40th Stage Anniversary Special Gigs 2021

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Announcement of the 40th Anniversary gigs with support acts


10-12 September 2021 - Roundhouse, London, UK



Unfortunately, the second year of the corona pandemic again shattered all plans for a worldwide tour on the occasion of The Sisters of Mercy's 40th Stage Anniversary in 2021. On March 9th, 2021, eventually, some belated anniversary festivities were announced in the form of an extended three-gig weekend in London at the Roundhouse later on that year.

Some interviews with Andrew Eldritch and Ben Christo were conducted in the days before the gigs by Mark Andrews, who in this respect represented the online music mag Louder.

For each of the three days The Sisters of Mercy would bring a different support act with them.
The formerly introduced new songs of 2019 and 2020 were played every evening. Further details on setlists and the distribution of songs are here in the statistics section.

Last but not least, the merchandise front also held quite some surprises arriving with fully new designs.


New Roundhouse Logo.JPG

Band / Line-up



Welcome displays at the Roundhouse


Tour Schedule

UK only
... which might sound disappointing at first sight, but these were the first gigs of that size allowed in the UK (or Europe, actually) after more than a year of on/off-lockdowns, contact restrictions under homeschooling and home office conditions, travel bans, regular testing, vaccinations, meticulously monitored death rates and uncounted ruined existences all over the culture industy (and not only there). Accordingly, the venue welcomed its visitors with large displays hanging from the ceiling in the foyer like the one here on the right side. And the audiences were likewise grateful and enthralled.

Support act on Day One: Jesus Jones


Support act on Day Two: A.A.WILLIAMS


Support act on Day Three: I Like Trains



Some Statistics

Still no sign of further elaborations on Kickline and also not of Better Reptile. The other two songs introduced at TRIX in Antwerp 2019 by Near Meth Experience, the meanwhile titled Instrumental 86 and Show Me On The Doll now shortened to Show Me, were played again. Never Land (a fragment), last heard in 2016, and Summer, since 2017 seen only once at a summer festival in 2019, were back on the setlist and audibly more welcomed in the videos than other songs so missed a minute before... Anyway, every concert started with a different opening track and presented a different combination of 19 songs. In total, 24 songs were performed which included I Will Call You and But Genevieve of 2020 on all three days and Black Sail twice. Remarkably the Vision Thing album tracks Doctor Jeep / Detonation Boulevard, Something Fast and Vision Thing were each only played once in the course of the three sets.

   Song       Total
    (Encore)
 
     Song       Total
    (Encore)
 
     Song       Total
    (Encore)
 
   But Genevieve    3    (1)      Alice    3    (--)      I Was Wrong    3    (--)  
   Lucretia, My Reflection      3    (2)      Dominion / Mother Russia       3    (--)      Flood II    3    (--)  
   More    3    (2)           Show Me       2    (--)        
   Ribbons    3    (--)      Summer       2    (--)          Never Land (a fragment)      3    (3)     
   Crash And Burn    2    (--)      Instrumental 86       3    (--)      Something Fast    --    (1)  
   Doctor Jeep / Detonation Boulevard       1    (--)      Marian    3    (--)      Vision Thing    --    (1)  
   No Time To Cry    2    (--)      First And Last And Always      2    (1)         Temple Of Love    3    (3)  
   I Will Call You      3    (--)      Black Sail    2    (--)      This Corrosion    3    (3)     



This page is Work in Progress and going to be extended as soon as ever possible


Merchandise

Apart from various stuff available already during the past tours and still on offer at The Sisters of Mercy's Offical Online Merchandise Store at the time like the FALAA mugs, crescent logo tote bags and MR loge dog tags, a whole new series of seven freshly designed lyrics t-shirts plus an according Roundhouse 2021 gigs t-shirt of a similar design appeared.
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First And Last And Always Mug
First And Last And Always Mug
Tote Bag
Official Dog Tag (front)
Official Dog Tag (back)
The Sisters Merchenandise stall at the Roundhouse in 2021
2021 Tour T-Sirt (front)
2021 Roundhouse T-shirt Logo
2021 Roundhouse T-shirt (back)
2021 02 Life Is Short (front).jpg
2021 02 Life Is Short (back).jpg
2021 03 Tunnel Vision And The Scars To Prove It (front).jpg
2021 03 Tunnel Vision (back).jpg
2021 04 In The Metal And Blood (front).jpg
2021 04 In The Metal And Blood (back).jpg
2021 05 Creatures Of Tinsel And Gauze (front).jpg
2021 05 Creatures Of Tinsel (back).jpg
2021 06 When I Stand And Raise My Hand (front).jpg
2021 06 When I Stand (back).jpg
2021 07 We Will Steal What We Cannot Buy (front).jpg
2021 07 We Will Steal (back).jpg
2021 08 Green Ray Girlie.jpg
2021 Roundhouse Unofficial T-Shirt Logo Front.jpg
2021 Roundhouse Unofficial T-Shirt Back.jpg