![]() So the indie 80s had some incredibly challenging music – Echo and the Bunnymen is a good example, Ian McCulloch was a genius song writer and singer with their first few albums. That’s why punk is hugely important, it’s not just the punk music itself, but the way it informed the course of music to proceed from that point: music was revitalised and redefined. Music had gone through a thorough kind of slamming purge with punk mocking rock, break it up and rebuild (thank God, rock was getting tired). Music at that time was in the post punk era. I remember it coming out, and thought, “what’s this?”. His first significant project outside of Soft Cell was Marc and the Mambas. Whilst he was still with David Ball, he started working with other artists. Obviously we know about the Soft Cell side. The title of one of his albums Vermin in Ermine is a hilarious example. ![]() Continuing the tradition of the Decadents, Marc is dedicated to merging the gutter with the stars. He has worked with all sorts of artists from the ‘gutter’, to stars, like Nico and Gene Pitney. Marc’s work covers a vast range, perhaps even more than David Bowie. A friend of mine was talking about scatological writers and I immediately thought of Marc Almond’s music.
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