The Sisters of Mercy - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels - 22.02.2011 (Flac)

The second night in Brussels, a better concert than the day before (or so say the one's that attended both), but surely with a more interesting setlist. Now this one is a pleasure for your ears, it sounds excellent, the band's performance it's brilliant and the setlist is flawless. Highlights (for me) are Kiss the Carpet, Logic, Floorshow, More, Rain From Heaven and Pipeline. And you get to listen for the first (and probably last) time a medley of Train/Dr Jeep/Detonation Blvd. A huge thank you to sisterstekland AKA Pascal for recording and sharing his recording and artwork.

01. Intro
02. Kiss the Carpet
03. Flood 1
04. Marian
05. Crash and Burn
06. Ribbons
07. Logic
08. Gift that Shines
09. Alice
10. Dominion/Mother Russia
11. Summer
12. Floorshow
13. Flood 2
14. Train (Dr Jeep Lyric)/Det Blvd
15. More
16. Lucretia
17. First And Last And Always
18. Rain from Heaven
19. Temple Of Love
20. Something Fast
21. Pipeline
22. Vision thing


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The Sisters of Mercy - Stadthalle, Offenbach, Germany - 14.07.1996 (Flac)

AKA 1996

I already posted this one in MP3, it's time for an upgrade of this classic bootleg. The last 5 tracks are demos that the bootleggers used to fill the CD length.

01. Kiss The Carpet
02. Ribbons
03. Logic
04. Alice
05. On The Wire / Teachers
06. Come Together
07. First And Last And Always
08. Train/Detonation BLVD.
09. Giving Ground
10. Flood II
11. Temple Of Love
12. Vision Thing
13. This Corrosion
14. Jolene (Dolly Parton Cover)

15. Unknown (Demo. Untitled)
16. Driver (Demo)
17. Good Things (Demo)
18. Dominion/Mother Russia (Demo)
19. Red Sky Disappears (Demo "First And Last And Always" With "Mariam Lyrics")


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The Sisters of Mercy - 30th Anniversary - The Stage, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds UK - 16.02.2011 (Flac)

Excellent audio document of the first gig of the 30th anniversary celebration. The band premiered two new cover versions, Gift That Shines (Red Lorry Yellow Lorry) and Pipeline (Dick Dale) and played More for the first time since 1993, the slow version of Body Electric was also played, like in Leamington last year, but the audience didn't seemed to enjoy it as much as the rest of the songs. Andrew was in a particulary good mood (as expected)and talked a little bit more than usual. The best line is after the Doktor crashes at the end od Suszanne as you'll be able to hear inthe recording. Extra special Thanks to rbose1 for sharing his recording. Artwork by me. Special thanks to everybody who shared their photos on Heartland and FB, they were so many that I lost track of who the photographers were, my apologies for that and if you're the photographer and want to receive credit just send me a messageand I'll update the post.

Original Info file:


Band Line-up

Andrew Eldritch - vocals
Ben Christo - guitar, vocals
Chris Catalyst - guitar, vocals

Sound Professionals SP-CMC-8 Microphones
Sound Professionals SP-SPSB-11 Mini Battery Module with Bass Roll-Off (95Hz)
Edirol R-09HR 44.1kHz / 16 bit
USB>PC>CD Wave Editor>Trader's Little Helper>FLAC level 8>Dime

There was a real party atmosphere for this special show. We were entertained by fire
breathers outside while we queuing up, given a present of a pack of postcards and had abirthday cupcake. Andrew seemed to be enjoying the spontaneous renditions of "Happy Birthday". The emotion got to Dr Avalanche who had a brief pause from duties at the end of Susanne.

Set list

Disc 1
01 Intro
02 Lucretia
03 Ribbons
04 Doctor Jeep / Detonation Boulevard
05 No Time To Cry
06 Crash And Burn
07 Marian
08 Body Electric
09 Giving Ground
10 Arms
11 Dominion / Mother Russia

Disc 2
01 Summer
02 Alice
03 Gift That Shines (Red Lorry Yellow Lorry cover)
04 (We Are The Same) Susanne
05 Neverland
06 Flood II
07 More
08 Vision Thing
09 First and Last and Always
10 Pipeline
11 Temple Of Love

Please do not sell this recording but share freely and enjoy it!


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The Sisters of Mercy - Private Interview with Andrew Eldritch, Backstage at Kingston Polytechnic - 30.05.1983

The earliest recorded interview with the band, mainly with Andrew Eldritch but Gary Marx drops in the middle. 22 minutes long, discussing the Reptile House, John Peel, March Violets, playing live, Leeds, etc. Another one of the Sleepchamber tapes.

The Sisters of Mercy - Le Bataclan, Paris, France - 07.03.2009 (Flac)

An ultra special gift from dtsomm to the readers of the blog, his recording of the Paris concert from the 2009 Mechanized Europe Tour, in Flac. A huge Thank You to him.

The sound is absolutely marvelous! And this recording is the perfect warm up to the XXX tour that starts next week.

Recording Gear:

SONY HIMD MZ-RH10+ CHURCH AUDIO CA11+ BATTERY BOX

01. Intro
02. Crash And Burn
03. Ribbons
04. Train / Detonation Boulevard
05. Alice
06. Flood I
07. Floorshow
08. Anaconda
09. Marian
10. We Are The Same Suzanne
11. Arms
12. Dominion / Mother Russia
13. Summer
14. First And Last And Always
15. This Corrosion
16. Flood II
17. Something Fast
18. Vision Thing
19. Lucretia, My Reflection
20. Top Nite Out
21. Temple Of Love


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The Sisters Of Mercy - University, Sheffield, UK - 27.10.1984

AKA Shadow Over Sheffield

Excellent sound, sourced on the bootleg currently sold on Ebay. Thanks to 17.Auflage for sharing it.

01. Burn
02. Heartland
03. Marian
04. Walk Away
05. Body And Soul
06. No Time To Cry
07. Anaconda
08. Emma
09. A Rock And A Hard Place
10. Train
11. Floorshow
12. Alice
13. Body Electric
14. Gimme Shelter
15. Knockin' On Heaven's Door/Adrenochrome
16. Ghostrider

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The Sisters of Mercy - Astoria, London - 02.05.2006

Good sound, sourced on the audience DVD.

01. Crash & Burn
02. Ribbons
03. Dr. Jeep - Detonation Boulevard
04. When You Don’t See Me
05. Flood I
06. We Are The Same, Susanne
07. Giving Ground
08. Summer
09. Dominion
10. Slept
11. Alice
12. Anaconda
13. Romeo Down
14. Neverland
15. This Corrosion
16. Something Fast
17. Lucretia
18. Top Nite Out
19. Temple Of Love


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The Sisters of Mercy - Spirit of Burgas Festival, Burgas, Bulgaria - 15.08.2008 (Video)

Found this floating on the web, don't have the slightest idea who filmed it or editede together (it contains footage from 2 different sources) but judging by the quality I assume that someone went youtubing... The sound is terrible, as most of the recordings of this specific concert, with the low frequencies totally overblown...

01. Flood I
02. Top Nite Out
03. Temple of Love
04. Will I Dream
05. Summer
06. Alice
07. Crash And Burn
08. First And Last And Always


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The Sister of Mercy - We Are The Same, Suzanne (Video)

The last "official" release from the Sisters of Mercy, given freely on their website a long time ago... It didn't stay there a long time, since the flood of downloads was blocking the server... For those that didn't got it then. This is supposed to be a live recording, but the exact date isn't confirmed, some expeculate that this is indeed a "masked" studio recording. You can still download the mp3 version from the official TSOM webpage.


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