📌27 April 1992

The Sisters of Mercy
📀 Some Girls Wander by Mistake
#GothicRock #DarkWave

30 years ago The Sisters of Mercy from Leeds #UK, released a compilation album of their previously unedited studio recording from 1980 to 1983.
The album is entitled Some Girls Wander by Mistake, a phrase taken from #LeonardCohen song "Teachers" which Sisters of Mercy often covered live (the band's name is in fact taken from Cohen's work).
This compilation contains all #SistersofMercy early singles and EPs, plus 2 amazing cover songs: #Stooges "1969" and #RollingStones "Gimme Shelter".

The Sisters of Mercy in this album were:
#AndrewEldritch – vocals
#CraigAdams – bass guitar
Ben Gunn – guitar
Gary Marx – guitar
Doktor Avalanche (drum machine's name) – drums
#27April

🎧Listen to Some Girls...
👉 here

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📌16 November 1987

The Sisters Of Mercy
📀 Floodland
#GothicRock #DarkWave

35 years ago The Sisters Of Mercy from Leeds, #UK released their 2nd studio album, their first after the departure of 👉 Hussey and Adams who formed The Mission.

Leader and mastermind
👉 Andrew Eldritch wrote all songs when living in Hamburg, Germany and the title Floodland was dedicated to that city.
Initially Eldritch was meant to release this album under The Sisterhood monicker, after an agreement with former band mates, but later he renamed his band again to #SistersOfMercy.

#JimSteinman (Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler ...) produced the 2 longest tracks, "Dominion" / "Mother Russia" and "This Corrision".

Gothic Masterpiece!

In this album:
#AndrewEldritch – vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, guitar, bass
#PatriciaMorrison – bass, vocals
Doktor Avalanche – drum machine's name

Additional personnel
Eddie Martinez – guitar
New York Choral Society
#16November

🎧Listen to Floodland 👉 here

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📌7 March 1985

Litfiba
📀 Desaparecido
#NewWave #PostPunk #DarkWave #GothicRock

40 years ago Litfiba from #Florence, #Italy released their debut studio album.

After years spent in the 👉 Italian Rock underground scene and the collaboration with 👉 Diaframma few months earlier, Litfiba were able to build a strong fanbase.

Desaparecido was published by I.R.A. Records and immediately became a cult release. It's the first of 3 chapters (albums) of what #Litfiba called "Trilogia Del Potere".

Irregardless of the genre, a Must for every Italian Rocker ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#PieroPelù – vocals
#GhigoRenzulli  – guitars
#AntonioAiazzi – keyboards
#GianniMaroccolo – bass
#RingoDePalma – drums

Additional musicians
#FrancescoMagnelli – piano
#LuRashid – additional vocals in "Istanbul"
#HannoRinne – guitar solo in "Pioggia Di Luce"
#7March

🎧Listen to Desaparecido
👉 here

😈 Just found out what is possibly the most recent music video filmed in Venice (for the video list in this channel click on this 👉 #VVC).

Numa Echos is a poliartist and songwriter, active all over #Italy and abroad.
Among her many skills, she's great at organizing #DarkWave, #GothicRock, #DeathRock #Electronic nights where she performs in concert and DJ sets.
Her most recent events were in Brasil (Gothic Carnival) and in Paris last week, 👉 future dates here in Venice.

This video is set at the #Arsenale, one of the most popular locations in Venice, and in what I call 👉 The Secret Island (because it's mostly unknown to tourists and is part of my alternative #WalkingTour).

#NumaEchos #VenetiaeObscurae

"You want it darker, we kill the flame"🔥🖤

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📌17 March 1986

Depeche Mode
📀 Black Celebration
#Industrial #DarkWave #ElectronicRock #SynthWave

40 years ago Depeche Mode from Essex, England, #UK released their 5th studio album.

Black Celebration is the landmark album for #DepecheMode. The band moved away from the early Synth Pop years and teenybopper image in favour of darker sound, lyrics and outfit.

This is widely regarded as the first of a four album series that made Depeche Mode one of the leading and most influential bands in the 80s and 90s ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#MartinGore – guitar, synthesizers, sampling, vocals, backing vocals
#AlanWilder – synthesizers, sampling, drum programming, backing vocals, piano
#DavidGahan – vocals, sampling
#17March

🎧Listen to Black Celebration
👉 here

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📌July 1986

The Sisterhood
📀 Gift
#DarkWave #SynthWave #GothicRock #Electronic #EBM #SynthPunk #ProtoTechno

40 years ago The Sisterhood from Leeds, #UK released their debut and only studio album.

#TheSisterhood was a musical project by Andrew Eldritch after disbanding 👉 The Sisters Of Mercy.
The songs were intended to appear in S.O.M. second album but both Eldritch and the departed Wayne Hussey (who founded 👉 The Mission) agreed not to use the band's original name for their new projects.

Gift is widely regarded as a landmark album for the development of Electronic and Techno music, and it's undoubtedly a DarkWave milestone🤘🖤

In this album:
#AndrewEldritch – vocals, lyrics, songwriter, producer
Performers:
#LucasFox, #PatriciaMorrison, #AlanVega, #JamesRay

🎧Listen to Gift 👉 here

📌🎸 There's a brand new live venue in Venice island, opened few months ago.
Riverside Note is close to Santa Lucia train station and next Friday September 25 will host #VenetiaeObscurae, a format conceived by Venice dark lady #NumaEchos.

This time concert by local #DarkWave, #PostPunk, #IndustrialRock band #30Denari, who recently relased their debut full-length album.

If you like 80s Post-Punk / Industrial vibes and bands such as Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Diaframma, Nine Inch Nails, you don't want to miss that🤘😈