While we're waiting for the next one to arrive

Right. This is a bit complicated but bare with me. There's this band I like, with a semi-religious name. The Sisters of Mercy are best known as a . . . and it upsets me to mention it, but . . . goth band, although really, they are about as goth as my socks. My white socks, not my black ones.

I've blogged about the Sisters before, so I won't waste too much time going into the back story. The lead singer, and sole surviving original member is the too-cool-for-school Andrew Eldritch. He's an interesting guy, but he's not renouned for getting on well with record companies, with the result that he and his band don't have a deal at the moment, and haven't had in quite some time.
Anyway, the Sisters have released the sum total of three albums, the last in 1991.The band ceased recording activity in 1994, when they went on strike against their record company TimeWarner, which it accused of withholding royalties and incompetence. Although TimeWarner eventually let the band go in 1997, they have not signed to another label, but still tour extensively. They have a hugely loyal fan base, proven by the fact that the band played in 28 countries in 2006, sellign out over 70 gigs. Not bad for a band that hasn't put out product in 15 years.
Anyway, now we get to the point of the post. When the sisters play, around 60 percent of the tracks on any given gigging night are unreleased - essentially the band have this fantastic unreleased album that all the fans now know, due to internet bootlegs, that you can't buy.

For years, people have waited for them to get a deal and release it, but there seems to be no sign of that happening, so a group of fans have gotten together to basically record it for them, in the form of reworked covers and remixes of the unreleased tracks. The idea is really to sort of poke them with a stick a little bit, then hopefully they will do it properly.

This has been organised through the discussion forum, MyHeartland.co.uk and I volunteered to try my hand at a cover of the track "Still". It's a bit rough, and is lacking vocals, but I think it's pretty good. You can download it by right clicking here.

Muchos Kudos on this must go to my mate Quintin, beat master and all round boffin extraordinaire. I merely plucked the strings . . . he made them sing. or growl. You get the idea.

Enjoy, and leave a comment. Preferably a nice one.