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2023

A day in the Life of Sister Chain 
is the name of a one-page fantasy comic published in the latest anthology of Renate Comic Verlag. It’s currently available at their shop in Tucholsky Strasse 32, Berlin. 
Take that Number 10 
Following centuries of capitalism and months of cost of living crisis, we have released a song about all that’s wrong. All proceeds go to the striking unions. Download here.  

2022

Halloween Special! 
reserve your ticket to the best show in town! spooky Halloween special with us and special guests! 
Farewell to Berlin
We bid farewell to our beloved Berlin flat and studio in a special home concert that was broadcast in Radio-on-Berlin  

2021

Back to Live Performances! 
After a trial mini-show with limited capacity at Cafe#9, we are returning to this magnificent venue in November! 
New Single out: 
Sister Chain’s guitar playing debut on a song called Sister Chain’s Blues. And…even though it is digital, we have a B-side to die for…
Darkness Revisited
We’ve uploaded new acoustic versions of Darkness to Warm Your Heart songs to our channel. See here

2020 

We’re now on Patreon! 
You can now view very (very very) exclusive content of ours by becoming patrons. patreon.com/sisterchainbrotherjohn
Minnesota discovered!
We gave the very first song we ever wrote together a fresh listen – and hey, it is better than we remembered! Listen here.  

2019

London Show announced 

playing at The Ship with The Plankwalkers!   

New Cover 

Honouring new wave legend Ideal with a cover Brother John sings in German! 

Berlin Long Night 

Presenting a once in a life time – all secrets told show at Cafe Madame – stories behind the songs, songs and more songs. 

2018 

planning ahead
we’ve just decided to spend February in Israel – gigs (hopefully) announced soon
Kulturelle Landpartie 
proud to be featured artist at sculptor Ulrich Baentsch exhibition space at this year KLP! 
Videoshoot Jackie 
Lars Dideriksen came down with his camera, and we went down further…filming a spooky clip in the cellar…

2017

fringe of the fringe 

playing Edinburgh this August! check out the forest cafe events! 

London Launch

We’re taking our 7inch to London! Yay! The Mascara Bar is to host the first Sister Chain & Brother John show since 2014….join us on August 10, 2017!

Berlin Launch

Finally – Our picture disc Staying in Soho is out on Vinyl. The release party at the Volksbühne in Berlin was great, but a Soho launch is yet to come…

2016

two princes! 

or “oops I did it again?” –  new baby boy about to emerge! just in time for Christmas!  

supporting Lene Lovich

This time at Luxor in Arnhem, Netherlands, on October 9th
DuoDuoDuo Festival
We are proud to be on the Line Up for the DuoDuoDuo Festival in Berlin 25&26 of March, with great bands from Germany and Featherweights from Sweden!!! follow Facebook for updates.

2015

New Year’s Show Get ready for New Year’s Eve with Sister Chain & Brother John at the Barkett, Berlin. We’ll celebrate in dark glam cabaret style – come with us
The Gambler in documentary soundtrack Our song The Gambler is featured in the new documentary about Berlin’s Another Country Bookshop. The film uses live action and stop motion animation to tell the story of this unconventional bookshop in the heart of Kreuzberg. In this bookshop, it’s not just the books that have stories. It is currently being shown at film festivals around Europe. Watch the trailer here.
Halloween  Sister Chain & Brother John met on a Halloween night many years ago, so it’s always a special night for the band. This year we play in Berlin October 31st at the venue called ‘Ick koof mir Dave Lombardo, wenn ick reich bin’. See you there!
Achtung Tel Aviv! We present a one-off show on March 14th and the Hanut Theater. It is a small and magical place for our big and magical show. 35 seats only – get your tickets now!

2014

Merry christmas, everyone! A few presents for you this fine day. Not one, but two music videos for our song “The Gambler”. A Weimar and a Vegas version, no less! Go here for at trip to the Berlin of yesteryear and go here for a trip to sin city present day. We hope you like them!
Recording single Back on stage and back in the studio!!! We are recording the “Staying in Soho” single. Gigs coming up in Berlin at Schokoladen on August 6th and Sweden’s Live At Heart festival September 3rd to 6th.
A New Prince for Denmark! We are proud to announce the arrival of our first born son: Hamlet George Martin Higgins. What a piece of work is man! (indeed, even such a little man is a piece of work, so we apologize for being offline for a couple of weeks while we learn the skills of royal nappy changing…
The new Gambler is out! Issue 3 of our Victorian Glamrock fanzine is out – with the explosive test “Do you have a good man?” and other pieces of invaluable information from our odd world. It is available all month at Sister Chain’s comic exhibition at the Curious Fox bookshop.
Happy New Year! We have premiered our new song “Staying in Soho” in Soho (where else?). Great end to our UK tour. Thanks to all our hosts. Especially Trees and Kim (and all their animals) in Norfolk.

2013

UK Tour We are starting our UK mini tour tomorrow – Sheffield, Brighton, London. Hope we can sing on a full stomach as we have been invited to several big Christmas dinners too. Read an article here made for the tour.
New website! We are happy to announce that after drifting for years from one network to another – at the mercy of the latest whimsical trends of this treacherous age, we are finally settled in the virtual world. Here it is – our very own website. Feel free to bring visitors, lounge in our gallery, spit chewing gum on our carpet etc…
Working on new website We have begun building this new website today. Also: We are currently booking UK tour for December 2013 – January 2014. If interested in shows please contact The Management at sound.of.perpetual.astonishment(at)gmail(dot)com or (+45) 40 95 64 39