Which year? My first ever gig was the aforementioned, but in 1990 (I was 15 years old, and was "escorted" by big sista Schwirlnearmethexperience wrote:
the m****n - newcastle city hall, i didn't go for obvious reasons (i.e. the m****n are nothing more than splitters really!!! lol) but i missed hussey throwing his guitar down and storming off stage coz certain sections of the 'horrible nasty dirty' crowd kept singing 'your not andrew eldritch' and requesting just about every & any song the sisters had recorded up to that date (i.e. incl floodland stuff, tracks from gift (again, more funny if you know the history, certain really nasty members where doing the '2 5 0 0 0' intro bit!!) etc etc, and yet more people doing the 'oooooh look, there goes the deadwood' and pointing etc etc (newcastle was always on the sisters side of the sisters / m****n divide).
). My second gig was actually this one (just turned 16, four months later, so it was my b'day pressie, went with big sista schwirl and iccle bwuva booka - yep! the whole smith family was at this one
)the nephs - middlesborough city hall. i didn't get to this one (can't remember why, i'll have to ask someone!). anyway, as you know, the nephs are probably the only band to outdo the sisters on the whole 'opera' of the goth gig thing. imagine the scene, the smoke/dry ice machines have been going for the last 40-50 mins, the intro tape (gregorian chanting, strange noises, music fading in & out, etc etc, you know the thing!) has been playing for the last 20 mins (pulse starting to rise a little). for the last 2 or 3 mins you can see shapes in the dry ice (heart beating faster, hairs on the back of the neck starting to rise). ok, yes!!! this is it, the drums kick in, the first chord is played, carl looms out of the smoke like a god and, and, the entire sound cuts out, the sprinkler system cuts in and everyone is escorted outside the building for 45 mins while they make sure it isn't really on fire. apparently the gig was a little 'flat' after that!!!
Enjoyed it a lot more than Newcastle (The Mi***on are pu***es!) Don't remember being escorted out, as 5 mins after the incident they were back on stage "giving it serious", saw a smile on Carl's face when everything cut out ("time for a quick beer!"
) 3rd Gig over a year later was Nirvana at Newcastle Mayfair, great support bands - Captain America (ex Vaselines) and Shonen Knife
Finally saw Sisters a coupla weeks ago at the Barrowlands - thoroughly loved it and it is Best gig i've ever been to!
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with support from Primordial at Camden Underworld