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MrChris wrote:Speaking of private gigs, my stepdad works for Vodafone, and over recent years they've had performances at their annual parties by Kylie, Robbie Williams, Hearsay, S Club 7, Blue, Chrissie Hynde (???), and more or less all the biggest stars of planet pap. I presume they must be paid a LOT of money to do this kind of work. Maybe Eldo should turn recruit four girlies to join the band, and team up with Pete Waterman.
My wife's company once got K.C., of K.C. and the Sunshine Bnd fame, to play at a Christmas party. Woohoo!
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This should be no fake!
Does anyone really know how much money the managment of the SoM want to have that the Sisters play on a normal concert (no festival but no private gig)?
Is it more than 50.000€?
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All this talk of paying for the Sisters to play a private gig reminded me of somthing... I seem to recall there was once a competition in UTR and the prize was a gig in the winner's living room... Is that a figment of my imagination, was it an April fools joke or did it actually happen does anyone know? Unfortunately I lost my UTR collection (I had every issue) somewhere between Birmingham and Bristol (via NZ) so I can't check this for myself :cry: Gutted.
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DomConway wrote:All this talk of paying for the Sisters to play a private gig reminded me of somthing... I seem to recall there was once a competition in UTR and the prize was a gig in the winner's living room... Is that a figment of my imagination, was it an April fools joke or did it actually happen does anyone know? Unfortunately I lost my UTR collection (I had every issue) somewhere between Birmingham and Bristol (via NZ) so I can't check this for myself :cry: Gutted.
Hy, :)

If you look on the gigography on the official site I'm sure it has this gig in someones living room listed.

I should however have checked before I wrote this, I'll do that now : :)

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zaltys7 wrote:
DomConway wrote:All this talk of paying for the Sisters to play a private gig reminded me of somthing... I seem to recall there was once a competition in UTR and the prize was a gig in the winner's living room... Is that a figment of my imagination, was it an April fools joke or did it actually happen does anyone know? Unfortunately I lost my UTR collection (I had every issue) somewhere between Birmingham and Bristol (via NZ) so I can't check this for myself :cry: Gutted.
Hy, :)

If you look on the gigography on the official site I'm sure it has this gig in someones living room listed.

I should however have checked before I wrote this, I'll do that now : :)

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from http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/gen/gigog/gigog.htm

28 Aug 1992 Oberhausen, Germany Sabine's living room (FREE PRIVATE GIG for Reptile House Member)
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and having said that I remember reading on Dominion that Robin had contacted Sabine and asked about the gig. Apparently Sabine and her boyfriend had an agrument during the gig and left the room, leaving the band to play to no one in particular.
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so is there a boot of this gig? ;D

sounds like a hacienda gig to me ;D :wink:
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hallucienate wrote:and having said that I remember reading on Dominion that Robin had contacted Sabine and asked about the gig. Apparently Sabine and her boyfriend had an agrument during the gig and left the room, leaving the band to play to no one in particular.
Priceless ... :lol: :lol: If a true story ...madness! :eek: :urff: :?
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Johnny Boy wrote:
hallucienate wrote:and having said that I remember reading on Dominion that Robin had contacted Sabine and asked about the gig. Apparently Sabine and her boyfriend had an agrument during the gig and left the room, leaving the band to play to no one in particular.
Priceless ... :lol: :lol: If a true story ...madness! :eek: :urff: :?
I'll see what I can dig out at home, I got dominion mail going back to 1999 stored on my mail server there.
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