Sisters 2017
The Sisters' touring activities in 2017 began with two warm-up festival gigs, the first one in Switzerland at Rock Oz'Arènes Festival, Avenches and the second one at The Leveller's Beautiful Days Festival in Devon, UK. The following club tour started with two double-gigs at London Roundhouse and Brussel's Anciennce Belgiue, followed by DOCKS in Hamburg, Germany.
Opening acts were Therapy? for the London and Brussels concerts, and The Membranes for all other European gigs.
Next on the schedule came three long-awaited and accordingly sold-out concerts in Sweden at Trädgår'n, Gothenburg, Fryshuset Arenan, Stockholm and KM (Kulturbolaget) in Malmö, another stop in Berlin and two in gigs in Poland. On that occasion The Sisters of Mercy played the city of Gdańsk (Danzig) for the first time at Klub B90. The second Polish concert took place at Progresja, Warsaw and was also sold out.
From there, The Sisters machine rocked over Dresden and Stuttgart to Budapest, Hungary with its lovely A38 Ship and another gig at the Gasometer in Vienna, Austria. After a last stopover in Germany with performances in Wiesbaden and Dortmund, the band visited Rockhal, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg and finally, as the last gig in Europe of this tour the Paradiso in Amsterdam, NL.
More than two thirds of the 21 concerts all over Europe sold out. An additional concert @Barby Club in Tel Aviv, Israel early in October completed The Sisters' travels for the year. Venue capacities ranged from over 3,000 to around 300.
As a surprise guest Lisa Cuthbert appeared on additional vocals during the encores in Dresden, Stuttgart and Amsterdam.
With regard to merchandise and shirts, a new logo design appeared and some new items were offered. Detailed information on these as well as some picture are here down below under Shirts and Merchandise.
| This page is Work in Progress and going to be extended as soon as ever possible |
Band/Line-Up
- Andrew Eldritch - Vocals
- Chris Catalyst - Guitars, Backing Vocals
- Ben Christo - Guitars, Backing Vocals
- Doktor Avalanche - Drums, Bass
- Ravey Davey - The Nurse
Tour Schedule
*** with Lisa Cuthbert on additional vocals during encores
For further information about the individual gigs and recordings, please see the according links and/or check the Sisters 2017 Section @The Heartland Forums.
Shirts and Merchandise
Apart from the current standard t-shirts with the new logo and the old 1985 one, as well as the work shirt and some Reptile House EP, Utterly Bastard Groovie, and recent No Cause t.shirts and hoodies, a new design was created for this tour showing the new logo half-down framed with rectangularly limited orange rays. The according design was used for the t-shirt and a new mug, the latter without a print underneath and in a slightly slimmer more elegant form. A hoodie with that new design has a mixture of the former "sisters" script cut off by half and the according logo on the front, while the back has the new design in, however, white print. A new "Leeds England Enamel Badge" and a "Merciful Release Cast Badge" were introduced as well, both 2.5 centimetre in diameter. Please check the pictures below for further details. All of these items are currently still available at The Sisters Online Merchandise Service.
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Further Info and Stuff
