Mark E Smith, interview in Sounds ("The Bug.Eyed Pop Goblin"; 2 January, 1988):
"I'd been to Bremen twice before on tours. The first time I just puked my ring up all day
spewing up this black liquid. When I went back there this time I just went crazy. The gig had a
really low steel roof - it was this German polytechnic with steel everywhere, metal shutters on
the windows whichmade it real claustrophobic. The dressing-room was like a fucking gas chamber, man.
We go out and play and I'm just feeling worse and worse. I just felt like a different person, I was
snapping at everyone....In the morning I had all these handprints on my leg, bruises from the inside
that looked like a child's handprints. What I've settled on at the moment - everybody says it must
be the Nazis, they must have killed somebody - is that it was probably the firebombing in the
Second World War and it was like an air-raid shelter that had been bombed."
Mark E Smith, interview in Sounds ("The Bug.Eyed Pop Goblin"; 2 January, 1988): "I'd been to Bremen twice before on tours. The first time I just puked my ring up all day spewing up this black liquid. When I went back there this time I just went crazy. The gig had a really low steel roof - it was this German polytechnic with steel everywhere, metal shutters on the windows whichmade it real claustrophobic. The dressing-room was like a fucking gas chamber, man. We go out and play and I'm just feeling worse and worse. I just felt like a different person, I was snapping at everyone....In the morning I had all these handprints on my leg, bruises from the inside that looked like a child's handprints. What I've settled on at the moment - everybody says it must be the Nazis, they must have killed somebody - is that it was probably the firebombing in the Second World War and it was like an air-raid shelter that had been bombed."