The Mission UK

The Mission
Background information
Origin	Leeds, England
Genres	Gothic rock, post-punk, hard rock, alternative rock
Years active	1986–1996, 1999–2008, 2011–present
Labels	Current: SPV GmbH/Cooking Vinyl Previous: Playground Recordings, Receiver, Cleopatra, Equator, Vertigo, Nightracks, Mercury, Chapter 22
Associated acts	The Sisters of Mercy, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Artery, Dead or Alive
Website	http://www.themissionuk.com/
Members	Wayne Hussey Craig Adams Simon Hinkler Mike Kelly
Past members	Mick Brown Rik Carter Andy Cousin Scott Garrett Rob Holliday Mark Thwaite Rich Vernon Steve Spring

The Mission (known as The Mission UK in the United States) are an English gothic rock band formed in 1986.

Initially known as The Sisterhood, the band was started by frontman Wayne Hussey and bassist Craig Adams (both from The Sisters of Mercy), soon adding drummer Mick Brown (Red Lorry Yellow Lorry) and guitarist Simon Hinkler (Artery and Pulp). Aside from Hussey, the line-up has changed several times during the years and the band has been on hiatus twice.

The band's catalogue consists of ten main albums (God's Own Medicine, Children, Carved in Sand, Masque, Neverland, Blue, Aura, God is a Bullet, The Brightest Light and Another Fall from Grace) with several complementing albums, compilations and other miscellaneous releases also in existence.

After an aborted recording session with Andrew Eldritch in the summer of 1985, Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams left the Sisters of Mercy. Based in Leeds, the duo continued to work on various musical ideas and recorded them over the autumn. Dismissing the use of a drum-machine, Adams and Hussey asked Mick Brown (Red Lorry Yellow Lorry) to help out with the sessions. By the end of the year, he had joined the band on a permanent basis. With Hussey as both the frontman and principal songwriter, the trio required a second guitarist to facilitate a live set-up. They eventually recruited Simon Hinkler (Artery) who also contributed keyboards and thus completed the four-piece. The name 'The Sisterhood' was chosen with a nod to past and rehearsals for the first shows started in January 1986. The new name quickly became a point of discussion in the English music-press, giving the four-piece significant amount of publicity. As 'The Sisterhood' the band made their live-debut on January 20, 1986 at the Alice in Wonderland, London.

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