sisters gig,
ok, the best sisters gig i ever went to was the 10 year birthday party gig at leeds poly (or possibly uni, but i think it was the poly coz the room only held 1-2 thousand ppl, not a lot considering the next gig was wembley!!).
anyway, got the tickets on the day from jumbo (or some other elephant related record store) records, spent all day in the pub quite near the place with me best mate.
got to the gig quite early, the von did his usual 'i'm a man of the people' walking around outside the front of the venue (except he wasn't in a very talkative mood, unless it was with the 'corp rock vultures' from mtv, he seemed to talk to them quite a bit.
can't remember many songs, erm, jolene, alice, mostly old stuff. but the best bit for me was the general lack of the presence of the 'hangers on', i.e., the von in the middle of the stage, barely visible and the rest of the band (or the cabbage patch kids as we liked to call them, i think (but i'm not altogether sure) it woz coz the guitarist had a name like a vegetable
) not visible at all at either side of the stage. anyway, great gig, great sound.one thing i found slightly funny, was the fact they had a video camera and recording device attached to the mixing desk! (therefore proving that the von is in fact the origin of about 80% of all sisters bootlegs available on the market today)
best gig ever,
probably motorhead at newcastle city hall when i was 14, my first real gig, i went straight from school to a local legendary rock/goth/punk pub called the 'broken doll' (which i have also gigged in
) and changed out of my school uniform in the toilets. had a couple of bottles of dog (which got me rather p*ssed to say the least!!) then onto the city hall.can't remember much except is was loud 'n' sweaty!!! the music was great, the band lively(ish compared to goth bands!!) and i 'pulled'!!!!
gigs i wish i was at but missed
the m****n - newcastle city hall, i didn't go for obvious reasons (i.e. the m****n are nothing more than splitters really
!!! lol) but i missed hussey throwing his guitar down and storming off stage coz certain sections of the 'horrible nasty dirty' crowd kept singing 'your not andrew eldritch' and requesting just about every & any song the sisters had recorded up to that date (i.e. incl floodland stuff, tracks from gift (again, more funny if you know the history, certain really nasty members where doing the '2 5 0 0 0' intro bit!!) etc etc, and yet more people doing the 'oooooh look, there goes the deadwood' and pointing etc etc (newcastle was always on the sisters side of the sisters / m****n divide).the nephs - middlesborough city hall. i didn't get to this one (can't remember why, i'll have to ask someone!). anyway, as you know, the nephs are probably the only band to outdo the sisters on the whole 'opera' of the goth gig thing. imagine the scene, the smoke/dry ice machines have been going for the last 40-50 mins, the intro tape (gregorian chanting, strange noises, music fading in & out, etc etc, you know the thing!) has been playing for the last 20 mins (pulse starting to rise a little). for the last 2 or 3 mins you can see shapes in the dry ice (heart beating faster, hairs on the back of the neck starting to rise). ok, yes!!! this is it, the drums kick in, the first chord is played, carl looms out of the smoke like a god and, and, the entire sound cuts out, the sprinkler system cuts in and everyone is escorted outside the building for 45 mins while they make sure it isn't really on fire. apparently the gig was a little 'flat' after that!!!
THE SISTERS ONLY GIG IN WALES
this must be one of the most 'mysterious' events in the life of the sisters, shrouded in myth 'n' legend and perhaps we'll never know the truth
, the few snippets i have involve the early sisters, s**t small venue, punks, spitting, the von saying something about not being able to swim, sisters leave never to play wales again?¿?¿?¿?¿? if anyone knows what actually happened maybe they could let us all know!
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