Bradford Manhattan 03-01-83 (complete)

An audience recording of the starting gig at The Manhattan, Bradford of The Sisters of Mercy's UK Spring Tour in 1983.

For a long time, this concert was believed to have taken place a day earlier, which is why almost all audience recording tapes and bootlegs traded at the time came with the wrong date. On top of that, these recordings - including the Rough Diamonds vinyl bootleg - were incomplete. The Sisters performance of Body Electric on that day is available only in the present recording. And even here it is lacking a few seconds at the end. So possibly, this recording is the original one on which all later bootlegs and trades are based, omitting Body Electric as it was not a perfect take.

Flyer announcing the gig - click into the file for a larger view -

Recording Data

• Taper: - unknown -

• Format: cassette, data (FLACs)

• Lineage:

C60 tape (master) --> (probably more tape generations)

--> C90 tape from record fair --> TDK SA90 tape

--> WAV --> Soundforge (normalise uneven L+R channels)

--> CDWave (split on sector boundaries) --> FLAC(6)

• Duration: 35:26 min.

• Sound Quality: 3-4

The flyer shown here was delivered with a data transfer of this recording circulated among the fanbase.

Track List

• 01 Kiss The Carpet

• 02 Floorshow

• 03 Adrenochrome

• 04 Alice

• 05 Watch

• 06 Valentine

• 07 Anaconda

• 08 Body Electric

• 09 Sister Ray