Heartland

i just got the wake video of the sisters playing at the royal albert hall. if i'm not mistaken the royal albert hall is like the grand place for musicans to play. only the biggest bands get to play there. or am i wrong?

absolutely right!

it's where the dinosaurs (clapton, dylan [controversial??]) etc go to die...

oh, and the Sisters...that was a SORT OF death anyway...

You have to be 'respectable' to play at the RAH.

Sisters & Banshees have done to my knowledge but beyond that it's sit down & stroke your chin music...

M

On Oct 21, 2002 1:10pm, mayhem wrote:
You have to be 'respectable' to play at the RAH.

Sisters & Banshees have done to my knowledge but beyond that it's sit down & stroke your chin music...

M

.....and Gene

On Oct 21, 2002 1:16pm, paint it black wrote:

Sisters & Banshees have done to my knowledge but beyond that it's sit down & stroke your chin music...

M

.....and Gene
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How could I forget such rock gods...

M

robbie williams played there too *shudder*

How to get to Royal Albert Hall?
Practice, practice.
I'm waiting for Sisters video from Carnegie Hall. This is the place.

The sisters at their finest. This is how I got into The Sisters watching the VHS 5 yrs too late!

Lot's of video shots of folks on shoulders and it would be interesting whether anyone from this forum recognises them or they might even be on this forum?

Pretty sure a few members here were among all those dodgy darklings

A friend of mine posted her ticket £5.00

We were about half way back on Craig's side. Long hair, bangles and patchouli in those days baby.

wow! thread necro!!

@ elamanamou: are you just digging out all the old posts where the date is broken?

1970

Love retro

elamanamou wrote:Love retro

we all do. that's why we're here, non?

Pista wrote:Pretty sure a few members here were among all those dodgy darklings

I bet! I'm not jealous!!

Swinnow wrote:We were about half way back on Craig's side. Long hair, bangles and patchouli in those days baby.

Patchouli oil- Very retro

How many people does the Albert Hall hold? If every rando in Leeds over the years who told me they'd been had actually been, then they would have had to have played Wembley Stadium to fit 'em all in.

About 5k, I think. Wasn't sold out, was it?

No, you could get tickets on the day, my fellow students Mark and Sue did just that. I was once told it was 6, 500 capacity there.

I’d read that the venue could be separated into sections so not every band was playing to a 5k sized room.

Did the sisters use the whole space? Seems a bit wild for them in 1985. I’d have expected them to play to a smaller section of the overall venue.

If I remember rightly initially there was talk of a second night option, but the sluggish sales nixed that. To be honest the promotional aspect wasn't great.

I think the capacity options at the RAH revolved around whether the stalls were seated or not and how many tiers to open.

Swinnow wrote:I think the capacity options at the RAH revolved around whether the stalls were seated or not and how many tiers to open.

Makes sense. Did the sisters have upstairs open?

The only other footage I’ve paid much attention to from around that era was the banshees live video filmed there.

They seemed to have at least some of the upstairs Stalls open because there’s footage of the audience going into the venue and up the stairs... including one shot of Martin Degville falling up some stairs 😂

Quiff Boy wrote:

Swinnow wrote:I think the capacity options at the RAH revolved around whether the stalls were seated or not and how many tiers to open.

Makes sense. Did the sisters have upstairs open?

The only other footage I’ve paid much attention to from around that era was the banshees live video filmed there.

They seemed to have at least some of the upstairs Stalls open because there’s footage of the audience going into the venue and up the stairs... including one shot of Martin Degville falling up some stairs 😂

Half the anecdotes include people jumping from the top deck down to the pit as soon as they came on
The inside is mostly stairs, I don't think you can get into any area without a bit of a climb

The stalls look open from this shot (to Craig's right)


Unless they are really tall people.
Not sure about the boxes.