Video, Vintage Video — May 23, 2013 at 8:00 am

Vintage Video: The Sisters of Mercy in Chicago, 1984 — watch full 50-minute concert

The Sisters of Mercy in Chicago

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present an early U.S. performance by The Sisters of Mercy in the form of this full 50-minute set filmed at Chicago’s Exit Club on April 15, 1984. The show comes nearly a year before the release of the Sisters’ debut album First and Last and Always, and is notable for its inclusion of “Walk Away” with different lyrics and for a rare performance of ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” — which Andrew Eldrtich introduces by saying, “Got any Swedes in the house? This one’s for the Swede in everybody…”

Watch the full set below via Roy Oh.

 

 

Setlist: The Sisters of Mercy, Exit Club, Chicago, IL, 4/15/84

1. “Burn”
2. “Heartland”
3. “Walk Away”
4. “Anaconda”
5. “Body And Soul”
6. “Floorshow”
7. “Emma”
8. “Adrenochrome”
9. “Alice”
10. “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)”
11. “Body Electric”
12. “Sister Ray”

 

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6 Comments

  1. good show. andrew looks and sounds like andrew. wayne & craig look soooooo young. but i suppose they were at that point. haha. good stuff. thanks for posting!

  2. Batshiz Crazay

    Damn. Damn. Damn.

    Incredible.

  3. Can’t really be the Sisters–nowhere near enough stage smoke!

    Very nice show-thanks!

  4. I still have this on VHS. Someone just saved me the trouble of converting it!

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