Marc and the Mambas

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Marc and the Mambas was a -group formed by Marc Almond as an off-shoot project from Soft Cell.

Marc and the Mambas forever can be considered the blueprint for Marc Almond’s solo career. As Soft Cell developed into an excellent mix of pop and electronic “dark” music, Marc and the Mambas picked up there - but more and more got rid of the dance beat.

While their first album still was searching for its own voice - with a mix of ballads with and without dance beats, Torment and Toreros was an incredible mix of , , sensibility, guitar noise, , string sections and a singing hero that went mad during the course of this album. Marc Almond later noted ironically, this album was an attempted suicide put on vinyl, and in a way it was. However, looking back at it almost 25 years later, it still goes strong, since there was never anything like that before and after.

Interesting was on top of that the group as such was an outfit that was closer to a outfit rather than a group. The band members changed from album to performance and back each time something new was started. The only really consisting members were Marc Almond, of course, and Annie Hogan. Further members, such as Billy McGee and Martin McCarrick went later on to join Marc for his first solo efforts (called Marc Almond and The Willing Sinners).
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