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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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!
What was their lineup at that point? I’m not sure where this was relative to the big split.
I saw them in March 85 and Gary Marx was still there at that point.
Damn. Damn. Damn.
Incredible.
Can’t really be the Sisters–nowhere near enough stage smoke!
Very nice show-thanks!
I still have this on VHS. Someone just saved me the trouble of converting it!