Editor’s Note: Welcome to On Sale @, a weekly series from Vanyaland alerting concertgoers to the best shows coming toMGM Music Hall at Fenway. Check in each week for a highlighted look at each show, and how to access the best tickets as soon as they go on sale.
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The Sisters of Mercy, September 22
Hey now, hey now now — The Sisters of Mercy are coming back to North America. That’s news in and of itself, as the influential British don’t-dare-call-us-goth collective led by Andrew Eldritch returned to our shores last year for the first time in 14 years, and now demand “More” by way of a 26-date fall run that includes a September 22 gathering at Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway. Though The Sisters of Mercy have not released an album since 1990’s Vision Thing (which is kind of crazy), they remain a fixture across dark disco and underground dance floors, and the sonic arsenal these days plays like a never-ending greatest hits assault: “Temple of Love,” “Dominion,” “Marian,” “Lucretia My Reflection,” “This Corrosion,” and all the other songs that echo off a punk-psychedelia strobe light. They still sound as lethal as they did decades ago, when we all first heard them and pivoted our collective tastes into something a little more sinister. As an added treat, AFI side project Blaqk Audio opens the show. Tickets go on sale Friday (May 10) at 10 a.m. local time.
