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Gary Marx (born Mark Frederick Pearman) is a British guitarist and musician. He was a founding member of British rock band the Sisters of Mercy and its lead-guitarist and songwriter from 1980 to 1985. He left the band in 1985 to form Ghost Dance, which included ex-Skeletal Family vocalist Anne-Marie Hurst.
- Life Before The Sisters of Mercy
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Gary Marx was the singer and composer of the Leeds-based band Naked Voices. This band played a few gigs during the later 70ies and recorded a demo-tape. After the split of Naked Voices Gary Marx met Andrew Eldritch in Leeds and together they started The Sisters of Mercy and the band's own label Merciful Release.
"There wasn't a great deal of pre-planning involved in forming Ghost Dance. I knew Anne Marie from the Skeletal Family supporting us on tour - the pair of us left our bands at the same time, she contacted me and I thought, great, that will stop some of the Sisters comparisons if I work with a female singer." (source) Paul "Etch" Etchells was hired ...
From an interview with Gary Marx by Christophe Labussière in Premonition Magazine: "Ghost Dance disbanded in 1990/91 leaving me fairly against the idea of being in a band. I worked with a singer on a project which had the working title of "Bloodshot and Jungle Red As bizarre as it sounds the singer had certain threats made on his life (nothing to d...
From an interviewwith Gary Marx by Christophe Labussière in Premonition Magazine: "It was then the Summer of 1995 when I met up with Andrew after a nine year gap. I met a member of Andrew's Merciful Release team at a gig, we got talking and I voiced my frustration that Andrew was largely inactive and suggested I might write some songs for him not t...
There is an interview with Gary (courtesy of those nice folk at myheartland.co.uk) here.Apr 22, 2024 · Gary Marx (The Sisters Of Mercy) : the John Robb interview. Gary Marx was one of the original two Sisters. After he joined an ad hoc collection of Leeds scene heads for a rehearsal that fell apart he and his enigmatic gig buddy a week later peeled away creating the Sisters Of Mercy.
Aug 30, 2017 · A Quietus Interview. Shine Like Thunder: The First Golden Age of The Sisters of Mercy. Read later. Mark Andrews talks to three Sisters of Mercy - Gary Marx, Craig Adams, and Wayne Hussey – and recounts an epochal period in the band’s history. Mark Andrews Published 9:54am 30 August 2017. All photographs courtesy of Philippe Carly’s New Wave Photos.
Dec 14, 2021 · Gary Marx co-founded The Sisters of Mercy with Andrew Eldritch in 1980 and spent five years in that band before starting Ghost Dance in 1985. His performances on record and on stage made him a leading figure in the “West Yorkshire underground”.
Apr 19, 2024 · 8.33K subscribers. Subscribed. 26. 802 views 4 days ago. Founder member of the Sisters Of Mercy, Gary Marx talks to John Robb about his early days, punk rock and the early period of the...
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The Sisters of Mercy were formed in Leeds, England, in 1980 by Gary Marx and Andrew Eldritch, to satisfy their desire to hear themselves on the radio. [6] . In their first year, the band went through a number of different lineups.
