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Mick Mercer / Chalotte's Shadow (10/24/2002)
So where’s Charlotte Keoghan gone? Obviously I notice there’s someone called Silvia providing female vocals? How do you come to be working together?

Charlotte Keoghan is still involved in the band and in fact I am very sure that in the near future we will be using her voice again. Regarding Silvia we only used her voice on one novelty song in the last album in Spanish.

You have had a weird existence, from Dublin to Germany and then Spain – was this work? Was it an adventure?

We started out in Dublin but as there was not much of a Goth scene, we decided to go abroad to explore our possibilities and yes, it was all an adventure. Hopefully with time we will be able to reach out further and to more people with our music.

The metal influences have been tapered down, is that because this now a serious band and your personal interests have been set to one side for what suits the songs better?

Yes perhaps but we will never deny the guitar as a component of the overall sound of our style.

Was it a band before or a project, like an upmarket hobby?

Well, I have always taken music very serious and it was always been a major factor in My life and will continue to be so.

It’s quite a pretty sound, why do you like that?

For me I use the music as a medium to express who I am as a person and my perception of human emotions.