My brief thoughts:
Be Natural should be kept in every setlist forever from now. Sublime.
Black Dog full band is incredibly good. It somehow transported me back to pre-TIMT era, sounded like the band in their younger days playing, for a moment.
SYMM surprisingly (for me) a high point.
YLA was my toilet break song. I was not the only one! I could’ve interchanged it with International Blue though.
Bit of a skirmish at the end of Motorcycle. Couple of people thrown out.
Solitude, which I’d been really looking forward to, was a let-down. Seemed to be just going through the motions on that one. Maybe JDB’s mind was on the next track...! Mind blown
Over-all, I left on a huge high. I wasn’t expecting to - TIMT has never been a favourite, and I was never much of a Tolerate fan, but this was up there with one of the best Manics gigs I’ve been to in recent years.
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