The Sisters of Mercy Forum
Confirmed, same setlist. Lots of videos will follow tomorrow.
Seconded ...
... and the first videos are coming up as well ... many thanks for that ... ... ... ... to you all 
Thanks! 
... But on to more important things... ... It's so astonishing how they manage to unload such energy and what they make from the various inspirations they obviously gpt, melting sounds and rhythms and lyrics into such a rocking and danceable and exciting mixture. And that as a two-piece ... 
... my full kudos to them... ... And surely not only mine. All the people around looked happy and pleased and applauded when they said Good Bye and left the stage. Unfortunate for me, they didn't bring some more CDs with them which had sold out in October already shortly before I could grab one. But hell, I'll check on the webs. ... ...
... ... ... though on the ground I had to take up with my body intrinsically willing to fall into dancing on the one hand and not being allowed and able to do so. A nasty disturbing irritation, but the synths were nice and floating and with Detonation Boulevard I had found some way to handle the mess... ... ... There are a few more in her channel. ...Being645 wrote: ↑22 Jan 2024, 20:16 Wanted to write a review, but it's getting long. So let's start with the first parts ... the location and the Virginmarys ... and ...
The location, the Carlswerk Victoria Halle, is the larger piece of a relatively new double hall in the Carlswerk Quarter located on the former work grounds of cable manufacturers Felten & Guilleaume Carlswerk AG, who had produced in 1904 the first transatlantic telephone cable connecting Europe with North America. The E-Werk and the Palladium a few hundred metres round the corner, where The Sisters played several times before are, btw, also located on this old former industrial compound.
So first time to this new hall and I liked it. It has a capacity of around 1,800 and a good basic atmosphere. The staff were all very kind and friendly - my greetings to them - and in summer, there's a chance to sit and eat and drink outside between the two halls. The entire area was developed over the past decade into a very modern and exciting quarter with lots of different business, education, sports and cultural facilities including cafés, restaurants, hotels and car parks, really a gain for that part of the city on the otherwise often disparaged right bank of the river Rhine (historically well due to the fact that the realms of the Romans and later on of the Catholic archbishops as well as of the French invading Cologne always ended on the other riverbank...
Like in October, The Virginmarys went full power. Only this time I was well enough to enjoy all their set...
The sound between the shows was not so varied as in October, rather like the mainly instrumental background track to some computer game, dark sounds indicating mysteries, sick and strange worlds and dangers. That's why I don't like computer games. Their sound is often either terribly plastic or designed to create some sort of dark excitement, impressions of walls and rooms and spaces without enough air to breathe ... not really my cuppa ... Fortunately, the lights would soon go down and The Sisters intro started ...
More later ... I first need a meal now ...
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... The Sisters show started already above with Dr Jeep/Detonation Boulevard and Don't Drive On Ice ... ... follwed now by ... I love that song, the rhythm, the guitars, the implicate excitement ... ... ... the lights and the beautiful colours in the nets and the pillars ... ... the clear sounds from The Doktor ... ... the guitars ... ... and hey, further on, towards the end, there were even some pretty ways coming over from the vocals, perfect ... ... ... the speed is excitingly increased and it gets even better ... ... this time the song was - in my ears - performed more directly from the presence of the observer than from being concentrated on the, say subject ... astonishing, a long-cherished wish come true, though I'd never had any idea before how they could or would ever manage to get down from that very old pedestal, if at all ... extremely pleasing ... ...Kai was constantly handing guitars back and forth with the tech guy. It seems there were issues of some kind there. I think I saw him trying to wiggle the plug of the wireless transmittier to make contact on the Stratocaster he played often. There was quite a bit of on-stage improvisastion going on, but they coped great, it was a most entertaining end enjoyable gig for me.H. Blackrose wrote: ↑22 Jan 2024, 20:46 I note Kai playing electric rather than acoustic on "Here", and I'm not sure I like it
Not againeotunun wrote: ↑26 Jan 2024, 09:09Kai was constantly handing guitars back and forth with the tech guy. It seems there were issues of some kind there. I think I saw him trying to wiggle the plug of the wireless transmittier to make contact on the Stratocaster he played often. There was quite a bit of on-stage improvisastion going on, but they coped great, it was a most entertaining end enjoyable gig for me.H. Blackrose wrote: ↑22 Jan 2024, 20:46 I note Kai playing electric rather than acoustic on "Here", and I'm not sure I like it
Nah … at one point during the gig (earlier on) it seemed like Von was asking Kai about it (my best guess after all the guitar swapping) and Kai just responded with two thumbs up and played on.
