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The Damage Is Done - Cover of the first edition (front)

The Damage Is Done - Cover of the second edition (front)

The Damage Is Done - Cover of the second edition (back)

The Damage Is Done - Label with a pink shading

The Damage Is Done - Cover and vinyl of the second edition (overview)

This 12" bootleg features basically two concerts of The Sisters of Mercy from different eras of the bands evolution through their early days.

Side A contains one of the first concerts ever, that was performed in 1981, and gives - as a further incentive - a 1984 version of The Sisters cover of Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, a track that went down very well with the audiences at the time, but was performed live only on very few occasions.

Side B features part of a concert at Odeon, Münster, Germany in 1983 during the Trans-Europe Excess Tour.



Release Notes

• Label: Laughing Death Records

• Catalogue#: DA-957

• Format: 12" vinyl LP

• Released: 1987

• Runout -Groove: DA-1 - 957 A, DA 2 - 957 B

Remarks

• Back cover notes:

"Side One is Recorded at a Live Session in Leeds at 7. 05. 1981

Side Two is Recorded Live in Münster at 1. 09. 1983

Tape and Artwork by Clever Man

Special Thanks to: Uschi the Bisquit, Clever Man, Marion and all

lovely Girls over the World, we love them all.

Laughing Death Records, London w1, Donnington Street"

• Errata:

A1 - The Damage Done is listed as "Damage Done"

A3 - Teachers/Adrenochrome is listed as two songs

A5 - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) is changed to "Gimme Gimme your Love"

B2 - Valentine is misspelt Valentime

B3 - Anaconda is not listed

• Part of the cover art is a hand drawn Merciful Release logo. It appears on the front as well as on the back.

Editions
This bootleg is available in two editions:

First edition:

Red/brown printed cover (front and back)

Allegedly limited to 200, not numbered

Cover opens on the left side

Second edition:

Blue printed cover (front and back)

Allegedly limited to 1000, not numbered

Cover opens normal

• The vinyls of both editions have plain white labels, sometimes with a very soft pink shading.

• The sound quality of side A is - like other Gary Marx Demo Tape rerecordings - quite good.

On the other hand, the sound quality of side B is rather fair.

• A strictly limited box set titled The Damage Is Done Part 1 & 2" does exist as well

and includes an LP, a cassette, an inlay sheet and a discography booklet.

The content of the LP is identical to the present one, but the cover and the design of the box differ completely.

Sources

• A1 - A4 were recorded live on 4 May 1981 at St John's Hall, Leeds, England

• A5 was recorded live on 13 April 1984 at Danceteria, New York, USA

• Side B was recorded on 1 September 1983 at Odeon, Münster, West Germany

This recording is not complete and the order of the songs does not match the set list.

As far as we know, the before mentioned box set The Damage Is Done Part 1 & 2 does features the whole concert, as the missing songs are recorded on the cassette. Nevertheless, the order of tracks there is not the one we think correct, neither.

For recent price developments see sistersbootlegs/thedamageisdone or popsike/the damage is done.

Track List

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