Soft Cell Wiki

I'm just a fan site account, not official band page! Cheers

And #onthisday in #softcellhistory.
Wishing a very happy birthday to the one and only Dave Ball! 🎹⚡
Here's Dave with his beloved Prophet-5 at English Boy On The Loveranch gig in Oxfords, 12 March 1987.
📸 Mick Mercer.

Three Black Nights Of Little Black Bites (CSR350LP), by Marc And The Mambas 19 track album

coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/three-...

However, I'm coming out of the cave with not yet widespread big #softcellnews!
Cold Spring Records announced gorgeous vinyl and digital reissue of #MarcAndTheMambas live album Three Black Night Of Little Black Bites.
Coming in August 2025.

Pardon my absence, had to take care about myself a little bit.

I'm just a fan site account, not official band page! Cheers

I guess unofficial MediaWiki discord server, which works pretty much like volunteer tech support.
re: DDOS attacks in your further replies, while I don't know the context, Miraheze has suffered some big ones in the last year, currently relying on Cloudflare protection.

In mid 2023 Miraheze was at the brink of shutdown, but it soon recovered and continued to work.

Fandom should follow content licensing rules. While I don't know how is situation on Wikidot, in majority of CC cases the source of content should be provided in case of copying/remixing, lack of credits is plagiarism and is eligible for takedown; Fandom's support is responsive in such cases.

GitHub - bodekerscientific/wikidot-to-mediawiki: Convert Wikidot Content to Mediawiki Content Convert Wikidot Content to Mediawiki Content. Contribute to bodekerscientific/wikidot-to-mediawiki development by creating an account on GitHub.

There's an old script that should convert Wikidot database to MediaWiki format, however it's a rare sight to see a Wikidot wiki forking and there's not much guarantee it will work.
Here's a more recent fork of it
github.com/bodekerscien...

Fandom still has to follow CC licencing, and since indie wiki has a strict one, incompatible with Fandom's version, plagiarism here is very much eligible for report and rollback.

They also butcher MediaWiki to appeal to Google's crawlers, like hiding "See source code" and "History" buttons or File namespace from unregistered users.

If you are an admin and don't know where to start there are FAQ and guides on Meta Wiki (Miraheze central hub). The platform is run by volunteers, you can ask stuff on Help desk page over there too, or in their Discord or IRC.

A digital sketch; Dave Ball of Soft Cell as he appears in banned Sex Dwarf music video, wearing grey t-shirt and red rubber gloves and butcher apron; he bends over a table holding a big knife which is stuck into it.

just butcher Dave ...

#digitalart #sketch #fanart #softcell #daveball #artlegroom

#onthisday in #softcellhistory!
9 January 1984 - first of the two farewell gigs Soft Cell performed at Hammersmith Palais.
📸 Mick Mercer

#softcell #marcalmond #daveball #synthpop #80s #otd

It means the wiki became private (was public), members is a user group on wiki itself. Could be an initiative by local admins or measures imposed by Miraheze stewards (global admins) due to possible violation of hosting's policies.

Happy holidays!
And merry #softcellnews
- The new limited Soft Cell CD single - Light Sleepers (Christmas Mix), should be out and about now
- A new date in Adelaide was added to upcoming, one of a kind, Australian tour where Marc will perform with Soft Cell and solo

In more, solo focused #softcellnews
- Third, Christmas themed entry of #MarcAlmond limited 7" series is out - The Coldest Night Of The Year / My Christmas.
- And another #TheLoveless gig is swiftly approaching on 15th, with band's first live album, from previous year show, to go along.

And just in case you missed, exciting bits from November newsletter.
#softcellnews
bsky.app/profile/soft...

Time for another batch of #softcellnews!
Starting with official #SoftCell newsletter: a new remix CD announced - no release date is given, but it's limited to 250 copies, so expect fast sell out!
This time "Light Sleepers" gets festive treatment, while the Moroder cover gets a touch of S'Express.

Miraheze is a 100% non-profit, volunteer run wiki hosting which refuses to rely on ads and cares about privacy of its users and autonomy of its communities.
All donations go to technical expenses (servers, upgrades, etc), which means keeping our project online!

Miraheze, the platform who houses our site, started new fundraiser!
meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Fundrai...

One year since Regis and I hosted A Some Bizzare Evening at Centrala in Birmingham. A weird, wonderful and chaotic affair that saw the first public screening of Soft Cell’s Sex Dwarf video since 1982. Stevo was his usual baffling, frustrating, and very funny self and a good night was had by all.

Genesis P-Orridge about meeting Marc and Dave, in an early Psychic TV interview for Sounds magazine from 1982.
The full article kindly shared by ZoundsAbound @ X/Twitter.

- aside from Australian tour in 2025 there might be something for US and UK fans, no details yet

Additional (and rather obvious, considering dates) bit spotted on Facebook says that reissue of Dave's In Strict Tempo album is moving to 2025.

- label restructuring at Universal, which was cited as the main reason behind constant delays of Soft Cell back catalog reissues, is finally over so hopefully we'll hear about new editions of Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing and The Art of Falling Apart soon

Alright, the news!
Putting aside merch sale, let's take a look at the official Soft Cell newsletter:
- Marc and Dave are busy in the studio working on new stuff, which might become the next Soft Cell album
- additionally, Dave continues to work with Richard on the new, long awaited the Grid album

The wiki was started as one-man-project in 2019 and still developing very slowly, getting ready to the "grande opening".
Since wiki sites are open community projects, new editors and contributions are very welcome and appreciated!

Here we gonna post links to articles, trivia bits and about important dates, and will share interesting related posts by other users!
And since there's currently no official Soft Cell, Marc Almond or Dave Ball accounts on Bluesky, we'll also share their news and updates from other platforms.

Hello Bluesky!
This is an account of Soft Cell Wiki, a fan made online encyclopedia about Marc Almond and Dave Ball, who started their rich musical career as pioneering synthpop duo Soft Cell!
softcell.miraheze.org