How important an influence is erotic literature (Bataille, Nin, Miller et al.) on Lord Auch (excluding the name)?
It is an important one. Bataille, Nin and Miller were firstly great writers. It’s their appreciation of the opposite ends of the erotic spectrum that I find influential. They’re not just (if ever, really) romantic. Reading books is a great way of writing songs. You get to write your own soundtrack. Lord Auch seem to be lumped in with these so-called’dark wave’/’goth revivalist bands – Ipso Facto, KASMs, S.C.U.M, and Televised Crimewave (obviously ex-bandmates in that case) – do you feel any affinity with this scene? Does it even exist? We used to get put on the same bill a lot. It doesn’t happen as much these days. I can’t speak for any of those bands as I don’t know much about them but we just try and get on with our stuff. I don’t think we sound like any of those bands. Our music can be dark in places but there’s also a lot of humour there. There’s a lot of folk influences too and we’d never be so nostalgic as to call ourselves revivalists of anything. Further to that, do you think i
