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InterviewsBackCDNOW - 1999-10-20Sisters Of Mercy Ready New MaterialAndrew Eldritch, avant God of the Sisters of Mercy, was on the verge of conquering the world almost 10 years ago, and then seemed to walk into the light, or away from it, or wherever someone who the Goths pray to would go. Now finishing a mini-tour of North America, he says the band is finally ready to commit to recording some new music. "We're in no particular rush about it, but we're putting songs down now," says Eldritch. "It will take us another six months to finish it, and then shop it around. I would hope to be putting out singles somewhere at the end of the spring." He says the band has three or four songs completed that they've lived with for a few years, and others are in "various degrees of newness. We're working on two very new ones at the moment. I'd love to do things with Ofra Haza again, but I can't actually think of anyone else I'd actually have a role for. I mean, I'd like to have Lemmy [Kilmister of Motorhead] play the bass on everything, but I don't know if he'd want to do it. It's not quite his line." Eldritch says he's spoken with a few record labels, but no one is coughing up the dough he's looking for. "Record companies one has previously never done business with are loathe to spend 3 million bucks unless you're Britney Spears or some dodgy Brit-Pop band that they think is going to make them look cool for a week, rather than just looking at the figures, and think to themselves 'Well hold on, sod the fashion thing for a minute, let's go with quality, and with who actually shifts units'." -- Scott Wilson |
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