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THE MICK 52 UK DECAY December 2009 sane as they ever were Gothic Legends return! - an epic interview - MOMENTO MORI ZEITGEIST PHOENIX MARIE Medical Appeal ZERO Will Dance For Chocolate BLACK Screaming Banshee Aircrew TAPE FOR A Resist + Albums Of 2009 BLUE GIRL The Filth & The EL CLAN Furries EDITORIAL VOMIT Hello. Bizarrely I actually think this is the best issue I have done, so I intriguing comeback of MOMENTO MORI. There’s even a wonderful will be asking you something during this short preamble, before you indie band in WILL DANCE FOR CHOCOLATE, which isn’t like me start ambling on your own. I have been busy this month, creating three at all. You’ll love them. issues to try and catch up on the bands I have wanted to interview, and there’s enough material I am currently organising to see me through So this is what I do and through the combination of actually putting until March on a regular schedule, so things are starting to take shape the work in, having a certain insight, and contacts made through the nicely. years, I believe I’m bringing you a magazine which provides something I just love the content this issue. The UK DECAY piece contains some others don’t. Maybe you’ll agree, fabulous quotes and memories, which will enthral, or should. Spon maybe not, but this month you’ll went to great lengths to ensure I got the piece quickly, and I can’t hopefully notice I have done thank him enough. It’s a fascinating look at what a band remembers, something I haven’t done before – I and what a band experiences. have repeated an article, to whit the important Medical Expenses Appeal Ditto Sam with the BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL interview. If for Phoenix Marie which was in THE you knew the lengths he’d gone to in ensuring this was as interesting MICK 50 (if you haven’t downloaded as I hope you find it, you’d be well impressed because it’s not like he that, please do so – it’s almost as good needed to. In this day and age of kiss-arse online coverage most bands as this issue!). Unlike many appeals wouldn’t even consider answering the sort of questions I was this one has a direct outcome if she peppering the piece with, but he stood up to scrutiny well, and raises the required amount. She gets introduced me to the Goodledocs thing along the way which means to live. Her treatment is working, but you’re going to find me doing even longer, more detailed interviews has to occur outside of normal medical with some people in future. circumstances as she has allergies to synthetic medicines, and has no health insurance. So it’s all down to You see, that’s what I like. The detail. I like going through an album donations and the Auctions she will be organising that I will promote and asking what it’s all about. I like to find bands from different on my journal/myspace and in future issues of the magazine. regions and quiz them on how things developed as much as how they did. The EL CLAN interview is a classic example, and as well as So I ask one very simple thing. If you have enjoyed this issue, and finding out about the Mexican Goth scene you will encounter a truly would like to acknowledge the time and effort I have put in on it to interesting band. Win-win, as I see it. ensure you get something which really is worth reading, then please visit her donations page where you can make a simple donation of a It’s also good to have chronological approach too, keeping tabs on quid or a couple of dollars, whatever you think the experience of this SCREAMING BANSHEE AIRCREW, finding out how and why issue has been worth. They take paypal, so it’s all dead simple. ZEITGEIST ZERO made such a mighty album, and the ability to act http://helpphoenix.teapoweredphoto.com fast, swooping swiftly to get details out of RESIST on the great noisy records they’ve been unleashing, and on the spirited and genuinely I go now. ALBUMS OF THE YEAR - 2009 ALBUM OF 2009: (((S))) - Ghost RE-RELEASE OF 2009: UK DECAY -For Madmen Only There are moments of real magic and genre-bending bliss on On CD for the first time after an absolute age, this vital this fascinating collection of songs which mangle time and component of the Post-Punk/Goth interface, and collection of history to our anonymous hero’s own melodic ends. He was awesome songs is discussed in autopsic (possibly a word I have interviewed in THE MICK 50 about it so download that pronto! just invented) detail during their interview in this issue. and the other mighty releases: 16. BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL - 10 Neurotics 2. ZEITGEIST ZERO - Dead To The World 17. FIXION - En La Oscuridad 3. PHILIP BUTLER - Trapped At Sea 18. LIFE IN SODOM – Alone 4. ACTION DIRECTE – Vanguard 19. IN AURORAM - When Daylight Fades 5. THE MUMBLES - The Dust Left Behind 20. THE COMMON MEN - Hearsay 6. WILL DANCE FOR CHOCOLATE - WDFC 21. THE GHOST EFFECT - Life Is No Cabaret 7. THE EXPLODING BOY – Afterglow 22. THE DROWNING SEASON Curse 8. GIANT PAW The Stars Are Ours 23. THE LAST CRY - Walking To The Edge 9. RESIST The Ride 24. SCREAMING BANSHEE AIRCREW – Sugar 10. IMPRINT - The Wisdom Out Of The Wound 25. MISFORTUNE500 - Before This Winter Ends 11. THE BROTHERHOOD OF PAGANS Only Once 26. FEEDING FINGERS Baby Teeth 12. FREDRIK KLINGWALL - Works Of Woe 27. THE DIRGE CAROLERS - Ornithronos 13. 80TH DISORDER - Simple Pleasures 28. THE SILENCE KIT - A Strange Labor 14. MARK SINNIS - A Southern Tale 29. THE EDEN HOUSE Smoke And Mirrors 15. MOMENTO MORI In Harms Way 30. TRUBLION 23 - Cheval Pyromane COMPILATION OF 2009: ATARAXIA - Oil On Canvas. An exquisite release by Ultramail Prod, available in several formats, but just get whatever version you can as it beat everything else hands down this year, setting new standards for artistic presentation. The CD collection featured magnificent music, the book that accompanied it in the slipcase contained breathtaking imagery (some by me and Lynda – he blushed), and the complete entity feels like some treasured artefact from a children’s adventure story. Utterly irresistible. Late XMAS contributions XMAS PAST EL CLAN Carlo van Putten (Dead Guitars): Most pleasant Christmas memory: It was years ago, it was up north in Scotland, I was together with close friends, it was snowing, we walked through a forest with a small river, smoked some grass, had some food & drinks later and there was magic around us, a magic we thought would stay forever. I love to see families getting together, people are more aware about love and warmth somehow. Most unpleasant Christmas memory: It was 1979, I was 17 living at my dad’s house. Got a phonecall my mother was dying and would not get to New Year. Driving down to Holland for 6 long hours by car in a heavy snow storm hoping to get there in time, we did and she died 15 minutes after I arrived. Jaime Chavez (El Clan): I have a strange feeling in relation to Christmas. It is difficult to explain what this time of year means to me. The Holidays have always been sort of bittersweet in my experience… In recent years, the best thing that could happen around Christmas is being with my wife and daughters. Now I have that to look forward to… Ricardo Lassala (El Clan): One Christmas eve, a few years ago, a very dear friend decided to take a dive head first from a 22nd floor, leaving behind a little baby boy and a huge wave of devastation amongst her relatives and friends. She had been fighting against depression for years, with many ups and downs. I don’t know why, but many people choose the Christmas Holidays to finally take their own lives… We never have Jaime Chavez (El Clan): Best ever: My first electric guitar (a Fender a “white” Xmas in Mexico, but I always liked lying quietly with all lights Strat look-alike) when I was 13 years old. Most unwanted: a pair of turned off except for the Christmas tree, projecting colours and all sorts dreadful Walmart PJs given my Mother-in-law. Didn’t put much thought of shadows on the ceiling and on the walls… As for Jaime, the advent of on that one! the Christmas Holidays has become somewhat bittersweet, and it often makes me want to cry, sometimes of joy, sometimes of extreme sadness… Carlo van Putten (Dead Guitars): The 3 s’s: socks, soap, sandals :-) best ever present? A copy of a book and a self-portrait written & XMAS PRESENT illustrated by my friend himself: “The last Polar bears by Harry Horse.” Ricardo Lassala (El Clan): A Robot Mac from “Lost in Space”, a bike I really loved, kissing the daughter of our German neighbours under her XMAS FUTURE father’s car while our families were dining together, a awkward looking mouse-shaped piñata my foster parents clumsily (but lovingly) tried to Carlo van Putten (Dead Guitars): I live from day to day ;-) Stay awake make for me the year I spent Xmas in America, when I was eleven. My and loved... most unwanted present was a Texas Instruments calculator and a ball pen I got from one of my employers, back in the days when I worked in Jaime Chavez (El Clan): Do my best effort to be happy and keep on an office.