I've no idea what the context of this is, or who actually said it. It was in my Facebook memories from 12 years ago.

"3 hour long Sean Moore trumpet solo with Nicky beat boxing and James doing a merry ole jig dressed as a pirate and adding little "Yarr's" in whenever possible."

I would pay good money to see this.

Thanks for this!

I really, REALLY want that Manics O2 38-song show from 2011 on vinyl!

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/manic...-63d11223.html

I've heard most of the tracks, and it already sounds bloody brilliant - a well masted vinyl set would be fab!

Yes!

Bloody hard work collecting the tracks individually and trying to put them together in setlist order. Still five or six songs from the gig that haven’t seen the light of day.

Just release it in full please.

I don't care what format it's in as long as it gets released. Digital download, vinyl, cd whatever. Such a shame they didn't film it. Cameras would've made them more nervous apparently .....

Somehow it's almost the tenth anniversary of the O2 gig. If it's going to get a full release surely that'll be when.

Ten years! :(

I would happily pay £30 for a nice CD booklet thing or £15 for the download.

Or both as I usually do :)

It’s been a steady fall from grace down the festival bills over the last two decades since Reading 2001 but I wonder if being made to support the Stereophonics is absolute rock bottom for the band that likes to say yes?

https://ynotfestival.com/wp-content/...-1422x2000.jpg

Trouble with these festival posters is they don't accurately tell you which specific date they appear on.
I'm reading it as the first night has Stereophonics headlining and the Manics headlining the following day.
Imagine paying for a one day ticket, the camping, the bullshit etc. Just to find you picked the day the Manics weren't playing!
Oh you'd just see a cyclone of destruction as I made it to the box office demanding a refund.

Hindsight Says: Festival staff are just normal people trying to make a living. Please respect them.

It definitely looks like it's split over three days, with the Stereophonics headlining the first night and the Manics on before them to me. Which, agreed, is pretty grim.

Both bands have confirmed they’re playing on the Friday with Stereophonics headlining.

It’s cruelty.

According to the NME website the three headliners are Stereophonics, Bombay Bicycle Club and Blossoms.

Ugh... supporting the stereophonics? Or the "meat and potato manics" as (i think) adam on the pod put it. Then again, they are the more popular band i suppose. Mysteriously.

Hurrah they've finally spaced out their twitter handle.

https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net...96&oe=60C44EE8http://www.foreverdelayed.org.uk/msp...8/89/Tweet.jpg

If you have an HDR telly you too can enjoy being under neon-loneliness!

Okay, so…the boys are playing Party At The Palace on the same day as Sophie Ellis Bextor this year. Can we pleeeeease get a live rendition of “Black Holes For The Young” now?

That would be amazing.

It's a track that went from meh to yay for me.

Bloody love that song. One of my favourite JDB vocals actually.

Getting early manics vibes. New fave programme "YOUR BLOOD IS YOUR FRIEND" BRILLIANT

https://mouth-off.sounder.fm/episode...igilant-behave

Might be of interest to some peeps, it’s a pod about inclusivity of marginalised groups in music with this four parter (not sure if there will be more) looking at the manics. It’s a really interesting listen but i may take issue with the discussion of the manics even having a manifesto.

That sounds interesting, I shall give it a listen, thanks Tim.

A couple of weeks ago the band went past their previous record time between gigs (1 y 233 d from the end of the PPF tour to the Winter Wonderland gig).

That awful, soul destroying moment midway through a lovely walk on a beautiful summer's day, when you discover that at some point in time, for some reason beyond your comprehension, you have deleted "Engage With Your Shadow" from your phone and you now have to choose a different song instead, as if any could measure up. The horror, the horror.

I love the new bits of guitar work on the new arrangement of Tolerate.

For some reason though, I can't get the Spice Girls out of my head now.

New Public Service Broadcasting album looks interesting. Recorded at Hansa studios, with a theme of Berlin, inspired by Low and featuring a track with Nina Hoss.

Where do they get their crazy ideas from ? :P

I have to say the Berlin 'theme' has been done to death by now.

And a section called 'Building A City'. Bonkers.

Christ.

Never seen the attraction with them. Pretentious bollocks.

Not too fussed about the current single but I've loved everything else they've done.

To those inconvenienced by September gig change, we will see them live again one day.
There's still no other band I'd rather see again than the Manics.
Even then, they still won't release a charity live album from it!

As an aside. You know nme.com? Well I noticed page numbers of very long numbers. Clicked one and look at that! News of progress of the new Manics album... From 1998!
No pictures, but look at how they're talking about TIMTTMY. The more things change the more they stay the same!

https://www.nme.com/news/music/manic...rs-366-1394064

Having spotted seano dropping a stick in ADFL video; what is nicky doing at 4:28 of ME?

Whilst on the subject of videos; jimmy doesn't stay long in the cafe of Everlasting video and spends rest of video in the pub. Just worth noting

You've get to wonder why that's there, was NME on line at all in 97/98? Or did they get a work experience student, all excited about doing a placement at the NME, to spend their time scanning in old articles?

Looking back it's interesting about SYMM being described as the most epic song they've ever written. Not doubting the ambition was there but it didn't quite live up to its billing!

can confirm NME.com launched in 97 - it was my first year of college and first time I had regular access to the internet, and I was amazed I could access daily music news rather than waiting to Wednesday each week for the physical publication.

I remember the build up to TIMT during that time in the college computer room - in fact, I think i remember that very article as the first time I ever read about the band online!

Is the line "And Brian Warner has a tasty little ass" now more controversial then "I laughed when Lennon got shot"?

The KYE20 will probably have a bleep over that line!

Post starts about me then goes Manics related:

So early next month I'll be on a local local radio show reading one of my poems.
And I've selected "Nicky Wire's Last" as my favourite song.
Have I done good?

An edit to the vocal and replace with "Molko" and we're all good! I hope he's not a dehumanising narcissitic-personality-disordered, and therefore untreatable, asshole

You've done good.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-57720012

"A woman raped by an Elvis impersonator when she was a 15-year-old dancer has said "he no longer controls her life" after he was finally put behind bars.

Kirsty McKell was abused by Clayton Sandlin in 2002 when he was starring in a show on Blackpool's Central Pier.

She has taken the rare step of waiving her right to anonymity to urge other victims of sexual abuse to speak out."

Godspeed on her recovery