Set list quotes
I was just wondering if between us we had enough to fill in all the gaps?
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE TOUR
Southampton Guildhall – 03/04/2005
‘To betray you must first belong’
- Kim Philby
Derby Assembly Rooms – 04/04/2005
‘To be obsessive is far more important than talent’
- Kyffin Williams
Wolverhampton Civic Hall – 06/04/2005
‘The void is more daring than the whole‘
- Edmond Jabes
Swansea Brangwyn Hall – 07/04/2005
‘I have come to the borders of sleep the deep frost where all must lose their way. ‘
- Edward Thomas
Liverpool Royal Court – 09/04/2005
‘All our knowledge – past, present and future – is nothing compared to what we will never know’
- Tsiolkovsky
Bristol Colston Hall – 11/04/2005
‘One likes to believe in the freedom of music but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity ‘
- Rush
Cambridge Corn Exchange – 12/04/2005
‘Ambition is critical‘
- Dylan Thomas
Newcastle City Hall – 14/04/2005
‘Be Pure, Be Vigilant, behave’
Edinburgh Corn Exchange – 15/04/2005
‘I listen to money singing. It's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town.’
- Philip Larkin
Leeds University Refectory – 17/04/2005
‘There is no truce with the furies’
- R.S Thomas
Hammersmith Apollo – 18/04/2005
‘You cannot love too much only the wrong way‘
[Thomas Traherne/Elizabeth Jennings]
Hammersmith Apollo – 19/04/2005
‘There is work to be done’
- Lenin
NICKY WIRE SOLO ‘TOUR’
Stay Beautiful – 01/07/2006
“I never think of the future it comes soon enough” – A. Einstein
Latitude Festival – 17/07/2006
“Freedom is the recognition of necessity” – F. Engels
Gwyl Macs Festival – 02/09/2006
“My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health” – Kyffin Williams
SEND AWAY THE TIGERS TOURS & FESTIVALS
Manchester 8/12/2006
"When a man is young he is usually a revolutionary of some kind, so here I am speaking of my revolution" Wyndham Lewis
Cambridge 8/05
"Prostitutes go to heaven it's their clients that go to hell" D. Chapple
Leeds 9/05
“I can’t be anymore than I say” D. Albarn
Cardiff 11/05
"Brands are like spirits - disrupting your life, bombarding you. Your suspicious of them, but attracted too. Its like a trap." Wang Qingsong
Cardiff 12/05
“No his mind is not for rent to any God or government” N. Peart
Glasgow 14/05
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm" Winston Churchill
Newcastle 15/05
"This not my life, just a fond farewell to a friend" E. Smith
Sheffield 17/05
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex." Bertrand Russel
Carlisle 18/05
“Tyranny, like hell is not easily conquered, yet we have this consolation with us, the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph” Thomas Paine
Preston 20/05
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more unbearable.” Kurt Vonnegut
Wolverhampton 21/05
"This is not rock n roll it's the geometry of contempt" R Edwards
Norwich 23/05
"An architect is a foreigner - a strange person - a person that thinks buildings are alive" M.Wigley
Nottingham 24/05
"I'm trying to turn myself inside out on the canvas. I'm trying to completely bare what I think at that moment" Don Van Vilet
Llandudno 26/05
""One solitary, overriding thought: to get away from here, people frighten me" - Werner Herzog"
Manchester 27/05
“Anybody interested in the effects of war quickly becomes an expert in ruins” C Lorrain/S Norfolk
London 29/05
"Stab a sorry heart with your favourite finger, paint the whole world blue and stop your tears from stinging" I. McCulloch
London 30/05
“Where there’s a will to win my red dream is everything” McCarthy
London 31/05
"The soul singer in the session band shredded to ribbons beneath the microphone stand" C. Oberst
Bristol 2/06
"You come from an island. You're cutting diamonds with a rubber knife" Nina Persson
Truro 3/06
"When there's no future how can there be sin?" J. Lydon
Southampton 5/06
"My most creative moment is the point zero" Naoto Fukasawa
Brighton 6/06
"I'm all lost in the supermarket I can no longer shop happily" Strummer/Jones
Leicester 8/06
"Last cigarettes all you can get - turning your orbit around" J. Tweedy
Reading 9/06
"What i want i want now and it's a whole lot more than anyhow" T Verlaine
Rock Ness 10/06
“Who’s responsible? You fucking are” R. Edwards
Cardiff 12/06
“In the Cardiff Afterlife we sensed the breaking of our lives”
Hultsfred 16/06
"And like the charge of the light brigade or a bitter, twisted thachterite".
Greenfield 17/06
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Southside 22/06
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Hurricane 23/06
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Glastonbury 24/06
"I like a look of agony, because I know it's true" Emily Dickinson
Summer Sonic, Osaka 11/08
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Summer Sonic, Tokyo 12/08
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V Festival, Stafford 18/08
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V Festival, Chelmsford 19/08
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Tennants Vital, Belfast 21/08
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Electric Picnic 31/08
"I THINK THE CAMERA IS A WONDERFUL MACHINE, DON'T YOU? NOT TO TAKE PICTURES IS CRAZY". PETER BEARD.
Rock'n'Coke, Istanbul 02/09
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Q Awards Launch Party 12/09
"I wish I was like you, easily amused" K Cobain
Terra Vibe, Athens 06/10
"The more that you follow me, the more I get lost" - Pete Doherty
Barcelona 09/11
"I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD" - Betrand Russell
Dublin 29/11
"Put some lipstick on at least your lies will be pretty" R Edwards
Dublin 30/11
"Teenage angst has served me well, now i'm bored and old" K cobain
Aberdeen 02/12
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Edinburgh 03/12
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Manchester 05/12
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Cardiff 06/12
"LAUGHTER IS AN ESCAPE FROM THE DARKNESS" - P. MERTON
Birmingham 08/12
"IN THE SUN, IN THE SUN, IN THE SUN I FEEL AS ONE" - K COBAIN
Bournemouth 09/12
"THE NET IS A MEDIUM WHICH UNFORTUNATELY MAKES IT EASIER FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BAD NOVELS AND MISCELANNEOUS OTHER SCREEDS TO GET THEM OUT". WILL SELF
Brixton 11/12
"After silence that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music" - [Aldous Huxley]
Brixton 12/12
"REPETITION IS A FORM OF CHANGE." - ANON/[BRIAN ENO]
Brighton 14/12
"I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me" - [Fabio Capello]
NME BIG GIG 28/2/08
"I DON'T THRIVE ON CHAOS. I JUST NAVIGATE IT." S. EARLE
Manchester City of Light Stadium - 02/06/2008
"If you're going to play it out of tune then play it out of tune properly" - Mark E. Smith
Caribana Festival, Switzerland - 05/06/2008
"The subject matter is the usual-god, destiny and me thinking everyone's a tit-head." - Ian McCulloch
Rock Am Ring Festival, Germany - 07/06/08
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Rock Im Park Festival, Germany - 08/06/08
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Radar Festival Varaždin, Croatia - 13/06/08
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Allegro Muzyka Festival, Poland - 21/06/08
"An artist is his own fault" - John O'Hara
Open Air St Gallen Festival, Switzerland - 27/06/08
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B’est Fest, Bucharest, Romania - 05/07/08
"DIGITAL PICTURES HAVE NO SOUL - DIGITAL IS COLD IT CAN'T DEAL WITH LIGHT PROPERLY" - S. GULLICK
Oxegen Festival, Ireland - 12/07/08
"FAME IS THE NEW WEALTH. OBSCURITY IS THE NEW POVERTY" - LEE SIEGEL
Positivus AB Festival, Latvia - 18/07/08
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B1 Club, Moscow, Russia - 23/07/08
"IS A DREAM A LIE THAT DON'T COME TRUE OR IS IT SOMETHING WORSE" - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Q Stock, Finland - 25/07/08
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FM4 Frequency Festival, Austria - 15/08/08
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Pukkelpop Festival, Belgium - 16/08/08
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Newport - 21/08/08
"We Live In Urban Hell. We Destroy Rock N Roll"
Reading Festival - 23/08/08
"do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage"- Brian de palma
Leeds Festival - 24/08/08
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Hydro Connect Festival, Inverary - 29/08/08
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Royal Festival Hall, London Believe in Magic - 12/09/08
"There's nothing that the road cannot heal" - Conor Oberst
Fort Canning Park, Singapore - 24/11/08
"I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one" - Shane Meadows
Hitec Star Hall, Hong Kong - 26/11/08
"I never found the campanion that was so campanionable as solitude" - H David Thoreau
Journal for Plague Lovers
Glasgow - 25/05/09
Journal for Plague Lovers set:
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Hits set:
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Llandudno - 26/05/09
Journal for Plague Lovers set:
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Hits set:
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London - 28/05/09
Journal for Plague Lovers set:
"I LIKE MIDDLES - IT IS IN MIDDLES THAT EXTREMES CLASH,WHERE AMBIGUITY RULES" JOHN UPDIKE
Hits set:
"Avant Garde is French for bullshit" – J Lydon
London - 29/05/09
Journal for Plague Lovers set:
"CAPITALISM IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW WAYS TO SELL US STUFF, AND NOW IT'S FOUND THE PAST": -ALEXEI SAYLE
Hits set:
"MY LIFE IS SUBSERVIENT TO PAINTING - I CAN'T FIND A SUBSTITUTE FOR IT IN THE WORLD" - J SAVILLE
London - 30/05/09
Journal for Plague Lovers set:
"I'M AN ANGEL BORED LIKE HELL AND YOU'RE A DEVIL MEANING WELL" NINA PERSSON
Hits set:
"THE WAY WOMEN WERE DEPICTED DIDN'T FEEL LIKE MINE; TOO CUTE. I WASN'T INTERESTED IN ADMIRED OR IDEALISED BEAUTY" JENNY SAVILLE
Wolverhampton - 01/06/09
Journal for Plague Lovers set:
"There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark"
- Alexei Sayle
Hits set:
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Brighton - 02/06/09
Journal for Plague Lovers set:
"I THOUGHT I COULD TURN PEOPLE ON WITH A NOTE OF SADNESS" - PETER GREEN
Hits set:
"IF SOMEBODY SAYS I LOVE YOU, TO ME, I FEEL AS THOUGH I'VE HAD A PISTOL POINTED AT MY HEAD" - KURT VONNEGURT
Dublin - 04/06/09
Journal for Plague Lovers set:
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Hits set:
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Belfast - 06/06/09
Journal for Plague Lovers set:
"I WAS ABLE TO TAP INTO THINGS PEOPLE SECRETLY WANTED TO SAY AND DO. THOSE CONDITIONS AREN'T THERE ANY MORE" - I. POP
Hits set:
"I DON'T WANT TO BE IN SOME FUCKING LOUSY INDEPENDENT PIECE OF CRAP THAT NO ONE WATCHES. I WANNA BE IN THE ONES THAT MATTER. I WANNA BE A FUCKING MOVIE STAR" - M. ROURKE
London Mojo Awards Show - 08/06/09
"Humans cannot save the world, but this is no reason for despair. It does not need saving. Happily humans will never live in a world of their own making" - John Gray
Rock Under Broen, Denmark - 13/06/09
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Szczecin Rock Festival, Poland - 25/06/09
"Popular culture has become too popular, too easy to consume, too widely broadcast and too accessible" - Rob Fitzpatrick.
Exit festival, Serbia - 10/07/09
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T in the Park, Scotland - 11/07/09
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Oxegen, Ireland - 12/07/09
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Lokerse Festival, Belgium - 04/08/09
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Sziget, Hungary - 15/08/09
"We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not." - Billy Childish
Parkenfestivalen, Norway - 22/08/09
"New stars are seldom 'authentic'- they actually go to fame schools and train for the job. Today's audience doesn't mind if the performers have svengalis & stylists. After all, the notion of the makeover is central to modern TV." -Paul Du Noyer.
Seattle - 21/09/09
"I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form" - Lars Von Trier
Vancouver - 22/09/09
"There is no progression in music or art. Theres change and different people being happy in different ways." - Robert Wyatt
San Francisco - 24/09/09
"Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes" - Morrissey
Los Angeles - 25/09/09
"I tried living in the real world instead of a shell but before I began - I was bored before I ever began" - Morrissey
Denver - 28/09/09
"Society is our frail barrier against nature" - Cammille Paglia
Minneapolis - 30/09/09
"I begin with no plan. I face the void - I play - I do nothing" -R. Johnson
Chicago - 01/10/09
"I never considered another profession. My only other desire was to do as little as possible" - Kevin Ayres
Detroit - 02/10/09
"One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something" - Francis Ford Coppola
Toronto - 04/10/09
"We are all modernisers today. We have no idea what being modern means, but we are sure that it guarantees us a future." John Gray.
Philadelphia - 06/10/09
"One: I am a Welshman; Two; I am a drunkard; Three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women." Dylan Thomas
New York - 07/10/09
"I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question." - Dylan Thomas
Boston - 08/10/09
"My inspiration has always been life. Just look around, see whats going on and work from that." - Smokey Robinson
King Tuts - 18/02/10
"Let us never assume there is not more and more and more and more and then more to write about." - Norman Mailer
Bergen - 01/05/10
"Making enough money for six months to have the next six months off. It's the greatest experience I can have!" - The Late Great Alex Chilton
Cardiff (Macca Support) - 26/06/10
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Optimus Alive - 09/07/10
"The guitar is your best friend, your wife, your mistress, your psychiatrist, your bartender - it's everything" - Les Paul
Bilbao BBK Live - 10/07/10
"I am broke out of my mind, most of my fans hate me - but I don't give a shit" - Mark Eitzel
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