The Sexton Was Here

The Sexton Was Here - Coffin-shaped Box

The Sexton Was Here - Coffin-shaped Box (content)

This 2CD box comes in the shape of a cardboard coffin, filled with quite a load of everyday utilities that all feature a "Sisters of Mercy" print in a very baroque font.

Release Notes

• Label: Poetry In Motion

• Catalogue#: 03013 / Lim ES3013

• Format: 2 × CD Coffin Box Set

• Released: 1993 (Italy)

Sources / Recording Notes

• Disc 1 Germany 1991-05-07, Böblingen Sporthalle

The reccorcing on CD 1 is the same as on No Mercy - POET 9211

• Disc 2 recorded "live in U.S.A. 1991"

CD 2 features the same recording as Suffer In Vain - POET 9215

• see also Black Album - Poet 9205 / 9211

Remarks

• This box set is a limited edition of 300 copies.

• The contents are:

2 factory pressed discs,

1 pasteboard card sized 15x12cm with the track list

Live In The Temple of Love - CD Cover (front)

1 numbered certificate denoted as an "Identification-Card"

1 black shopping (tote) cloth bag (16" x 16" / 39 x 41cm) with a golden print

   of the bandname in a rather baroque font and the bootleg title in a different font

1 black key pouch or purse with the same golden print

1 disposable gold-coloured "Tokai" lighter with the same print, though, black as the lighter is golden

1 red button showing a clipart of a skull with hat on and a bone between his teeth

   plus again the bandname in that before mentioned black font.

• All these items are stored in a unique custom coffin-shaped box (23x12,8x2,5cm pasteboard)

with a comprehensive tracklist and serial number (xx / 300) printed on the back.

• The cover front shows the same picture of Andrew Eldritch singing

as was used for the Live In The Temple Of Love CD,

which, btw, also features the concert in Böblingen, Germany that is here on CD 1

For recent price developments see sistersbootlegs/thesextonwashere...

Track Lists

CD 1   -   Total Running Time: 73:52		CD 2   -   Total Running Time: 71:08
Track	Duration	Track	Duration
1.  Body And Soul	3:29	1.  First And Last And Always	3:55
2.  Alice	3:31	2.  Lucretia, My Reflection	5:01
3.  Dominion / Mother Russia	7:32	3.  Body And Soul	3:20
4.  Ribbons	4:14	4.  Ribbons	3:52
5.  Amphetamine Logic	4:06	5.  Alice	3:25
6.  Detonation Boulevard	3:39	6.  Dominion / Mother Russia	7:24
7.  This Corrosion	7:41	7.  Amphetamine Logic	4:02
8.  Gimme Shelter	5:51	8.   Detonation Boulevard	3:37
9.  Something Fast	2:41	9.  Marian	4:31
10.  Jolene	2:49	10.  Stop Draggin' My Heart Around	3:03
11.  Marian	4:39	11.  Gimme Shelter	5:56
12  Flood II	5:36	12.  Flood II	5:10
13.  Temple Of Love	7:45	13.  Temple Of Love	8:21
14.  Valentine	4:42	14.  This Corrosion	7:53
15.  Vision Thing	4:31

Additional Pictures

-Please click into images for possibly larger views -

The Sexton Was Here - Coffin-shaped Box (lid & bottom)

The Sexton Was Here Box Set - Tote Bag

The Sexton Was Here Box Set - Purse

The Sexton Was Here Box Set - Lighter