“I think there were a lot of Dead Can Dance fans who imagined that we probably, you know, sat on the tour bus and just read Proust and pontificated or whatever. Of course, you can’t do that 24 hours a day.”
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Ivo Watts-Russell/4AD interview, 1988
“You’re thinking about this music all the time as opposed to just simply listening to it – enjoying it or not enjoying it.”
Vinyl ramblings (Pt. IV) : The Record Market
“The vinyl community, much like the football one, is obsessive, fervid. Like pinballs, they ricochet from record shop to record shop, fair to fair, market to market, in the hunt for that elusive, limited edition, Third Man split-colour 3″, sealed, mint.”
Heavenly Bodies – ‘Celestial’ (Third Mind Records/C’est La Mort, 1987)
“The ghost of early Dead Can Dance understandably lingers in the tribal percussion and heavily reverbed guitar work and Seaman’s voice is most definitely from the school of Lisa Gerrard, albeit via Alison Shaw.”