Marc Almond: From bedsit to plague pit
Once the sultan of sleazy synth pop, Marc Almond's new Edinburgh show Ten Plagues examines the Black Death. Gloomy? 'We're all dropping off the end of a conveyor belt,' he saysThirty years ago, Marc Almond was a slightly built man who wore black eyeliner and studded wrist bands and sang outre songs about seedy films and sex dwarves. He then spent the next 20 years in a rock'n'roll haze induced by cocaine, crack,…