Heartland

dinky daisy wrote:Thank you for that one.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/YouLostChris/SQaVp ... NP0025.JPG

reminds me of the best motörhead gig i've ever been to! Anyway, A fast train to Marian is good enough to get drunk in Paradiso. And St. Pauli scored two times this sunday, is life finally fair?

sorry about that one, I know they didn't turn out the best some of them, limited ammunition I'm afraid.

Eva wrote: forgot to tell you all: The original lighting is back!!! Especially for Summer, the correct order and all colours needed - blue, yellow and red, showing up at the perfect moment.

That really sounds great - I thought something was very wrong with the lights in Tienen! The lights ARE part of a Sisters show.

Also very good to hear that the change of soundman seems to have improved the quality.

Now all we need is some rotation in the setlist, Marian is nice but I expect more...we will see what happens in the next few days!

Nevertheless: The tour has finally kicked off

Eva wrote:Oh, haven't seen Von in such a good mood for ages. Very talkative, and SMILING from ear to ear!

Over and out

Eva

He found his old recipe for the gunpowder, hm?
Blimey! It's months till March.
Enjoy, and give Sinnie an XXL hug from me, please!

Online review! ...

http://www.georgiabulletin.org/world/2008/05/07/US-3/

Methedrome wrote:Online review! ...

http://www.georgiabulletin.org/world/2008/05/07/US-3/

Oh you kidder

markfiend wrote:

Methedrome wrote:Online review! ...

http://www.georgiabulletin.org/world/2008/05/07/US-3/

Oh you kidder

That sounds like a bollocks of a long gig

It only seems like 150 years! Same setlist thought

who opened?
worth seeing?
what time did the sisters take the stage?
so many questions for tonight!

Always worth seeing. Already regretting not going to Toronto and Montreal.

I sense some big changes in the setlist tonight.

great news...

nice to have marian again

AND A TO THE NEW SOUNDMAN


how many people was there (more o less)?? nearly sold out??

were the people in live mode???

Thanks for the reviews, guys - greatly appreciated!

And, like dtsom said:

dtsom wrote:A TO THE NEW SOUNDMAN

We really needed that! [At least I did ]

Many thanks for the updates.

TRAIN, nice

Wow, that setlist looks killer. Giving Ground omg! I think I may die of anticipation, I have to wait until Nov. 20.

Good to see Marian is back

Thanx for the reviews an' ting, peepz! It seems the new tour started inna fine style 'n fashion

Methedrome wrote:Online review! ...

http://www.georgiabulletin.org/world/2008/05/07/US-3/

"mercy, yesterday, today and forever" isn't sound like first and last and always. i told you that this title is about eternal love to the supreme being, god himself

I found a review somewhere on the web:

A brief concert review: The Sisters Of Mercy

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I'll admit right off I can't be objective here. I adore The Sisters, still, even though the bastards haven't released anything in the better part of two decades. I know all the new songs, the stuff they've only ever played live. (See above.) So I'm a little biased. Still, I expected to be disappointed, to go see a band live that I've loved for years and years and find them tired and dull, but I had to go because I just had to see them at least once and...

...find my fears completely unfounded. I get what they mean now when people say they're one of those bands you just have to see live. That was an ass-kicking rock show, not a bunch of dreary sad old goths making one more round to pay for smokes and booze. Andrew Eldritch & Co. are the second classic goth/post-punk performers (Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy and his solo act being the others) I've seen in the past few months who were in fine form. The crowd was (much to my surprise) significantly bigger than for the much younger and hipper Opeth and High On Fire show I saw at the same venue a month or so before. The show was uptempo, energetic, and surprisingly heavy (The Sisters have phat bass and that electronic kick drum is pummelling!). Though the hard-rock-riffing-over-dance-beats sound they pioneered is hardly new almost three decades into the band's history, they're not an '80s nostalgia act, with much of their setlist comprised of new(er) unreleased material with the odd obscure non-album track from their earlier days thrown in amidst the old hits. Their energetic electro-rock, though often dark, was delivered with a wink and a nudge, and the band onstage was all smiles and good cheer, when they could be seen through the wall of fog and over-the-top light show. It's Big Epic Rock, but self-consciously so, aware of its punk roots. The Sisters Get The Joke- it's a grandiose, ridiculous rock show (the lights alone are worth the price of admission) so why be so serious about it, even if you're one of the founders of goth? Rock the f**k out.

For the gear nerds- this is a guitar forum:
Chris Catalyst played an Ibanez Iceman throughout the whole show. He had a Les Paul sitting offstage, but never picked it up. He was running into an ENGL Powerball, of all things, and an ENGL 4x12 via some sort of wireless system. He had a TU-2 and a Pod XT Live for effects, the latter MIDI controlled from the synth rig.

Ben Christo played two vintage white Fender Strats with single coils into a duplicate of the Powerball/XT Live rig. He played a white Fender bass on Romeo Down.

Andrew Eldritch wore the same sunglasses as always and had what looked like a wireless Shure Beta 87.

Doktor Avalanche is two massive (truly f**king gigantic) racks of synth gear controlled by a large bald bearded man.

The ENGLs delivered classic Marshall-esque crunch, shockingly enough. And The Sisters have the least stage volume I've ever heard from anyone, ever. Their guitar rigs are probably as loud as I practice at home on a normal day. I guess having electronics in place of a rhythm section allows you to get away with that.

Setlist, in vague general order (I'm mixed up in the middle. I know how it starts and how it ends.):

Ribbons
Crash And Burn
Train/Detonation Boulevard
Will I Dream?
Flood I
Summer
Marian
Alice
Flood II
Anaconda
Suzanne
Giving Ground
First And Last And Always
Dominion/Mother Russia
--
Something Fast
Vision Thing
--
Lucretia My Reflection
Snub Nose
Temple Of Love

Excellent show, highly recommended for fans of the band who don't mind they don't sound like 1985 anymore.

Interesting review.
Also for the gear heads, not sure when this update appeared...

http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/tech/tech-i.htm

242headhunter wrote:I found a review somewhere on the web:

A brief concert review:much of their setlist comprised of new(er) unreleased material with the odd obscure non-album track from their earlier days
Ribbons
Crash And Burn
Train/Detonation Boulevard
Will I Dream?
Flood I
Summer
Marian
Alice
Flood II
Anaconda
Suzanne
Giving Ground
First And Last And Always
Dominion/Mother Russia
--
Something Fast
Vision Thing
--
Lucretia My Reflection
Snub Nose
Temple Of Love

knows his stuff that boy...

Fab review 242headhunter

Looking foward to hearing Train back in the setlist

an engl powerball?

http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/prod ... sku=481518



$1,999.99



all that hooked up to a pod xt

Sounds like a Top Nite Out

Looking forward to Portland already

242headhunter wrote:And The Sisters have the least stage volume I've ever heard from anyone, ever.

I realize stage volume doesn't equate to audience volume but how loud was the sound in front of the stage?

how 'clear and enjoyable' was it?

Methedrome wrote:

Surprised you didnt cross the border to Toronto, though!

I wish I could have... only everything was against me money wise (extensive car repairs, insurance, rent, etc.).

Also, my wife works and is in school, so I could not simply up and run.

But I hope someone is kind enough to record it!

Have fun!