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Futurologist 22-07-2012 21:04

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Originally Posted by nsebastian (Post 2484940)
Got the deluxe edition of EMG today, very excited. Just in time so I can bring it with me and watch the DVD while recovering from surgery. Nothing more comforting than Manics. :)

Hope all is well!

Watching this video. James sounds immense. *swoon*

hummingbird 22-07-2012 22:10

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Originally Posted by shug (Post 2485080)
Hope all is well!

Watching this video. James sounds immense. *swoon*

brilliant gig. Well worth the wait :D

Futurologist 22-07-2012 22:11

Did you go hummingbird?

hummingbird 22-07-2012 22:20

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Originally Posted by shug (Post 2485107)
Did you go hummingbird?

oh yes indeedy. Can't remember the dates but if that was the saturday James was on fire :D. Same on the friday but i didnt have as good a view

Futurologist 22-07-2012 22:22

:) Yay for you. JDB is sounding and looking wonderful on those vids. Especially after laryngitis-gate. Still got a cracking falsetto.

I wasn't there *sniffs*

hummingbird 22-07-2012 22:23

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Originally Posted by shug (Post 2485113)
:) Yay for you. JDB is sounding and looking wonderful on those vids. Especially after laryngitis-gate. Still got a cracking falsetto.

I wasn't there *sniffs*

I pity you. I do. :p

Futurologist 22-07-2012 22:23

Your sincerity touches me :P

nsebastian 24-07-2012 13:31

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Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder (Post 2484956)
Hope the op goes/ has gone ok! :)

It went smoothly, thanks! :) Nothing too serious, fortunately. Just going to take a while to recover.

Finn 25-07-2012 13:32

Watching Iron Man 2, it occurred to me that Robert Downey Jr is wearing JDB's hairdo from the You Stole the Sun video.

The Gutless Wonder 25-07-2012 18:27

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Originally Posted by Finn (Post 2485568)
Watching Iron Man 2, it occurred to me that Robert Downey Jr is wearing JDB's hairdo from the You Stole the Sun video.

Ha! Ha! Well spotted! :lol: :D

Bathtub 26-07-2012 12:52

Is it just me or does the intro and verses of "Ghosts of Christmas" sound a lot like bits of "Ooh La La" by The Faces?

Bobafettish 28-07-2012 16:26

James should just go solo, Nicky is ridiculous... to think I loved him

franny 28-07-2012 16:58

I know that feel bro, we were all stupid and around the age of 16 once.

The Gutless Wonder 28-07-2012 19:28

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Originally Posted by Bobafettish (Post 2486170)
James should just go solo, Nicky is ridiculous... to think I loved him

Welcome to James fandom! :D

franny 28-07-2012 23:03

Tracey likes to nab em' young.

For the JDB club that is :shiftyeyes:

The Gutless Wonder 29-07-2012 09:09

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Originally Posted by franny (Post 2486236)
Tracey likes to nab em' young.

For the JDB club that is :shiftyeyes:

:P :lol:

amay 30-07-2012 00:23

I noticed an article on the front of the Sunday Times financial section today about how Blackstar (as in 'I love this amp!') had recorded record growth and profits over the last year. Obviously down to JDB's sparkling endorsement of it :D

Nature's Discontent 30-07-2012 12:56

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Originally Posted by amay (Post 2486427)
I noticed an article on the front of the Sunday Times financial section today about how Blackstar (as in 'I love this amp!') had recorded record growth and profits over the last year. Obviously down to JDB's sparkling endorsement of it :D

Blackstar should obvs be grateful to all on FD :p

The Gutless Wonder 30-07-2012 20:47

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Originally Posted by Nature's Discontent (Post 2486494)
Blackstar should obvs be grateful to all on FD :p

We await the big fat cheque!

:lol:

Bobafettish 31-07-2012 21:29

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Originally Posted by franny (Post 2486175)
I know that feel bro, we were all stupid and around the age of 16 once.

I know man. He just does my nut in at the moment aha, sowwwwwi

The Gutless Wonder 31-07-2012 22:05

JDB fandom is where it's at! :D

Scarecrow 22-08-2012 17:20

Been reading accounts of fans' experiences from the Generation Terrorists days for the first time since I was a typical teenage Manics fan. Weird remembering how impressionable I was when I got into them fully, being dazzled by the glamour, intensity, and cultural references and all. In my naivety, I remember yearning to have been older so I could've had a chance to follow them around in 1992 in eyeliner and be fully immersed in the idolatry, along with the girls who must've jumped ship long ago. Now I'm 27, I read the old hostility towards 1996 (and onwards) Manics and the inevitable "new" fans and I feel both contempt for the elitist attitude and that same wish to have been a part of it first time around. Somebody slap me before I regress to a CoR idiot.

hummingbird 22-08-2012 17:26

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Originally Posted by NasalScarecrow (Post 2491734)
Been reading accounts of fans' experiences from the Generation Terrorists days for the first time since I was a typical teenage Manics fan. Weird remembering how impressionable I was when I got into them fully, being dazzled by the glamour, intensity, and cultural references and all. In my naivety, I remember yearning to have been older so I could've had a chance to follow them around in 1992 in eyeliner and be fully immersed in the idolatry, along with the girls who must've jumped ship long ago. Now I'm 27, I read the old hostility towards 1996 (and onwards) Manics and the inevitable "new" fans and I feel both contempt for the elitist attitude and that same wish to have been a part of it first time around. Somebody slap me before I regress to a CoR idiot.

*slap* :) I remember liking the rows between old and new fans in the NME/MM letters pages :good:

Scarecrow 22-08-2012 17:47

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Originally Posted by hummingbird (Post 2491736)
*slap* :) I remember liking the rows between old and new fans in the NME/MM letters pages :good:

Tsk tsk! I never quite went that far. :P I did briefly do the penpal thing with some Manics fan from MM though.

I always thought the old fan/new fan debate was a bit silly. When a band is around long enough, they'll inevitably get new fans who were previously unaware of them or too young to have been a fan a few years earlier. Do old Rolling Stones fans hate younger fans?

I do remember the possessive nature of some of those arguments though. Even though I wasn't there, I thought it was a load of crap that somebody who discovered the band post-1995 couldn't be affected the same way, or at least similarly. I didn't get to see them play every night at various Universities in 1992, but I was still affected by the lyrics, outfits, references and ambitions that others had been affected by years earlier. Thankfully I don't see that kind of debate anymore, and I'm sure many on here became a fan for the reasons I did, and subsequently saw past the myths. Even though they're sometimes entertaining.

Littlesue 22-08-2012 19:06

I've been a fan since 92 but I never met any fans from back then so did'nt see them till 95 at Reading. They were unheard of round here, I hardly met anyone who liked them after 96 either, its only since I have come on FD that I have known other Manic fans.

hummingbird 22-08-2012 19:26

i had a couple of friends at uni that were manics fans. One introduced me to the ray of sunshine that is THB and told me to persevere with it :)

Smiling#Girl 22-08-2012 20:19

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Originally Posted by Littlesue (Post 2491753)
I've been a fan since 92 but I never met any fans from back then so did'nt see them till 95 at Reading. They were unheard of round here, I hardly met anyone who liked them after 96 either, its only since I have come on FD that I have known other Manic fans.

I believed that in the Uk was easier to meet other Manic fans.Tbh in Italy it's even hard to find someone that knows who they are :(

The Gutless Wonder 22-08-2012 20:29

At work I came across a younger fan so I chatted loads about them with him. There was an older colleague who liked them up to EMG but had gone off them with Truth. (He was the one who spotted that I'd written a slightly embarrassing letter to NME sticking up for James!)

Scarecrow 22-08-2012 20:48

After a few friends at school, I was lucky I guess. There's a club in Hull I started going to at 15, and at the time, it appeared that every Manics fan around went. You Love Us would come on and the dancefloor was full of leaping leopard print and eyeliner. It was pretty exciting.

nsebastian 22-08-2012 22:26

Jealous of everyone who's had the chance to meet other Manics fans. Never spoken to anyone in person who'd known about the band before I introduced them, except a woman who was next to me at the O2, and that was for about 10 seconds. Even my music geek friends usually haven't a clue. :(

RoseTintedSpecs 23-08-2012 10:25

I've been a fan since September 2010 and most of the other fans I know are people I came across on the internet (on here and on Tumblr). One of them on Tumblr lives about 20 minutes away from me and a lot of her friends went to my 6th form, but if it hadn't been for Tumblr we'd probably have never met.

I know a few people who listen to them occasionally who I didn't meet through the internet - a friend's boyfriend who went off them after SATT, another friend from 6th form and my uncle's partner, and I managed to get my boyfriend into them - but none of them are as big a fan as I am. All of the other obsessives I know are on here or Tumblr.

MoMoney MoJunk 11-09-2012 10:48

The Convalescent is really, really brilliant.

Aside from a few dodgy lyrics.

Bambi 28-09-2012 21:01

I just bought the Faster/PCP 10" in near mint condition for £10 and the Despair to Where 12" with a slightly distressed sleeve for £3. That can't be bad, apart from me just having spent £13 on songs I already own.

sculptureofabloke 28-09-2012 21:19

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Originally Posted by NasalScarecrow (Post 2491742)
I didn't get to see them play every night at various Universities in 1992

So glad they went back to the Academy type venues. Wonder if they could've one a Radiohead and done two nights at the O2 and one at the MEN every 3 years instead, that'd be shite.

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Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder (Post 2491780)
At work I came across a younger fan so I chatted loads about them with him. There was an older colleague who liked them up to EMG but had gone off them with Truth. (He was the one who spotted that I'd written a slightly embarrassing letter to NME sticking up for James!)

Did he survive after he told you he'd gone off them at Truth? :scared:

Dancing Kirby 02-10-2012 16:21

When I saw the thumbnail of the image below for an article on The Sun's website asking "Are these the worst restaurant customers in Britain?", for a second I thought it was JDB and The Wire.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/a...6_1594551a.jpg

It would be so like them to abuse the all you can eat buffet.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz289vVYmX7

Littlesue 02-10-2012 17:57

Ha ha ha, thats funny

UEF 02-10-2012 19:05

Ha ha ha, they really are taking a few years out aren't they!

Predicable post from someone: "Looks nothing like them"

Futurologist 02-10-2012 19:58

I saw a headline on the BBC website that I thought said JDB Collapse. :surprise: I was like nooooooo, but they weren't being over familiar, it was JJB Collapse.

The Gutless Wonder 02-10-2012 20:39

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Originally Posted by UEF (Post 2500026)
Predicable post from someone: "Looks nothing like them"

:whistle:

socialist cook 06-10-2012 20:04

Someone has probably mentioned this before, but I thought it was a bit silly.

Someone today mentioned that the riff in Let Robeson Sing = Groovy Kind of Love.

Yes I do think it's silly, but it wasn't me guv!


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