Heartland

Dr. Moody wrote: ↑22 Jun 2024, 07:11 Makes sense, Kai isn't going to spend time learning songs that won't get played live when there's so many to catch up on/refine. ARAAHP sounds pretty good, colour me pleasantly surprised.

Er.. you do know that Kai is a professional musician, right? There's no reason to think that learning Black Planet was a particularly challenging or time intensive task.

And funnily enough, loads of people have spent time learning how to play Black Planet without ever intending to play it live onstage as a touring member of The Sisters Of Mercy. Indeed by my estimation, significantly more people who aren't members of The Sisters Of Mercy have learned to play Black Planet than people who are, by a ratio of a few hundred thousand to one.

It's a staggering level of engagement from the band - I can't imagine having a Sisters guitarist just jamming on the internet at any other point in this band's history.

I also think it's impossible and largely pointless (beyond idle amusement) to predict what the band will put in a set. I'm still stunned at the introduction of Rain From Heaven to the live show.

But Black Planet would be a canny choice, apt and a good song to have Ben/Kai carry backing vocals on. And I don't even like the song myself.