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Show April 12, 1991 DIXIE SUN page 7 Sisters of Mercy Have Their Own "Vision Thing Stare, for a moment, the fire. Look past the flames, to the embers burning (CPS) into so brightly, performing mesmerizing final dance of ever the short lives as they turn their infinite their and soar toward burning ever toward That's the dark, sleep, darkness. sound of The Sisters of somber Mercy. With the release of "Vision Thing," the band's third album, The Sisters is building upon a cult status that has elevated vocalist Eldritch, bis work, Andrew and his offstage antics to near-mythic- al proportions. Eldritch, who has a deep, growling, tortured vocal style, behind The ib the brains Sisters of Mercy, as well as its founder, songwriter constant focal He and point. started it all in in Leeds, England. 1980 "There was a gap," Eldritch explains. in London, which "Everybody is where the whole English music industry is, was promoting at the time, very much like they are today, m fact a rather hideous blend of cocktail and disco music. I knew up in "Nobody Northern England could relate to that," he remembers. "We our own had " different thing going Eldritch, along with onginal guitarist Gary Marx, formed The Sisters of Mercy. "We bad a fuzz bass, a very cheap drum machine, and I. used to shout a lot thr So an echo machine," he recalled "People really got off on it." A few months later, "Damage Done," the sisters' first single, was released on their own Merciful Release label, to instant acceptance. "We the spent following 10 years trying to keep as much of that as possible," says Eldritch of the early sound, "while fitting it into song at the same time, which is not easy. Eldritch originally got into music, he says, "because it seemed the natural thing to do if you were a punk rocker. Everybody was in a band then. Someone asked qje to play on their record, so I did and it just kind of grew from there." "Long after that people started saying, 'Andrew, you're actually quite good at certain elements of this,' and people started encouraging me. That's when we started taking it seiiously. That would have been about 1982, when we started realizing the potential power of what we had." A handful of singles and live performances won the Sisters a small, though loyal following, European prompting Warner Brothers to offer the band worldwide distribution of the band's records in 1984. The spring of 1985 saw the release of the Sisters' debut album, which jumped immediately into the U.K. Top 20 album chart, self-title- d The DIXIE SUN 1990 -Box 1991 Staff n Adriana Rogers - editor in chief Matthew A. Turvey - staff member Collette Williams - staff member Alicia Monsour staff member Edwin F. Rogers - Advisor - Nancy Perkins - Instructor The Dixie Sun - Dixie College 225 South 700 East St. George, Utah 84770 The Dixie Sun is published by the students of Dixie College The opinions pressed in The Sun do not necessanly reflect the viewpoint of the staff or the idvisor The Sun staff reserves the right to edit all letters to the editor, or not to )r,nt a letter submitted Letters to the editor may be mailed to the above address )r left at Prof The Dixie Sun Roger's office, next to Campus Security subscribes to the COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE INC. It wouldn't be until years later, with the 1987 release of the single "This Corrosion," that the Sisters would become known stateside. The alternative music scene happily embraced "Tbe Sisters of Mercy," the album release that followed. The enigmatic "Floodland" came next, selling a respectful 200,000 copies in the U.S. market and providing college "Lucretia My Reflection." Of "Vision Thing," Eldritch says, "it's loud and there's much that you can do. just make a soundtrack for people who feel the same way I it's exciting and it's very that I do. funny." Shooting more than a few poetic arrows at both the American and English cultures, "Vision Thing" is a creative reflection of the ills of a world gone awry. Eldritch But maintains he's not trying to wake people up with his "I don't think that rock music, certainly not the way that I do it, is in the business of converting people or persuading them of anything that they don't know already. One, I think that thats a conceited thing to do, and secondly, I just don't think that I'm very good at that." Game Flyers Down Rebelsareinnot Wheelchair The Rebels wheeled here to Matthew A. Turvey Staff Writer The third annual wheelchair basketball game, sponsored by the Spinal Cord Society, was held on Monday March 25. The game featured the Dixie College Rebel basketball team vs. the Dixie High School Flyers basketball team. However, the athletes were forced to play in wheelchairs, thus creating an interesting and somewhat funny game. The game is played to illustrate to people how hard it is to do things from a Dan said wheelchair, Thompson, head of the St. George Chapter of the Spinal Cord Society. "We advocate wheelchair sports... just to let people know bow bard it can be," said Thompson. The game highly entertaining. itself was Tbe Rebels got out to a quick start with Jan Brooks totally baffling the young Flyers with his wheelchair control and accuracy from the floor. show After a half-tim- e in which sodas were given away to the winners of various wheelchair contests, the Flyers came out ready to play. It was an exciting game down the stretch as the young Flyers slowly cut away at the Rebel lead. With less than a minute to go the score was tied. the ball down the court to work for the last shot of the game but the ball was stolen by a hustling Flyer player. The Flyers rolled quickly down the court and made the winning bucket at the buzzer to give them a 38-3-6 victory. After the excitement of the game Dan Thompson reminded everyone of the reason for the game and encouraged them to "cure, not care," the motto of the Spinal Cord Society |