I Was A Teenage Sisters of Mercy Fan

( This post breaks with the recent tradition of researching 1983 TSOM gigs and like previous posts reviewing new releases by Leather Nun an...

Leeds may be by some distance the largest city in West Yorkshire, but traditionally the county town and the site of the local cathedral was...

Small number of locals, outnumbered by roadies and hangers-on ? Check. Spiggytapes sample song uploaded to YouTube ? Check. Poster from LG ...

There were probably more people at Eleanor Rigby’s funeral. Four lads (and a drum machine) who shook the alternative musical world played t...

Not many venues received a double visit from TSOM as they toured relentlessly in the second quarter of 1983 as a series of successive relea...

It’s hard enough researching gigs from 1983 which one didn’t personally attend when there is ample evidence that they took place and when t...

This has to be the most obscure of the venues (where the Sisters played) covered so far in this blog, and it’s also the earliest gig discus...