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The Lights Shine Clear In The Sodium Haze
- Cover (front) with hand-numbering in pink colour

One of the very early bootlegs featuring mainly live tracks from 1983 and 1984,

as well as studio outtakes from The Sisters' second 7" single Body Electric.

Release Notes

• Label:

• Catalogue#: SM-002/003

• Run-outs: SM - 002/A et - SM - 002/B et - SM - 003/A et - SM - 003/B et

• Format: 2 × 12" vinyl LP

• Released: 1984

Remarks

• A limited-edition bootleg of 600 hand-numbered or unnumbered copies.

The hand-numbered copies have their numbers partly written in pink and partly in blue colour.

• The covers are basically white with a printed Merciful Release logo

and some basic information on the front as follows:

The Lights Shine Clear In The Sodium Haze
- Cover (front) without numbering

THE SISTERS OF MERCY

  the lights shine clear through the sodium haze

  

  LIVE IN DETMOLD 29/5/84

  

       I    anaconda side

      II    floorshow side

      III    gimme shelter side

     IV    sister ray side

  

  LIMITED EDITTION .../600

• Due to the Merciful Release logo on the cover front, this bootleg is often confused with the bootlegs

A Merciful Release, also known as Merciful Release, Live In Detmold or The Sisters Of Mercy,

although, that bootleg consists of only 1LP mainly featuring the gig @Hunky Dory in Detmold.

Beyond that, a further bootleg exists with the same content as A Merciful Release but with a very different coverart

from the one presented here, which is titled Mercyful Release.

The Lights Shine Clear In The Sodium Haze
- Cover (front) with green copy sheet numbered 600/600

• The cover back of the present one as well as of the one mentioned above (execpt Mercyful Release is plain white.

• Instead of the print, some issues have a coloured copy sheet glued to the cover front.

These copy sheets give exactly the same information in exactly the same style as is on the printed covers.

Covers have so far been seen with a copy sheet in red-brown (auburn) or in green (mint) colour.

Of the latter green ones, only 100 copies were made (501/600) as a second pressing.

These pressings seem to be numbered always as 600/600 and mostly come with a b/w insert sheet.

Some of them do not come with an additional inlay, while others do.

The Lights Shine Clear In The Sodium Haze
- Cover (front) with red-brown copy sheet numbered 600/600

• Most issues of this bootleg are pressed on clear multi-coloured splattered vinyl with white labels.

Versions with one clear blue vinyl and one multi-coloured splattered vinyl are also common.

More rarely, one can find issues coming with one white multi-coloured vinyl and one clear multi-coloured vinyl

• A copy sheet with venue announcement and track info is often included, and while not all copies have one,

some issues even come with two very similar but still different insert sheets.

Insert sheets also appear in different colours: b/w, red (auburn), blue, and (mint)green.

Bootlegs with low numbers (<100) often have a white insert sheet.

Track-info mistakes

• Walk Away is listed as "Kiss The Carpet"

• Emma (song) is misspelled as "Emely"

• D4 is mixed up with D5

Insert sheet notes (in German)

Sources

• A1-C4: Recorded live at Hunky Dory, Detmold, Germany, 29 May 1984
• D1: Recorded live at Odeon, Münster, Germany, 1 September 1983
• D2, D3: Studio outtakes from the 2nd official 7" single
• D4, D5: Recorded live at Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL, 28 August 1983

Track List

Additional Pictures

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