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Revision as of 12:24, 11 February 2020
In December 2018, after almost a year of silence, The Sisters of Mercy gradually announced various
summer festival performances all over Europe in 2019. Finally, seven concerts were envisaged in
total. To everyone's surprise the first concert was scheduled for France followed by Spain, Germany,
Austria, Switzerland and Portugal.
Almost at the same time announcements trickled in of a worldwide club tour in autum 2019.
However, as the festival events drew near it showed that Chris Catalyst would not be available
for touring with The Sisters of Mercy that year and speculations started about who would be there to replace him.
Finally, the guitarist of choice turned out to be Dylan Smith, an Australian instrumentalist and composer and a friend
of Ben Christo's. He played his first concert with The Sisters of Mercy on 22 June 2019 at HELLFEST 2019 in France.
And what was more, The Sisters did not only turn up with a new guitarist,
confirmed by a photo of him on their website, they even announced the titles
of five new songs on their Live News Page. However, none of these songs
were performed during the festival tour.
Band/Line-Up
- Andrew Eldritch - vocals
- Ben Christo - guitars, backing vocals
- Dylan Smith - guitars, backing vocals
- Doktor Avalanche - drums, bass, keyboared
- Ravey Davey - The Nurse
Tour Schedule
Finally six gigs, five countries ... apparently only few audience recordings were made, but there are videos from the gigs in the pages for each date as they were available.
| DATE / EVENT / LOCATION | RECORDED |
| 22/06/2019 - Hellfest 2019 - Clisson (near Nantes) - France The first ever appearance of The Sisters of Mercy at a festival in France took place late at night between 1:05am and 02:05am of June 23rd to be exact |
FULL SHOW VIDEO |
| Unfortunately, the revival of this famous festival first got moved from the Pryrenees to Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, a racecourse in Montemeló near Barcelona, and then had to be fully cancelled and given up by the organisers. | |
| 31/07/2019 - W:O:A - Wacken Open Air Festival - Wacken - Germany Being invited to play at the Wacken Open Air for the first time, The Sisters presented their show between 10:45pm and 11:45pm on the W:E:T Stage. | |
| 09/08/2019 - PictureOn Festival 2019 - Bildein - Austria The Sisters of Mercy played on Day One of this two-day festival from 10:05 to 11:35 pm. | |
| 16/08/2019 - Hammaburg Fest 2019 - Hamburg - Germany The Sisters of Mercy headlined this festival in their once hometown of Hamburg. |
POSSIBLY |
| 21/08/2019 - Venoge Festival 2019 - Penthalaz - Vaud - Switzerland There's nothing but a regular stop in Switzerland for another festival gig... So after Rock Oz'Arènes in Avanches 2017, it was Venoge in 2019. |
YES |
| 23/08/2019 - Vilar De Mouros Festival 2019 - Vilar De Mouros - Caminha - Portugal The oldest rock festival in Portugal welcomed The Sisters of Mercy on Day 2 of that year's three-day event. | |
Further information on the individual gigs, including reviews, photos and recordings can be found under the according links
and/or in the Sisters 2019 Section @The Heartland Forums.
Shirts and Merchandise
A view of The Sisters' merchandise stand in Hamburg (as well as reports from the fanbase) showed that there was no wide range of or any new mechandise for this tour.
With one exception - for the concerts in Hamburg, Bildein, Venoge and Vilar De Mouros head-and-star-logo t-shirts with the individual concert date on the back were printed.
Whether this was the case for the other 2019 festival gigs in at Hellfest and W:O:A as well is not known. Many thanks for the first series of the below photos to poison-door-
net and Eggi. The second series of pictures is taken from The Sisters of Mercy's Offical Online Merchandise Store, where these and other items are available.
Song Statistics
The setlist of this tour consisted mainly of the 15 songs performed at Hellfest 2019 in France. The following gig in the forerun of Wacken Open Air 2019, Germany saw Lucretia replaced by Marian. But both tracks remained part of all further festival gigs that year. As The Sisters of Mercy headlined Day One of the Bildein PictureOn Festival in Austria allowing for a longer stage time, Summer, Flood II and Something Fast were added to the set. The following Hammaburg Fest in Hamburg, Germany saw the initial set plus Marian complemented by Flood II for which Arms was taken off. The final two gigs at Venoge Festival, Switzerland and in Vilar de Mouros, Portugal came without both Flood II and Arms.
| Song | Times Played |
Song | Times Played |
Song | Times Played | ||
| More | 6 | Ribbons | 6 | Doctor Jeep / Detonation Boulevard | 6 | ||
| Crash And Burn | 6 | No Time To Cry | 6 | Alice | 6 | ||
| First And Last And Always | 6 | Marian | 5 | We Are The Same, Susanne | 6 | ||
| Dominion / Mother Russia | 6 | When You Don't See Me | 6 | Lucretia, My Reflection | 5 | ||
| Vision Thing | 6 | Temple Of Love | 6 | This Corrosion | 6 | ||
| Arms | 3 | Flood II | 2 | Summer | 1 | ||
| Something Fast | 1 |
