{"id":1324,"date":"2023-01-24T20:12:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T01:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2023-01-30T17:44:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T22:44:20","slug":"the-sisters-of-mercy-to-play-rare-u-s-shows-the-sisterhoods-out-of-print-gift-reissued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"The Sisters of Mercy to play rare U.S. shows; The Sisterhood\u2019s out-of-print \u201cGift\u201d reissued<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Sisters of Mercy | Photo by Lara Aim\u00e9e<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Sisters of Mercy<\/a> are scheduled to play a pair of rare U.S. shows this spring \u2014 a festival in Las Vegas and a headlining date in Los Angeles \u2014 as the lone album from Andrew Eldritch\u2019s mid-\u201980s side project The Sisterhood<\/a> finally sees a reissue several years after it was announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eldritch, Doktor Avalanche and the rest of the current iteration of the Sisters are slated to play the Sick New World Festival<\/a> in Las Vegas on May 13 with Ministry, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Killing Joke, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and headliners System of a Down, Korn, Deftones and Incubus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, on May 23, they\u2019ll play a just-announced headlining date at the Hollywood Palladium. Tickets are on sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not known whether there will be more U.S. shows. The Sisters haven\u2019t played U.S. dates since 2008. The band\u2019s only other announced shows for 2023 include a trio of concerts in Mexico and South America in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See those dates below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the reissue of the long-out-of-print album by The Sisterhood \u2014 the project born out of Eldritch\u2019s feud with ex-Sisters of Mercy bandmates Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams \u2014 is finally here, more than three years after it was first announced<\/a> by London-based Cadiz Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The five-track album is now streaming<\/a>, and the CD reissues can be ordered from Amazon.com<\/a> and Amazon.co.uk<\/a>. The label itself is already shipping the CD reissue and is selling cassette and clear vinyl versions<\/a> as well. Though it contains no bonus tracks, the version of album closer \u201cRain From Heaven\u201d is more than a minute longer on the new reissue than on the original 1986 release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sisterhood dates back to failed attempts in late 1985 to record a second Sisters of Mercy album. When Hussey and Adams left the Sisters, they set out to tour on their own, playing music written for the second Sisters LP that Eldritch had rejected. They christened themselves The Sisterhood, immediately drawing Eldritch\u2019s ire. \u201cThere was nothing I could do but be the Sisterhood before them \u2014 the only way to kill that name was to use it, then kill it,\u201d Eldritch told the NME<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eldritch raced to record a new single under the Sisterhood name, releasing \u201cGiving Ground\u201d\u2013 with James Ray on vocals, since Eldritch couldn\u2019t contractually appear \u2014 on his Merciful Release<\/a> label on the very same day that Hussey and Adams played their first gig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By March, Hussey and Adams had changed their name to The Mission, but Eldritch continued plans to record an album by The Sisterhood, eventually releasing it in July 1986. Along the way, he\u2019d considered recording \u201cThis Corrosion\u201d as The Sisterhood, but decided to save the track for the second incarnation of The Sisters of Mercy he envisioned with Patricia Morrison on bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gift<\/em> album was issued on CD for the first time in 1989 then reissued in 1994, but has been out of print on all formats \u2014 aside from bootleg repressings \u2014 since then, and had yet to debut digitally.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Sisters of Mercy tour dates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

May 13:<\/strong> Sick New World Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
May 23:<\/strong> Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, CA, USA
June 13:<\/strong> Circo Volador, Mexico City, Mexico
June 16:<\/strong> Club Chocolate, Santiago, Chile
June 18:<\/strong> Tokio Marine Hall, Sao Paulo, Brazil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sisters of Mercy are scheduled to play a pair of rare U.S. shows this spring \u2014 a festival in Las Vegas and a headlining date in Los Angeles \u2014 as the lone album from Andrew Eldritch\u2019s mid-\u201980s side project The Sisterhood finally sees a reissue several years after it was announced. Eldritch, Doktor Avalanche and the rest… Read More »The Sisters of Mercy to play rare U.S. shows; The Sisterhood\u2019s out-of-print \u201cGift\u201d reissued<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}