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A Brief Overview

The Sisters of Mercy are a rock band that came out of the British post punk scene in 1980-1981.

The band cited Leonard Cohen, The Stooges, Suicide and Motörhead as among their influences. The group has made three original studio albums, of which the last was released in 1990.

Currently, the band is kept alive as a touring outfit. The only original member to survive the band's numerous lineup changes is singer and songwriter Andrew Eldritch (even Doktor Avalanche, the drum-machine, is not an original member). All of the other original members had left the group by 1985, the same year as their first studio album, First and Last and Always, was released. At the time of the second Sisters album, the majestic Floodland (1987), The Sisters were essentially a studio-bound outfit, although by the time of Vision Thing (1990) Eldritch had again formed a fully-working band to take the album on the road. This incarnation was short-lived, and the band have toured irregularly with a variety of personnel since.

The band is one of the most popular and influential among the gothic rock scene, although since the late 1980s Eldritch has tried to disassociate both himself and the band from that scene.

Recent Events

Under the title of Ocean To Ocean the latest world-wide tour started in Autumn 2008 with 26 concerts in the USA and continued from February 2009 on as Mechanised Europe with a further 40 gigs all over Europe, including Russia, the Middle East (Lebanon, Israel) and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Peru).

On August 13th, 2010 The Sisters of Mercy finished their Europe 2010 Tour of England, Belgium and Germany with a concert in Sibiu (Hermannstadt), Romania.

For The Sisters' 2011 XXX 30th Anniversary Tour dates, please see the Current Events page.

Those of you who are in or around Leeds, might find something of interest in the Where Were You?: Leeds Music History Exhibition exhibition in the gallery underneath Leeds Town Hall this month. The exhibition starts on Thursday, 11th August and finishes on Saturday, 27th August 2011 and admission is free. For more information see this article...

For those unable to visit the exhibition, the Heartland Forum has a few pictures and some more info.


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