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Are there any web resources that list the details of the early gigs where the Sisters played as support?

I believe they supported Psychedelic Furs, Birthday Party & even the Clash?

Were these full tours or just occasional dates?

According to the Fall site the Sisters and March Violets supported them at York. 29/04/1982

http://www.visi.com/fall/gigography/gig82.html

the official site lists quite a few

http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/gen/gigog/gigog.htm

"Point to the dot and see if we can remember who else was on the bill. The headline act will appear in capital letters."

the very early dates are a bit vague though

"This list is as complete as hazy recollection and half-baked research will allow. We're still correcting it (slowly)."

After looking through the list there - Gaz has remembered the ? on the 29th Apr 1983 . Nottingham - The Boat Club. It was certainly one week after Peterborough.

But he's being really crap on supports...

12 Aug 1983 London, England Electric Ballroom

Two bands Sisters and Virgin Prunes (who came on last)

If it's true that they performed with just Gary, Von and the Dok, but never mentioned them because they were so awful, then they supported the Violets (or a primitive version of) in Lincoln in late 1980.

You know, a lot of bands turn over the operation of their official website to a particularly fannish fan. Rather, they find a particularly good fan site and designate it their official site. Off hand, I know Peter Murphy did this.

I think Eldo should have done this long ago. He wouldn't have to do any of the work, he could provide bits of exclusive info, and I'm sure it'd be a lot more thorough.

Does anyone remember Clif Duhn from the old Dominion list? I recall he had reams of Sisters info, gigographies, bootleg lists--he was a real authority of sorts. I had copies of all that stuff on my old computer, along with tons of photos, but that was before I gave up Sisters fandom. Ten years of waiting's a mighty long time!

In fact, I really do wonder how much of the gigography Eldo culled from other Sisters fansites?

It would certainly be interesting if our other fearless leader ended up in the pay of that fearless leader o.O

bux would have me for moonlighting

and clif = cocoamix

Spiggy's hat wrote:Are there any web resources that list the details of the early gigs where the Sisters played as support?

I believe they supported Psychedelic Furs, Birthday Party & even the Clash?

Were these full tours or just occasional dates?

check http://www.freewebs.com/the-happening/tracklisting.html

it's a giglist with setlists and more info...(I found this list on The Happening's pages and I use it frequently)

they also supported the Gun Club, Thompson Twins, ...

Will have to pump Gaz further about that Union/Boat Club gig...as there were three clubs down the side of the City Ground.

he's a bit remiss with the finer details....

Last time I made a list of gigs not on the official 'gigography' I came up with at least a dozen, some of them even exist as recordings. There's a thread about it on here somewhere if someone wants to dig it up. Why is that Boat Club gig still a '?' when there's a press cutting mentioning it?

The sisters played along with Black flag!!!

I think we have a winner

bshowers wrote:You know, a lot of bands turn over the operation of their official website to a particularly fannish fan. Rather, they find a particularly good fan site and designate it their official site. Off hand, I know Peter Murphy did this.

Skinny Puppy too, I think.

just dug out these few from my cuttings scrapbook. these are marked as "?" on the official page:

March Violets -klub foot, london 14/10/82
UK Decay -klub foot 23/12/82
sex gang children , the vibrators ,alien sex fiend -lyceum london 26/12/82
brilliant -ace, brixton 19/2/83

apart from on the flyer for this and the one in quiffboy's avatar i've never even heard of brilliant

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:apart from on the flyer for this and the one in quiffboy's avatar i've never even heard of brilliant

Brilliant i believe was a project involving Youth from Killing Joke...slap me if i'm wrong...and then check out the Batcave sampler album...


i can't remember that far back

Debaser wrote:After looking through the list there - Gaz has remembered the ? on the 29th Apr 1983 . Nottingham - The Boat Club. It was certainly one week after Peterborough

Think theres 2x (10x12" pic) of sisters (Nottinghan Union Rowing Club) @ above 30/04/83

Whistle all you like mate...gaz is crap at remembering stuff and seeing as there's three boat clubs there it was an easy mistake for an old bloke to make

But he was there which is more than can be said for me and a fair few others on here

Debaser wrote:Whistle all you like mate...gaz is crap at remembering stuff and seeing as there's three boat clubs there it was an easy mistake for an old bloke to make

But he was there which is more than can be said for me and a fair few others on here

You mean he's old.

I didn't even know what black clothes were until 1985, and then only just.

Yeah, me too Dave. The EBG-enough-to-have-seen-The-Sisters-in-the-80s lot ganging up on those of us who are only EBG-enough-to-have-seen-The-Sisters-in-the-90s.

markfiend wrote:Yeah, me too Dave. The EBG-enough-to-have-seen-The-Sisters-in-the-80s lot ganging up on those of us who are only EBG-enough-to-have-seen-The-Sisters-in-the-90s.

I couldn't gang up at a scout's jambouree!

Give us oldies something to crow about (well not me closest I got was tix to Albert Hall but was married to a tosser who couldn't be arsed)

BUT....when Rock City was 20 it gave it's members a rather spiffing glossy mag full of who was what and where etc. I'll dig it out and find out who supported them there.

Please forgive me for going to the first ever gig there

who was that Ness?

Silence is platinum wrote:The sisters played along with Black flag!!!

I think we have a winner

Rollins recently mentioned that, he said that while he doesn't like the Sisters much, he occasionly picks Sisters tunes for "desert island discs" type things as a mark of respect for Eldritch facing down a Flag audience. It doesn't sound like they went down very well

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:who was that Ness?

Well it was SUPPOSED to be Echo and the Bunnymen - but it was postponed as the lovely Rock City motifed carpet wasn't down....ended up being The Undertones and The Bunnymen played a few days later if my memory serves me correct...which it often doesn't