Acemans. This was the other track on one side of the great 12″ Alice. Cracking EP.
My relationship with the Sisters goes back a long way. Craig Adams, aka Lurch, is a Horsforth lad. Pre Sisters when they were the Expelaires we used to blob school and end up playing snooker in my mate Golly’s garage. Later the Haddon Hall and the Faversham became regular haunts - you’d generally find one or more Sisters or Red Lorry Yellow Lorry hanging around in one or the other. Obviously this was pre fame.
This EP contained the first Sister’s tracks I heard, and with the possible exception of the extended ‘Temple’ is their best. Goth wasn’t really a label at that time and was only coined when London got their hands on the Sisters, Skeletal Family and mashed them up with their own Sex Gang Children and Bauhaus type stuff. Suddenly there were Goths everywhere, the Wigwam became the Phonographique, Marc Almond jacked his cloak room attendant’s job at the Warehouse and became Soft Cell, The Corny on a Saturday became THE goth hangout, houses burnt down due to accidents with Joss sticks and candles, light was ultra violet and the reek of patchouli oil was omnipresent. And the Sisters went Global before imploding and re-emerging as the Mission.
Great choice - certainly saves me digging out a Goth track