The Scissor Sisters are back back back (2024 edition) (1 Viewer)

Don't know if this was an accidental leak or something more significant but it seems Manchester were the first to leak it



I've never massively enjoyed anything from them since the debut, including Jake Shears' solo stuff and even including Let's Have a Kiki which I've always found kind of meh. But that first album was such a classic for me that I've always kept one eye on them, so I'm at least intrigued by this...

@VoR seemed to suggest this comeback is without Ana Matronic though.
 
She seems quite over Jake specifically from what I've read in the past.

The later albums are actually better than the early stuff. Night Work has got the best songs on it and Invisible Light is an absolute classic. The full 8 minute 12" version is the one to go for if you can hunt it down.

(NB: It's on the Fire With Fire single)
 
Well of course I love that but it doesn’t count! :evil:
 
I thought some fences had been mended between Ana and Jake and co, but obviously not to the extent that she was up for going on the road with them for a few months.
 
She seems quite over Jake specifically from what I've read in the past.

The later albums are actually better than the early stuff. Night Work has got the best songs on it and Invisible Light is an absolute classic. The full 8 minute 12" version is the one to go for if you can hunt it down.

(NB: It's on the Fire With Fire single)

Night Work is absolutely their best album but Magic Hour I find very patchy.
 
I’ve always struggled with this lot too. I was made go to a concert of theirs with friends back in the day and I did not have a good time.
 
I honestly had no idea their catalog was that extensive. What's their best stuff?

Also, can we please stop with the VCR/Betamax nostalgia? It's getting old (AGAIN).
 
The first album was OK, but it was diminishing returns after that. Hate Kiki and Dancing.
 
Unlike seemingly everyone else in this thread, I was very much a fan back in the day... my first gig was an extremely tiny concert at Bush Hall which was exclusive to OFFICIAL FAN FORUM members that my dad drove me down to from Scotland. I was in VERY deep.

Can I interest anyone in their extremely weird pre-fame and arguably peak GAY DRUG MUSIC phase?
 
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Lightly devastated that our favourite tambourine-botherer won't be back, but these lot really were EVER such the treat live. And Night Work remains one of the greatest albums of all time (along with the debut)
 
Also can we get this out of the Pop Toilet please? There is absolutely no reason why this should be alongside Katy Perry.
 
They dated very quickly didn't they? One minute they sounded fresh and different and the next it was all a bit... there. Like their own tribute act.

That said I still think "Mary" is a glorious tune and "Let's Have A Kiki" is way more fabulous than it has any right to be.
 
The Ta-Dah! album was, by all accounts - including their own - a tremendous mistake. I Don't Feel Like Dancin' absolutely worth the Elton blowjob though.
 
Big announcement going well

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Unlike seemingly everyone else in this thread, I was very much a fan back in the day... my first gig was an extremely tiny concert at Bush Hall which was exclusive to OFFICIAL FAN FORUM members that my dad drove me down to from Scotland. I was in VERY deep.

Can I interest anyone in their extremely weird pre-fame and arguably peak GAY DRUG MUSIC phase?

Im a 'Monkey Baby' fan
 
I found them very hit and miss in the studio, but the highlights are glorious. And they happened to be playing in San Francisco when we were there in 2011. Seeing them in a small venue, with that queer a crowd, with the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence in attendance en masse was nothing short of amazing. I had seen them in an arena here on a previous tour at the height of their cishet fame, and was distinctly underwhelmed.
 
No Ana, no deal. It's like Happy Mondays without Bez, you can't have it.
 
The only thing of theirs I really enjoyed was when they did the Brit Awards and had the Jim Henson Workshop design and operate their set so this wholesome Amercan country farmyard setting all started joining in on Take Your Mama Out (if that was the title), bales of hay giving it "get her jacked up on some cheap champaaaagne...". Most enjoyable.
 
After previous experience, even without Ana, I don't think an arena setting and selling to the masses who are there mainly for I Don't Feel Like Dancin' will favour them. I'd want to see them in a small, sweaty, queer venue.
 
I've often been wrong about this in the past but it really feels like a reach, venues-wise.
 
Am I alone in thinking an arena tour might be a *tad* ambitious for them at this stage? They’ve been dormant for a long time…
 
Am I alone in thinking an arena tour might be a *tad* ambitious for them at this stage? They’ve been dormant for a long time…
It depends if they can tap back into that Dancin' audience, I suppose. If they can, they should manage it. But mass appeal for them was always a fluke really, wasn't it?
 
I Don't Feel Like Dancin' has barely been off of Heart Radio and the like since '05. I think there's plenty of mums who will be interested in this on that alone, plus a small bit of ageing gay crossover.
 
Ana very much edited out:



Interesting that they are leading with playing the debut album in full, though I guess they would have played most of it in a standard set anyway.
 
^ At least they are being transparent and naming individually who is actually touring. Not being dismissive of her as I’m no aficionado but it always seemed to me that Ana didn’t do that much. Maybe she sang more on album tracks but I cant recall really hearing her voice. Was she involved more with the the writing or the video ideas etc?
 
Yeah, I don't get the worry about Ana, she wasn't really on much in the first place for me.

I think they'll do fine with what they're advertising- one night at the O2 isn't going to be THAT tough for them to fill. They've got a big "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" audience, I'd have thought. They lost the gay audience on Ta-Dah, really, and though they claimed it back with Night Work, none of the housewives are going to remember that far in for it to be an issue.

Nil interest in this generally, though. I went from big fan (first album) to actively disliking a lot of their stuff, though Night Work is a good album.
 

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