Live
One of the older 7" bootleg singles, some say it even was the first Sisters bootleg ever. The record features two songs from the concert at Danceteria, New York, USA on the 13th of April 1984.
Especially the track on side B Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) - a cover version of the according ABBA song - was played live only few times and is a track very rarely heard from The Sisters of Mercy, who also never released this song officially. Therefore, this bootleg was quite sought after at the time of its appearance.
Over the decades after the release of "LIVE", several other bootlegs have emerged that feature this very song, see for example ECHOES VOL. II or Time To Cry. These circumstances have lowered the former extraordinariness of the present single.
Its erstwhile reputation is, however, well reflected in the discography booklet of the Reverberation Across The Nation bootleg.
For recent price developments see Sistersbootlegs/Live (New York 84).
Release Notes
- Label: unknown
- Catalog#: none
- Format: 7" vinyl single
- Date of release: 1984
- Run-out grooves: 0-A, O-B
Remarks
- The tracks on both sides of this single have introductions before the songs.
- Side A features a conversation in Russian language concerning one of the Sputnik space programms.
- The intro to side B is a radio voice signal taken from a NASA project.
- On the cover front, the article of the band's name is missing.
- The front coverart shows a black and white photo of the statue "Das Schicksal" (engl. The Destiny)
- created in 1905 by German skulptor Hugo Lederer. The statue currently resides at Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany.
- Back cover notes:
- LIVE AT THE DANCETERIA, NEW YORK
- 140484 02:00 AM
- LIMITED EDITION NO. ###
- GTP / GPA
- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) is listed as "GIMME GIMME YOUR LOVE"
This bootleg exists in 3 editions:
- The first edition is limited to 500 copies and handnumbered in white letters.
- The vinyl has a large centrehole with plain white labels and comes in a printed cover.
- Runouts: 0-A / 0-B
- The second edition is also limited, but we do not know to what number.
- The cover is also handnumbered, this time in silver letters, and consists of a copy of the first edition on thin paper.
- Here too, the vinyls come with a large centrehole, mostly with plain green-blue labels, although some copies don't have labels at all.
- Runouts: 0-A / 0-B
- The third edition is a mere reprint coming in only a generic white cut-out sleeve.
- Vinyls have large centreholes and white labels marked with "1" and "2".
- The runouts are blank.
Source
- Both songs were recorded at the concert at the Danceteria, New York, USA on the 13th of April 1984.
Track List
Additional Pictures
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