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Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 21 March 1981
MARC ALMOND has never quite been able to live down our scathing pic caption which accompanied the review of the landmark Some Bizzare Album. ...
Soft Cell: Soft See Cell Warfare
Interview by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, January 1982
The Soft White Underbelly of Soft Cell ...
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Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980
The squalor show goes on ...
Would we soft-soap you about... Soft Cell
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 23 May 1981
(1) We Intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy end tearfulness. ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 1 August 1981
"COMING!" SHREIKS a familiar voice, as we knock on the door of the flat that appears to have been built on a slag heap in ...
Interview by Johnny Black, Smash Hits, 6 August 1981
Soft Cell are half-Soul, half-Electronic. Johnny Black likes both bits. ...
Interview by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 12 September 1981
Chris Bohn investigates some strange happenings with Soft Cell and Top Of The Pops ...
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 12 November 1981
‘BEDSITTER’? I’M not knocking it, but the table in Marc Almond’s Leeds bed-sitting room probably said more on the subject than the complete lyric of ...
Soft Cell: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (Some Bizzare BZLP 2)
Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 28 November 1981
SYMPATHETIC SYNTHESIS ...
Interview by Jon Savage, The Face, January 1982
…and who holds it? The pop process, alienation and sexuality discussed with Marc Almond. By JON SAVAGE. ...
Soft Cell: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Review by Van Gosse, The Village Voice, 23 February 1982
TO CHAMPION AN English electropop duo right now is a poor business; on all sides are heard the virile snickers of those who abominate synthesizers ...
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, March 1982
PUNK BANDS made up in sheer energetic vitality and charm what they lacked in technique. The young electronic bands now taking the British charts by ...
Soft Cell: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (Sire)
Review by Jim Farber, Creem, April 1982
WOW — A TRENDY electronic dance band that isn't awful! In fact, they're pretty good. Most of these not-so-new-fangled computerized groups sound just fab in ...
Soft Cell: Non Stop Erotic Dancing (Some Bizarre) **
Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 19 June 1982
I'M NOT dancing, I'm sulking. Here we have a copy of Soft Cell's dance-mix album, a supposed treat, and I'm rooted to the floor. Church ...
Interview by Betty Page, Noise!, 8 July 1982
Starring mild-mannered Marc and cub reporter Betty Page ...
Interview by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 8 July 1982
Marc Almond gets a few things off his chest. Neil Tennant provides the vapour rub. ...
Report and Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, August 1982
Music Without Musicians...But Not Without Craftsmanship and Great Songs ...
Soft Cell: The Art Of Falling Apart
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 15 January 1983
YOUTH IS skin deep in a sleep... and out of work. Some pop stars accept this and let it go, some drone in statistics. Other ...
Soft Cell: Tawdry Latenight Weepies
Interview by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 29 January 1983
IMITATION OF life or bigger than life?When Marc Almond and David Ball breeze into their record company's press office for this meeting, they're immediately swept ...
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. ...
Soft Cell and Yaz(oo): Synths and Singers
Interview by Jon Young, Trouser Press, February 1983
JUST TWELVE months ago it was unclear if the primarily British phenomena of synthesizer bands would exhibit any staying power. Although 1981 was a good ...
Soft Cell: Hammersmith Palais, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 19 March 1983
The hard Cell ...
Soft Cell: The Art of Falling Apart (Sire 237691)
Review by Jon Young, Trouser Press, May 1983
MARC ALMOND and David Ball of Soft Cell make great singles. Like Paul McCartney, Abba and precious few others these days, they're adept at creating ...
Soft Cell: Farewell My Lovely!
Report and Interview by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 21 January 1984
Don Watson witnesses Soft Cell's glorious farewell concert and listens to Marc Almond kiss 'n' tell about his future plans to travel the world. ...
Soft Cell: No Ordinary Whipper Snappers
Interview by John Mendelsohn, Creem, March 1984
YOU REPORT TO the Ramada Inn in Beverly Hills at the agreed-upon hour of a drizzly afternoon between Halloween and Thanksgiving to ask Soft Cell ...
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 ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 1998
THOUGH THEY'RE often lumped in with other early Eighties techno-tarts as shiny and superficial, Soft Cell had a soot-black heart, a vicious edge, and an ...
Various Artists: Dawn Of Electronica
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 2000
Founding fathers of technopop come together in electro land ...
Live Review by Julian Marszalek, music365.com, 20 March 2001
WITH THE WHOLESOME and distinctly unthreatening construct that is Hear'Say about to engulf Planet Pop, one pines for a time when dads across the land ...
Soft Cell: The Twelve Inch Singles (Mercury)
Review and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, December 2001
Every 12-inch single A and B-side of their career collected into o 3-CD set ...
Soft Cell: The Twelve Inch Singles (Mercury)****
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, December 2001
TRIPLE CD pack of seminal sleazefests. ...
Soft Cell: Non-Stop Electronic Cabaret
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, December 2001
BEHIND THE perky peroxide quiff and gym-toned body, Marc Almond is shitting himself. Almost two decades have passed since he last performed under the Soft ...
Bill Board: Recreating the '80s
Column by Bill Brewster, Jockey Slut, April 2002
Loving the '80s is one thing, says Bill Brewster. Recreating it quite another... ...
Soft Cell: Cruelty Without Beauty (Cooking Vinyl)
Review by Djuna Parnes, Rock's Backpages, September 2002
THE GOD-UNCLES of electroclash make a long-overdue comeback with a fascinatingly reflective album – "We've gotta keep dancing through the years/We've gotta keep smiling through ...
Soft Cell: Cruelty Without Beauty (Cooking Vinyl) ****
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, October 2002
ORIGINAL CHEMICAL brothers make timely comeback ...
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... ...
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Gittins, Q, 2004
IN 1973 A 16-YEAR-OLD Marc Almond travelled from his hometown of Southport to Liverpool to see David Bowie on his Aladdin Sane tour. Having suffered ...
Soft Cell: Non-Stop Exotic Video Show
Film/DVD/TV Review by Ned Raggett, Freaky Trigger, 10 August 2004
MISERY, COMPLAINTS, self-pity, injustice — the utter joy of Soft Cell's Non-Stop Exotic Video Show, just rereleased for the first time on DVD, lies in ...
The Day Soft Cell Saved Me From The Dance For Perfection
Memoir by Beverley Glick, beverleyglick.com, 2005
In the fifth extract from my memoir Hit Girl: My Bizarre Double Life in the Pop World of the Eighties, I recall my first meeting with ...
Profile by Johnny Black, Blender, December 2007
Vital statistics on Soft Cell's controversial smash ...
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret: An Oral History Of Soft Cell's Debut Album
Retrospective and Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 26 November 2021
As Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret turns 40, Patrick Clarke speaks to Marc Almond, Dave Ball, and a number of the other key players who crafted Soft ...
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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