing.
Do you have tour plans?
We've just come off the road in Europe and we're about to go on the road in Europe.
And how about the States?
We're looking at the States.
The problem with America is that our audience here is not very big.
It's loyal but it's not very big and we are not a club band.
That may surprise a lot of people over here but we are not a club band.
It's a long time since we've played in front of less than 5,000 people and we don't intend to start.
_ So we'll see.
If the record goes great, we'll be here.
If it doesn't, we'll fly over America on the way to somewhere else.
It's sad but that's the way it is.
I've got three tracks, I've got three buses, I've got 30 people in my crew.
I've got to pay them.
I can't come here and leave money I don't have.
Well, it's the carrot and the stick approach.
Buy Vision Thing and maybe you'll get to see the Sisters of Mercy live.
Andrew, thanks very much for coming by.
You're very welcome.
Good luck.
And right here, a video of the Sisters of Mercy's last album, Floodland.
This corrosion. _ _ _