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longer). This series of independent singles was due to start with a stonking (of course) version of 'SUMMER'. The music to 'SUMMER' was written by Adam Pearson. The words were written by Andrew Eldritch. It's very pretty, and probably very cruel. It goes like a freight train painted in the shiniest yellows and blues. We planned to add another version of it (Adam supplying remix and Kleenex), and a third track which should have been one of the other new songs; we didn't decide which one. It might have been something you've heard us play live; it might not. What with one thing and another, this was not to be. Sorry. We are working on an album, inter alia, but the matter of single releases is currently on hold.
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new band was able to release their material through an independent outlet. However, Eldritch stated elsewhere that the "2-5-0-0-0" which opens "Jihad" on the Sisterhood LP represents the sum of money he won from the Mission in the civil courts. He states in an interview, recorded in Boston, that the English courts did not recognise either his or the other members' of the band's legal right to the name "the Sisterhood". He said the courts required a release for anybody to claim ownership of the band name, which was the motivation for the initial Sisterhood single. After that single had been released, Eldritch officially owned the name, and could sue, which he did, winning £25,000 in the lawsuit.
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August and September. The band has performed thirteen new songs during concerts held between 2019 and 2022, such as "There's a Door", "Don't Drive on Ice", "I Will Call You", "Show Me (On the Doll)", "When I'm on Fire", "On the Beach" and "Here", but no studio recordings have been made available. Since 2012, some of the shows featured a guest appearance by the Irish singer Lisa Cuthbert, who performs her cover version of "This Corrosion" on piano.
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album) offered by the publishers to the first member of the Sisters of Mercy to release any output. This would tie Eldritch to WEA, and release Hussey and Adams from their contract with the same record company. According to the Mission's manager Tony Perrin, the case never went to court and Hussey's
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on guitar in 2006. Christo recalled stating, "I got a call one afternoon, from an unknown number. With very little preamble, the caller, without introducing himself, stated, ‘We might want you to be in our band.". Subsequently, in 2006, The Sisters of Mercy embarked on a world tour, spanning across
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We knew we had something with This Corrosion. Max went into a meeting with a budget of £50,000. The label was unsure that they kept the right person: they thought maybe they should have gone with Wayne, since The Mission were out touring and making records. The record company said: "Well, £50,000,
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We never recorded as the Sisterhood, we just went out and played some gigs. ... Andrew recorded as the Sisterhood, and since he released something prior to us he got to claim the name. ... To be terribly honest now, I think Andrew was right. I mean, two members of the band going off and trading on
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Eldritch's associates approached Gary Marx, the co-founding member, to write tracks for a new studio album. Marx then met with Eldritch, with the two agreeing upon the terms under which the backing tracks would be produced. After Marx delivered a total of eleven tracks, Eldritch backed out of the
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was very good at getting the budget from Warners," Eldritch remembers. "We spent money on that record that otherwise we wouldn't have been able to. But most of it I made in a suburb of Manchester, and there weren't that many sessions where we went to New York and put extra flimflam on the songs.
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Speculation about a new release was renewed in November 2016, when Eldritch said he might release a new album if Donald Trump were elected president: "I don't think I could keep quiet if that happened." The band has yet to release any new material, but in 2017 they embarked on a European tour in
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Following the last concerts in December 1993, the Sisters of Mercy went into what Eldritch called a "strike against EastWest". He was alluded to have been preoccupied with legal matters surrounding the band; although Eldritch has never explained the meaning behind this, it has been suggested by
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Now that the moribund relationship with East West Records is officially over, it seemed reasonable to bang out a few singles, independently, while we're putting an album together (which usually takes a long time) and getting somebody to put it out with a bit of muscle (which usually takes even
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At the end of 1980, the single "Damage Done/Watch/Home of the Hit-men", was recorded and released. On the single Marx played guitar through a practice amplifier and Eldritch was on drums that he had bought from Langford. The duo each wrote and sang on a song: Eldritch on "Damage Done", Marx on
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name instead of two albums for which the Sisters of Mercy had contractual obligations. The company agreed to accept the material (techno-like droning featuring mumbling vocals by Andrew Eldritch, without drums) without listening to it first. The recordings were never officially released and
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Hussey and Adams went on to form a new group called the Sisterhood. Their setlists featured songs Hussey had intended for the Sisters of Mercy; he would later record and release many of them with his new group. Meanwhile, Eldritch protested against their usage of the
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In recent years the "Digital Doktor" has been moved to a custom-built laptop designed by Eldritch and constructed by an English military software and hardware company. For a time there was some division in the band whether or not the Doktor should be moved to a
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The band's broke. I haven't worked out yet how a band can tour for a year at the Sisters' level and be broke at the end of it , but I have parted company with the people managing the band in London. If I have to pay them off it will make us more broke for a
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In October 2006, Side-Line Music Magazine announced that the band was in talks with the Universal sublabel W14 Music. In the same year, three Sisters of Mercy reissues were released on 3 November in Europe (and 30 October in the USA) via WEA International:
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subsidiary (the band was assigned to it 1989 following an internal shuffle in WEA). Conflicts with WEA led to the termination of the band's US record distribution deal circa 1991–92, meaning later recordings are only available in the US as imports.
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which was the band's second gig; however, during this time, the band did cycle through two fourth members: guitarists Tom Ashton and Dave Humphrey. Later in 1981, Ben Gunn was recruited as the Sisters' second guitarist. Eldritch's melancholic
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in 1980. After achieving early underground fame there, the band had their commercial breakthrough in the mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new records in protest against their record company,
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various parties that the issues stemmed from either the short-lived tour with Public Enemy in 1991, or, alternatively, Eldritch's ongoing issues with EastWest Records, as the band still owed them two original studio albums.
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in 1997. Although the Sisters of Mercy were eventually released from their contract with East West, they have never been signed to another label nor released any new material. They have continued to perform new songs live.
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UK tour (October–November 1984) confirmed the underground cult status of the band; however, the growing alienation between Eldritch and the rest of the group was getting out of hand during the recording of the debut album
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was featured. Promotional videos were also made for the singles "Body and Soul", "Walk Away", and "No Time to Cry", but none of these videos, including "Black Planet", have been officially released yet by the band.
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North America, Europe, and South America. The band have maintained their touring activity, with performances at headline shows and music festivals almost every year, showcasing released and unreleased material.
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This became what is generally recognised as the first real Sisters line-up. It began with the Doktor/Eldritch/Marx/Adams incarnation of the band playing a gig in the Riley Smith Hall of the
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name as too similar to the Sisters of Mercy and the name of his band's fan community. In an attempt to stop Hussey's band Eldritch released the single "Giving Ground" by his own band,
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building in early 1981. Since nobody can remember the exact date, for historic purposes the band and fans have often celebrated the anniversary of the concert of 16 February 1981, in
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The Sisters of Mercy have not released new recorded material since 1993. In 2010 Eldritch confirmed that he currently sees no reason to release an album in an interview with
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Shortly after the last gig Eldritch relocated to Hamburg, where he was soon joined by Hussey. Their intention was to begin working on a follow-up album, tentatively titled
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According to some sources, with these releases Eldritch allegedly won, over Hussey and Adams, a race for a £25,000 advance (a sum opening the song "Jihad" on the
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was shortly recruited mid-tour as their new guitarist. In 2023, Chris Catalyst also rejoined the band performing the duties of the Doktor Avalanche operator.
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Most songs on the album were written and rehearsed by Marx, Hussey, and Adams, with Eldritch stepping in at the last stage to write lyrics and add vocals.
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In 2019, frustrated with Eldritch's slow-paced work ethic, Catalyst stepped down from the band. Australian guitarist Dylan Smith was shortly recruited.
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on 18 June 1985. Video recordings of this show were later released as "Wake". A music video of the song "Black Planet" was also released in which the
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In 2024, The Sisters of Mercy announced an upcoming North American tour scheduled for Autumn, with performances planned across the USA and Canada.
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The next incarnation of the Sisters of Mercy featured an unknown German guitarist, Andreas Bruhn, whom Eldritch apparently discovered playing in a
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Eldritch has later considered producer Steinman to have been more pivotal in securing funding for additional production than the songs themselves.
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featured "Torch", the last song from the previous line-up. Then-manager Boyd Steemson maintains the chart success was no surprise for the band.
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is another example of early Sisters work and marks the maturing songwriter Eldritch (who wrote, produced and played all instruments on it).
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The band launched a 1990–91 world tour to promote the album. In 1991 they organised a controversial North American tour in double-act with
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Around this time, Bricheno had begun focusing on his other band, XC-NN (originally, CNN). Meanwhile, Bruhn released his debut solo album,
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Unfortunately if you ask middle-of-the-road type rock listeners what the Sisters sound like, they'll always think of the Steinman singles.
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and the drum machine called Doktor Avalanche are the only points of continuity throughout. Eldritch and Avalanche were also involved in
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The band's singles were regularly featured in UK independent charts; some became single of the week in various UK indie magazines.
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Peu de nos contemporains possèdent une véritable dimension, les Banshees, les Psychedelic Furs. Les autres ne sont pas honnêtes. (
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on additional vocals, and Tony James on bass) to promote the collection of their early independently released singles, entitled
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Tous nos groupes préférés sont de vieux groupes éteints, à part Motorhead, les Cramps, les Banshees, et les Psychedelic Furs (
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their old band? It's like two ex-members of the Mission going off and naming themselves as the Missionaries. It's a bit cheap.
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Bricheno left by the end of the year and was replaced in 1993 by Adam Pearson. Pearson was the only guitarist on the single "
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The Sisters of Mercy logo, version from 1990 featuring original head and star logo adapted from Gray's Anatomy textbook 1858
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In late 1983, following the highly successful "Temple of Love" single, the band signed a contract with major record label
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In late 1997, the contract with EastWest was terminated, after the company agreed to accept material recorded under the
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Few of our contemporaries have got a true dimension. The Banshees, the Psychedelic Furs. The other bands are not honest
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All of our favorite bands are old, dead bands apart from Motorhead, the Cramps, the Banshees, and the Psychedelic Furs
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Following the release, the official Sisters of Mercy website contained the same "update" for several years:
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with Haza and Tony James, marking the final time the recording line-up for Vision Thing shared the stage.
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Under the insistence of the record company the band re-recorded their early single "Temple of Love" (with
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portable PCs, which had to be scrapped when it became impossible to maintain them because of a lack of
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The Sisters of Mercy ceased recording activity in the early 1990s, when they went on strike against
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When Adams and Hussey left the band, they were replaced by the American singer and bass guitarist
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also proved to be invaluable as the Sisters set out to record their first full-length album. The
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S900 and S1000 samplers. An Akai S3200 has been used as studio equipment. Soon after, the first
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In a 2011 interview with a New Zealand radio station, Eldritch said Doktor Avalanche was now a
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In 2023, Smith was fired on the first day of their Autumn 2023 European tour. Consequently,
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in 1987 and it marked another change of direction, this time towards guitar-oriented rock.
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Their live performances featured many cover versions: among those, a medley consisting of "
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Andrew Eldritch, "Justice and the Two-Way Street", Underneath the Rock, Issue No. 5, 1992.
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With increased financial resources from sale of the album, the Doktor was upgraded to a
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Whilst the band enjoys a considerable fan base with overlapping interests in so-called
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among his early influences. According to Jennifer Park, the band have also mentioned
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In June 1992, Eldritch dismissed Boyd Steemson, the band's manager of ten years.
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played keyboard in the band but departed due to rarely turning up to practice.
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album, released in October 1990, produced by Eldritch (one song, the single "
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Andreas Bruhn, "Alone Again, or", Underneath the Rock, Issue No. 05, 1992.
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Hot Press - Music News, Reviews, Interviews plus Pop Culture and Politics
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This article is about the rock band. For the religious organisation, see
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Recent history, developments and ongoing touring activity (2005–present)
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Jennifer Park, "Melancholy and the Macabre: Gothic Rock and Fashion,"
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that's not bad for an album." And Max said, "No, that's for one song."
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In 1996, the band was revived for several gigs supporting the
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Feud with EastWest Records and continued activity (1993–2005)
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DR-55 ("Doctor Rhythm"); the Doktor was later replaced by a
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The band did not play live during this period, but did mime
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In 1995, Eldritch remixed two songs for the German group
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pub and brought into the band in April 1989; bassist
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on bass, while Eldritch's drumming was replaced by a
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The group has released three original studio albums:
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The Sisters of Mercy performing on the main stage of Spirit of Burgas, Bulgaria, August 2008
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post-punk
new wave
Merciful Release
WEA
Elektra
East West
Rhino
The Sisterhood
the Mission
SSV
Ghost Dance
Andrew Eldritch
Ben Christo
Kai
Chris Catalyst
members
www.the-sisters-of-mercy.com
Leeds
WEA
First and Last and Always
Floodland
Vision Thing

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