Thu, 17-Mar-1983

Brixton Ace, London, England

Part of The Sisters of Mercy's UK Spring Tour in 1983.

Other acts performing on that day included the Sex Gang Children, Look Back In Anger and Play Dead.

As you can see in the picture on the right, the evening was announced in the papers, while omitting the fact that

The Sisters of Mercy were also part of the event.

NOTE:   It has often been suggested - and stated on covers as well -

             that this concert formed the basis for various bootlegs like Halloween In Arkham or Carmina Burana.

             That assumption is wrong; the source for those bootlegs is another gig of The Sisters at Brixton Ace in February 1983.

Setlist

The Sisters' setlist for this gig is debated.

The present one is quoted from the Italian LIFE fan-book issued in 1988 which is widely perceived as quite inaccurate ...
For example: Poison Door and Walk Away were in fact released only in October 1984 on the Walk Away (single)
and got never ever performed live!!! No Time To Cry was even released in March 1985 on the No Time To Cry (single).

Insofar, we mention the below setlist only for reference and should be very glad, if any concluding clarification of the actual setlist would surface ...

1. Alice
2. Valentine
3. Anaconda
4. Body Electric
5. 1969
6. Sister Ray

   This particular section is awaiting expansion.

7. Poison Door
8. No Time To Cry
9. Walk Away
10. Emma
11. Jolene