I Was A Teenage Sisters of Mercy Fan

For those brought up on radio silence from LS3, the publication of UTR , the Sisters’ own magazine, during the early and mid 90s was a gold...

When the Sisters went underground after the ’85 split, with the Sisterhood project and the relaunch taking centre stage, any focus on the e...

Another TSOM thirtieth anniversary is upon us – the release of the 12” version of Alice (MR021), which heralded the first official release o...

One of the best bands I saw supporting TSOM in the 80’s was Flesh & Fell, the Belgian group who had the distinction of supporting the ba...

Of all the West Yorkshire bands (the March Violets, The 3 Johns, Salvation etc) lumped in with the Sisters by lazy journalists in the early ...

One of the main purported disadvantages of having a drum machine rather than a live drummer was a perceived lack of spontaneity, but at Sist...

Anaconda  has always seemed to be the runt of the MR litter, barely played live between 84 and 93, the track shoved to the end of the SGW...