An old friend of mine offered me tickets & transportation from SLC to see the Sisters of Mercy in Las Vegas tomorrow. We leave SLC tomorrow at 9am. I am so psyched! Anybody else going to the show?
I was just going to come in and call you a bastard, but they’re coming to my town next month.
Whoohoo!
I’m going to pick up tickets tomorrow.
(An extra $7.30 charge to buy from Ticketmaster??? huh?)
Awesome! Let us know how the show went!
Wow, I would have thought most of them would be dead by now.
I am so jealous!!!
Damn. I won’t be there until Friday.
I’m interested to hear how this show went.
Did they play their old tracks or is it all new stuff?
Was the Doktor there? Could you see it behind the fog?
Yeah, they’re coming to D.C. shortly, and I’d be interested in a review.
Please tell us how it was, setlist etc. They’re coming to Sweden in April but unfortunately not to Stockholm so I’ll have to go to Gothenburg or Malmo.
Oh and it’s The Sisters of Mercy. Apparently that’s one of Eldritch’s pet peeves, he even has the the in the contract for shows.
The venue was House of Blues in the Mandalay Bay Casino
I Could hardly see anything behind the fog. The band consisted of Andrew, 2 guys on guitar and somebody, (The Doktor?) in the background keeping the tape deck and fog machine rolling.
They played a few songs off Floodland: Dominion, Flood I & II, Empire/Lucretia; They played Vision Thing and Desolation Boulevard. That was all the older stuff i recognized. Of course, when they played Dominion & Empire, everyone down on the floor strted bobbing up & down. Good times.
This was actually the first gig of a major world tour. Dates are listed here:
http://www.the-sisters-of-mercy.com/news/livenews.htm
The Warlocks opened. I had never seen nor heard them before. I thought they had a sort of Joy Division/Early Jesus & Mary Chain sound with a little Sonic Youth thrown in. The Early Psychodelic Goth sound. Maybe a little too droning and monotonous in places, but I plan on downloading some of their stuff.
On a personal note I ran into a few old friends I hadn’t seen since the punk/industrial/goth scene in SLC in the late 80s-early 90s, and a couple guys from work. It was a good night all around.