Marc Almond
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Interview by Betty Page, Noise!, 8 July 1982
Starring mild-mannered Marc and cub reporter Betty Page ...
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, February 1983
THE RELATIONSHIP between record companies and the music press is I think generally seen to be one of a symbiotic nature. ...
Give This Man An Oscar: The Wilde Side of Marc Almond
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 6 August 1983
MARC ALMOND is very screwed up about being a pop star, which is what comes of hanging around Nick Cave and Genesis P. Orridge. ...
Marc Almond: Revenge Of The Sleazebag
Interview by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 8 September 1984
AS LONDON swelters, there's one back alley in Soho's underarm narrow enough to escape the sun's onslaught. Damp and dingy it seems to seep moisture ...
Marc Almond: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 15 September 1984
BOUNCING ON for his first encore, Marc paused, adjusted his shimmering shirt and briefly addressed his kingdom. "Do you think it was a big mistake ...
Marc Almond: Ol' Goo Eyes Is Back
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1984
LURCHING ALONG a dark street, hellhound on my trail, underpants on my head...A new life around the corner. ...
Marc Almond: Fridge, Brixton, London
Live Review by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 22 June 1985
BREL OF ST. MARC! ...
Marc Almond: Do You Hate This Man?
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 11 September 1985
Do you hate this man? If so you're not alone. Marc Almond admits he's "one of the most disliked of all pop stars". But he ...
Marc Almond: Mother Hen In Love
Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 21 September 1985
MARC ALMOND drops an egg or two on fame, success, romance, and the little "chicks" who dog his sequinned tootsie-steps. CATH CARROLL adds them up. ...
Marc Almond: The Astoria, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 2 January 1988
WHERE HAVE these vulpine goths acquired their taste for this Brechtian melodrama? A brush with The Collected Isherwood? ...
Exit The '80s — Goth: Bats Out Of Hell
Overview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 23 September 1989
It's been the decade of the goth — but, somewhere along the line, the innovation of the Birthday Party, the Banshees and the Sisters gave ...
Live Review by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 21 October 1989
LA VIE EN ROSE(S) ...
Beauty and the Beast: Marc Almond: Enchanted (Some Bizzare) ***½
Review by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 9 June 1990
SO IT SEEMS the men in black have changed their colour to red this year. After Nick Cave's heaven scented Good Son, the romantic trickser ...
Marc Almond: Stray Hello Waif Goodbye
Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 8 December 1990
Nine years on from 'Tainted Love', MARC ALMOND is back working with Soft Cellmate Dave Ball on his new single 'Waifs And Strays'. BARBARA ELLEN ...
The Bizzare Adventures of Stevo
Interview by Paul Sexton, Select, February 1991
Bank managers chase after him, record company chiefs live in fear of him trashing their offices, but STEVO somehow manages to survive, along with one of the most ...
Marc Almond: Tenement Symphony (WEA/All formats)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 19 October 1991
A PLUCKY '80s survivor, Marc Almond is now on his tenth life. Having had dealings with almost every major label in the land, he's now ...
Interview by Betty Page, Vox, December 1991
Marc Almond may be mellowing in middle age, but who's he trying to kid that he's the Englebert Humperdinck of the '90s? Betty Page meets ...
Marc Almond: The Innocent Exhibitionist
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, August 1992
His search for inner fulfillment took him to places that respectable folk would sooner not know about. Now Marc Almond has decided where he truly ...
Marc Almond: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 10 October 1992
NIGHT IN SHINING AMOUR ...
Marc Almond: Open All Night (Blue Star)
Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 1 May 1999
OK, LET'S GET this straight: Nick Cave is a respected ex-Goth with no hit singles. Marc Almond has had five hit singles, was responsible for ...
Vicki Wickham: Ready, Vicki, Go!
Retrospective and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 30 November 1999
She's managed stars from Dusty Springfield to Marc Almond and has just won an award for her lifetime's work in the music industry. But outside ...
Marc Almond: That's enough erotic cabaret!
Report and Interview by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 2 February 2003
Soft Cell's Marc Almond is intending to grow old gracefully, says Simon Price. Then again... ...
Marc Almond: In Search Of The Pleasure Palace
Book Review by Ned Raggett, Freaky Trigger, 27 July 2004
A LITTLE BITTER, a little sweet, that's how he likes his life to be: being a Marc Almond fan has actually been good fun over ...
In the studio this month… Marc Almond
Interview by Martin Aston, MOJO, August 2006
AS THINGS STAND, Marc Almond's next album will be called My Life. ...
Marc Almond: Let's Talk About Death
Interview by Simon Price, The Independent, 17 February 2015
Simon Price talks to the enigmatic singer about Soho, Soft Cell and mortality. ...
Marc Almond: "I've had the chance to be subversive in the mainstream"
Profile and Interview by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 23 October 2016
With a career-spanning 10-album box set coming out, the Soft Cell star reflects on the '80s, Brexit and his fading love affair with London. ...
Marc Almond: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 24 March 2017
"I'VE STILL GOT it," purred Marc Almond, midway through this fabulous show, as much to himself as to the audience. The rowdy response that greeted ...
Marc Almond: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 11 February 2020
Singing of Italian horror films and Hollywood cemeteries, Almond is on magnificently melodramatic form. ...
Marc Almond: "The Royal Family are the one continuous thread that holds Britain together"
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 13 February 2020
The non-stop Soft Cell singer on his confrontational past, Twitter troubles, and why he doesn't mind being part of "the establishment". ...
Soft Cell's Marc Almond is Prepared to Say Good-bye
Interview by Jim Farber, Vulture, 5 May 2022
MARC ALMOND of Soft Cell has an apt metaphor for life at his age. He likens it to the bars that measure the power left ...
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