Heartland

well, why not -

which gigs do show the heaviest drug influence? and which recordings do also proove right that assumption?

let me start: vienna 1993 - a very speedy event in fact -

and obviously hildesheim 2002 - what a drug night out

please continue.......

loreley '92

hasselt '92 - do you know why?

stavenhagen '98

london '00(second gig)

cologne '01 - my best drug experience with the sisters,EVER!!!

I should really avoid this post for fear of perpetuating some horrible stereotype, but since you ask…

Birmingham NEC 1992 - a clearly wired Eldritch can be seen sitting by the mixing desk during the support acts twitching like some wizened goblin.

Don’t know what Eldritch was on for the Off The Street benefit gig in ’93, but I had had one too many sherbets by nine am after an all night bus journey and half an hour later found myself trying to read Heart Of Darkness in the library. By half eleven I was drinking lunch in the pub. It was all downhill from there on.

February 12 and 13 1998 - the final two dates of the Event Horizon tour - amphetamine psychosis appears to have set in with an extremely caustic Eldritch winding up the crowd:

"We are the light at the end of your sorry little tunnel."

"What did you come as? We came as a rock ‘n’ roll band, and a damn fine one, too."

On Friday night the mike stand is thrown javelin-like into crowd. Said stand is retrieved in time for the encores, during the final song of which, Vision Thing, Eldritch tw*ts a would-be stage diver with the stand - this in one of the few Sisters’ gigs that I’ve actually felt a real sense of menace at - a sense of danger. That could be something to do with the two days I’d spent on pink champagne…

York 16/02/01 and the following night at Leeds Refectory also saw an extremely bouncy Eldritch.

All rather pointless speculation, but it gives me a break from unpacking boxes. Just moved home today and I expect it will be a long weekend…

I distinctly remember a comment being made from onstage along the lines of "I'm OK, my nose has stopped bleeding." I'm guessing it would have been the 10th anniversary gig? Or was it the one 10 years and a day later? Definitely at Leeds Uni though.

"This stage is a lot smaller than I remember it being."