These are my favourite sisters of mercy. Raw sounds from the guitar, heavy and low beats, slow tempos and andrew singing like a vampire in his big empty castle. I just love it!
I was there, pretty sure the Smiths were support, 1st time I had heard of them or seen Morrissey, that went down well with the Sisters die hards :), loved gigs in London then, specially Sisters
I was there! You're right about the Smiths, I still have the ticketsnub from that gig. I also remember standing next to a very intoxicated Nick Cave. Great gig, great times.
Loved the Brixton Ace.....one of my first gigs I saw was there when I was 16. Southern Death Cult. Was f#cling hot in there. Wish I had been at this one.
Brilliant. I love all era's of The Sisters, but this period is the best. They came to my City twice in 83 and once in 85. I missed am as I only got into them early 87.
@@greva2904 My brother bought the first album for my birthday in February as I had got into The Mission in 86. I did sort of see SOM in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 85 as there was too much smoke around. At that viewing I just thought it was noise. 87 was brilliant collecting all the 12"s. Andrew Eldritch did some of the SOM recordings in Bridlington which is not far from me and also in Willerby which is just outside of Hull.
I saw Fields of the Nephilim live in 1987 and all I actually saw was a wall of dry ice for the entire gig! I saw the guitarist walk over to the bass player once and that is literally the only sighting I had of the band lol
In 1983, thirteen year old me hadn't even heard of them. Little did I know that just over a year later, 15 year old me would see them live at the Powerhouse in Birmingham. Happy, happy memories. 💜
i remember the band or the record label sent me 2 tickets to a gig in Birmingham, i think from memory at the electric ballroom? around '85 it must have been. though i lived nowhere near, i couldnt miss out on it, so it took me two trains to get down there from the north east, and spent the night sleeping on the station floor as there was no night train back home after the gig. the things we do for love.
Indeed. Their records are great, but on stage they must have been like a nuclear explosion!!! Even this bad quality and video recording exposes more power that their recordings. Which were also great ... but THIS!!!
that's correct. i was amazed how well he re-created those high notes live. they were total raw power in the early days and it was fabulous to see and hear. @@SaschaTayefeh
Lucky enough to have been at this gig and another one at the same venue a few months later. Only half full but atmosphere was spine-tingling and thrash dancing full on fantastic. Sweaty and energised after an hour and a half of that. One of the support bands was some little known out fit called The Smiths. Wonder what happened to them?
This is genuinely intense, and it just goes to show how vital Ben Gunn was to the Sisters, the footage with Wayne Hussey from 84 and 85 is nowhere near this intense. Hussey could play, but Ben Gunn just had a sound and the right touch for the Sisters at that time. They were never as good again as they were during this period. Reptile House is the Sisters at their absolute peak.
Agreed. This is the line up that dropped the bomb and broke through... I saw them at the Bournebrook Hotel, Mosely, Birmingham in this era .. for me they were the new post punk band .. Stooges, Suicide, Joy division... goth wasn’t in the picture.....it was so different to everything else....they were recording the gig through the PA though I remember... Ben Gunn was brilliant .. he added the humour because he looked like he’d finished school and got straight in the van for the gig.... this band looked like they had just walked on from the pool table but the sound they made was awesome.. tight no filler....that was the dramatic tension.. a bunch of lads sounding like rock gods.... and basically Ben Gunn said as much after he left .... about starting out as joke on a rock band and then becoming a proper rock band. as their mate Morrissey would have said ‘ that joke isn’t funny anymore’ .....I also agree that their later transformations were still mesmerising... but this was the classic Sisters.....
The better gig by them was in February the same year at the Ace. Why do I say that? Probably because it's the one I went too :) Thursday evenings were the night to go to at the Ace but I got to say that it was nearly always 3/4 empty. Years later, after the venue was renamed, I spent a great deal of time dancing there (lose term) to trance and hard house. It was jammed packed those nights!
Amazing! Loved it. One of my proudest moments, years later (post-Floodland of course) was once be lucky enough to date one of the ultra cool beautiful girls who dared to wear a "F*ck me and marry me young" t-shirt to their gigs :-) ... Halcyon days...
To the person that filmed this. Were you that young lady with the fantastic brown quasi-mohawk and long brown dress? If 'yes' i thought you were bloody gorgeous :)
Awesome - love these early tunes. 30yrs ago they were on of my favourite bands. I was 13. In a couple of months time I'm taking my 13yr old daughter to see them.
The audio quality, the instrumental, Andrew's vampiric Voice... I wish I could be in this gig but I wasn't even born yet and my parents were 1 and 2 years old at that time 😅
how i wish they had kept this line up a lot longer than they did. This was the peak and no amount of dry ice could cover the cracks later on. Thanks for this upload, it really brings back the memories. Me going to a sisters gig in 82 must have been a similar feeling to teens seeing Bowie for the first time in the ziggy stardust era. Sisters of Mercy of 82-83 were life changing and this video is gold, never lose it
Look at lovely wee Ben. Especially as this is the only audio I've heard where you can distinctly hear his guitar Possibly the only early sister who didn't leave because Andrew became a monster. And yet as far as I know he still hasn't talked about it. Is he interviewed in those recent books?
Only saw him once pre-Hussey - Christ he was good, I mean really good, totally missed it at the time. Chanelling my former music journo self - "He chews up the stage like Al Pacino shot up with a bag of dirty green skag".. Also Hot Chocolate - Emma - greatest cover version of all time - if anyone disagrees - you can come to my house and I will fight you. :-)
This is so awesome, but am I the only one thinking that nowadays, the Sisters deliver a way, way more entertaining stage experience? This show here wouldn't have made the floor of the Ancienne Belgique shake. During their 2014 gig there, I felt it do just that.
These are my favourite sisters of mercy. Raw sounds from the guitar, heavy and low beats, slow tempos and andrew singing like a vampire in his big empty castle. I just love it!
Indeed. That was such a magic. If I could just have ONCE seen them on stage like this. Just once ...
Listen " AutoDefensa ; Live in Strummer bar , ático". they are sisters from Argentina
couldn't agree more
Vampire with hangover
I was there, pretty sure the Smiths were support, 1st time I had heard of them or seen Morrissey, that went down well with the Sisters die hards :), loved gigs in London then, specially Sisters
I was there! You're right about the Smiths, I still have the ticketsnub from that gig. I also remember standing next to a very intoxicated Nick Cave. Great gig, great times.
I absolutely love the Floodland album but this era is the true Sisters of Mercy, killer fucking set!
1 Kiss the Carpet
2 Alice
3 Anaconda
4 Valentine
5 Heartland
6 Adrenochrome
7 Gimme Shelter
8 Emma
1969?😊
Evelynnnnnnnn 😊😎
idk who filmed this but i love them for absolutely shamelessly zooming in on Andy's crotch.
We're extremely thankful for it 🖤
@@iambandtrash a true visionary this camera person was, they should get an award of some sorts
frr
Eu só gostaria de saber o porque disso! 😂😂😂😂
I love the eighties sound of Dr. Avalanche, great band the sisters!!
🎵🖤🎸🎶👍
At 11:35 Graig shit out. At least you can see for the first time a smile from Andrew.
The real original line up.
Yeah it worked well
There's honestly nothing cooler and sexier than those black gloves, I want them!
I just have to say any cameraman who takes the camera off of Andrew for even a second must be blind.
Loved the Brixton Ace.....one of my first gigs I saw was there when I was 16. Southern Death Cult. Was f#cling hot in there. Wish I had been at this one.
I love old sisters footage, so cool
Followin' the Sisters since '88!..;No14...
Brilliant. I love all era's of The Sisters, but this period is the best. They came to my City twice in 83 and once in 85. I missed am as I only got into them early 87.
Yeah I didn’t get into them till 1987 either. Bugger! Lol
@@greva2904 My brother bought the first album for my birthday in February as I had got into The Mission in 86. I did sort of see SOM in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 85 as there was too much smoke around. At that viewing I just thought it was noise. 87 was brilliant collecting all the 12"s. Andrew Eldritch did some of the SOM recordings in Bridlington which is not far from me and also in Willerby which is just outside of Hull.
I saw Fields of the Nephilim live in 1987 and all I actually saw was a wall of dry ice for the entire gig! I saw the guitarist walk over to the bass player once and that is literally the only sighting I had of the band lol
@@greva2904 Never see. Live but seen pics. Good first album too.
So fuckin amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
The Doctor will see you now goth child 👍😻
In 1983, thirteen year old me hadn't even heard of them.
Little did I know that just over a year later, 15 year old me would see them live at the Powerhouse in Birmingham.
Happy, happy memories. 💜
i remember the band or the record label sent me 2 tickets to a gig in Birmingham, i think from memory at the electric ballroom? around '85 it must have been. though i lived nowhere near, i couldnt miss out on it, so it took me two trains to get down there from the north east, and spent the night sleeping on the station floor as there was no night train back home after the gig. the things we do for love.
Oooohhhh. I've not heard this gig before. Fantastic quality.
Classic Goth with great melodies. Nowadays it's just all screaming whereas this not even heavy but Dark as f×ck!!
So unbelievable great! What an intensity!! Genius, fabulous, unreachable!!!
Indeed. Their records are great, but on stage they must have been like a nuclear explosion!!! Even this bad quality and video recording exposes more power that their recordings. Which were also great ... but THIS!!!
that's correct. i was amazed how well he re-created those high notes live. they were total raw power in the early days and it was fabulous to see and hear. @@SaschaTayefeh
@@Batstrings "Raw Power" - THAT's the precise description of their live gigs back then.
Lucky enough to have been at this gig and another one at the same venue a few months later. Only half full but atmosphere was spine-tingling and thrash dancing full on fantastic. Sweaty and energised after an hour and a half of that. One of the support bands was some little known out fit called The Smiths. Wonder what happened to them?
Are you sure it wasn’t at ULU because I saw The Smiths support the Sisters and it was at ULU but they may have done other gigs together
Thrash dancing to this?? Okay 👌
Also Andrew didn't like the whole "Goth" moniker so someone calling hima vampire is just hokum.
P.S. Heartland version is brilliant
So cute Ben Gun with his big glasses and wise look..
Awesomeeeee fuck! 25 years only!!! Holy crap
i'm so obsessed with them it's insane
This is genuinely intense, and it just goes to show how vital Ben Gunn was to the Sisters, the footage with Wayne Hussey from 84 and 85 is nowhere near this intense. Hussey could play, but Ben Gunn just had a sound and the right touch for the Sisters at that time. They were never as good again as they were during this period. Reptile House is the Sisters at their absolute peak.
Which guitar part is Gunn playing?
Take some guitar lessons and you will realize the bullshit you're saying.
Different strokes for different folks. I like 'em both.
Agreed. This is the line up that dropped the bomb and broke through... I saw them at the Bournebrook Hotel, Mosely, Birmingham in this era .. for me they were the new post punk band .. Stooges, Suicide, Joy division... goth wasn’t in the picture.....it was so different to everything else....they were recording the gig through the PA though I remember... Ben Gunn was brilliant .. he added the humour because he looked like he’d finished school and got straight in the van for the gig.... this band looked like they had just walked on from the pool table but the sound they made was awesome.. tight no filler....that was the dramatic tension.. a bunch of lads sounding like rock gods.... and basically Ben Gunn said as much after he left .... about starting out as joke on a rock band and then becoming a proper rock band. as their mate Morrissey would have said ‘ that joke isn’t funny anymore’ .....I also agree that their later transformations were still mesmerising... but this was the classic Sisters.....
Absolutely right! This is sisters at their best...
Best SISTERS of ALL TIME...
3:29 Andrew Eldritch...
And I'm cracking...
And so it makes me want to smoke..
Fuckin great...........thanks
La voz de Andrew rompió moldes a contracorriente siempre❤
IT DOESN'T GET much better than THIS
Great set.Sound quality's good too.
Best line up...saw them early 82..wonderful
Στην λευκη με αγαπη αλεξανδρος 1991 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
40yrs later this still holds up ❤ I was 11 at the time so it wouldn’t have been an option!
Gimme Shelter only sounds right with Ben Gunn playing that arpeggio part.
Sterling work @sisterstekland . Any chance you could do the same with the Glasgow 04/01/1983 show? That would rise, and indeed, reverberate
I don't have a good audio recording
It’s like I’m back there, back in the day you know when we had hair!😎
Ingeri mescalina todos os dias q vc vai estar igual vc comentou sabe
Still have the hair, but inexplicably I've turned to Gandalf the White now. Damn linear time! \m/ ... ;)
I wish the studio version of Kiss The Carpet was this good.
Pasan los años y todavía me siguen emocionando
The better gig by them was in February the same year at the Ace. Why do I say that? Probably because it's the one I went too :) Thursday evenings were the night to go to at the Ace but I got to say that it was nearly always 3/4 empty. Years later, after the venue was renamed, I spent a great deal of time dancing there (lose term) to trance and hard house. It was jammed packed those nights!
I love you Andre all wahr you do and sing this ist my...thank you so so so much
The best oft the world!!!!
I REALLY like the Camera work xxx A lot of Croch shots 😊
Lots of deep Velvet Underground guitar subtext. So cool. Love the early SOM.
You mean TSOM
@@rhiathomas4034 Yes TSOM!!
A rare smile at beginning of Valentine
The best band off gotic for world
I guess you´ve never heard the Name ´Fields of the Nephilim´right? If, you would change your comment.
Real Music*
!
Wonderful 🖤
You doing a great Job!
Amazing! Loved it. One of my proudest moments, years later (post-Floodland of course) was once be lucky enough to date one of the ultra cool beautiful girls who dared to wear a "F*ck me and marry me young" t-shirt to their gigs :-) ... Halcyon days...
I reckon I had a bootleg record of this gig back in the day… sounds very familiar. This is a great lineup and classic Sisters songs
From the Reptile House Ep.
I did like this line up with Marx, Gunn and Adams
100%
Awesome upload
To the person that filmed this. Were you that young lady with the fantastic brown quasi-mohawk and long brown dress? If 'yes' i thought you were bloody gorgeous :)
That was my granny.....
AmazzziiinG LiVe ,,,
dArK, CoLd & RaiNy .
LuV from CaTaloNia .
RemembeR WheN i WaS Young .
Good old time 👍!
Awesome - love these early tunes. 30yrs ago they were on of my favourite bands. I was 13. In a couple of months time I'm taking my 13yr old daughter to see them.
Better not....the good times of the Sisters live - are long time gone
Napalm God It’s not true - just look at their performance of "But Genevieve" from UK Tour 2020
Saw them 2017 or so in HH just because I had never seen them before...one of the worst gigs I've ever seen...I had been warned though 😁
My favorite bootleg of the Sisters
Andrew Eldrich IS God.......
A vampire with hangover.
Im a huge som fan . ❤❤
impresionante banda. muy buenos. fuera de lo comercialmente correcto.
Este list q diz ser versão original é mentira é igual em list 1 é lust 2 adenocrome mesmo video
Outstanding thanks
Is the dude on cam drunk or somethin?
I think he didn’t know what hit him. It’s a natural reaction when you see the sisters live for the first time.
This is, as they say, the good shit. Wayne Hussey can go do one. 👌
I agree - raw, direct, best line up. So sorry I did. not see them live at that Time.
The OG line up is one of the best bands ever
I wanna go there so bad bro not even funny anymore
SOM forever!
The Sisters Of Mercy
Forever 83
thank you for the upload, absolute great footage
Back in a day when they cared
🔥🔥🔥
The audio quality, the instrumental, Andrew's vampiric Voice... I wish I could be in this gig but I wasn't even born yet and my parents were 1 and 2 years old at that time 😅
2000yrs into the future,this will still be in sort after
Sought*
How much I love the old work !
how i wish they had kept this line up a lot longer than they did. This was the peak and no amount of dry ice could cover the cracks later on. Thanks for this upload, it really brings back the memories. Me going to a sisters gig in 82 must have been a similar feeling to teens seeing Bowie for the first time in the ziggy stardust era. Sisters of Mercy of 82-83 were life changing and this video is gold, never lose it
❤
Look at lovely wee Ben. Especially as this is the only audio I've heard where you can distinctly hear his guitar Possibly the only early sister who didn't leave because Andrew became a monster. And yet as far as I know he still hasn't talked about it. Is he interviewed in those recent books?
Dr. AVALANCHE
The best the good Dr sounded!
They were way cooler when they weren't trying to be cool. I'm looking at you Mr.Taylor.
Fantastic. Ben Gunn is the best.
Only saw him once pre-Hussey - Christ he was good, I mean really good, totally missed it at the time. Chanelling my former music journo self - "He chews up the stage like Al Pacino shot up with a bag of dirty green skag".. Also Hot Chocolate - Emma - greatest cover version of all time - if anyone disagrees - you can come to my house and I will fight you. :-)
Emma not Emily
@@rattus62 Sorry sorry sorry... dammit!
Doom and gloom in its best. Bad camera work.
1997 WOOD STAGE GLAUCHAU Germany🤘
Dr. Avalanche never sounded better!
BRILLIANT & PURE SISTERS!
chido Wooooo ✌✌
Tank you the best men oft the world!!!
Went to this gig amazing that the Smiths supported them with about 100 watching them what an odd line up!
🖤
Killers Mercury
I've heard the band consumed benzoes in those early years.
Speed was their drug of choice.
Is this Kino? The Russian band?
нет)))
@@roxnn looks and sounds similar
🖤
Thanks*
Wow! Nearly as great as the York one (+ I was here too...)
Same here with the Brixton one. Were you one of the roadies per chance? We probably thrashed our bodies against each other :)
I was 1 year and 9 days when this happened. I was born in the wrong time and place!
This is so awesome, but am I the only one thinking that nowadays, the Sisters deliver a way, way more entertaining stage experience?
This show here wouldn't have made the floor of the Ancienne Belgique shake. During their 2014 gig there, I felt it do just that.
Dennis Neilson meets Joey Ramone.