Andrew Eldritch Quotes

• We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we’ve always enjoyed doing it before. We don’t often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.

  Andrew Eldritch

• The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.

  Andrew Eldritch

• The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

  Andrew Eldritch

• Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it’s increasingly an art of gesture alone.

  Andrew Eldritch

• People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

  Andrew Eldritch

• Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We’ve been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

  Andrew Eldritch

• Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

  Andrew Eldritch

• Most writers can write, most rock ‘n rollers cannot.

  Andrew Eldritch

• In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I’m nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It’s not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.

  Andrew Eldritch

• I’ve never got on with the British press because they’ve always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn’t concentrate on the colour of someone’s shirt they should listen to the music.

  Andrew Eldritch

• I’ve been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

  Andrew Eldritch

• I’m not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It’s such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

  Andrew Eldritch

• I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

  Andrew Eldritch

• I don’t want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I’m doing with my hips, but it’s their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I’m a little bit naive.

  Andrew Eldritch

• I don’t trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends’ houses.

  Andrew Eldritch

• I don’t enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

  Andrew Eldritch

• But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews… I know, it’s part of the job, but that doesn’t imply I have to like it.

  Andrew Eldritch

• Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

  Andrew Eldritch

Andrew Eldritch (18)

Birth:	15th May, 1959
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

About

Andrew Eldritch was born in the small cathedral city of Ely. He  is the English frontman, singer, songwriter and only remaining original member of The Sisters of Mercy, a band that emerged from the British post-punk scene, transformed into a gothic rock band and, in later years, flirted with hard rock. Eldritch also programs the tracks for The Sisters of Mercy's drum machine and plays guitars and keyboards in its studio recordings. He has also established the record label Merciful Release. In addition to The Sisters of Mercy, in 1986 Andrew Eldritch established a side-project The Sisterhood which was quickly abandoned in favour of continuing working under The Sisters of Mercy. Eldritch is known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice.

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