The Sisters of Mercy - Clutch Cargo's, Detroit, MI, USA - 16.04.1984 (Flac) 2021 REMASTER

 

 Thanks to borzage for sending me his remaster to share here.

- MULTIBAND REMASTER by the Digital Loyalist -

Thought i tried to remaster of this audience recording using some Multiband Compression as i already done with my previous torrents.

Vocals are a bit distorted but i think that's the way it was on stage and the remastering brought it up. Nevertheless i decided to leave it like that because it's such a great gig though quite noisy.

Thanks Foxtrotter.

Enjoy !
viv

PS
https://www.sisterswiki.org/Mon,_16-Apr-1984

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ORIGINAL INFO
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Another Master from Foxtrotter and his box-o-tapes
Clutch Cargo's held shows at St. Andrews Hall for awhile.

AudM>Audacity>TLH>Flac>Dime

01. Burn
02. Heartland (where's your drum)
03. Walk Away
04. Anaconda
05. Body & Soul
06. Floorshow
07. Emma
08. Adrenachrome
09. Alice
10. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie (slight cut in)
11. Body Electric
12. Sister Ray

RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Doornrosje, Nijmegen, The Netherlands - 05.06.1984 (Flac)

 

Thanks to Cyberbio for sharing this one on Dime.

Original info file:

Look at the encores and you know that this has been a special evening... Fix and a 17 minutes Ghostrider/Louie Louie.

Quality:

SOURCE: Cassette - ION Tape2PC - FLAC (level 8) - you

Tracks:

- Intro
- Burn
- Heartland
- Body And Soul
- Anaconda
- Walk Away
- Emma
- Floorshow
- Adrenochrome
- Alice
- Body Electric
- Gimme Shelter
- Sister Ray
- Fix
- Ghostrider
- Louie Louie

RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Town Hall, Huddersfield, UK (including Soundcheck) - 14.10.1984 (Flac)

 

SOURCE: Cassette - ION Tape2PC - Audacity - CD Wave - FLAC (level 8) - you

Burn
Heartland
Marian
Walk Away
No Time To Cry
Anaconda
Emma
A Rock And A Hard Place
Train
Floorshow
Alice
Body Electric
Gimme Shelter
Adrenochrome
Sister Ray

RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Green Eldritch (FLAC)

 

Info: A CD copy of the original Green Eldritch 2LP bootleg, limited production of 150 copies plus 50 copies on a A5 box.

Track List:

Hunky Dory, Detmold, Germany - 29 May 1984
01. Burn
02. Heartland
03. Body And Soul
04. Anaconda
05. Walk Away
06. Floorshow
07. Adrenochrome
08. Alice

Lyceum, London, UK - 25 March 1985
09. Some Kind Of Stranger
10. First And Last And Always

Hunky Dory, Detmold, Germany - 29 May 1984
11. Body Electric
12. Gimme Shelter
13. Ghostrider / Sister Ray

Kid Jensen Session - 11 April 1983
14. Jolene

Kir, Hamburg, Germany - 31 August 1983
15. Temple Of Love

Danceteria, New York, USA - 13 April 1984
16. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

Demo - xx.xx.1981
17.Teachers / Adrenochrome 

RE-UPLOAD: Sleepchamber's The Sisters Of Mercy Tapes # 5 - University, Leicester, UK - 18.10.1984 (Flac)

 

Another rip from the tapes sleepchamber sent me, I can't compare it with any circulating tapes since this is the only version I have. The sound is overall good.

Lineage: Bootleg Tape (unknown Generation) -> Sanyo Tape Deck -> Soundtrack ->
             Audacity -> TLH -> Flac (level 8)


Setlist:

01. BURN
02. HEARTLAND
03. MARIAN
04. WALK AWAY
05. NO TIME TO CRY
06. ANACONDA
07. EMMA
08. A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
09. TRAIN
10. FLOORSHOW
11. ALICE
12. BODY ELECTRIC
13. GIMME SHELTER/
14. KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR
15. ADRENOCHROME    

Do Not Sell!
Do not convert to lossy formats unless personal use.
Support the artits by buying official products.
Enjoy.

 

RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters of Mercy - Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands - 02.06.1984 (Flac)

 

One of the more famous bootlegs from the Sisters of mercy. with excellent sound from the soundboard. There's already a MP3 version of this one on the blog, this time a FLAC version, courtesy of sleepchamber.

Setlist:

01. Burn
02. Heartland
03. Body and Soul
04. Anaconda
05. Walk Away
06. Emma
07. Floorshow
08. Adrenochrome
09. Alice
10. Body Electric
11. Gimme Shelter
12. Ghostrider/Sister Ray

UPGRADE: The Sisters of Mercy - University, Sheffield, UK - 27.10.1984 (Flac)

 
I had already posted this recording in MP3, here's an upgrade to Flac. Thanks to falkpe for sharing on Dime.

Original Info File:

Part of The Sisters of Mercy's Black October Tour in 1984

Source: Shadow Over Sheffield (rip of silver CD)
https://www.discogs.com/The-Sisters-Of-Mercy-Shadow-Over-Sheffield/release/7190245

Quality: 4 out of 5

Setlist:
01. Burn
02. Heartland
03. Marian
04. Walk Away
05. Body And Soul
06. No Time To Cry
07. Anaconda
08. Emma
09. A Rock And A Hard Place
10. Train
11. Floorshow
12. Alice
13. Body Electric
14. Gimme Shelter
15. Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Adrenochrome
16. Sister Ray

Rise and Reverberate

The Sisters Of Mercy - University, Leeds, UK - 26.10.1984 including soundcheck (Flac)

 

 As requested. This version has an incomplete Some Kind Of Stranger, not sure if a complete version exists. Very good audience recording, including the 2 versions of the Soundcheck, that sound quite distant and hissy. Thanks to cyberbio for sharing it more than a decade ago.


SOURCE: Cassette (AUD) - ION Tape2PC - Audacity - CD Wave - FLAC (level 8) - you
 

Tracks:

- Burn
- Heartland
- Marian
- Walk Away
- Body And Soul
- No Time To Cry
- Anaconda
- Emma
- A Rock And A Hard Place
- Train
- Floorshow
- Alice
- Body Electric
- Gimme Shelter
- Knocking On Heavens Door
- Adrenochrome
- Some Kind Of Stranger (cut)

The Sisters of Mercy - Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland - 12.05.1984 (Flac)

Good sounding audiencce recording. Thanls to falpke for sharing on Dime.

Original Info File:

Part of The Sisters of Mercy's UK Spring Tour in 1984.

Good quality recording.

Lineage: Unknown source transfer

Quality: 4 (out of 5)

Setlist:

- Burn
- Heartland
- Walk Away
- Anaconda
- Body And Soul
- Floorshow
- Emma
- Adrenochrome
- Alice
- Body Electric
- Gimme Shelter
- Sister Ray

Rise and Reverberate 

The Sisters of Mercy - Rock City, Nottingham, UK - 02.05.1984 (Flac)

This version sounds better than the one that was previously shared, wich was very hissy. Thanks to Falkpe for sharing his rip here.

Original Info File:

Start of the UK Spring Tour in 1984.

This is a great energetic recording.

Eldritch experiments during Walk Away, singing with a different emphasis and longer voice echoes.
He also does a funny mock band intro after Adrenochrome
    "..on bass, Mr Mitch Mitchell... on guitar .. no I can't do this - it's too much..."

During this concert, Gary Marx crushed his guitar. Artwork: The remains of Gary Marx' guitar
See story text file in Artwork folder, courtesy of Quiff Boy from the Heartland Forum.

Lineage:
Tape acquired on EBAY in 2020 (from ALEXM collection), transfered by FALKPE and restored by WATERISNAT

Quality: 4 (out of 5). A must for your collection!

Setlist:

01 Burn
02 Heartland
03 Walk Away
04 Anaconda
05 Body And Soul
06 Floorshow
07 Emma
08 Adrenochrome
09 Alice
10 Body Electric
11 Gimme Shelter
12 Sister Ray

Rise and Reverberate

The Sisters of Mercy - University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK - 14.05.1984 (Flac)

Very good sounding audience recording. Huge Thanks to Andrew for sending me his rip to share here.

Part of The Sisters of Mercy's Spring Tour in 1984.

Lineage:
Many thanks to Mike for sending me the tape, and to waterisnat for restoring it.

Quality: not bad (4/5), but i have not found another recording of this gig, so tape must be relatively rare?

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***** HELP NEEDED: DO YOU HAVE THE 19-OCT-1984 GIG? *****
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Setlist
Burn
Heartland
Walk Away
Anaconda
Body And Soul
Floorshow
Emma
Adrenochrome
Alice
Body Electric
Gimme Shelter
Sister Ray

Rise and Reverberate

RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Cryptic Flowers (Flac)

An upgrade to FLAC.

Lineage: Bootleg LP -> Magix Audio Cleaning lab -> Audacity -> TLH -> Flac (Level 6) 


Tracklist:

Schlachthof, Bremen, Germany - 08 November 1984
1. Heartland
2. Marian
3. Walk Away
4. Body And Soul
5. No Time To Cry
6. Anaconda

Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany - 16 November 1984
7. Train
8. Knockin' On Heavens Door

Hunky Dory, Detmold, Germany - 07 November 1984
9. Sister Ray

Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany - 16 November 1984
10. Louie Louie

Do Not Sell!
Support the band!
Enjoy!

RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Town Hall, Middlesbrough, UK - 03.05.1984 (Flac)

SOURCE: Cassette - ION Tape2PC - FLAC (level 8) - you

Tracks:
01. Burn
02. Heartland
03. Walk Away
04. Anaconda
05. Body And Soul
06. Floorshow
07. Emma
08. Adrenochrome
09. Alice
10. Body Electric
11. Gimme Shelter
12. Ghost Rider

RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Powerhouse Ballroom, Birmingham, UK - 09.10.1984 (Flac)

Another concert from the Black October Tour, this one is quite special since it was the first time Some Kind Of Stranger was played live. The band didn't played this song live many times, until the 90's where it became part of the Comfortably Numb medley, but with a completeley diferent musical background. Again Thanks to sleepchamber for sending me the tapes to rip.

Lineage: Bootleg Tape (unknown Generation) -> Sanyo Tape Deck -> Audacity -> TLH -> Flac (level 8)


SETLIST:

01. HEARTLAND
02. BURN
03. MARIAN
04. WALK AWAY
05. NO TIME TO CRY
06. ANACONDA
07. SOME KIND OF STRANGER
08. TRAIN
09. A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
10. FLOORSHOW
11. ALICE
12. BODY ELECTRIC
13. GIMME SHELTER
14. EMMA
15. SISTER RAY

Do Not Sell!
Do not convert to lossy formats unless personal use.
Support the artits by buying official products.
Enjoy.   

RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Bradford University, Bradford, UK - 15.05.1984 (Flac)

HUGE Thanks to Dan for sharing this rip on the TSOM 1981.1985 Facebook group.

Original Info File:

Setlist:

01 Burn
02 Heartland
03 Walk Away
04 Anaconda
05 Body & Soul
06 Floorshow
07 Emma
08 Adrenochrome
09 Alice
10 Body Electric
(encore 1)
11 Gimme Shelter
(encore 2)
12 Ghostrider

Length: 53:55

Cassette (audience, low gen?, TDK D60 from a record fair in 1991) > wav > Soundforge(normalise uneven L&R channels, manually remove approx 35 clicks by redrawing with the pen tool) > CDWave(split on sector boundaries) > flac(6) (> flacs tagged with winamp)

Tape flip between Emma & Adrenochrome.  Emma ends abruptly and a few seconds of the Adrenochrome intro are missing.
Before Gimme Shelter you'll hear the most goth comment ever heard at a Sisters gig from an audience member: "Where's my big top (h)at?".

Very good audience recording, not a soundboard as some have thought.  Listen to the audience comments, a soundboard wouldn't pick those up so clearly.  Also notice the moments when the taper moves the orientation of the mic and the quality shifts slightly, for example at 2:23 in Heartland, and also during Body & Soul.

IDENTIFIERS (spoken between songs or during the start of the next song):

01 Burn
"Thanks ... 25 eh? ... Heartland"
02 Heartland
"Thanks ... (eat some)(?)"
03 Walk Away
"Thanks ... Anaconda"
04 Anaconda
"I'm sorry about this moat."
05 Body & Soul
"Thanks. ... yeah ... Floorshow"
06 Floorshow
07 Emma
(tape flip)
"Adrenochrome"
08 Adrenochrome
"You what? ... Alice"
09 Alice
"Body Electric"
10 Body Electric
"Bye bye"
(cut)
"I dressed on clock(clonk?)."
Audience member: "Where's my big top 'at?"
"Gimme Shelter"
11 Gimme Shelter
"Thankyou, bye bye,"
(cut)
Audience member into stage mic: "Andrew, shout for Andrew, Andrew! Andrew, happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! It's his birthday!"
"Never seen the man before in my life!"
12 Ghostrider

RE-UPLOAD: Sleepchamber's The Sisters Of Mercy Tapes #6 - Queen Margaret Hall, University, Glasgow - 05.10.1984 (Flac)

28 years ago on this day, one of the first dates of the Black October Tour, featuring a stonking version of Ghostrider/Sister Ray. Sound is good but hissy. Thanks to sleepchamber for sending me his tapes to rip and post here.

Lineage: Bootleg Tape (unknown Generation) -> Sanyo Tape Deck -> Soundtrack ->
             Audacity -> TLH -> Flac (level 8)


SETLIST:

01. BURN
02. HEARTLAND
03. MARIAN
04. ALICE
05. NO TIME TO CRY
06. EMMA
07. A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
08. TRAIN
09. FLOORSHOW
10. WALK AWAY
11. BODY ELECTRIC
12. GIMME SHELTER
13. (ENCORE BREAK)
14. GHOSTRIDER/SISTER RAY      

Do Not Sell!
Do not convert to lossy formats unless personal use.
Support the artits by buying official products.
Enjoy.                

RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Tin Can Ballroom, Birmingham, UK - 07.04.1984 (Flac)

This concert is the start of the spring tour 1984. This is the first show with Wayne Hussey!

SOURCE: Cassette - ION Tape2PC - FLAC (level 8) - you



Tracks:

- Burn
- Heartland
- Walk Away
- Anaconda
- Body And Soul
- Floorshow
- Train
- Emma
- Adrenochrome
- Gimme Gimme Gimme (a man after midnight)
- Body Electric
- Sister Ray
- Ghostrider
- Louie Louie

RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - Brielpoort, Deinze, Belgium - 01.06.1984 (Flac)

Excellent audience.

Original TXT file:

Received this Recording as a Silver CDR from M12Dimes. Thanks Koen!!!

SOURCE: CDR - CDex (to rip the wav files to PC) - FLAC (level 8) - you

Tracks:

01. Burn
02. Heartland
03. Body And Soul
04. Anaconda
05. Walk Away
06. Emma
07. Floorshow
08. Adrenochrome
09. Alice
10. Body Electric
11. Sister Ray

The Sisters Of Mercy - York Racecourse, York, UK - 22.09.1984 (MPEG)

A new rip sent to us by an anonymous contributor. It's better than the one I had shared before. The camera is far from the stage and there's no movements or zooms.

Lineage: Bootleg VHS -> Panasonic NV-HS860 -> EZCAP With Arcsoft Showbiz -> MPEG2

Setlist:

01. Burn
02. Heartland
03. Marian
04. Anaconda
05. Walk Away
06. Emma
07. A Rock And A Hard Place
08. Floorshow
09. Alice
10. Body Electric
11. Gimme Shelter
12. Ghost Rider / Sister Ray



Format                                   : MPEG-PS
File size                                : 2.74 GiB
Duration                                 : 1h 11mn
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 5 506 Kbps
Writing library                          : ArcSoft MPEG-2 PAL

Video
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Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
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Format settings, picture structure       : Frame
Duration                                 : 1h 11mn
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 5 173 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 7 500 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
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Standard                                 : PAL
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Top Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.499
Time code of first frame                 : 00:00:00:00
Time code source                         : Group of pictures header
GOP, Open/Closed                         : Closed
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Writing library                          : ArcSoft MPEG-2 PAL
Color primaries                          : BT.601 PAL
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.470 System B, BT.470 System G
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.601

Audio
ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
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Duration                                 : 1h 11mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 224 Kbps
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Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -68ms
Stream size                              : 114 MiB (4%)

The Sisters Of Mercy - John Peel Session, BBC Maida Vale Studio 5, London, UK - 19.06.1984 (Flac)

Master FM recording, not from Digital boadcast. Thanks to chrispoor for sharing it on Dime.

Original Info File:

Lineage :-  BBC Radio 1 FM -> Roof Aerial -> Pioneer TX710 FM tuner -> Pioneer CT300 cassette deck (record) -> TDK-AD (Type I, i.e. normal) cassette tape

Conversion to FLAC :-

Master TDK-AD source tape -> Aiwa ADF770 3-Head Cassette Deck -> PC's built-in Soundmax sound chip (line in) -> CoolEdit Pro 2.1 (digital recording & manual track splitting) -> WAV -> TLH (Tools->Fix SBEs) -> WAV's (sector boundary alignment) -> TLH -> FLAC 8 & .ffp


Tracklist :-

Walk Away
Emma  [cover of an Errol Brown (Hot Chocolate) song]
The Poison Door
No Time To Cry

Length = 19 minutes approx.