Heartland

The Face in the Mirror Grey haunted eyes, absent-mindedly glaring From wide, uneven orbits; one brow drooping Somewhat over the eye Because of a missile fragment still inhering, Skin deep, as a foolish record of old-world fighting. Crookedly broken nose – low tackling caused it; Cheeks, furrowed; c...

Von's recruitment has been spot on in the last 18 years. Ben, then Chris C, then Dylan, then Kai: all assets to the band in their own special ways

What were the audience numbers like ? That's a good point - lots of people were saying in advance the tour would be a disaster because some venues were downsized. But with respect, I personally wouldn't count "audience sizes" as a measure of success, as long as those audiences had a great...

Tour successfully concluded with no cancelled gigs! Who would have bet that earlier this year?

The current version of Lucretia being played live has the bass line played loud again after the first chorus, and it sounds pretty close to the OG recording, which also corroborates with my theory that Floodland was recorded without a real bass. (Does that mean Patty never played the bass? Ofc not,...

I'll repeat it over and over again: Von sees himself as the bass player in the band now. He can't play bass and sing, so he lets the Doktor do it. He used to say that if they had a live drummer they'd just do what the Doktor does anyway; so too with a bass player. People are fully entitled to feel t...

Hmmm, Von's beginning to skip verses, I hope he can keep his voice/health for the rest of the tour

Isn't it great, following the disasters of 1 year ago, that the reviews for this tour have been nigh-uniformly positive? Apart from that one guy who was outraged that there weren't live synth and bass players

H. Blackrose wrote: ↑02 Oct 2024, 23:19 Interesting that Von didn't feel comfortable about singing "Mother Russia rain down" in 2022, but has no qualms in singing "Here come the Hezbollah" today

Ha ha, it looks like geopolitical realities have caught up with Von and "Doktor Jeep" is out of the setlist

mh wrote: ↑03 Oct 2024, 04:01 I miss Flood 2.

It probably did suffer a bit from being over-played, and was probably due being rotated out to give other songs a chance, but it feels like it's time to bring it back. On a good night there's a suitable epicness to how it's performed.

Are you a sorceror?!?

They planed "Rock and a Hard Place" last night

Wow, what a blinder of a set-list. Lovely to hear "Crash and Burn" back on, I thought that was one of the pieces that were moved so as not to give money to Pearson

I'm going to start writing slash fiction about Von and Kai and there's nothing you can do to stop me

I can't imagine the Sisters playing Chris' "I'll Call You" in a million years. About 12 chords too many.

I always get Switchblade Symphony mixed up with Strawberry Switchblade

"Ribbons" I learned to appreciate just recently. It definitely ripes. I still have a soft spot for "When you don't see me", for I felt it being quite personal way back then. "Ribbons" was the first TSOM song I ever heard, from the next room at a party. I couldn't belie...

Husek wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024, 15:54 (Or not, just a reminder that Shes a monster, New World Order and Kickline exists and we prolly won't see them back anytime soon )

New World Order is a 15-minute MIDI sax solo!

How much more political could you get than "Eyes of Caligula"? None. None more politics.

Put me in the corner of those who think "Vision Thing" and "Ribbons" are possibly the two best Sisters songs either, but the rest was made for an audience that's not me

Todashi wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024, 14:14 I feel like Ben has to know that posing for this picture is going to wind a load of people (including me!) up.

Even if every other star in the universe were aligned, no chance Von would have anything to do with Cleopatra Records

ribbons69 wrote: ↑07 Oct 2024, 07:31 Without checking, I wonder if the current setlist only includes one song from Wake, that being "Alice"

"Marian"

Speaking of The Sisters on social media, now that Chris is back on board he should give the password of the Xitter account to Ben or someone

You look so good
You look so fine
Quantum Baby
Gonna make you mine

I'm disturbed to find out that idiots outside this forum are spreading the "WEA contract is still in force" urban legend which Fallon so ably stomped to death here

That post is from a year ago and rehashes a thousand points that have been refuted here

A first attempt at the 30 second fragment now on YouTube:

===
Feed (?fade) into the one

We have the lonely heart of a thousand suns
And one and one is only one (? all they want)
Feed (?fade) into the one
===

"Set the controls for the heart of the sun", huh?

alanm wrote: ↑05 Aug 2024, 07:05 Feel to me like the admins can unpin this thread...