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g44fr wrote:the 'etc ..' does mean that something more in on the way for me. It's not meaningless
I think you're right. I think there are more tracks.
I also thing the secret gig is to play these for the first time in public. Otherwise, why bother holding one? Historically secret gigs were used by Von to try out things that were out of the usual.
They're playing tonight, September 12th, so we'll know if I'm right soon enough. I predict no new tracks until September 16th in Antwerp, and there after drip fed out.
Didn't Von promise to "shake things up" this year?
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
I'm imaging Are We Going To Be Bad as the content of the email in the Who's Been Naughty thread read out over a repetitive beat, Finland Red, Egypt White style...
" I am willing to gίve you a chance to atone and I
will leave you alone."
d0gbones wrote:A new hashtag has appeared - "Bullet Points".
sultan2075 wrote:Didn't Von promise to "shake things up" this year?
That was supposed to be 2016...
It all runs together for me
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
Swinnow wrote:Yep, we've been here before. New tracks, videos, singles, dvds so wiser to believe it when you see it.
Yes . . . but never so specifically. It's always been quite vague (with the exception of Far Parade, which was incredibly specific to the point that Von published lyrics to a song online ten years ago and somehow never got around to singing it.)
Also, in my limited dealings with Ben (I met him in Belfast a few years ago) he and Chris have always been quite keen to do this kind of thing. I hassled him and said 'for the love of God, please release something" and he basically said "it's not up to me, I'd love to."
This time around he's hash tagged some of these song titles on his instagram page. So it would be perversely cruel not to play them.
Who am I kidding? It's the sisters. We're in a dysfunctional relationship with an emotionally abusive band.
The pedant in me would argue that 'Summer' was the closest we got to having actual product in our hands, or down our pipes, whatever you kids say nowadays.
....if I have to explain, then you'll never understand....
There are a lot of clues here, and buried in Twitter as well.
I’m so stuck in work mode that I’m tempted to make a mindmap to capture all the spokes. (Fortunately for all, I’m also too busy in work mode to actually do such a thing.)
Still, on the one side are the efforts to create a buzz and also to engage directly that you can see from Ben’s communications. On the other side is speculation about Chris’s exit.
But the interesting part no one’s talking about is, who makes up the kickline? 😄
Ben Christo likes your comment: "Better Reptile ? ".
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Ben Christo wrote:Ben Christo is at Fix Factory of Sound.
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Tonight: Θεσσαλονίκη ! See you there! Pic: @moni_moose #thesistersofmercy #sistersofmercy #firebird #dingo #whenyoudontseeme #iwaswrong #bulletpoints #thiscorrosion
And new tag #bulletpoints
'Are we the Baddies?'...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
Given the tendency to f**k up More after playing it a million times I'm pretty nervous about the chances of a new song going well without s**t loads of rehearsal!
'Are we the Baddies?'...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
SmileySister wrote:A Better Reptile EP sounds good to me
I would have sworn that A Better Reptile would be just a t-shirt slogan, but having heard the song, I'm keeping everything crossed for A Better Reptile EP. It would just make sense, if we were in world where the Sisters still released records.
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