Electric Garden

A 12" live bootleg-LP from the 1990ies ...

There is nothing much known about the release of this bootleg itself. The whole production appears to be relatively low-level with badly glued covers showing the logo in home-printer quality of back in those years. And also the labels are simple and do not give an further information. The reproduced audience recording sounds rather flat and shows some up and downs in the volume regulation, which finally gives the impression of an average sound quality of the end-product.

And that is a pity, given the definitely invaluable worth of the musical content of this bootleg with regard to the chronicle of music of the Sisters of Mercy and the band's history. Read more about that issue further down under Recording Notes.

Electric Garden - Cover (front)

Some Girls Wander By Mistake - Cover (front)

Release Notes

• Label: unknown

• Catalogue#: non

• Format: 12" vinyl LP

• Run-outs: Mercy A, Mercy B

• Released: after April 1992,

the release date of the official

2LP-compilation album

Some Girls Wander By Mistake

which served as a blueprint for

the front cover art work

of the present bootleg.

Electric Garden - Cover (back)

Remarks

• Pressed on black vinyl with plain white labels.

• The centre-hole of some of the vinyls is slightly too small.

• The album cover is black with white print.

• The artwork on front was culled from the Some Girls Wander By Mistake logo.

The text "SOME GIRLS WANDER BY MISTAKE" changed into

"ELECTRIC GARDEN  -  STOCKHOLM 26 OCTOBER 1983",

while the dates "80" and "83" were blanked.

• The back cover notes are just the track list an the venue dates.

• The only writen "hint" on the cover front and back about the interpreter of the LP

is the word "Sisters". On the spine "sisters of mercy" is printed in small letters.

Source

• Recored live on 26 October 1983 at Electric Garden, Stockholm, Sweden

The title of this bootleg it derived from the name of the venue.

• This is an incomplete recording, as Emma and Adrenochrome were performed just before Floorshow, but they are not included.

Electric Garden - Back cover notes

Track List

A1   Burn	B1   Floorshow
A2   Valentine	B2   Body Electric
A3   Anaconda	B3   Kiss The Carpet
A4   Temple Of Love	B4   Alice
A5   Heartland	B5   Sister Ray

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Recording Notes

• The band appeared on stage as a three men piece.

Later on, duing the Armageddon Tour there were a lot of concerts held this way,

but always in the line up Adams - Eldritch - Hussey.

The distinctiveness at this gig is that the line up was Adams - Eldritch - Marx.

• In the latter line up there were only 4 concerts played (ever and world wide).

The gigs were performed in Manchester, in Stockholm and two times in the USA, Los Angeles and San Francisco in September and October 1983.

These two months the band appeared with less members, because of the coincidence that Ben Gunn had already left the band,

but they were still waiting for Wayne Hussey to join them.

• To the concert in San Francisco there exists also a vinyl bootleg, the sought-after Tender Mercies LP.

Concluding, there are just these two live recordings saved on vinyl were Gary Marx is the only guitar player of the personnel.

• Due to (logistic) problems, the sound of the drum machine Doktor Avalanche was reproduced from a tape recorder during the whole concert.

Maybe this is the main reason for the "flatness" of the sound of the present recording,

but on the other hand this release is the only document on vinyl were Doktor Avalanche isn't recorded "live", but "playbacked".

Electric Garden - Black vinyl with plain white label

Some quotes from the gig

• Before Heartland:

From the audience: “Where’s the drummer ?”
Andrew: “He’s in the box. What’s in the basket?”

(The box refers to the tape recorder.)

• Before Floorshow referring to the circumstance of being just three band members:

“We’ve got a new guitarist who can’t be with us today, so next time we’ll be four people.
This is called “Floorshow” and it’s bloody good!”

(The new guitarist would be Wayne Hussey.)

• Before Body Electric:

From the audience: “1969!!!"
Andrew: "No, we don't play 1969 anymore.
                ... Body Electric"

(Confirming the message about this song from the famous concert at Brixton Ace half a year before.)

A few more bits of information around this bootleg and the according concert
at Electric Garden can als be found here at Heartland Forum ...