UK&Europe October Tour 2015
A short and brilliant tour, with Andrew Eldritch reaching a new high in his vocal and perfoming capacities.
During this tour, The Sisters of Mercy covered the Larry Wallis song Police Car,
and - for the first time ever - performed the Floodland track 1959 in full length live !
Support act were Black Moth.
Tour Schedule
The tour was preceeded by a summer festival appearance at:
- Sat, 01-Aug-2015 Tienen - Belgium - Groote Markt - Suikerrock Festival 2015
Tour Gigs
- Mon, 12-Oct-2015: Glasgow - Scotland - O2 ABC
- Wed, 14-Oct-2015: Leeds - England - Beckett University - Leeds Beckett Students' Union
- Thu, 15-Oct-2015: Nottingham - England - Rock City
- Sat, 17-Oct-2015: Manchester - England - The Ritz
- Sun, 18-Oct-2015: London - England - Roundhouse
- Mon, 19-Oct-2015: Antwerp - Belgium - Muziekcentrum Trix
- Wed, 21-Oct-2015: Cologne - Germany -
Live Music Hall- moved to Palladium - rescheduled to December 8th, 2015
- Thu, 22-Oct-2015: Berlin - Germany - C-Halle / Columbiahalle - rescheduled to December 9th, 2015
- Sat, 24-Oct-2015: Athens - Greece -
Fuzz Club- moved to Iera Odos - rescheduled to December 6th, 2015
Unfortunately, almost the whole band caught a viral laryngitis.
The last three gigs (Germany and Greece) of the so far gorgeous tour had to be cancelled and were rescheduled as follows:
Rescheduled Dates
- Sun, 06-Dec-2015: Athens - Greece -
Iera Odos- moved to Gazi Music Hall
- Tue, 08-Dec-2015: Cologne - Germany - Palladium - rescheduled again to March 8th, 2016
- Wed, 09-Dec-2015: Berlin - Germany - C-Halle / Columbiahalle - rescheduled again to March 10th, 2016
As if it had not been bad enough, Andrew Eldritch fell back ill after the rescheduled gig in Athens, Greece and
the concerts in Germany were postponed again to March 2016 forming the starting gigs of the Europe Spring Tour 2016.
Band / Line-up
- Andrew Eldritch - vocals
- Chris Catalyst - guitars, backing vocals
- Ben Christo - guitars, backing vocals
- Doktor Avalanche - drums, bass
- Ravey Davey - nurse
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