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Revision as of 08:33, 8 May 2015

The Sisters of Mercy's concert at Brixton Ace in June 1983 was recorded from the audience by various tapers, including at least one video taper.

This cassette right here is one of the results. For information about all known recordings see further down below under Existing Sources and Further Information

Typical Trading Cassette from back in the days,
featuring The Sisters of Mercy's concert of June 29th, 1983 at Brixton Ace


Recording Notes (cassette / data)

  • Taper: - unknown -
  • Catalogue#: none
  • Format: Cassette (unknown gen.) or data (FLACs)
  • Lineage of data version:
--> Cassette --> ION Tape2PC Deck --> Audacity
--> CD Wave --> TLH FLAC Level 6
  • Released: - unknown -



Remarks (cassette)

  • The cassette was bought at a record fair in late '86 / early '87
  • The cover art shows the typical features of bootleg trading cassettes of the time.
  • The venue is wrongly listed as "HAMM. PAL., i.e. Hammersmith Palais,
although it took - of course - place at Brixton Ace.
  • Various errors in the song titles - Jolene was incorrectly titled Joleen and
Adrenochrome wrongly noted as Adrenachrome




Live At Brixton Ace - First Edition

Existing Sources and Further Information

  • Vinyl bootlegs featuring this concert do exist in various editions,
see Live At Brixton Ace and also The Dark.
  • It is not known, which recording sourced the above mentioned cassette.
Live At Brixton Ace - Second Edition


At least four audience recordings from this concert exist:

Audience Recording 1 (version D.J)

  • Sound Quality: 4/5
  • Tracks:
Kiss The Carpet / Alice / Anaconda / Valentine / Burn / Jolene / Heartland /
Adrenochrome / Floorshow / Gimme Shelter / Emma / Body Electric


Live At Brixton Ace - Third Edition

Audience Recording 2 (version GEOF)

  • Sound Quality: 3-4
The quality of this recording is similar to the one used for the Live At Brixton Ace vinyl bootleg,
however, it is not 100% sure whether this recording is the source of the bootleg.
  • Tracks:
Kiss The Carpet / Alice / Anaconda / Valentine / Burn / Jolene / Heartland /
Adrenochrome / Floorshow / Gimme Shelter / Emma / Body Electric


Audience Recording 3 (version KAZ)

  • Sound Quality: 3 (Big Dolby)
  • Tracks:
Kiss The Carpet / Alice / Anaconda / Valentine / Burn / Jolene / Heartland /
Adrenochrome / Floorshow / Gimme Shelter / Emma / Body Electric


Audience Video Recording 4 - incomplete -

  • Taper: an unknown Italian girl
She also recorded the concert of The Smiths on that day.
In order to avoid flattening her battery she omitted some tracks.
  • Sound Quality: 4
  • Tracks:
Kiss The Carpet / Alice / Anaconda / Valentine / Burn is missing / Jolene (only partly) /
Heartland / Adrenochrome / Floorshow is missing / Gimme Shelter / Emma / Body Electric is missing.


Our thanks go to spiggymr7 for all the sound examples and plenty of the information used here.