Cracow, March 31, 2009

[lachert]

Oh damn!!
Would you have any idea about the ticket situation for Prague & Budapest at all??

normally i'm working only on poland territory but...
http://vstupenky.archatheatre.cz/?prdID=1277
http://a38.jegy.hu//arrivalorder.php?eid=109248&lang=en
good luck

[_emma_]

Announcement:
I might need another ticket too (a friend quite wants to go), so if anybody has one to sell please PM me (but shadowsembrace first)

[shadowsembrace]

Thanks HEAPS lachert !!!

oh and Emma, I won't be going to Cracow now, am still currently in Berlin, and will head to Prague next instead, but thanks ^^

[_emma_]

And this friend of mine is now sorted too.

[nomercy73]

Need tickets? I have to sell 2 collectors tickets....

[straycat]

Setlist:

afterhours
c'n'b
ribbons
train/det
alice
flood i
anaconda
marian
susanne
arms
giving ground
d/mr
f+l+a
corrosion
flood ii
-------
something fast
vision thing
lucretia
tno
temple

I hope there are no mistakes, if someone finds any please correct me.

The first thing to notice is it was way too silent. At the beginning of the C&B I thought WTF?! and remembered how strong it felt in 2006 the next songs just assured me that the volume was was definetly too low. It happend half the gig that people were coming to the desk and complaining to make it louder. The lack of strength was especially noticable with Von's vocals and the guitars in the second place.

It happend even that throught some part of Marian people were shouting 'Glośniej' (Louder in polish). It got better with following songs and was decent with Dominion (or it was just the feel when all the people were singing).

Overall the sound was wrong (you could have a conversation standing in the crowd without much need of shouting straight to someone's ear). The setlist was more or less what we now got used to. Good thing we had Giving Ground, sad one is that the Summer was missing.

[_emma_]

Ah what crap, I just spent 15 minutes typing and got a connection error.

So again:

What bad luck tonight's gig was! We had everything: wet floor, sound problems, almost inaudible vocals and guitars, rude drunk audience ('louder', 'andru I can't hear you, start singing', "I want my money back'), lack of interaction (as result I think), AND - the worst of all:
security taking away drinks but allowing cameras.
All in all, I felt sorry for the band.
This bitch next to me shouted 'andruuu, wooooo' after she'd taken about 50 FLASHLIGHT photos of him and bragged about how she'd put them on f**king myspace.
After the gig she behaved like an idiot and begged the moustache ponytail chap (don't know the name, sorry) for the setlist, to which he waved it in front of her face but never gave it to her, which I sincerely hope was intentional.

Me, I got what I wanted from the ponytail soundcheck lady, so I'm very very glad.

So yes, my friends who came to see this only show said it was crap, well - they were just unlucky.

I have to go to sleep now, because I myself have a headache since morning (faaaaar too many drinks after the EXCELLENT Warsaw gig ), and my train for Prague leaves very early tomorrow.

[7anthea7]

After the gig she behaved like an idiot and begged the moustache ponytail chap (don't know the name, sorry) for the setlist, to which he waved it in front of her face but never gave it to her, which I sincerely hope was intentional.

As no doubt it was, since he's the same one who happily gave me Von's setlist from Seattle. She got what she deserved (i.e. nada).

[Husek]

Awesome Setlist, in fact the sisters since Russia , had come back with a brand new inspiration, Von is Talkin' now, and finally Giving Ground + Falaa + Anaconda , all together in the setlist.

[lachert]

i thought that after warsaw they can't play worse gig, specially in such fine city as cracow, but they do this
shame, shame, shame
good that i was so drunk
looks that it was my last gig on this tour and my worse sisters gig ever.
anyway, have a good one in prague

[Bartek]

ekhm.... this gig was wrong !!
before the show i planned this gig as my last sisters gig ever - i don't feel much fun when i know a month(s) before gig what songs i'll hear and in what order. i know a few other ways to spend a money.

so the "gig":
level of sound was much to low. imo everything were shifted on right level - well maybe as my friend said vocal could be a bit higher - music overall was so low that i heard myself even when i didn't shout furthermore i could talked to her- a friend- without saying anything louder. so now i got question for what are TWO soundmans - girl on stage and a man on floor level- if after shout (in Polish, what was stupid, and English, what was completely ignored) they didn't change anything ? yes after a few commands passed by Von during first songs sound were better ( Andrews vocal, Bens guitar) but still was to low.

btw. @ _emma_ : people were shouting because they didn't heard a music. at least they paid - not so small price - to see/listen the band not just for a light and fog show with a little of sound on the background. but that chick was stupid .

what else , it was another show were Ben, Chris, Nurse and audience (that part what were able to heard the music) had fun. Von looks like he didn't care about that. it was something like: "ok, because you were good puppies and first gig were sold out so smell the money i'll go onstage but don't think it's gonna be something that you can remebre for the rest of your life. just give my the money. buck dich and relax so none gonna hurt". and i do fell like i was f**ked pretty hard.
i was a waist of time, energy and money.

kudos goes to:
boys (Nurse!!, Ben and Chris!!!) and audience.
greetings: Lachert and for your beautiful wife

photos (worst part): http://s91.photobucket.com/albums/k290/Bartek_T/

photos (better part): http://www.flickr.com/photos/b52t/

[Ozpat]

my worse sisters gig ever.

Everybody's got one.

Thanks for the reviews.

[straycat]

Thanks for the pictures. Strange that on the picture of the setlist there is Summer present. Am I right with the fact they indeed didn't played it?

[Bartek]

they played summer. setlist is right, but of course there was no second encores/break. and btw i got this from soundman. i was in the right time in the right place i have enough courage to ask for it.

[dtsom]

in venue´s site ,there´s a sisters notice:

Komunikat: SISTERS OF MERCY

KOMUNIKAT

W związku z wieloma głosami w sprawie koncertu Sisters Of Mercy, który odbył się w dniu 31.03.2009 pragniemy zaznaczyć, że Klub STUDIO nie był organizatorem tego wydarzenia.

Organizatorem koncertu było stowarzyszenie Fabryka Productions.

Nadmieniamy, że odpowiedzialność za sprawy związane z nagłośnieniem ponosi akustyk zespołu. Mimo próśb organizatora, klubu oraz samej publiczności twierdząc, że nagłaśnia tak od 27 lat nie wykonał żadnych czynności, by poprawić poziom dźwięku podczas koncertu.

google tranlation:
Communication: Sisters of Mercy

NOTICE

As a result, many voices on the Sisters Of Mercy concert, held on 31.03.2009, we would like to point out that the club has not been STUDIO organizing this event.

The organizer of the concert was an association Factory Productions.

Notes that the responsibility for matters related to publicity bear acoustics team. Despite the requests of the organizer, the club and the audience saying that publicized the past 27 years have not made any steps to improve the level of sound during the concert.


http://www.klubstudio.pl/

[straycat]

they played summer. setlist is right, but of course there was no second encores/break. and btw i got this from soundman. i was in the right time in the right place i have enough courage to ask for it.

ok, then 'i was wrong.

i have a rough idea for people of preparing 'we can't hear you' banner for the next gig, just in case instead of pointlessly shouting 'glosniej'

[Bartek]

ok, judgment (point) was a little bit hushed. but still i do feel hunger and fell i like i been cheated. my best measurement to judge a gig i kind of adrenaline/enthusiasm was is after the gig. if i stay with my at least 30 min that mean the gig was good ( longer - better). and after this gig this adrenaline/enthusiasm stayed with my maybe 5 min. i'll don't bother myself for another 2 days trip (if that situation repeat anytime). i don't think that i'll go for another Sisters gig but we got a proverb: only cows doesn't change up her mind.

p.s. few more pics on my flickr site (Nurse!)

[Eva]

Could anybody who speaks Polish (Emma, where are you when I need you?) please translate the above statement by the venue into an English that I understand?

Many thanks

[lachert]

Bartek, they didn't play summer in cracow that pity gig was shorter then warsow.
btw. anyone who was there hear something fast? i saw that they move their lips but i can't hear anything. jesus christ.

[7anthea7]

Could anybody who speaks Polish (Emma, where are you when I need you?) please translate the above statement by the venue into an English that I understand?

Many thanks

I second that motion

[lachert]

don't worry, that statement is hard to understand even in polish
few pictures from funeral party:

[lszymc]

Could anybody who speaks Polish (Emma, where are you when I need you?) please translate the above statement by the venue into an English that I understand?

Many thanks

I second that motion

Here you are:

"Communique

Further to many enquiries relating to Sisters of Mercy concert, which took place on 31 March 2009, we would like to point out that the STUDIO Club did not organize this event.

The organizer of the concert was Fabryka Productions.

We would like to point out that the responsilbilty for the sound reinforcement rests with the group' soundman. In spite of the requests from the gig organizer, the club and the audience, he did not make the slightest attempt to improve the sound level during the concert, claiming that he had been doing sound this way for 27 years."

[7anthea7]

Thanks so much! I had the first bits figured out, but that last sentence just wasn't parsing out intelligibly...

We would like to point out that the responsilbilty for the sound reinforcement rests with the group' soundman. In spite of the requests from the gig organizer, the club and the audience, he did not make the slightest attempt to improve the sound level during the concert, claiming that he had been doing sound this way for 27 years.

Explains a lot, now doesn't it? It certainly reinforces my suspicions about the source of the problems...

And by the way, welcome to our little party, lszymc!

[Ozpat]

Nice pics Lachert!

[Bartek]

Bartek, they didn't play summer in cracow that pity gig was shorter then warsow.
btw. anyone who was there hear something fast? i saw that they move their lips but i can't hear anything. jesus christ.

i'm almost in 100% sure that they did play summer now i'm confused as hell.