Would you pay $4000 for an intimate Sisters gig ?

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Would you pay $4000 for an intimate Sisters gig ?

Yes - a lot of cash but it'd be worth it.
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I would if I could but not in my current financial circumstances
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No chance
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Peter Murphy's Miracula sessions offering a unique fan experience with a private gig at a cool $4000 per fan allegedly attracted about twenty-five paying punters plus a lot of negative comments on Bauhaus fora.


You can read details here http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentalit ... nce_to.php

What would HLers think if :von: pulled a similar stunt, and would you stump up the cash to go ??
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I paid eight quid last night to see The m*****n play a secret gig in front of 200 people. That's as intimate as I need it to be. Von and the boys in my front room? No thanks,I'd feel far to self concious,and without an audience,it would all seem a bit flat I think.
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Would I get to choose the setlist..?
Otherwise no ta. Unless Eldo promises to crack "knock-knock " jokes inbetween songs.
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Didn't :von: do a gig in someone's living room a while back? Some competition that she won (sponsored, no doubt, by What Smoke Machine?, or possibly Laser Shopper). Possibly the only show that there's no bootleg/weed of...(fully expects to be proved wrong in a matter of minutes :lol: )
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"If you reckon the Sisters want to perform in your garden for ten quid, you're wrong."

I would hope that extends to ten grand.

Peter Murphy is IMO the perfect example of why Von is right to stubbornly and persistently keep telling the media to f**k off. No dearth of terrible solo albums, no half-baked first thing for 25 years 'comeback' album, no flippin' Twilight cameos. And no sale of intimacy.
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EvilBastard wrote:Didn't :von: do a gig in someone's living room a while back? Some competition that she won (sponsored, no doubt, by What Smoke Machine?, or possibly Laser Shopper). Possibly the only show that there's no bootleg/weed of...(fully expects to be proved wrong in a matter of minutes :lol: )
Sabine of The Reptile House, it's somewhere on t' website. I take it it's not Sabine/Being 456?

(no, not sarcasm, I'm genuinely asking!)
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i wouldn't pay 40 $/pounds/Czech Korons/rupiahs to see TSOM.
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I'd settle for paying £25 and actually being able to hear them properly.
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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DeWinter wrote:
EvilBastard wrote:Didn't :von: do a gig in someone's living room a while back? Some competition that she won (sponsored, no doubt, by What Smoke Machine?, or possibly Laser Shopper). Possibly the only show that there's no bootleg/weed of...(fully expects to be proved wrong in a matter of minutes :lol: )
Sabine of The Reptile House, it's somewhere on t' website. I take it it's not Sabine/Being 456?

(no, not sarcasm, I'm genuinely asking!)
You're right. It's not me. Fortunately. They wouldn't even fit in my flat! ... :eek: ...
And anyway, The Sisters doing their thing and me the only listener?... How boring (if not cruel) would that be ... :urff: ...
I love to see them play to some audience as large as possible, or ... well, nothing real ...

Anyway, I've created a page about that free gig at a Reptile House member's home in the Wiki ... ;D :lol: ...
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Being645 wrote: You're right. It's not me. Fortunately.
Fortunately? I thought you'd have leapt at the chance![/i]
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DeWinter wrote:
Being645 wrote: You're right. It's not me. Fortunately.
Fortunately? I thought you'd have leapt at the chance![/i]
Oh I see
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Though maybe, nowadays ... but I don't own $4,000, anyway, so what.
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on the other hand, if it was for a Black October line-up and live form, i would.
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Create a large smokescreen in your garden, play some Sisters bootlegs and pretend there's a band there. Almost the same as a real gig.
Only the Americans could have built a place like this in the middle of a jungle.
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Aazhyd wrote:Create a large smokescreen in your garden, play some Sisters bootlegs and pretend there's a band there. Almost the same as a real gig.
You forgot "get someone to push you into a wall every few minutes".
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I would pay $4000 if I got to choose the set-list, I was guaranteed it was going to be of exceptional sound quality and I was able to record it.
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i would pay even more just one condition. TSOM plays YCBTO in this gig.

Sorry but IT IS excellent song. *hums tune a bit*
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Don't think the wife would like all the dry ice over the living room.
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If I had four grand to spare, it certainly wouldn't be going toward lining :von:'s pockets.
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Next question: would you pay $4000 for a new Sisters album?
Only the Americans could have built a place like this in the middle of a jungle.
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markfiend wrote:If I had four grand to spare, it certainly wouldn't be going toward lining :von:'s pockets.
:lol:
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markfiend wrote:
markfiend wrote:If I had four grand to spare, it certainly wouldn't be going toward lining :von:'s pockets.
:lol:
:lol: ... absolutely.

Though of a 3,000,000 € lottery win I might be willing to spare 1,000,000 €
to have them make a new album - well, within the reasonable period of time of say, three years ... :lol: ...
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Even with a huge lottery win, I'm not sure it would be worth the risk.

Like DeWinter said in this post,
DeWinter wrote:I'm afraid I can picture him taking the money and releasing another SSV on us whilst chuckling at how the fanbase lap it up anyway!
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markfiend wrote:Even with a huge lottery win, I'm not sure it would be worth the risk.
Risk were they took the money and run, but I'm sure they won't ... ;D ;D ;D ...
markfiend wrote: Like DeWinter said in this post,
DeWinter wrote:I'm afraid I can picture him taking the money and releasing another SSV on us whilst chuckling at how the fanbase lap it up anyway!
SSV ... :D ... that was a special case under special conditions, an act of say, self-defence. And I like it ... ;D ;D ;D ...

Also, looking 'round here, I don't see how " the fanbase lap it up anyway" ... :lol: ...

No, I'm pretty sure that under fair conditions they'd deliver a fair result ....

well, with a few side blows of whatever kind included, of course ... :roll: :twisted: ;D ... :lol: ...
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i would not give him nothing until he'll write under strict contract, also would be nice to have some secure of that money. (sorry for lawyers jibjab)
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