These are three excellent, albeit partial recordings from the three tours The Sisters of Mercy undertook in the spring of 1985: UK - Europe - US. They have been cleaned up thoroughly for your (and my) listening pleasure.

Here's the lowdown:

Leeds University
1985-03-16

01. First and Last and Always
02. Body and Soul
03. Alice
04. Body Electric
05. Nine While Nine into...
06. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
07. Ghostrider into...
08. Louie Louie

From the bootleg CD, "Tune In... Turn Off... Burn Out...". Excellent (01-04) to very good (05-08) soundboard recording of the band performing in front of a home crowd. The encores (featuring another rare live performance of Nine While Nine) played back too slow on the bootleg CD and the recording volume was lower... this has been fixed.

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Teatro Espero, Roma
1985-05-02

01. First and Last and Always
02. Marian
03. No Time to Cry
04. Emma
05. A Rock and a Hard Place
06. Floorshow
07. Alice
08. Gimme Shelter
09. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
10. Train

From the bootleg CD, "Black Planet", but ultimately from a very clean vinyl bootleg. Most pops have been removed with SoundForge's pentool. I have restored Train to its rightful place in the setlist and raised the volume throughout.

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Fenders Ballroom, Long Beach CA
1985-05-30

01. A Rock and a Hard Place
02. Floorshow
03. Gimme Shelter
04. Alice
05. Body and Soul
06. Marian
07. No Time to Cry

From the Swingin' Pig bootleg CD, Floorshow, which is horribly off-speed. The setlist is also entirely out of order (originally done by the Palazzograssi people to construct a fake concert with a disgusted Eldritch supposedly leaving the stage halfway through the concert... rubbish) but I did not rectify it this time. A few pops have been removed from this as well.


Enjoy!


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