Random Manics thoughts...

[everlasting]

Really enjoyed that, a good little set list too Will watch again later on with a few beers. I hope we get a Manics film one day, that would be awesome.

[savemejebus]

Originally Posted by Europa Gluten Free

Official Jimbo video up now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wqn0smR0Bw

This is my favourite things he's done in a long time.

He really should do a storyteller's type acoustic tour and play some rarities. (We don't need Faster acoustic ever again - remember the 2002 uproar!)

Ready for drowning was nice and this sullen welsh heart was a lovely surprise but if I never hear him bucher 'why design for a life' (sic) like that again it'll be too soon.

[rosetree]

Great set list, would be nice to hear more songs in Welsh.

[Dac X Lee]

Originally Posted by rosetree

Great set list, would be nice to hear more songs in Welsh.

I want a Cardiff Afterlife in Welsh. ♡

[rosetree]

Originally Posted by Dac X Lee

I want a Cardiff Afterlife in Welsh. ♡

Definitely Cardiff Afterlife. I tried some lyrics in Google translate that were interesting in Welsh. I would like to hear them play Sepia and I always like how James puts lyrics in the music anyway.

[Son of Stopped]

So there was a Rough Trade Nicky Wire interview this evening. Anyone go? Anything said that stuck with you?

[wannagetout]

Anyone better this?

[Son of Stopped]

I can't, sorry. But from YouTube, Decline & Fall made the third most listened to song however. And the band themselves were third behind MGMT and Jimi Hendrix.
I'll be streaming the hell out of Critical Thinking when it goes up of course. That's my new target for 2024.

[Son of Stopped]

After the recent storm a lot of areas in South Wales are without power still. I'm reading of pub owners losing thousands of bookings.
I wonder if the band's rehearsals have been affected?
Hope anyone in South Wales here is ok.

[LA ex]

Thirty years since Richey's last gig... Heck what a set list that was

[Scarecrow]

Man, I remember when it was ‘just a few years ago’, scrambling to download bad bootleg recordings and photos off rudimentary fan sites. Seems like a completely different era now.

[LA ex]

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

Man, I remember when it was ‘just a few years ago’, scrambling to download bad bootleg recordings and photos off rudimentary fan sites. Seems like a completely different era now.

The internet of twenty odd years ago is almost incomparable to what it is today, in retrospect it was very much the wild west back then before everything became commercial and the big social media sites took over. Do fan sites exist and thrive anymore? Forums are all but dead compared to what they used to be. And I'm not sure any of that 'progress' has been for the better.