DRUM MACHINES AND POWER CHORDS......
I was unsure whether i would be disappointed or pleased with this one.
I have been waiting a number of years to see the Sisters, everytime i have had the opportunity to go, a mate would always pull out of going and i could never go, so i thought i cannot miss this one.
One of the final ticks on my list of my fave bands that i had yet to see.
I just caught the end of the support, some old skool punk band who seemed to amuze the crowd, which is what you want, but no better than a pub band. the name of them escapes me, but it is no great loss.
Anyway.. the smoke machine starts billowing and on they come.
The Sisters are not the same band that they were in the early 80's, floodland era or Vision thing era, in personnel or sound. They haven't been for some time now.
As the band tore into various old tracks and 'relatively' new tracks i could see the older faces in the crowd expecting some kind of recreation of bygone days start to look exceedingly glum.
Plus people in the crowd whom have not seen or heard anything from them since the 80's had the same reaction (infact i saw at least 3 people leave).
The Sisters do not sound like they did, this is not to say that their performace was poor, in fact i thought it was great, however their lack of releasing their material written in the last ten years has in my opinion backfired as half the crowd didnt know what they now sounded like or what many of the songs where.
The guitars are all about power chords with Dr.Avalanche (drum machine) still providing the beat. A full on wall of noise. f'ing brill!
Many of the older songs sounded different, and it could be a few bars into each track before you would realise what song they where playing due to the harder edge sound that they where now playing it at and pace.
This seemed to piss the old skool goths off.
I believe that Eldrich is purposely trying to make as much distance from his past and fashion the sisters into a totally different band. He doesn't seem to want the band to be perceived as the typical stereotype goth band that they are perceived as.
Personally, i really enjoyed it, it was tainted slightly by the idiots around me complaining that this 'wasn't the sisters' etc...
They have sounded like they currently do for a number of years now.
Many of the songs played ' We are the same Suzanne', 'Top Nite Out' etc have been played for years, but because they have never had any form of physical release, the songs are only recogniseable if you have hunted them down from live bootlegs or seen them performed at other gigs. Bit of an error of judgement on Eldritch's part i believe, but then again, they don't conform to the norm either which makes them so special.
They still did old faves like 'Alice', 'Lucretia..',Dominion' Marian, 'First and Last and Always', Temple of Love etc
And i can't recall the name of the song, it is a new one but the main riff of the song rips off 'Millennium' by Killing Joke. Its good though.
I hope i see them again!
my pictures are crap (i never take a good camera, as i lost one once before at a gig)
7/10
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