RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Whistle Test Studios, London, UK - 02.04.1985 (Flac/HQ MPEG Video)

Thanks to the original uploader.

Original Info File:

The Whistle Test tracks come from a very clean vinyl bootleg 7". Sound quality is excellent and the performances are complete; I have even restored the beginning of First and Last and Always.

Whistle Test Studios, London (BBC TV)
1985-04-02 (transmission 1985-04-04)

01. First and Last and Always
02. Marian

As a bonus I've included video footage of the Whistle Test performance. Because it came with very muffled sound, I have synched the images up with the excellent audio recordings from the bootleg 7" - to very good effect, I might add. The picture quality is great, too (courtesy of Solitude - many thanks, P.!), though occasionally there's some static and picture travelling (but never do sound & vision go out of synch). Also, the beginnings of both tracks and the end of Marian are truncated. Still, there's plenty left to give you a fine impression of the band in full action! See screenshots.

technical data for the mpg-file:

Aspect Ratio: 4x3
Resolution: 704x576
Video Type: Interlaced MPEG2
Video Bitrate: 9.578 Mbps
Audio Type: MPEG Audio
Audio Bitrate: 256 Kbps


Enjoy!

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Poster wanted, can you help?

Can anyone help me with finding a new/old poster as the one i had is badly damaged and unrepairable. Its the royal albert hall poster with gold writing.

Heres hoping

Mike - mgvine@yahoo.co.uk

The Sisters Of Mercy - Sportpaleis, Gent, Belgium - 16.05.1991 (Flac)

NOTE: By some stupid reason, the photos that were originally on the fileset are missing from the RAR file... To make up for that, I treated them in Photoshop (they're quite better now), and posted them in full resolution, please copy them to the recording folder after downloading.

Thanks to the original uploader.

Original Info File:

Tape received in my trading period from end 80's until mid 90's.

As shown on concert ticket I've included, this concert should have taken place on
15th November 1990 in Deinze, Het Brielpoort (an awful hall where acoustic does not exist...).
The concert was eventually cancelled and tickets remained valid. The new date was later
announced as 16th May 1991 and fortunately location was changed to Gent, Sportpaleis.

This is the only gig I saw in this venue and it was really OK regarding the sound but also the
configuration. People could access either the playground area (standing) or the balconeys (sitting),
but most insteresting was that between both, there was a velodrome. During "Vision Thing", Andrew
disappeared off the stage and started running, singing all along the velodrome with people going mad
and trying to approach the barriers along the velodrome where Andrew was standing. I could take
a picture of this particular moment and this is also included in the post, along with some others.
Be indulgent regarding the quality as this was taken with my old pocket cam.
 

Unknown recording equipment and it should be a lowgen copy.

Very good sound quality and I processed a slight hiss reduction + some fade in / out (several tape
or recording flips)


2 X Maxell UR60 > Pioneer Deck CT-W208R > Soundmax IDA > Cool Edit Pro > WAV > TLH > FLAC (Level 5)



Setlist:

01 Intro (Afterhours)
02 First & Last & Always
03 Lucretia My Reflection
04 Body And Soul
05 Possession
06 Ribbons
07 Alice
08 Dominion / Mother Russia
09 Amphetamine Logic
10 Detonation Boulevard
11 Marian
12 This Corrosion
13 Gimme Shelter
14 Flood II
15 Temple Of Love
16 (Audience)
17 Something Fast
18 Jolene
19 (Audience)
20 Valentine
21 Vision Thing

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The Sisters Of Mercy - Folkets Park, Hultsfred, Sweden - 19.05.1991 (Flac)

Very good audience recording. Thanks to cyberbio for sharing this recording.

Lineage/Source: Cassette - Luxman HX-PRO K92 - inakustik Black&White NF 102 Chinchcable - M-Audiophile 24/96 - Audition 1.5 - CD Wave (1.97) (tracksplitting) - TLH (2.4.1 (Build 160)) [FALC level 8] - You

Tracks:

- First & Last & Always
- Lucretia
- Body & Soul
- Possession
- Ribbons
- Alice
- Dominion/Mother Russia
- Amphetamine Logic
- Detonation Boulevard
- Marian
- This Corrosion
- Gimme Shelter
- Flood II
- Temple Of Love
- Something Fast
- Jolene
- Vision Thing
- 1969

Do not convert to lossy formats & do not sell.
Cyberbio, January 2.010



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RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Psychedelic Sessions (Flac)

I was requested to re-upload this and noticed that there were already two bootlegs with the same name posted at different times. The sources of the two bootlegs seem to be different even if the tracklisting is very similar, I decided to re-upload both and you decide wich one you want.


Three Cool Cats version:

Notes
1 to 4: John Peel Session 7th September 1982.
5, 6: Kid Jensen Session 11th April 1983.
7 to 9 John Peel Session 11th July 1984.
10 - 11: live at Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL, 28th August 1983 (although credited to the John Peel Session '84 on the back sleeve).


 Tracklist
1  1969  
2  Floorshow    
3  Good Things    
4  Alice    
5  Jolene    
6  Burn  
7  Poison Door    
8  No Time To Cry   
9  Emma  
10  Gimme Shelter    
11  Adrenochrome    

Merciful Release Boxset version:

1 to 4 - John Peel Session, recorded 25.08.1982
5 to 8- David (Kid) Jensen Session, recorded 06.03.1983
9 to 11 - John Peel Session, recorded 19.06.1984
12 to13 - recorded live on August 28, 1983 at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 28.08.1983 (wrongly credited as "John Peel Session 1984" on release)
14 - demo recorded at basement, 1981
15 to 16 - Old Grey Whistle Test, performed live at BBC TV Studios, London, England, (supposely 02.04.1985) 

 Tracklist
1  1969  
2  Floorshow    
3  Good Things    
4  Alice    
5  Heartland
6 Jolene    
7  Valentine
8 Burn  
9  Poison Door  
10  No Time To Cry   
11  Emma  
12  Gimme Shelter 
13  Adrenochrome
14  Body Electric
15 First And Last And Always
16 Marian



Three Cool Cats version
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MR Box version
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The Sisters Of Mercy - Odeon, Munster, Germany - 01.09.1983 (Flac 24/96)

NOTE: The Date on the info file and folder is wrong, please correct after downloading.

Thanks to sleepchamber for sending this tape to rip.

Contrast Clause: There was a version of this concert uploaded by Cyberbio in 2008, this is a rip of a different more complete tape of the the same source, using different equipment and at a diferent bitrate.
Cyberbio noted that is tape wasn´t complete, missing Alice and Adrenochome. My tape mentions both songs in the cover, but actually only Alice is present..
One more song then, probably still not complete. My rip sounds similar to cyberbio, but with a little less tape hiss, so you can call it an upgrade.

Note: This recording has most of the tracks chopped by the recorder, so the order of the songs is probably not correct.

Lineage: Tape (unknown lineage) -> Audacity (24/96 transfer) -> FLAC 24/96

DCR010 - Transfer 01/2014

Tracks:

(Burn)
01. Burn
02. Valentine
03. Temple Of love
04. Alice
05. Body Electric
06. Kiss The Carpet
07. Heartland
08. Anaconda
09. Instrumental
10. Emma
11. Floorshow
12. Gimme Shelter
13. Sister Ray

Do Not Sell!
Support The Artists.
Enjoy.



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The Sisters Of Mercy - Mr. Kiesa's, Leicester, UK - 28.03.1985 (Flac 24/96)

Thanks to sleepchamber for sending me his tape to rip. Not the best sounding copy, with a very present hiss, but it0's the only one I have.

Lineage: Tape (unknown lineage) -> Audacity (24/96 transfer) -> FLAC 24/96

DCR009 - Transfer  02/2014

Setlist:

01. First And Last And Always
02. Body And Soul
03. Train
04. Marian
05. No Time To Cry
06. Possession
07. Walk Away
08. Burn
09. Emma
10. Amphetamine Logic
11. A Rock And A Hard Place
12. Floorshow
13. Alice
14. Body Electric
15. Gimme Shelter
16. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
17. Sister Ray / Louie Louie



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RE-UPLOAD: The Sisterhood / The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion Demos (MP3)

The "This Corrosion" Demos are probably the hardest stuff to find from the Sisters related material. They're not on the Floodland demos, because they were demoed as the (never released) The Sisterhood second single. A tape was "found" containing 6 versions of the song with vocals by almost all the Sisterhood members and Andrew Eldritch. They've been appearing (mainly in YouTube), but never all of them, and mostly the ones that feature Andrew on vocals. These are the one's I could collect and I cannot really say much about them since I don't have enough information about sources. Not really sure if they are all by the Sisterhood or some are actually by the Sisters of Mercy. The sound is very rough and lacks all the pomp of the final song. The Mp3 with the James Ray vocals is broken, so it marks 7.26m but actually only runs until 4.30m, but you can listen to it without other problems.

1. This Corrosion (Demo - Andrew Eldritch and James Ray vocals) - 4.30m

2. This Corrosion (Demo - Andrew Eldritch vocals) - 8.50m

3. This Corrosion (Demo - Andrew Eldritch vocals) - 6.28m

4. This Corrosion (Demo - Andrew Eldritch vocals) - 9.59m


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