I Was A Teenage Sisters of Mercy Fan

The comparative success of my earlier blog post on the mid-80’s TSOM split , which has enjoyed twice as many distinct “page views” as any o...

Many fans believe that the early incarnations of the band reached their zenith in the spring of 1985 on the “Tune In, Turn On, Burn Out” to...

When you think of classic early 1980’s The Sisters of Mercy, certain iconic objects come to mind: Eldritch’s shades, Ben’s NHS specs, Gary’...

Thirty-five years on, the very earliest gigs by The Sisters of Mercy in the early Spring of 1981 remain shrouded in mystery, with those con...

After the major cities of Berlin and Hamburg, the venue for the Sisters’ third German date on their inaugural European tour in Autumn 1983 ...

Having myself endured the conditions at some of the venues TSOM played in the early days, I’d always imagined that the Kir Club would be i...

Of all the gigs covered thus far in this blog, not one has been from possibly the most defining tour of the 1980s (or indeed any other era’...