When DID I buy this T-shirt..?

Norman Hunter · 17 Jul 2006, 07:49

Wearing today - "Sisters - Summer".

Black T-shirt (what else?), red rectangle on front with the new Merciful Release logo in the centre of a blazing yellow sun. Aborted single-release T-shirt? A summer tour? Both? Help!

aims · 17 Jul 2006, 11:54

Picture?

christophe · 17 Jul 2006, 12:03

Norman Hunter wrote: the new Merciful Release logo in the centre of a blazing yellow sun.

I knew it! after all this time I started to think I had dreamed about that picture but its exactly how you mention it.

please show me a picture

Norman Hunter · 17 Jul 2006, 12:31

christophe wrote:
Norman Hunter wrote: the new Merciful Release logo in the centre of a blazing yellow sun.
I knew it! after all this time I started to think I had dreamed about that picture but its exactly how you mention it.

please show me a picture

I would, once I've worked out how to insert a picture. Oh yes - and taken one. Will endevour.

17 Jul 2006, 12:51

rings a bell

http://tours.tsom.org/1998s/

No official name [for the tour] was ever given, but then, no official name was ever given to Roadkill/Goldkill or Distance Over Time tours, either -- both these names come from tour t-shirts. Following the tradition, we've looked at t-shirts being sold at gigs in this tour and saw Summer written on them; as Summer was also the song The Sisters of Mercy were going to put out sometime at that time, it seemed like a very fitting name. After we've called it Summer, everybody followed the example. So be it.

did you go to any of these 1998 gigs?

June 27 - Roskilde
July 4 - Reuterstadt Stavenhagen
July 11 - Arvika
July 25 - Rothenburg ob der Tauber
August 8 - Neerpelt
August 29 - Gelsenkirchen

mh · 17 Jul 2006, 13:53

This, perchance?

http://tours.tsom.org/1998s/ wrote:No official name was ever given, but then, no official name was ever given to Roadkill/Goldkill or Distance Over Time tours, either -- both these names come from tour t-shirts. Following the tradition, we've looked at t-shirts being sold at gigs in this tour and saw Summer written on them; as Summer was also the song The Sisters of Mercy were going to put out sometime at that time, it seemed like a very fitting name. After we've called it Summer, everybody followed the example. So be it

twp · 17 Jul 2006, 13:54

Talking of memorabilia, I have a black baseball style cap with â€œSISTERSâ€� stitched on to the front. Iâ€™m pretty sure I picked it up at a gig in the early 90â€™s. Itâ€™s very tatty now, do these still pitch up at the sisters merchandising stalls? Iâ€™d quite like another one.

17 Jul 2006, 13:59

twp wrote:Talking of memorabilia, I have a black baseball style cap with â€œSISTERSâ€� stitched on to the front. Iâ€™m pretty sure I picked it up at a gig in the early 90â€™s. Itâ€™s very tatty now, do these still pitch up at the sisters merchandising stalls? Iâ€™d quite like another one.

2001 maybe?

http://tours.tsom.org/2001eoe/merchandise.htm

bottom of the page

twp · 17 Jul 2006, 14:05

thanks for looking, but not the one. Mine had white stitched lettering, and was baseball cap style, with peak-visory thingy (i am sure there is a technical name for that particular bit that sticks out the front of a cap). not beany shaped at all.

christophe · 17 Jul 2006, 14:20

its maybe a stupid observation but somehow its strange no fansite has a good overview of what merchandising has been sold over the years.

Ozpat · 17 Jul 2006, 14:36

christophe wrote:its maybe a stupid observation but somehow its strange no fansite has a good overview of what merchandising has been sold over the years.

Indeed!

A nice place would be www.reptilehouse.com

Drenchrom · 17 Jul 2006, 16:04

I picked my one up from Kensington Market soon after the tour. The guy Christian (from numerous dodgy goth bands inc. Crystal Reign) sold official Blue Grape merchandise which happened to include some Sisters stuff.
The market is long gone now though.

Matt..

Dark · 17 Jul 2006, 16:21

Norman Hunter wrote:Wearing today - "Sisters - Summer".

Black T-shirt (what else?), red rectangle on front with the new Merciful Release logo in the centre of a blazing yellow sun. Aborted single-release T-shirt? A summer tour? Both? Help!

I remember going on a site, reading about the 2006 tour, just when it'd started, and someone posted a link to a load of t-shirts being sold, and I posted something like "I want that Summer "sun" shirt!" and someone telling me they were s**t quality knockoff shirts..

Norman Hunter · 17 Jul 2006, 16:33

Thanks for all the help so far. What I do know is;

1. It IS official.
2. I didn't go to any of the gigs QB mentioned.
3. It has "The Reptile House Copyright 1998" at the bottom.

christophe · 17 Jul 2006, 17:06

if there arenâ€™t any tour dates printed on the T-shirt its possibly they continue to sell them on later tours. (if it was indeed the t-shirt for the 1998 summer Tour)

if I recall correct I once asked around here about the logo with a sun around it but back then no one seemd to know about it.

Norman Hunter · 19 Jul 2006, 07:30

Still trying to figure out how to post a picture of it up on here

Planet Dave · 19 Jul 2006, 08:22

Mark, you either nicked it (the tee), or that nice lex3000 chap bought it for you. Simple eh?

As for tranferring the image onto here erm, well, yeah....

Norman Hunter · 19 Jul 2006, 12:32

Planet Dave wrote:Mark, you either nicked it (the tee), or that nice lex3000 chap bought it for you. Simple eh?

As for tranferring the image onto here erm, well, yeah....

Neither of the above. I think I'll give up on it - plus there's too much red in it for me

19 Jul 2006, 12:35

if you have a pic of it, email it to me and i'll sort it out

or if you have apic of you wearing it you could add it to the misc section of the image gallery?

Norman Hunter · 20 Jul 2006, 07:19

Quiff Boy wrote:if you have a pic of it, email it to me and i'll sort it out

or if you have apic of you wearing it you could add it to the misc section of the image gallery?

E-mail on the way - luckily not featuring my face

20 Jul 2006, 17:17

sorted

its now in the image gallery

http://www.myheartland.co.uk/gallery/de ... ge_id=1215

if anyone can ID it further...?

EvilBastard · 20 Jul 2006, 17:45

twp wrote:Talking of memorabilia, I have a black baseball style cap with â€œSISTERSâ€� stitched on to the front. Iâ€™m pretty sure I picked it up at a gig in the early 90â€™s. Itâ€™s very tatty now, do these still pitch up at the sisters merchandising stalls? Iâ€™d quite like another one.

I've got one of them (or I had one, missing presumed lurking in my mother's attic assuming she hasn't binned it) - bought it through the Reptile House in 92/93? Haven't seen one for sale on a stand since the NEC gig in 92.

lachert · 20 Jul 2006, 17:49

Dark wrote:I remember going on a site, reading about the 2006 tour, just when it'd started, and someone posted a link to a load of t-shirts being sold, and I posted something like "I want that Summer "sun" shirt!" and someone telling me they were s**t quality knockoff shirts..

oh, it was me. yeah, i've got one like this in home. it was selling "official" in poland in some web shop, maybe 2 years ago...? it's still s**t-shirt

watch the tag now:

for distribution only in: poland, bulgaria, czechs, estonia, hungaria, latvia, lithuania, slovakia, russia and former ussr
product sold outside these territories is illegal and can be confiscated upon sight

now all clear

Mr Mercy · 20 Jul 2006, 18:02

Here is the link to that polish web shop....
(The following site is not endorsed by MrMercy!)

http://www.rockmetalshop.pl/go/_search/ ... s+of+mercy

christophe · 20 Jul 2006, 18:13

Quiff Boy wrote:sorted

its now in the image gallery

http://www.myheartland.co.uk/gallery/de ... ge_id=1215

if anyone can ID it further...?

yep, thats the one I had seen before but I can't imagine where I had... problably on a Belgian gig but its strange no one els had seen it.