‘Your Kisses Burn’: The haunting final duet between Marc Almond and Nico
A saddening moment in history.
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Marc Almond sings Aleister Crowley
Since I have already weighed in on the monumentally brilliant new 10 CD Marc Almond box set Trials of Eyeliner: Anthology 1979-2016 (spoiler: I loved…
‘Trials of Eyeliner’: The massive new 10 CD Marc Almond box set is best of the season
Photo: Damien de Blinkk Let’s imagine, for the sake of argument, that there’s been a recent national (or even international) event so seismically disturbing that…
‘A Lover Spurned’: Famed French photographers direct colorful, campy Marc Almond video
Famed French photographers Pierre et Gilles (Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard) directed this amazing—and seldom seen—promo video for Marc Almond’s “A Lover Spurned” in 1990.…
Lights, camera, SLEAZE: Marc Almond, this is your life
First Third Books, the London and Paris-based publisher of deluxe coffee table books devoted to counterculture (like Sheila Rock’s Punk +) and extremely in-depth celebrations…
Marc Almond and Beth Ditto duet on ‘When the Comet Comes’: A Dangerous Minds exclusive premiere
After hinting that his 2010 Varieté album would be the last to feature original material from him, Marc Almond was convinced to change his mind…
‘Glamerama’: Pre-Soft Cell Marc Almond in ‘artsy’ student film, 1978
A young, pre-Soft Cell Marc Almond and friends made this amazing and amusing short college film at Leeds Polytechnic in 1978. It’s equal parts Pink…
Tainted Life (or sainted life?): Happy Birthday Marc Almond!
Marc Almond is one of the truly great interpreters of song of our age. His distinctive voice, like Frank Sinatra’s, is instantly recognizable from the…
Nick Cave, Marc Almond, Lydia Lunch & J. G. Thirlwell: The Immaculate Consumptive
A gathering by accident, design and hair-spray: The Immaculate Consumptive was an all too brief collaboration (3 days, 3 gigs) between Lydia Lunch (gtr.…
Soundtrack for a Suicide: Marc Almond’s musical masterpiece, ‘Torment and Toreros’
When asked to name my top favorite albums of all time, Torment And Toreros by Marc and the Mambas, Marc Almond’s early 80s Soft Cell…