Sisters Of Mercy

[jetblacksdad]

Anyone else a fan or have affection

I was fine with them up to and including Floodland.
That Tony James stuff was forgettable.....

I had a look round YouTube because they dont release anything new these days do they?

My God! They are terrible now. Eldritch cannot sing any more. He looks awful and the band is a couple of fellas posing on guitars like they're Bon Fucking Jovi! None of the early goth cool.

Really very very sad.

Shame

[Arthur Streeb-Greebling]

First saw them at York Racecourse back in the 80’s - there’s footage up on YouTube -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb1jZw-56Hk
Saw them in Leeds a few times too. I really liked the first few albums, I also became a bit of a fan of The Mission too around ‘85-‘90. I think they were better than The Sisters and I really liked some of Wayne Hussey’s songwriting.
But totally agree The Sisters today are absolutely shocking, Eldritch just growls and leaves the singing to one of the guitar players. A total shitshow, they’ve always had no drummer and now no bass player and now no Eldritch it seems, just awful.

[theraven1979]

Been playing Floodland a lot recently

Never saw them live and probably won't bother now

Jim

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[Waffle waitress]

First saw them on the Black October tour at the QMU, then Strathclyde Uni before the first album came out, which is still one of the best gigs l ever saw. Got all the original 12" up til then, great first album and thought Floodlands was OK. Lost interest after that, and as Arfur says, The Mish were a no bad band, for me, up til the first album, saw them a load of times up til then. Its cool to still see Craig playing bass for SOD etc, but agreed, the Sisters now are a no tune, no song, no band fucken mess these days, and probly have been for a long while.And Eldritch went from being the coolest long coat, long hair, black hat, gloved and shaded dude with a great voice, atmospheric songs and stage presence into Harry fucken Hill.

[Waffle waitress]

https://youtu.be/4gbbMqPmAlY?si=tnZHOtQgw6MvmjYs

Love this, used to have it on vhs recorded from the tele at the time. This is the line up l remember. And when the drums finally come in on First and Last and Always still gives me a semi.

[theraven1979]

Surprised they haven't all got breathing problems with all that dry ice


Jim

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[evonx]

Couple of good singles in the 80s but that's it - not very interesting imho, preferred the Mission m'self

[yesican]

Saw them last year at Kelvingrove , enjoyed thew gig , my first time seeing them, and my last.

[parasiteinblack]

my first time seeing them, and my last.

and your always?

[theraven1979]

Gimme the ring, kiss my toad


Jim

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[jason]

I think i bought one of their cds once but I didn't really get into them. Are they any good?

[HOFT]

never seen the Mercy.
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but back in the mid 1990's i believe i experienced a gig by ...........
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The Sisters of Morrissey !