Post your Manics attendance

[Cuppa]

Originally Posted by poisoned_exile

*I would like to point out that the wording of my first post looked a bit bitchy, in case you were wondering I meant how can "one" look a veteran etc, not you in particular

I guess maybe you can tell when it's peoples first manics gigs - they tend to have quite tacky clothing, and really stereotypical stuff. And have an odd idea of what "glam" actually is (it means GLAMOUR people, not covering yourself in everything vaguely glittery and animal print and slogans you can find, all together.)

Nah I know you weren't being bitchy.

Well I was just wearing a black t shirt and black skinny jeans with a glittery headband and glittery eyeshadow. I had a bright pink feather boa at the beginning but that got lost pretty quickly. I don't think she actually said "looked" she just said "I'd have thought you were a manics veteran" - maybe she heard me talking about how I wanted them to play loads of old stuff, or talking to my friend about when she'd seen them before and thought I'd gone with her.

[The Execution Of All Things]

london hammersmith 05'
london hammersmith 05'
london astoria 07'
london shepherds bush 07'
reading hexagon 07'
birmingham nia 07'
london brixton 07'
london brixton 07'

jdb:
london ULU 06'
london koko 06'

thats more times than i thought

[Cocytus1995]

12.11.2002 - Vienna
22.06.2007 - Southside Festival

[Mrs Bradfield]

London Forum 16.12.96
Royal Albert Hall 12.04.97
Wembley Arena 15.12.98
Wembley arena 16.12.98
Manic Millenium 31.12.99
Brixton may 2001
Cardiff Arena 23.9.01
Wembley arena 7.12.2002
Hmv gig 14.07.03
Cardiff arena 13th dec 04 (Cancelled)
Cardiff arena jan 05 (Rescheduled)
Hammersmith apollo 18.4.05

Jdb 19.10.06 London Koko

Shepards bush Empire 31.05.07
Nia Brum 8.12.07

[manic cow]

28/03/01 - Manchester Apollo*
11/08/01 - Cd:uk (let robeson sing) London
23/08/01 - Cardiff International Arena*
18/11/02 - Cardiff Homecoming St David’s Hall
03/12/02 - Birmingham NEC*
07/12/02 - Wembley Arena
11/12/02 - Nottingham Arena
15/12/02 - Cardiff International Arena
16/12/02 - Cardiff International Arena
11/07/03 - Move Festival
13/07/03 - Witnness Festival
12/06/04 - Isle of Wight Festival
05/12/04 - Brighton Centre
09/12/04 - Wembley Arena
16/12/04 - Birmingham NEC
17/12/04 - Manchester MEN*
11/01/05 - Cardiff International Arena
03/04/05 - Southampton Guildhall*
04/04/05 - Derby Assembly Rooms
06/04/05 - Wolverhampton Civic Hall
07/04/05 - Swansea Brangwyn Hall
09/04/05 - Liverpool Royal Court
20/08/06 - JDB V Festival Chelmsford
11/10/06 - JDB Birmingham Barfly*
19/10/06 - JDB London KOKO
20/10/06 - JDB Oxford Zodiac
08/12/06 - Manchester Apollo
27/05/07 - Manchester Apollo*
02/06/07 - Bristol Colston Hall
08/06/07 - Leicester De Montfort Hall*
09/06/07 - Reading, The Hexagon
08/12/07 - Birmingham NIA
14/12/07 - Brighton Centre*

I've starred my favourite ones, which are usually based on a good atmosphere/band performance rather than a great setlist. I've been pretty lucky and seen quite a lot of 'rare' songs though, favourites being revol, door to the river, miss europa & wattsville blues.

Only gig I didn't really enjoy would be nottingham on the fd tour because I felt like I was going to freeze to death during the gig (even though I was on the barrier) and ended up with evil flu for the rest of that tour. I've been boycotting the shithole that is nottingham ever since.

[MrsCarbohydrate]

I've posted this already, but thought I should update it with the winter tour.

12-12-98 Glasgow SECC
02-04-01 Glasgow Barrowlands
03-04-01 Glasgow Barrowlands
23-08-01 Cardiff International Arena
??-08-01 Irvine Beach
09-10-02 Glasgow Renfrew Ferry
18-11-02 Cardiff St Davids Hall
01-12-02 Dublin The Point
04-12-02 Glasgow SECC
15-12-02 Cardiff International Arena
16-12-02 Cardiff International Arena
11-07-03 Manchester Move Festival
12-06-04 Isle Of Wight Festival
17-12-04 Manchester MEN Arena
12-01-05 Glasgow SECC
03-04-05 Southampton Guildhall
11-04-05 Bristol Colston Hall
15-04-05 Edinburgh Corn Exchange
18-04-05 London Hammersmith Apollo
23-05-06 Glasgow King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
04-10-06 Dundee Fat Sams
06-10-06 Glasgow Garage
14-10-06 Newbridge Memorial Hall
08-12-06 Manchester Apollo
11-05-07 Cardiff University Great Hall
12-05-07 Cardiff University Great Hall
14-05-07 Glasgow Barrowlands
30-05-07 London Astoria
31-05-07 London Shepherds Bush Empire
02-06-07 Bristol Colston Hall
09-06-07 Reading Hexagon
10-06-07 Rock Ness Festival
12-06-07 Cardiff Point
02-12-07 Aberdeen Music Hall
03-12-07 Edinburgh Corn Exchange
06-12-07 Cardiff CIA
08-12-07 Birmingham NIA
14-12-07 Brighton Centre.


Oh lord I need to get a life.

[everlasting]

I've been to 6 Manics gigs to date, which is enough for me so far. They are:
Manchester 2004
Leeds 2005
(JDB Leeds 2006)
Leeds 2007
Sheffield 2007
Manchester 2007
Birmingham 2007

[darkanddivine]

22/08/99 V99 Staffordshire
28/03/01 Manchester Apollo 2
26/08/01 Leeds Festival
06/12/02 MEN Arena
11/07/03 Move Manchester
17/12/04 MEN Arena
15/04/05 Leeds University
10/10/06 Manchester Academy 2 (James Dean Bradfield)
27/05/07 Manchester Apollo
05/12/07 Manchester Central

I could nearly add Blackpool 97 onto that one, but my mother thought I'd get crushed in the crowd, and I was only 15, so I didn't get to go. Hugely dissapointed! I went into town and heard vague rumblings of Australia from outside the venue and went to the cinema or something like that instead! Still every tour since Truth, not so bad!

[live to fall asleep]

Here are mine...wish it was more!

Dec 2002 - Cardiff International Arena
Oct 2006 London Koko (JDB)
June 2007 - Forum, London
Dec 2007 - Brixton, London
Dec 2007 - Brixton, London
Dec 2007 - Brighton

Missed the lifeblood tour as i had to have hopsital tests...then when they reshed'd tixs i didn't get them in time before they sold out...grr...didn't get tixs for the KYE tour either as wasn't in time...

[counterlanguage]

I think there are one or two missing, but:

May 96 – Wolves Civic Hall
Oct 96 – Aston Villa Leisure Centre, B’ham
April 97 – Aston Villa Leisure Centre, B’ham
May 97 – Nynex
August 97 – Newport & Reading
September 98 – Kettering, Chester, Port Talbot, Stoke, Margate, Hereford
December 98 – Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff x 3
August 99 – V99
December 99 – Manic Millennium
August 01 – Reading
December 02 – B’ham NEC
June 03 - Glastonbury
December 04 – B’ham NEC
April 05 – Wolves & Hammersmith
October 06 – JDB in B’ham, Cardiff & London

[Mokey76]

June 96 - Norwich UEA
August 96 (Sunday) - Knebworth
December 02 - Birmingham NEC
April 05 (?) - Derby Assembly Rooms
June 07 - Leicester De Montford
December 07 - Birmingham NIA

&

October 06 - JDB@ Birmingham Barfly

There is a big gap as I don't like Arenas. Strangely, never seen them twice in the same venue?

[counterlanguage]

Originally Posted by Mokey76

There is a big gap as I don't like Arenas. Strangely, never seen them twice in the same venue?

Same here - I'd probably have seen them more over the past 5/6 years if they hadn't been playing aircraft hangars. The difference in the performance / acoustics is huge.

[Mokey76]

Originally Posted by counterlanguage

Same here - I'd probably have seen them more over the past 5/6 years if they hadn't been playing aircraft hangars. The difference in the performance / acoustics is huge.

and they're souless and full of people who only know the hits. It was funny when we saw them at the NEC on greatest hits tour, the look on the face of the girl standing next to me when they played Revol.

[counterlanguage]

Originally Posted by Mokey76

and they're souless and full of people who only know the hits. It was funny when we saw them at the NEC on greatest hits tour, the look on the face of the girl standing next to me when they played Revol.

Sounds familiar - at Nynex in 97, the bloke in front of me, when Faster started "Uhhhh.... must be a new one."

The greatest hits tour was depressing for middle aged mondeo drivers trying to squeeze down the front... cos they'd like never done that a gig before, right? Fack orfff!!!

[JenniTiger]

Knebworth 10.8.96
Reading Rivermead 10.4.97
Reading Festival 23.8.97
Wembley Arena 15.12.98
Glastonbury 26.06.99
London ULU 8.7.06 (JDB)
Oxford Zodiac 20.10.06 (JDB)
Reading Hexagon 9.6.07
Bournemouth BIC 9.12.07

That's a nice list... big gap around KYE/Lifeblood!