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“It’s supposed to be ridiculous. It’s a song about ridiculousness. So I called Jim Steinman”: How a goth legend hooked up with Meat Loaf’s songwriter to create an ’80s rock anthem

“I know the song Bat Out Of Hell,” the singer said, “but I’ve never listened to the album”

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“It all went a bit sour and nasty. Eldritch likes a battle – he thrives on confrontation. Mind you, he told me I was the best guitarist he’d ever worked with”: The difficult birth of The Sisters of Mercy’s trailblazing goth classic

Billy Corgan loved First and Last and Always so much he invited guitarist Wayne Hussey to his home to jam it. Over 40 years on, Hussey and Gary Marx look back on its dark majesty

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“I’m not a role-playing games guy. I’m not about drinking beer and singing folk songs. I’m all about sex, blood and rock’n’roll”: How Finnish glam-goth metal icons The 69 Eyes blazed a trail for HIM

Before Ville Valo and HIM, there was Jyrki 69 and The 69 Eyes

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Gen Z have brought goth back – and in these spooky times, it’s more politically relevant than ever

ON TREND: From brand new bands to the Tim Burton revival, a fresh generation is discovering goth and making it their own. Ed Power investigates what goth looks like in the 2020s – and why it’s back now

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Legendary singer confirmed for Glasgow’s Summer Nights at The Bandstand

The line-up for this years event has been revealed

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"I've walked past people with tattoos of mine on their arm without a flicker of recognition": How the Sisters Of Mercy's Andrew Eldritch avoids being stopped in public

Andrew Eldritch on the meaning of life, jazz-funk and beetroot

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Gary Marx co-founded the Sister Of Mercy: Now he's released a Slade-worshipping, Bowie-loving glam rock album - and he wears a papier-mâché elephant head

Co-founder of Sisters Of Mercy and Ghost Dance, influential goth guitarist Gary Marx has returned to his glam roots

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The 20 Best Songs by The Sisters of Mercy – as chosen by former members, collaborators & more

Band members past and present, plus collaborators and peers, choose the greatest Sisters of Mercy songs

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“Robert Plant said we captured the spirit of Zeppelin. I think he meant we were as debauched as they were”: The chaotic story of The Mission, the goth band who wanted to be Led Zeppelin

Sex, drugs and hanging out with former members of Led Zeppelin – The Mission proved goth was anything but doom and gloom

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"It's Dante meets David Cassidy!" The Sisters of Mercy, Ghost Dance & the journey from goth to glam rock: Gary Marx’s career in 12 Songs

Gary Marx was a founding member of the Sisters of Mercy and 'goth supergroup' Ghost Dance. As he releases a tribute to glam, he looks back over the songs that have defined his career

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“When I’m onstage my job is to be God. And I’m pretty good at it.” An epic, exclusive, revealing and sporadically very amusing interview with The Sisters of Mercy's iconic frontman Andrew Eldritch

New line-up, new songs, new positivity: lords of darkness The Sisters Of Mercy aren't all doom and gloom you know

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“We took a 20-year sabbatical from each other…” Julianne Regan and Tim Bricheno look back on All About Eve, the Sisters, The Mission and their greatest songs

Nearly four decades since All About Eve’s breakthrough, Julianne Regan and Tim Bricheno are back together. Here they pick the songs that define their decades in music…

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New Port Stephens primary school to open in 2026

Catherine McAuley primary school enrolments will commence in 2026.

Newcastle Herald

Sisters Of Mercy announce lengthy North American tour

After not touring North America for 15 years, goth legends the Sisters Of Mercy follow 2023's return with another run of dates

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"Everything blew up. I remember there was a store in East Village that started selling ruffled shirts and velvet jackets." Vampires, Jesus and goth going mainstream: the story of Type O Negative's Bloody Kisses

How Type O Negative brought gothic metal to the masses with an iron-clad classic album

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He played for the Psychedelic Furs, hung out with an overdosing Phil Lynott, fingered Andy Warhol’s bullet wounds and once tipped a pint of beer over singer Richard Butler. Duncan Kilburn remembers his years of living dangerously

At the end of last year, a guest saxophonist appeared with the Sisters of Mercy. He was Duncan Kilburn, formerly of the Psychedelic Furs, and a man with an interesting story to tell…

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Forget Manchester: Leeds was the REAL home of 80s alternative music

Often derided as ‘Goth City’, Leeds defined the independent music scene of the 80s from post-punk to weird-pop and dark electronica. No Leeds, no Trent Reznor

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The Sisters of Mercy’s Andrew Eldritch thinks ‘Fear of the Dark’ by Iron Maiden is like a Sisters cover version

As The Sisters Of Mercy embark on their first US tour since 2008, we chat with frontman Andrew Eldritch about Maiden, 'Primark for goths' and how he once offered the makers of Grand Theft Auto a new Sisters album for free

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The Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing - Album Of The Week Club review

"I wanted to make a 2D rock record. I wanted something that chuntered happily along" - Sisters Of Mercy mainman Andrew Eldritch on 1990's Vision Thing

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