Set list quotes

[Amanda]

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

"..."

Southside 22/06

"..."

Hurricane 23/06

"..."

Glastonbury 24/06

"I like a look of agony, because I know it's true" Emily Dickinson

Summer Sonic, Osaka 11/08

"..."

Summer Sonic, Tokyo 12/08

"..."

V Festival, Stafford 18/08

"..."

V Festival, Chelmsford 19/08

"..."

Tennants Vital, Belfast 21/08

"..."

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

"..."

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

"..."

Edinburgh 03/12

"..."

Manchester 05/12

"..."

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

"..."

Rock Im Park Festival, Germany - 08/06/08

"..."

Radar Festival Varaždin, Croatia - 13/06/08

"..."

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

"..."

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

"..."

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

"..."

FM4 Frequency Festival, Austria - 15/08/08

"..."

Pukkelpop Festival, Belgium - 16/08/08

"..."

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

"..."

Hydro Connect Festival, Inverary - 29/08/08

"..."

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:

"..."

Hits set:

"..."

Llandudno - 26/05/09

Journal for Plague Lovers set:

"..."

Hits set:

"..."

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:

"..."

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:

"..."

Hits set:

"..."

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

"..."

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

"..."

T in the Park, Scotland - 11/07/09

"..."

Oxegen, Ireland - 12/07/09

"..."

Lokerse Festival, Belgium - 04/08/09

"..."

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

"..."

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

[Ben]

Originally Posted by Amanda

London 31/05

"The soul singer in the session band shredded to ribbons beneath the microphone stand" C. Oberst

Nicky loves a bit of Bright Eyes, dosn't he!

[*Found That Soul*]

Cambridge 8/05
"Prostitutes go to heaven it's their clients that go to hell"D chapple

Wolverhampton 21/05
"This is not rock n roll it's the geometry of contempt"R Edawrds

Southampton 5/06
"My most creative moment is the point zero"Naojo Fukasawa

Brighton 6/06
"im all lost in the supermarket i can no longer shop happily"Strummer/Jones

Reading 9/06
"what i want i want now and it's a whole lot more than anyhow"T Verlaine

[egaeci]

Truro 3/6:

When there's no future how can there be sin? - J. Lydon

[Glasnost]

Hi Amanda,

I've got Newcastle but the end has been ripped off sadly.

Anyway, what I've got is..

"This not my life, just a fond farewell to a frie.."

Craig

[egaeci]

Originally Posted by Glasnost

Hi Amanda,

I've got Newcastle but the end has been ripped off sadly.

Anyway, what I've got is..

"This not my life, just a fond farewell to a frie.."

Craig

a quick google search gives us "friend" as the last word, and it's from a song by elliott smith.

[Amanda]

Thank you, have gone back and editted to add them in, just 8 to go now

[Takk]

Originally Posted by *Found That Soul*

Reading 9/06
"what i want i want now and it's a whole lot more than anyhow"T Verlaine

Is that the whole quote, it's a bit nonsensical!

[Art Vandelay]

Originally Posted by Takk

Is that the whole quote, it's a bit nonsensical!

Yes, it's from Television's See No Evil, and the first name of the wonderful Mr Verlaine is Tom, by the way. I reckon he should have used the lines that follow (I understand all/destructive urges/ it seems so perfect).

Nicky's been using some quotes from the songs that were played before the band came to the stage.

[mothers_are_saints]

could anyone scan in the setlists please? especially the ones for cardiff 2nd night, wolves, llandudno (if it turns up), bristol and truro? thanks xxx

[MSPKYE]

Originally Posted by mothers_are_saints

could anyone scan in the setlists please? especially the ones for cardiff 2nd night, wolves, llandudno (if it turns up), bristol and truro? thanks xxx

Ooh and the Cariff Point one so we actually know for certain what was played after my little cock up with the texting

[hysteria18]

Soul Singer In A Session Band? That's pretty much the worst Bright Eyes song ever.

[i-accuse-history]

I'd really love to see this filled up, so I'm bumping it back up

And is it just me or Nicky was getting slightly melancholic for the last dates?

edit: whoops, i fucked up and didn't see the updates, so no need for bumping, lol.

[Loz]

Theres a nottingham set list for sale on ebay but the picture is too small for me to read the quote...its quite a long one though...someone else can have a go

Ive got as far as:

"I'm trying to turn myself inside out on the...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MANIC-STREET-P...QQcmdZViewItem

[i-accuse-history]

I googled it and it's from an interview:

"as a painter, do you have any inspirations... what are you trying to do as a painter?

i'm trying to turn myself inside out on the canvas. i'm trying to completely bare what i think at that moment, yet i put a lot of thought into what i'm doing... it sounds like a contradiction, but ... -- "

I think it's with Don Van Vliet? I have no idea who it is: http://members.lycos.nl/teejo/dutch/copyright2.html