Tune In - Turn Off - Burn Out

Tune In ... Turn Off ... Burn Out ...

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Tune In, Turn Off, Burn Out - Cover (front)

Tune In, Turn Off, Burn Out - Cover (back)

Tune In, Turn Off, Burn Out - Picture Disc (front)

Tune In, Turn Off, Burn Out - Picture Disc (back)

A live bootleg from The Sisters of Mercy's 1985 Tune In - Turn On - Burn Out Tour .... Although, the band didn't know it at the time,

this was to be the last gig of The Sisters of Mercy in their First and Last and Always formation in their spiritual hometown of Leeds.

Release Notes

Tune In, Turn Off, Burn Out - Cover (spine)

Label: Lounging Records / Skeleton Songs Ltd

Catalogue#: TUNE IN

Format: 12" vinyl LP - Picture Disc

Released: 1985 (Germany)

Tune In, Turn Off, Burn Out
- September Songs label (Side One)

Tune In, Turn Off, Burn Out
- September Songs label (Side Two)

Editions

This bootleg was released in basically two editions.

The first edition is a black 12" vinyl LP coming in a black cardboard cover with a large Walk Away logo

in a square and the bootleg title Tune In ... Turn Off ... Burn Out ... in red print on it.

The back cover notes a track list, the band line-up and various details about the release:

Recorded Live In Leeds University 16/3/85.

Produced And Published By

Skeleton Songs Ltd.

Keep the fire burning...

And in very small letters:

Coverproduction Atlan Prod.

Realisation Robert-Jo

On the spine - like on the cover back - the article of the band's name is omitted:

Sisters Of Mercy - Tune in... Turn off... Burn out...

Most of the vinyls have September Songs labels.

The colours of these labels vary; most likely the first ones have different pale colours on side one and two.

Later copies have yellow September Songs labels on both sides.

Issues with plain white labels are known to exist as well.

Run-out grooves: TUNE IN/A, TUNE IN /B

A further edition was a picture disc coming in a transparent plastic sleeve.

On side one is a picture of the front cover of the first edition and on the other side a picture of the cover back.

According to the Reverberation Across The Nation Discography Booklet, this picture disc was a limited edition of 300 copies.

Beyond these "regular" issues, a unique Swingin' Pig Records pressing has surfaced recently.

For more information about this one, see the details and pictures down below.

Tune In, Turn Off, Burn Out
- Yellow September Songs label (Side One)

Tune In, Turn Off, Burn Out - Overview

Tune In, Turn Off, Burn Out
- Yellow September Songs label (Side Two)

Source

Originally recorded live at Leeds University, 16 March 1985

This recording is far from complete.

Train, Marian, No Time To Cry, Possession, Walk Away, Burn, Emma,

Amphetamine Logic, A Rock And A Hard Place , Floorshow and Gimme Shelter

are missing.

On the other hand, this was one of the few concerts were Nine While Nine was performed live and the track is included to the present album as well.

The same content is available on the other 12" vinyl bootleg-LPs Ghostriderz, the very rare Ghost Riders and Live At Leeds, while the present one seems to have been released first.

A CD-bootleg of the same concert was issued in 1991, see Tune In... Turn Off... Burn Out...

Some audience recordings from this concert are also in circulation among the fanbase.

Track List

Side One	Side Two
A1 First And Last And Always	B1 Nine While Nine
A2 Body And Soul	B2 Knockin' On Heaven's Door
A3 Alice	B3 Ghostrider
A4 Body Electric	B4 Louie Louie

For recent price developments of the picture disc see sistersbootlegs/Tune in, Turn off, price developments of all of the present releases are @popsike/Tune in... Turn Off...