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Pista wrote:1st. Brighton Top Rank 1984

Holy crap.

Liverpool Uni 1984
Madrid 2011

Must be time for another....

Oh, how I envy you lot who got the chance to see them when they were brand-spanking new (or thereabouts)... *Sigh*

I was amazed I got in TBH.
I was only 15 & it was over 18s only.
Ooops. That's my age out the bag

Pista wrote:Ooops. That's my age out the bag

Um...you've got your birth date listed in your profile, sillypants.

Reading 1991
London 2009

Via Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and PRY.

First: Sunday, 27th March 1983: Manchester Gallery
Last: Wednesday, 16th February and Thursday, 17th February 2011: Leeds Met University
The Leeds gigs count as one because they kind of continued over the course of 45 hours. If you know what I mean

I please to think I've seen them some time in the 80ies. If so, that would have been at Luxor in Cologne on November 13th, 1984.
I had intended to see them at Alter Wartesaal in Cologne and Bisquithalle Bonn in 1985, but didn't manage to get there ...
Then again, I think I've seen them earlier somewhere, but hell when and where I have no idea ...

Often it's a Pink Pop Festival in Geleen in the late 70ies that springs to my mind.
One of the bands before The Specials ... but The Sisters of Mercy didn't exist by then ...
The next point in my memory's timeline is the Rock Am Ring Festival in 1987, the one
where Bowie headlined. One of the bands on the second stage ... but hell, at that time The Sisters didn't play tours ... ...


Anyway, the first time I explicitly went to see The Sisters of Mercy play was Saturday, 04 September 1993 - as I had missed them in 1992.
The most recent gig was the Amphi Festival in Cologne this year ... and that was wonderful ... ... and hopefully not the last one ... ...

Philadelphia 1997; traveled from Dallas. They were astounding. It was everything I'd ever hoped it would be, and more.

Dallas, 2006. Muddy sound; a decent enough show, but not great.

The best ever, though? Their 2-night stand at the Maritime Hall in San Francisco on the Event Horizon tour. I also caught 'em in NYC on the Planet Edge tour (Roseland Ballroom, I think?).

F I R S T
Paradiso - Amsterdam - The Netherlands
14 APRIL 1985

L A S T
Amphi Festival - Cologne- Germany
21 July 2012

A L W A Y S
?

Waiting until the next one .....

First - Leeds, October 1982
Last - Glasgow, 2006

First-Philadelphia 1997
Last-Brussels 2011

And 46 others inbetween

First: Wembley Arena, 1990.

Last: Leeds, 2008.

From Wembley to the Roundhouse with many stops in-between.

From Leeds Poly in 91 to the Dublin Olympia in 2011 with many stops inbetween, but mainly in Leeds.

Best? NEC 92 or Joseph's Well 2005 (for the 'can't believe I'm finally catching them playing in a pub' aspect).

first experience 10 July 1997 Athens, Greece [Day 1: various Greek bands whose names can't be displayed in this font. Day 2: SISTERS, New Model Army, a Greek band whose name can't be displayed in this font, Flowers Of Romance, Love In Sadness. Day 3: MEGADETH, Bruce Dickinson, Grip Inc, Rotting Christ, Dark Nova.] Rockwave Festival (Headliner)


last experience Tuesday 26 July 2011 The Sisters of Mercy at Tavastia Helsinki Finland

First: Reading Festival, 25'8'91
Last: er, Reading Festival, 25'8'91

First: Wembley 1990
Last: Leeds 2011

and once or twice between those dates. Like Dave says, the best was probably the Near Meth Experience at the Well.

First: Tue, 14-May-1991: Essen - Germany - Grugahalle

Last: Amphi 2012

Next: ?

Nork1 wrote:First: Reading Festival, 25'8'91
Last: er, Reading Festival, 25'8'91

LOL


First: Hamburg 2001 (2nd night IIRC)
Last: Amphi Festival/Cologne 2012
Best: Mera Luna 2010/Suikerrock 2008
Worst: Hamburg 2009/Hamburg 2006

First: Manchester 2000 (never bothered to see them during the 90s )
Last: Leeds 2011 (both nights)
Best: Too many to mention
Worst: A few, but Manchester 2000 was the worst... London 2009 and both Leeds 2003 gigs where pretty rough too

Its interesting to look at the range of dates for 1st gig. It makes me wonder where all the people have gone who were there at gigs in the 80s.

Maybe they all defected to the m*****n?

Aug 1983 Electric Ballroom, London supporting the Virgin Prunes

Nov 2011 The Roundhouse, London (half a mile up the road from the above)

1991 Winterthur Festival, Switzerland//2011 Roundhouse London

FIRST - NEC 1992
LAST - Rock City 2006
NEXT - Promoting the new album