Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:playboy wrote:Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:Maybe Wayne is brighter than I give him credit for.
On Saturday night, after the crowd had witnessed two brands of ersatz Sisters, WH was hardly going to play them the real thing in his DJ set - imagine the queue for gig ticket refunds ...
I don´t understand......
Just another failed attempted cheap jibe on my part. I really must grow up.
On a more serious note - your comments about the aura having allegedly gone between 85 and 90 from live shows, I would say there are various potential explanations for this :
a) the Girls were now playing in bigger, less intimate venues ;
b) like many Sisters fans, you had moved on to other bands during the live "lull" (eg Pixies, Nephs, revitalised Iggy, Young Gods etc) and had either raised your expectations or got gig fatigue ;
c) you didn't like the (then) new material as much (as you have stated in many posts) and therefore weren't likely to "feel" it live in the way you obviously did with FALAA ;
d) there is of course the remote (IMHO) possibility that you are right !
a) the venues I see them in now, like Mejeriet in Lund, KB in Malmo a few years ago, and the Stockholm gig have the same size as the venues I saw them in in 1985 actually. They are by far a lot smaller than in 1990-1993. At least the Sisters gigs I go to.
b) I have not really moved on to other bands, no other artist or band have had the same impact on me that the Sisters had. Of course I do not listen to Sisters much today but that is only because they have not released a record for 26 years. They are still good records though.
And for the record I do not listen to other bands in that, shall we say goth genre, I have never liked Nephs, Pixies were good but shortlived, when I was younger I listened to Jesus And Mary Chain, Psychedelic Furs, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Madness, Mish, and a lot of other.... Today I still love all of the above more than anything else but don´t listen to them as much as they do not release very much new.... If I said what I am listening to most nowadays I would get too many comments from some sisters,goth,nephs and so-on fans.
c) well, I was so hooked and so into the band when I discovered them back in 1984. So in some sense they became a part of my life, they were my friends, my heroes. So of course it felt different initially when Floodland came out and gone were the muscians, left was Andrew and some chick! I didn´t see that coming I must admit. The music was good but the image of the Sisters with Andrew and Patricia kind of blurred me. And I couldn´t see them live as they didn´t tour which was no fun as I have loved to see them live. With Vision Thing it was agan first a feeling of "oh, new faces again", but this time it appeared to be a band and the record was mostly good. At that time I have some difficulties with a few songs that I thought were to direct and to hitlike which in one way was not bad but in another way was so far from what Sisters was used to do.
And I loved the gigs!!! So may songs never played live before. And they played the songs as they were on the records, as I love them, not speeding the songs away. The following two years the gigs were a thrill, spendid. But after 1993 nothing much has happened livewise and nothing at all recordwise.
c) I wouldn´t say I´m right. Neither wrong. It is just my personal point of view. That is how I grew up with them. Your first teenage heroes can be a strong thing. And they were my friends. Some of them are still my friends. I love the Sisters. But they just bore me with the same songs over and over and over and over and over live. I would say that about ANY band who keep on doing the same shows year after year. And the fact that they have not released a record for 26 years is for me a fact that says that they do not longer exist as a band who make songs in studios for the audience to hear. And I want that as well the live gigs.
