I Was A Teenage Sisters of Mercy Fan

Of all of the alternative bands to come out of Leeds in the mid 1980s, none were as controversial in their home town as The Rose of Avalanc...

The chance to see the Sisters play outdoors (eek !) in broad daylight (double eek!) was an opportunity not to be missed by most fans, and a...

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 ...