Heartland

Yes, Lords Of The New Church - heavily underrated. I had almost forgotten. Must play 'Lord's Prayer' tonight. And 'Holy War'. Sorry, but that's my connection with Brian James, The Damned was (just a little) too early for me.

RIP

I briefly considered "The Lost Tapes" by Wall of Voodoo until I found out that the band is offering them as a download on their own website. So I got it from there, as I was interested in the songs, not the medium.

originally appeared in: Zillo Spezial: The Sisters of Mercy, Lübeck, Germany, 1990. Translated 2024 mostly by Google (for speed), but with supervision, final editing and correction by yours truly as a native speaker of the original German Zillo: Andrew, you told "Melody Maker" last year t...

The Bad Vilbel place looks like a conference centre.. It is. This concert is part of the "Hessentag". As they say on their homepage: "Hessentag is the annual state festival of Hesse. It is considered the oldest and largest state festival in Germany". 226 events on 9 days; theatr...

LyanvisAberrant wrote: ↑19 Nov 2024, 12:47 ANYTHINGGG

Exactly!

It's their best work since Disintegration, imho.

Although I disagree with you, Mark (imho there is enough material for a 4th Sisters album before the recent explosion of creativity, cf. my compilation in Sharing), I pledged - and look forward to the book.

Lucretia is played by them as my old band used to do, guitar instead of bass, so I can't complain. I wouldn't want them to drop "This Corrosion" as they have now reached a version that is simply great without having to employ a choir. What I could do without is "When I'm On Fire"...

Thanks, that was really interesting. Didn't know that Heartland was his (did he ever get a proper credit for that?). And the link to "Rock It" was was the cherry on the cake for me, as I don't have any connections to get unreleased Ghost Dance songs.

Chief Cohiba wrote: ↑02 Oct 2024, 16:20 ... it's the trinity of Faith to Pornography...

Shouldn't that be the trinity of Seventeen Seconds to Pornography (else it wouldn't be a trinity)? Yes, this is my favourite Cure period as well, but I still like what they do today, and their concert in Munich Oct 2022 was simply awesome.

The song itself is very good, but is the distortion done on purpose or did Spotify mess it up?

Should I have mentioned AC/DC at Nuremberg, Zeppelinfeld, 27/07/2024? Probably, because it was, in fact, really good.
As for upcoming events: Summer Breeze, Dinkelsbühl, Germany, 14/08 - 17/08: Amon Amarth, Sodom and >100 others. And Memoriam (as we can't get Bolt Thrower anymore)

Top Nite Out - the best instrumental the Sisters ever had.

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I don't get it why Lucretia should be out - the version on Floodland is 4:57 long.

And Marian: could be easily learned phonetically, and will impress all your friends when you get it right (hey - it's just 3 different lines)

CD 1 is Victims of Circumstance, I'd say
CD 2 looks like Amsterdam, Melkweg, 1984
CD 5 seems to be taken in parts from the Gary Marx Tape / Floorshow EP

Welcome to Heartland from someone who loves English literature (I'm German), but also doesn't get Von's meaning at first glance most of the time.

Review in local newspaper Main-Post: https://www.mainpost.de/regional/wuerzburg/nach-abbruch-und-absagen-in-wuerzburg-treten-sisters-of-mercy-auf-doch-der-saenger-irritiert-mit-seiner-performance-art-11274481 It's behind a pay wall, though, and I don't think it's worth it from looking at the two par...

Review in Stuttgarter Nachrichten (in German):
https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/ ... 5a310.html

The reviewer knew who Kai was, but didn't recognize Chris

Planet Dave wrote: ↑14 Oct 2023, 22:48 Hands up everyone who thought there'd be a new guitarist in the band tonight.

Würzburg is just one of those totally un-hip places to have this happen.

But to be honest: I, at least, didn‘t expect it.

Yes, we have 4 sisters again. Andrew introduced the guitarist with „This is Cat“ or something similar (might be Kai. Looks Asian)
Great sound, great concert. Sorry, no photos, my phone did other important things. More later, now off to Stuttgart

If you want to try my version of it, try the Search function for "The 4th & 5th Album". Seems it went down quite well, judging by the comments.

Gothicbiff wrote: ↑10 Oct 2023, 22:30 ...
If you go on to the Live News page then refresh the page it should appear at the top

Thanks a lot, that did it. Funny that I explicitely had to refresh the page, I'm afraid many people are stuck with the info that Glasgow etc. were moved to a bigger venue, and nothing else.

Depprocksfarfar wrote: ↑10 Oct 2023, 17:40 Finally some official news from the official site
"Existing ticket holders for the concerts in Berlin, Köln and Wiesbaden should hold on to them in anticipation of rescheduled dates later in the year."

Have they taken this info down again? I can't find it anywhere there

Maybe you should check the Sharing section again now