In the second stab of a mini Marilyn fest – check out last month's’s foray into the bowels of a MM concert here – we go further back still, to 2003 and a moment of existential conundrum for man his mother knows as Brian but we know as, well, that weird bloke who looks like a Brian with a bad wig and some bondage gear. (On a historical side note, when this story was published in the Sydney Morning Herald Marilyn/Brian, who had read it online before it hit the streets here, can

With his return to the studio and the stage in the past year, Marilyn Manson has reaffirmed everything you ever thought about him – good or bad. But there’s so much more to him than an absence of hips and an excess of foundation. In a double hit of memories this week and next, Wind Back Wednesday explores the theatre and the mind of MM. To start, a concert in 2007 when he was bringing together the despised and unloved in a way that was not repeated until the recent meetings o