UK&Europe October Tour 2015
A short and brilliant tour, with Andrew Eldritch reaching a new high in his vocal and perfoming capacities.
During this tour, The Sisters of Mercy covered the Larry Wallis song Police Car,
and - for the first time ever - performed the Floodland track 1959 in full length live !
Support act were Black Moth, see down below.
Tour Schedule
The tour was preceeded by a summer festival appearance at:
- Sat, 01-Aug-2015 Tienen - Belgium - Groote Markt - Suikerrock Festival 2015
Tour Gigs
- Mon, 12-Oct-2015: Glasgow - Scotland - O2 ABC
- Wed, 14-Oct-2015: Leeds - England - Beckett University - Leeds Beckett Students' Union
- Thu, 15-Oct-2015: Nottingham - England - Rock City
- Sat, 17-Oct-2015: Manchester - England - The Ritz
- Sun, 18-Oct-2015: London - England - Roundhouse
- Mon, 19-Oct-2015: Antwerp - Belgium - Muziekcentrum Trix
- Wed, 21-Oct-2015: Cologne - Germany -
Live Music Hall- moved to Palladium - rescheduled to 8 Dec 2015
- Thu, 22-Oct-2015: Berlin - Germany - C-Halle / Columbiahalle - rescheduled to 9 Dec 2015
- Sat, 24-Oct-2015: Athens - Greece -
Fuzz Club- moved to Iera Odos
- - rescheduled to 6 Dec 2015 and moved again to Gazi Music Hall
Unfortunately, almost the whole band caught a viral laryngitis.
The last three gigs (Germany and Greece) of the so far gorgeous tour had to be cancelled
and were rescheduled as follows:
Rescheduled Dates
- Sun, 06-Dec-2015: Athens - Greece -
Iera Odos- moved to Gazi Music Hall
- Tue, 08-Dec-2015: Cologne - Germany - Palladium - rescheduled again to March 8th, 2016
- Wed, 09-Dec-2015: Berlin - Germany - C-Halle / Columbiahalle - rescheduled again to March 10th, 2016
As if this had not been bad enough, Andrew Eldritch fell back ill after the rescheduled gig in Athens, Greece and
the concerts in Germany were postponed again to March 2016 forming the starting gigs of the Europe Spring Tour 2016.
Band / Line-up
- Andrew Eldritch - vocals
- Chris Catalyst - guitars, backing vocals
- Ben Christo - guitars, backing vocals
- Doktor Avalanche - drums, bass
- Ravey Davey - nurse
Support Act
Support act for the whole of this tour were Black Moth.
Black Moth are a Leeds-based rock band founded in 2010.
Check here for their discography @discogs.
Funny enough, only German wikipedia has a page about them.
Well ok, there's a page on the English wikipedia now there, too.
Black Moth are:
- Harriet Bevan - vocals
- Jim Swainston - guitar
- Nico Carew - guitar (left the band in the meantime).
- Dave Vachon - bass
- Dominic McCready - drums
Our thanks go to the all dedicated contributors of these wonderful videos here and all over the pages around this tour.
Check their channels and you will find more great treasures...
