European Summer Festivals 2019

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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.

In January 2019, 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 this year and speculations started about who might be the guitarist of choice
to replace him.



This page is Work in Progress and going to be extended as soon as ever possible






Band/Line-Up


Tour Schedule

Finally six gigs, five countries ... apparently only few audience recordings were made, but there are videos from the gigs under 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
  
13/07/2019 - doctor music festival 2019 - Escalarre - Vall D'Aneu - Lleida / Pyrenees - Spain
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 former 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 and Venoge head-and-star-logo t-shirts with the individual concert date on the back were printed. Whether this was the
case for other 2019 festival gigs is not known so far.

Merchandise stall at Hammafest Hamburg with concert-date t-shirt
Venoge Concert Date T-Shirts