After a hiatus of more than sixteen years, Gary Marx, founder member and guitarist of The Sisters of Mercy has returned with Green Ginger Jive, an album of original material heavily inspired by the glam rock he loved as a teenager: Suzi Quatro as much as Bowie, Slade as much as Mott, The Glitter Band as much as Alice Cooper.
“I prefer not to create a hierarchy for something as gloriously inane as pop music,” Marx explains. “Some of the glam figures that populated my teens are lauded fifty years later, some were viewed as figures of fun then and still are now, some have seen their status seesaw with the dictates of passing fashions.
