The Sisters of Mercy Forum
11 hour delayflowers_to_burn wrote: ↑18 Oct 2024, 22:36 Despite our airline’s best attempts, we are here. Thanks to an 11 hour flight delay, we were up at 4am to catch our rescheduled flight, so tonight will be a very sleepy gig despite a nap. I’m too old for this sh*t.
credit to your perseverence, sleepy or otherwise I hope tonight is a fkng belter 
At first it was delayed for an hour. Then for five hours. Finally rescheduled for this morning instead. My American partner lives too far away to have made it worth driving out and then back again for it, and the airline comped a room for the night and food at least. Between the SLC pre booked costs it wasn’t worth not coming, but faaaaaark.Planet Dave wrote: ↑18 Oct 2024, 22:40 11 hour delay
Oh hell ... but still, it is astonishing how refreshing only half an hour of sleep can be ...flowers_to_burn wrote: ↑18 Oct 2024, 22:56At first it was delayed for an hour. Then for five hours. Finally rescheduled for this morning instead. My American partner lives too far away to have made it worth driving out and then back again for it, and the airline comped a room for the night and food at least. Between the SLC pre booked costs it wasn’t worth not coming, but faaaaaark.Planet Dave wrote: ↑18 Oct 2024, 22:40 11 hour delay
This tour is worth it. But ask me again later and I might say differently.
... check it out ... ... Glad you got a great gig after the travel nightmare.flowers_to_burn wrote: ↑19 Oct 2024, 05:20 Yeah we napped, it was just exhausting. Great night. Standard setlist with DJ/DB intro and Lucretia and This Corrosion for encore. Sound was fantastic. They were high energy, ditto the crowd.
The crowd was great! Loads of people do know the newer songs, a lot sing along, and the response is on par with some of the older stuff. So yeah, go off, Midwest and thanks for the fun night out in the furthered East place I’ve been on this continent so far!
Got a ton of footage but it’ll be a few days until I can upload it.
We added this one very last minute just because it’s such a great tour and kinda a ‘sod it, we’re close enough, let’s go’ . It was def worth doing, the crowd were really into it, new and old material went over well.
... ... thanks to some wild idea ... what a great sound ... ... ... ... 
, 1993 100% better than any gig video I filmed, your efforts are massively appreciated, cheers!flowers_to_burn wrote: ↑23 Oct 2024, 08:20 Playlist of all the ones I got in full, of varying quality as usual.
They look good and the sound is wonderful (most of the time) ...flowers_to_burn wrote: ↑23 Oct 2024, 08:20 Playlist of all the ones I got in full, of varying quality as usual.
... I'll add a few more of them to the page ... ... ... The audio shifts annoy me.Planet Dave wrote: ↑23 Oct 2024, 09:39100% better than any gig video I filmed, your efforts are massively appreciated, cheers!flowers_to_burn wrote: ↑23 Oct 2024, 08:20 Playlist of all the ones I got in full, of varying quality as usual.
. This lineup's iteration of ToL is so effing good. The newer songs sound fantastic. They're really enjoying themselves, they obviously work well together technically and onstage, and for me it's culminated in live experiences that have overall been great energy across the board this tour: from the venue sound quality/mixing at the 3 shows I've been at, to the songs and everyone involved; even the crowd's responsiveness at every one so far - frankly, the shows have just been really effing fun to be at/part of.