It was at Roskilde
festival in Denmark , summer of 98 - they were not supposed to play , the line
up was already crazy : Black Sabbath , Kraftwerk , Beastie Boys , Slayer ,
Sonic Youth , Marilyn Manson and on and
on - for some reason two bands canceled the gigs - the Verve and Echo and the
Bunnymen and..surprise , they called The Sisters of Mercy to replace
them and headline the second night - despite i was already heavily into dark
music i was still not fond of them - so i went to the stage under the tent and
they show up in the middle of an impressive amount of smoke - you could almost
see nothing , just the shadows - my understanding of english at that time was
still basic but I heard clearly Andrew Eldritch say " hello we are Echo and
the Verveman " with his typical low voice and they start straight away -
this made me laugh and then the music was amazing - at some point they play Alice , and that was the top - always in a lot of smoke and some lights - never
heard something so goth before but he was keep on repeating " we are a
rock'n'roll band " .Anyway - this gig
didn't change my life or something but for then on i become kind of obsessed
with this band wich is still one of my favourite today - Sisters of Mercy are a
band that always combine humor , irony with the most gothic music around
perhaps - a main influence for me without any doubt.
So Dark all over
Europe
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