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Eldritch was alarmed: "They began to claim rights to , which patently had to be stopped. And when they wanted to be called the
Sisterhood, there was nothing I could do but be the Sisterhood before them – the only way to kill that name was to use it, then kill it." "Warners thought they could have two
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this week after guitarist Wayne Hussey and bassist Craig Adams left the band. Although this has scuppered recording plans for a new album this month, Andrew now intends to record the same album in the New Year and could well be using Wayne as a session guitarist. The split was described as 'friendly'
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Mission's manager: "I think Eldritch perpetuated it longer than anyone else bothered. We'd still get letters from his lawyers ages after but nothing would ever come of it. The whole thing cost us legal bills and that's all, the rumours about big losses by us were all rubbish, it was
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during August and
September 1985 to compose new material. Wayne Hussey: "I went to Hamburg for a month with Andrew to try and write songs for the second Sisters album, and we came back with all my ideas rejected and Andrew's very skeletal." "Andrew rejected all my songs and let me work on one single
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The single contained two different mixes of the song, Eldritch's original instrumental "Giving Ground (AV)" (5:45 min) on the b-side and the vocal remix "Giving Ground (RSV)" (4:50 min) on the a-side. 'AV' and 'RSV' are explained on the official
Sisters of Mercy website this way: "The 'Authorised
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said 'If that's the guitar line, I'm not playing it' and walked out. That was really that." "The others didn't want to play my new songs, such as 'Torch' for instance. The song has some unusual chord changes. Craig thought it was crap, he said 'I'm not playing it, I'm going home.' And there he
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magazine reported on 20 February 1986 that "a new 12-inch EP called 'This
Corrosion' will soon be in the shops, featuring the same line-up but with the addition of a mysterious and so far undisclosed American vocalist." This 12 inch single even appeared in German music paper adverts as
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Release announced the single's release with a press statement: "From among the forces allied to Merciful Release we bring you the Sisterhood. capturing (in this instance) the musical bile of Andrew Eldritch, and introducing James Ray and the Performance ... of whom more soon."
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Mission played in Birmingham. Wayne Hussey: "The majority of the songs we've been doing in the set so far are my songs that Andrew rejected for the Sisters' second album. It's ironic cos he saw us at Birmingham and told us how good he thought the songs were."
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Eldritch saw the time ripe for a change of direction: "I always wanted to do something different, because whatever we did it all eventually sounded the same." "I wanted to find out how to record songs without any rock structures and especially without guitars."
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refused to release any material. So the band released the
October 1985 demo tape in slightly re-recorded form as an independent single on 9 May 1986. The single (its b-side was titled "Wake (RSV)" as a nod to "Giving Ground (RSV)") promptly entered the
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James Ray: "I wasn't involved too much with the album, as it was taking ages for
Eldritch to formulate any concrete ideas, and I wanted to be writing my own stuff. I personally think the album transpired to cash in on the sales of the single."
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and myself had an agreement, no one would use the name when the band went its separate ways." "The band was good and successful, each of us could continue. The split came at a time when it wouldn't do us any damage."
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Version' of 'Giving Ground' is Andrew's original version, and the 'Revised Standard Version' is the version developed by colleagues at Merciful Release and subsequently adopted as the standard version. '
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gets a credit on the album cover but it remains unknown whether he made any contributions to the recording. He was possibly part of the "Chorus of Vengeance" on the track "Rain from Heaven".
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spokesperson. 'The cliché of musical differences would not be inappropriate. Wayne and Craig were unable to comprehend the direction the band was going.' Andrew has also approached former
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and the Performance for his Merciful Release label. James Ray: "The Sisterhood project arose during the recording of 'Mexico Sundown Blues'."
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77:Past members
53:Years active
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1673:The Mission
1653:Discography
1629:Doctor Jeep
1448:Craig Adams
1428:Ben Christo
1263:"Engineers"
1116:BBC 6 Music
862:Sky Channel
677:RCA Records
649:Norman Cook
625:WEA Records
613:RCA Records
602:WEA Records
593:WEA Records
585:the Mission
389:the Mission
385:BBC Radio 1
381:Janice Long
362:WEA Records
310:WEA Records
282:Producer(s)
247:Gothic rock
198:the Mission
38:Gothic rock
1693:Categories
1471:Tony James
1269:2 December
864:late 1987)
845:References
600:at no. 1.
128:Background
1505:Floodland
1443:Gary Marx
994:ME/Sounds
839:Faversham
747:"Colours"
670:Alan Vega
431:Alan Vega
339:Lucas Fox
321:James Ray
314:Driffield
289:Lucas Fox
170:stayed."
104:Alan Vega
99:James Ray
94:Lucas Fox
57:1985–1986
43:post-punk
1608:Dominion
1457:Ben Gunn
835:Cold War
699:New Beat
535:Producer
492:Darkwave
474:Recorded
466:Released
458: by
233:Released
189:bassist
187:Gun Club
1579:Singles
858:SkyTrax
736:"Jihad"
664:"Jihad"
551:Singles
353:' and '
156:E minor
1286:ZigZag
1215:Sounds
1152:Sounds
1024:Sounds
1010:Sounds
957:Sounds
925:Sounds
829:Spooks
728:Length
703:Techno
498:Length
411:Sounds
218:Single
62:Labels
31:Genres
1678:Songs
1587:Alice
1530:Alice
1178:Zillo
1130:, 19
880:Zillo
793:38:46
725:Title
645:AK-47
611:with
555:Gift
553:from
515:Label
483:Genre
425:near
254:Label
242:Genre
227:Gift
181:by a
167:Craig
1622:More
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1271:2012
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692:Gift
477:1986
469:1986
450:Gift
441:Gift
427:Hull
398:."
1668:SSV
1435:Kai
1165:FAQ
721:No.
705:."
591:as
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