Former Sisters Of Mercy Guitarist Gary Marx Announces “Green Ginger Jive” Solo Album

Like many of the first punk generation, Sisters Of Mercy co-founder and guitarist Gary Marx was inspired and energised by the glam rock wave that stomped through the UK in pre-punk Britain. The Sweet, David Bowie, T Rex, Suzi Quatro, Slade; these unique artists propelled kids to pick up instruments and microphones and make their own glorious, stripped-down rock n’ roll racket! The songs are all Marx originals, but he’s wearing his early influences with pride. If you ever raced home to see Suzi Quatro on Top Of The Pops, or scribbled Slade on your knuckles, step right up. Marx also dragged a bunch of friends, including Wayne Hussey (Sisters Of Mercy / The Mission), Miles Hunt (The Wonderstuff), Daniel Mass (Salvation) and John Robb (Goldblade / The Membranes), kicking and screaming to help out and the songs leapt out, one after another, hook-laden and instantly memorable.

“This is the sequinned prequel to the story I’ve been asked to tell a thousand times. A Glam Jamboree is perhaps the best way to describe the album. ‘Green Ginger Jive is one long love letter to my youth growing up in Hull and East Yorkshire. It’s me dressing up and playing at being Mick Ronson. It’s the most fun I’ve ever had making a record, and I think it shows. I wanted to do something joyous, that wasn’t afraid of being silly…I wanted to be fourteen again – fifty years after the event, but who’s counting. I dragged my friends along for the ride – the vetting process was simple, if they could spell Slade, they were in.” (Gary Marx)

To complete the throwback the album saw Gary Marx and Wayne Hussey recording together for the first time since the Sisters of Mercy‘s monumental debut album First And Last And Always in ’85, he also enlisted the help of engineer John Spence, who he hadn’t worked with since The Reptile House EP and holed up in the same studio where Andrew Eldritch made the Sisterhood‘s Gift album. With the sense of playfulness and perversity that has run right through his solo career, Marx has thrown off the midnight black mantle, reached for his glad rags and produced a joyous, Glam inspired collection of songs, his first new material to be released in nearly fifteen years. The album is due to be released October 4^th and can be pre-ordered via Wrecking Ball Sounds on vinyl, with a limited edition 7″ single free with the first 250 copies, or as an extended CD with bonus tracks.