Brimstone and Treacle

[Dan]

Another interesting question would be the origin of that .... "wonderful" picture on the cover front ... ...

are you sure you want to know.....

Flagg

Only for the files ... the back cover and the labels look pretty enough, but the front ... ...

Btw, is "brimstone and treacle" some sort of standing English expression used more often in any specific context?

It's the title of a Dennis Potter play, Sting(a good friend of Bono) starred in the film version.
I think the expression already existed though.
Yeah, the interwebs tells me that "brimstone and treacle" was mentioned in Dickens' "Nicholas Nickelby" where it was a form of laxative.

[Nikolas Vitus Lagartija]

Btw, is "brimstone and treacle" some sort of standing English expression used more often in any specific context?

It's the title of a Dennis Potter play.

... which was a real cause célèbre in the 80s, as the BBC had refused to broadcast it having commissioned it. Like Lady Chatterley's Lover, Je T'aime or A Clockwork Orange, it therefore had a certain notoriety and an air of forbidden fruit.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

what the fuck it has to do with the sisters though i really have no idea whatsoever.

Well, the muppets (I'm being kind here) who made this record came across a Sisters tape that had been re used. Common practice in the 80's record fair days - tape sellers would recycle their stock, new audio trf onto what was probably a TDK D add a new xerox cover and last weeks 'stiff' becomes this weeks 'hot seller'.

What they failed to spot was that the band in question was not the Sisters until they started selling it/trading it with other dealers at which point it became a something of a joke/curiosity.

Some people made bootlegs of the Sisters as they loved the band;
Some people made bootlegs of the Sisters as they loved money;
Some people loved both:

go figure which camp this crew were in.

Flagg

thanks for the interesting insight.

[Being645]

I've been emailed the track.

And it's an audience recording from this gig...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw4o8WunnBA

Members of Thin Lizzy with Gary Moore and Bono and others.
Self Aid, RDS Arena, Ballsbridge, Dublin, 1986.05.17.

The bit on the bootleg starts at 3:16.

Cool... ... there's even a wikipedia page about this event which I've linked to the SistersWiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Aid

Btw, is "brimstone and treacle" some sort of standing English expression used more often in any specific context?

It's the title of a Dennis Potter play.

... which was a real cause célèbre in the 80s, as the BBC had refused to broadcast it having commissioned it. Like Lady Chatterley's Lover, Je T'aime or A Clockwork Orange, it therefore had a certain notoriety and an air of forbidden fruit.

I see. That's what I had imagined but not known ... ...


Btw, I've deleted and redirected to "Brimstone" page to "Brimestone & Treacle" ... one page is enough.
http://sisterswiki.org/index.php?title= ... edirect=no