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Because memories fading and there are no news from the Sisters camp, may somebody can enlighten me on this topic:

Well, I know a lot of about Elditchs´ Sisterhood. But about WHs´ Sisterhood, the only things known are that it was the name of the Sisters-fan club and that they were on tour in GB/Europe with The Cult somewhere 85/86.

I have found some dates who set the limits:

21.09.1985: Gig of Skeletal Family in Hamburg, Markthalle, AE together with WH as guests performing “Knocking on heaven´s door“

27.02.1986 First m*****n gig in London, Electric Ballroom

But what happened in between with WHs´ Sisterhood?

Does anyone here know, how much gigs they played when and where with The Cult and which songs were played?
Is anything available about the history of this fan club? Is it still alive?
Is it true, that the songs „Serpent's Kiss“ and „Garden Of Delight“ are written during the sessions of the planned second album of the sisters „Left on m*****n and revenge“?

Thank You in advance,

Lepi

Wasteland

And the dance goes on

Garden of delight

Serpents kiss

Stay with me

Severina

Bridges burning

Sacrilege

Wishing well

was the standard set list of this tour

i think it was a 10 or 11 date tour

You should get "names are tombstones baby", it s the mish's biography, only problem it s not that easy to get nowdays.
Ebay is the magic word...

Garden of Delight and Serpent's Kiss originated as Sisters songs, yes. There are demos of both available (try looking in the Weeding and Sharing sections). SK never went beyond an instrumental, but GoD was given the full treatment complete with Von vocals on one version.

I've heard different accounts of when these two songs date from. Some claim that they're LOMAR tracks, others that they were written and recorded during the FALAA sessions.

There is also a demo of the music that became Black Planet with some of Wayne's lyrics over it (also sung by Wayne) that would later be reused on various m*****n songs, notably Naked and Savage.

Finally, according to Wayne's sleevenotes on the First Chapter reissue, the song Wake also dates to the FALAA sessions, but no demo has ever emerged.

someone said that bridges burning was alsow planned as a sisters song. don't remember who and where
btw. anyone knows what's that "spit on your grave" or "evil come evil" became? bury me deep and logic or what?

Full Sisterhood tour dates, setlists and other appearances here:
http://www.and-the-dance-goes-on.de/tou ... index.html
The site's in German but you don't need to speak it to get the info you want.

Not sure from your post, Lepi, if you realise or not but The Sisterhood wasn't a different band - they just changed the name to The Mission after the release of Von's similarly monickered project beat them to a record release.

As for Wake, it's noticeable that it shares a very similar keyboard instrumental with Giving Ground, suggesting that at least that part had been in gestation when Wayne and Von were still working together.

I've got old tapes of a couple of these gigs which I've not played in years - one from Alice in Wonderland, 20/01/86 which was a secret gig, which has a track listing of Wasteland, Dance goes on, Garden of Delight, Serpents Kiss, Stay with me, Severina, Bridges Burning, Over the hills, Sacrilege, Wishing Well.

I remember going to the Electric Ballroom gig (27/02/86) and getting into the sound check during the afternoon. After the sound check, they got a football out and I joined in a 5-a-side session with them all before being kicked out again!!

The set list on the tape, which I recorded, is Wasteland, Dance goes on, Garden of delight, Like a hurricane, Severina, Sepents Kiss, Stay with Me, 1969, ?? (will have to play it again to work out what that is), Sacrilage, Wishing Well, Give me Shelter (with Ian and Billy from the Cult).

I've got the tape with the original NME ad for the show which has "DNA Entertainments presents The Sisterhood. This is NOT the band with the single entitled 'Giving Ground' currently available nor is this band anything to do with Andrew Eldritch or Merciful Release" on it.

HTH.

nice post vince, thankee

vince wrote:the original NME ad for the show which has "DNA Entertainments presents The Sisterhood. This is NOT the band with the single entitled 'Giving Ground' currently available nor is this band anything to do with Andrew Eldritch or Merciful Release" on it.

this one?

and thankee to you

my god, so this is not a band we should expect playing finland red, egypt white live?

lachert wrote:my god, so this is not a band we should expect playing finland red, egypt white live?

lachert wrote:my god, so this is not a band we should expect playing finland red, egypt white live?

I would LOVE to hear a Mish version of that

I have the Garden of Delight-version with Eldritch singing (although Wayne wrote the lyrics). Sounds like a mediocre FALAA-type song, but the lyrics are absolutely horrible. Thank god that never was a real Sisters song.

Garden of Delight as sung by Eldritch is actually rather funny .Von's complete lack of enthusiasm and/or distaste for the lyrics really comes through .He's like an actor in a role he doesn't want to play.

vince wrote:...one from Alice in Wonderland, 20/01/86 which was a secret gig, which has a track listing of Wasteland, Dance goes on, Garden of Delight, Serpents Kiss, Stay with me, Severina, Bridges Burning, Over the hills, Sacrilege, Wishing Well.

This was on Dime a while back;

lachert wrote:someone said that bridges burning was alsow planned as a sisters song. don't remember who and where

that was me - the main guitar line of bb was played at the beginning of the soundcheck glasgow 1985 for a few seconds. i guess it was far from being a full (sisters-)track back then. but wayne obviously did already have many ideas for later myssion-tracks