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Summer 1998
June 27
late 1998 |
As The Verve's bassist hadn't fully recovered after his illness (or so it was announced), making the band to cancel their headlining appearance on the third day of Roskilde festival; festival's management were informed on June 25 afternoon (read New Musical Express article for full story). The Sisters of Mercy were invited to fill the missing slot, and they did -- 48 hours after getting the invitation. Impressive. Technically, the band was a replacement not for The Verve but for Rammstein, which exchanged their headlining slot in the second stage for headlining the main stage. They switched places after few weeks in Arvika. The gig was downsized to 14 songs, making it shortest Sisters gig in years. It's not clear whether the blame falls on festival time restrains (most bands had to fit into one hour) or on rushed preparations. This was the first concert since 1985 without their own lights guru Nigel Holborough who couldn't make it on such short notice. Many usual background roadshow members were also missing, including soundboard chief Jürgen Jansen -- the band had to rely on borrowed personnel. Worked quite good. |
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Setlist
This setlist might be (and most likely really is) incorrect. If you have access to the real thing, please take some of your time to check it and send in corrections/confirmations.
Thanks to Magnus Åkerblom (magnus_akerblom@yahoo.com) and Matthias Weyh (Vicus@compuserve.com) |
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Reviews
Written by Matthias Weyh (Vicus@compuserve.com)
for Dominion mailing list
"Hi, we're Echo & The Vervemen"
At the festival were monitors, which showed the line-up-changes this
year. I think I should have taken some looks at it. I didn't, so I was
very surprised
to see The Sisters where I expected Rammstein. Yes, I know, Rammstein are
stupid bullshit and nobody should like them, but ahem. At the beginning,
when the curtain was closed, I just thought that Rammstein has stolen
the Sisters-intro-tape ("Afterhours", of course). My girlfriend
told me later that I had a very stupid smile on my face when the curtain
opened and the sound of "Ribbons" was heard.
In my opinion, this Sisters gig was one of the best I saw since the
1990 tour. The sound was much better than in
Düsseldorf or
Hamburg
earlier this year - and Andrew seemed to have lots of fun ("It's good
to work with you again!", "Tak, tak, tak or should I say Danke
schön?"). There was only one problem: nearly 80% of the audience
didn't know the newer stuff. Hey Andy, time to go to work!
At the ending a few stupid dickheads started fighting with the security,
cause like most bands the Sisters played only 1 hour - a bit too short
i think. Other great appearances were made by Primal Scream, The Jesus and
Mary Chain, Tori Amos, Garbage, The Skatelites, Portishead, Kraftwerk and
many more. I was a bit disappointed by Black Sabbath, while Pulp and
Bernhard Butler were really crap.
This year Roskilde-Festival had many of nice line up changes. The other
great one was the gig of The Misfits replacing Marilyn Manson. Hehehe.
Written by David Lindholm (d95-dli@nada.kth.se)
for Dominion mailing list
> I've just heard that they didn't played at the main stage.
Yes, Rammstein took The Verves slot on the main stage, and Sisters played
at the second biggest stage instead of Rammstein.
> And I've also heard people say that the concert at the Roskilde
was crap,
That is however wrong. The concert was absolutely not crap! They played
all the new songs except for Romeo Down, so I guess most festival visitors
was slightly disappointed cause they didn't recognize the songs. I myself
enjoyed the concert a lot, the new songs are really good! Also, I really
love Amphetamine Logic live.
Two things disappointed me though, one being no Comfortably Numb/Some
Kind of Stranger, the other being two utter morons in front of me who bowed/prayed
to Andrew almost the whole gig.
Thank you Andrew/Chairman Bax for coming at such a short notice. You
really made my day!
Written by Fredrik Rask (fredrik.rask@ks.ericsson.se)
for Dominion mailing list
Found a review or (or rather a small blurb about) the Sisters Roskilde
appearance in the biggest Swedish evening paper and thought I should post
it for the enjoyment/frustration of all. It goes a little something like
this:
Rating 2 out of 5.
*sigh* *grumble* Well, it doesn't really say anything IMO, except the
usual hip reporter 'let's slam the goth-drek' kind of thing. I emailed
the man and gently whacked him with the patented clue-by-four (in a nice
way, mind you).
The summary, like the Norwegian paper mentioned in some earlier mail,
also finds the Sisters as replacements for the Verve and Marilyn Manson
rather weak. Personally I would rather see the Sisters slowly die a horrible
death than have to see Marilyn Manson (and I REALLY don't want to see the
Sisters slowly die a horrible death), but that all depends on personal
taste of course.
A friend of mine who happens to be an avid Sisters hater will get back
from Roskilde tomorrow -- that ought to be lots of fun.
Written by Magnus Åkerblom (magnus_akerblom@yahoo.com)
for The Sisters of Mercy Tours site
A somewhat shorter set than the usual.
The sound however was perfect, the best sound of any band at Roskilde
that I saw. Eldritch was dressed in a white jacket of some sort that was
open. Underneath he had a black "Motörhead England" t-shirt.
The concert was great (the best I've ever seen). After playing the last
one ("This Corrosion") Eldritch bowed before the audience. Cool
stuff!
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