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Now this is interesting. I have 2 setlists from postcards tour, blackburn and leeds and they both have mclaren quote.
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I'm late but this was a great idea. Nice work everyone. I was wondering if the quotes were being collected anywhere.
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Another new addition
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Thank you very much!
and cheers to everyone else who's sent them, much appreciated. Keep 'em coming!
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I've found this one while browsing my archives
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London Astoria 19/12/94 via Bisley Girl on Tumblr
"You are now within a foot of the extreme verge" - King Lear 
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Well this was cool... Cardiff Astoria '94 setlist, recently shown at the pop-up Swn music museum, Cardiff. Image left fairly large so you can see the quote.
 Might have appeared elsewhere, on Twitter etc, a few weeks ago - I've taken a while to get round to uploading it.They also had a whiteboard from James' final solo gig filled with messages and quotes from JDB, his band and John Niven. Might post that as well in a bit.
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Cardiff CIA Aug 2001, Dec 2002, Jan 2005, Swansea Brangwyn Hall May 2005, Hammersmith Apollo May 2005, Cardiff University May 2007, Reading Hexagon June 2007, JDB Spillers Records instore Cardiff May 2009, National Treasures at London o2 Arena Dec 2011, London Roundhouse Dec 2014, JDB at Brickstock fest Cardiff Oct 2016. Maybe also James in Cardiff in 2006, now lost in the fog of memory....
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New setlist quote added: Toulouse Le Bikini 30/04/94
 "Freedom means choosing your burden" - Hephzibah Menuhin
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"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing" - Sylvia Plath 
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Another new addition courtesy of Séamus Colgan and A Manic Body Politic (wonderful article on the 1994 gigs)
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For some reason I can no longer edit the earlier post so here it is again updated to 2022.
Last Updated: 12/01/2024 Missing - 66 The Holy Bible Tour 20/09/1994 Paris Elysee Montmartre 21/09/1994 Lille Aeronef 22/09/1994 Rouen Exo 7 23/09/1994 Poitiers Salle de la Blaiserie 24/09/1994 Landerneau Le Family 26/09/1994 Nancy Espace Seichamps "There is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" - John 1.29 27/09/1994 Grenoble Le Summum 28/09/1994 Montpellier Victoire 2 29/09/1994 Marseille Theater Du Moulin 30/09/1994 Toulouse Le Bikini "Freedom means choosing your burden" - Hephzibah Menuhin 01/10/1994 Bordeaux Le Barbey "I also had nightmares. Somehow all the feelings I didn't feel when each thing had actually happened to me I did feel when I slept" - Andrea Dworkin 05/10/1994 Glasgow Barrowland "O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I had stood before; When will return the glory of your prime? No more -- Oh, never more!" – Shelley 06/10/1994 Newcastle University "Real toads invade the imaginary gardens" - Marianne Moore 07/10/1994 Norwich UEA "The truth is past all commiseration" - Maxim Gorky 08/10/1994 Wolverhampton Civic Hall "Nothing great can be done any more" - Napoleon 10/10/1994 Cambridge Corn Exchange "The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future" - Joseph Conrad 11/10/1994 Leicester De Montfort University 12/10/1994 Portsmouth Guildhall 13/10/1994 Manchester Academy "Woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up " – Ecclesiastes 15/10/1994 Sheffield Octagon "To the east we have gas chambers, human ovens, vivisection centres. To the west, torture, mutilation, medical experiments, infanticide" - Pete Milligan 16/10/1994 Leeds Town & Country 17/10/1994 Nottingham Rock City "To the east we have gas chambers, human ovens, vivisection centres. To the west, torture, mutilation, medical experiments, infanticide" - Pete Milligan 18/10/1994 Exeter University "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing" - Sylvia Plath 20/10/1994 Cardiff Astoria "Man is half trash" - William Burroughs 22/10/1994 Dublin Tivoli 23/10/1994 Belfast Mandela Hall "If you want knowledge, you must take part in the practice of changing reality. If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself" - Mao Tse-Tung 25/10/1994 Cork Forum "Live a happy and contented life in your shoes, brother, Screw Kathy and Lenny, make a new deal with the angels, hurt you as often as possible. I mean, that sounds like a pretty good life to me. Jealous? You should be" - Shade, the Changing Man 07/11/1994 Frankfurt Batschkapp "Seepy seepy bye bye" - Hubert Selby Jr 08/11/1994 Geneva Salle Des Fetes De Thonex 10/11/1994 Modena Vox Populi "Nothing will come of nothing" - King Lear 12/11/1994 Pordenone Rototom Club "Whipp'd for speaking true, whipp'd for lying and sometimes whipp'd for holding peace" - King Lear 13/11/1994 Milan Rolling Stone "New adopted to our hate. Wretch whom Nature is ashamed" - King Lear 15/11/1994 Madrid Aqualung 17/11/1994 Valencia Arena 18/11/1994 Barcelona Zeleste 19/11/1994 Montpellier Rockstore 21/11/1994 Lyon Transbordeur 22/11/1994 Paris Bataclan 24/11/1994 Amsterdam Paradiso "You talk about the dignity of man? At least, let's try to save his face. Dignity's only his back" - Ionesa 25/11/1994 Gent Vooruit 27/11/1994 Copenhagen Falkoner Theatre 28/11/1994 Oslo Rockefeller 29/11/1994 Stockholm Circus 02/12/1994 Berlin Huxley Junior "Every physician hath his favourite disease" - Henry Fielding 03/12/1994 Cologne Kantin "I am a man of peace, but when I speak, they are for war" - Psalm 120, A Song For Ascents, 7 04/12/1994 Munich Charterhalle "When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger" - Epictetus 19/12/1994 London Astoria "You are now within a foot of the extreme verge" - King Lear 20/12/1994 London Astoria "I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity" - Simone de Beauvoir 21/12/1994 London Astoria "I believe in alcoholism, venereal disease, fever and exhaustion. I believe in the genital organs of great men and women. I believe in the inexistence of the universe and the boredom of the atom. I believe all memories, lies, fantasies, evasions" - J. G. Ballard Past, Present Future Tour 03/04/2005 Southampton Guildhall “To betray you must first belong” - Kim Philby 04/04/2005 Derby Assembly Rooms “To be obsessive is far more important than talent” - Kyffin Williams 06/04/2005 Wolverhampton Civic Hall “The void is more daring than the whole” - Edmond Jabès 07/04/2005 Swansea Brangwyn Hall “I have come to the borders of sleep the deep frost where all must lose their way” - Edward Thomas 09/04/2005 Liverpool Royal Court “All our knowledge – past, present and future – is nothing compared to what we will never know” - Tsiolkovsky 11/04/2005 Bristol Colston Hall “One likes to believe in the freedom of music but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity” - Rush 12/04/2005 Cambridge Corn Exchange “Ambition is critical” - Dylan Thomas 14/04/2005 Newcastle City Hall “Be Pure, Be Vigilant, behave” - Torquemada (2000 AD) 15/04/2005 Edinburgh Corn Exchange “I listen to money singing. It's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town” - Philip Larkin 17/04/2005 Leeds University Refectory “There is no truce with the furies” - R.S Thomas 18/04/2005 London Hammersmith Apollo “You cannot love too much only in the wrong way” - Elizabeth Jennings 19/04/2005 London Hammersmith Apollo “There is work to be done” - Lenin Nicky Wire Solo Tour 01/07/2006 London Purple Turtle “I never think of the future it comes soon enough” – Albert Einstein 16/07/2006 Latitude Festival “Freedom is the recognition of necessity” – Friedrich Engels 02/09/2006 Gwyl Macs Festival “My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health” – Kyffin Williams Send Away The Tigers Tour 08/12/2006 Manchester Apollo "When a man is young he is usually a revolutionary of some kind, so here I am speaking of my revolution" - Wyndham Lewis 08/05/2007 Cambridge Corn Exchange "Prostitutes go to heaven it's their clients that go to hell" - David LaChapelle 09/05/2007 Leeds University “I can’t be anymore than I say” - Damon Albarn 11/05/2007 Cardiff University Great Hall "Brands are like spirits - disrupting your life, bombarding you. You’re suspicious of them, but attracted too. It’s like a trap" - Wang Qingsong 12/05/2007 Cardiff University Great Hall “No his mind is not for rent to any God or government” - Neil Peart 14/05/2007 Glasgow Barrowland "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm" - Winston Churchill 15/05/2007 Newcastle Academy "This not my life, just a fond farewell to a friend" - Elliott Smith 17/05/2007 Sheffield Octagon "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 Russell 18/05/2007 Carlisle Sands Centre “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 20/05/2007 Preston Guildhall “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more unbearable” - Kurt Vonnegut 21/05/2007 Wolverhampton Civic Hall "This is not rock n roll it's the geometry of contempt" - Richey Edwards 23/05/2007 Norwich UEA "An architect is a foreigner - a strange person - a person that thinks buildings are alive" - Mark Wigley 24/05/2007 Nottingham Rock City "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 26/05/2007 Llandudno Venue Cymru Arena "One solitary, overriding thought: to get away from here, people frighten me" - Werner Herzog 27/05/2007 Manchester Apollo “Anybody interested in the effects of war quickly becomes an expert in ruins” - Claude Lorrain/Simon Norfolk 29/05/2007 London Forum "Stab a sorry heart with your favourite finger, paint the whole world blue and stop your tears from stinging" - Ian McCulloch 30/05/2007 London Astoria “Where there’s a will to win my red dream is everything” - McCarthy 31/05/2007 London Shepherd's Bush Empire "The soul singer in the session band shredded to ribbons beneath the microphone stand" - Conor Oberst 02/06/2007 Bristol Colston Hall "You come from an island. You're cutting diamonds with a rubber knife" - Nina Persson 03/06/2007 Truro Hall For Cornwall "When there's no future how can there be sin?" - John Lydon 05/06/2007 Southampton Guildhall "My most creative moment is the point zero" - Naoto Fukasawa 06/06/2007 Brighton Dome "I'm all lost in the supermarket I can no longer shop happily" - Strummer/Jones 08/06/2007 Leicester De Montfort Hall "Last cigarettes all you can get - turning your orbit around" - Jeff Tweedy 09/06/2007 Reading Hexagon "What I want I want now and it's a whole lot more than anyhow" - Tom Verlaine 10/06/2007 Rockness Festival “Who’s responsible? You fucking are” - Richey Edwards 12/06/2007 Cardiff The Point “In the Cardiff Afterlife we sensed the breaking of our lives” 16/06/2007 Hultsfred Festival "And like the charge of the light brigade or a bitter, twisted Thatcherite" - (Nicky Wire's) Last 17/06/2007 Greenfield Festival "And all your friends and sedatives just seem to make it worse" - Conor Oberst 22/06/2007 Southside Festival 23/06/2007 Hurricane Festival 24/06/2007 Glastonbury Festival "I like a look of agony, because I know it's true" - Emily Dickinson 11/08/2007 Summer Sonic Festival Osaka 12/08/2007 Summer Sonic Festival Tokyo "If the last solo was shit then so am I - But if I have pulled off a good one then I feel like a king" - Andy Summers 18/08/2007 V2007 Festival Staffordshire 19/08/2007 V2007 Festival Chelmsford 21/08/2007 Tennent's Vital Festival 31/08/2007 Electric Picnic Festival "I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? Not to take pictures is crazy" - Peter Beard 02/09/2007 Rock'n Coke Festival 12/09/2007 London IndigO2 "I wish I was like you, easily amused" - Kurt Cobain 06/10/2007 Athens Terra Vibe Park "The more that you follow me, the more I get lost" - Pete Doherty 09/11/2007 Barcelona Espacio MoviStar "I find it so difficult not to hate, when I do not hate I feel we few are so lonely in the world" - Bertrand Russell 29/11/2007 Dublin Ambassador Theatre "Put some lipstick on at least your lies will be pretty" - Richey Edwards 30/11/2007 Dublin Ambassador Theatre "Teenage angst has served me well, now I'm bored and old" - Kurt Cobain 02/12/2007 Aberdeen Music Hall "There may not be a lot of light but it sure beats the darkness” - Charles Bukowski 03/12/2007 Edinburgh Corn Exchange 05/12/2007 Manchester Central 06/12/2007 Cardiff International Arena "Laughter is an escape from the darkness" - Paul Merton 08/12/2007 Birmingham NIA "In the sun, in the sun, in the sun I feel as one" – Kurt Cobain 09/12/2007 Bournemouth BIC "The net is a medium which unfortunately makes it easier for those who have bad novels and miscellaneous other screeds to get them out" - Will Self 11/12/2007 London Brixton Academy "After silence that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music" - Aldous Huxley 12/12/2007 London Brixton Academy "Repetition is a form of change" - Brian Eno 14/12/2007 Brighton Centre "I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officials. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me" - Fabio Capello 28/02/2008 London O2 Arena "I don't thrive on chaos. I just navigate it" - Steve Earle 02/06/2008 City Of Manchester Stadium "If you're going to play it out of tune then play it out of tune properly" - Mark E. Smith 05/06/2008 Caribana Festival "The subject matter is the usual-god, destiny and me thinking everyone's a tit-head" - Ian McCulloch 07/06/2008 Rock am Ring Festival 08/06/2008 Rock im Park Festival 13/06/2008 Varazdin Radar Festival 21/06/2008 Allegro Muzyka Festival "An artist is his own fault" - John O'Hara 27/06/2008 OpenAir St Gallen Festival 04/07/2008 B'estfest Festival "Digital pictures have no soul - digital is cold it can't deal with light properly" – Steve Gullick 12/07/2008 Oxegen Festival "Fame is the new wealth. Obscurity is the new poverty" - Lee Siegel 18/07/2008 Positivus AB Festival "I like contradictions, you have to accept them and try to create a balance" - Kylie Minogue 23/07/2008 Moscow B1 "Is a dream a lie that don't come true or is it something worse" - Bruce Springsteen 25/07/2008 Q Stock Festival 15/08/2008 FM4 Frequency Festival 16/08/2008 Pukkelpop Festival "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye need to know" - John Keats 21/08/2008 Newport Centre "We Live In Urban Hell. We Destroy Rock N Roll" - Motown Junk 23/08/2008 Reading Festival "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 24/08/2008 Leeds Festival 29/08/2008 Hydro Connect Festival 12/09/2008 London Royal Festival Hall "There's nothing that the road cannot heal" - Conor Oberst 24/11/2008 Fort Canning Park "I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one" - Shane Meadows 26/11/2008 Kowloon Bay Star Hall "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude" - Henry David Thoreau Journal for Plague Lovers 25/05/2009 Glasgow Barrowland JFPL: Hits: 26/05/2009 Llandudno Venue Cymru Arena JFPL: Hits: “If I’m not making music I’m a toxic person to be around” – Courtney Love 28/05/2009 London The Roundhouse JFPL: "I like middles - it is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity rules" - John Updike Hits: "Avant Garde is French for bullshit" – John Lydon 29/05/2009 London The Roundhouse JFPL: "Capitalism is always looking for new ways to sell us stuff, and now it's found the past" -Alexei Sayle Hits: "My life is subservient to painting - I can't find a substitute for it in the world" - Jenny Saville 30/05/2009 London The Roundhouse JFPL: "I'm an angel bored like hell and you're a devil meaning well" - Nina Persson Hits: "The way women were depicted didn't feel like mine; too cute. I wasn't interested in admired or idealised beauty" - Jenny Saville 01/06/2009 Wolverhampton Civic Hall JFPL: "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: 02/06/2009 Brighton Dome JFPL: "I thought I could turn people on with a note of sadness" - Peter Green Hits: "If somebody says I love you, to me, I feel as though I've had a pistol pointed at my head" - Kurt Vonnegut 04/06/2009 Dublin Olympia JFPL: Hits: 06/06/2009 Belfast Ulster Hall JFPL: "I was able to tap into things people secretly wanted to say and do. Those conditions aren't there any more" - Iggy Pop Hits: "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" – Mickey Rourke 08/06/2009 London HMV Forum "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 13/06/2009 Rock Under Broen Festival 25/06/2009 Szczecin Rock Festival "Popular culture has become too popular, too easy to consume, too widely broadcast and too accessible" - Rob Fitzpatrick 10/07/2009 Exit Festival 11/07/2009 T In The Park Festival 12/07/2009 Oxegen Festival "Comment is free, facts are sacred" - C. P. Scott 04/08/2009 Lokerse Festival 15/08/2009 Sziget Fesztival "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 22/08/2009 Parkenfestivalen "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 21/09/2009 Seattle Neumos, Washington "I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form" - Lars Von Trier 22/09/2009 Vancouver Commodore Ballroom "There is no progression in music or art. There’s change and different people being happy in different ways." - Robert Wyatt 24/09/2009 San Francisco The Fillmore, California "Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes" – Morrissey 25/09/2009 Hollywood Avalon, Los Angeles, California "I tried living in the real world instead of a shell but before I began - I was bored before I ever began" - Morrissey 28/09/2009 Denver Bluebird Theatre, Colorado "Society is our frail barrier against nature" - Cammille Paglia 30/09/2009 Minneapolis Varsity Theatre, Minnesota "I begin with no plan. I face the void - I play - I do nothing" – Ray Johnson 01/10/2009 Chicago Metro, Illinois "I never considered another profession. My only other desire was to do as little as possible" - Kevin Ayres 02/10/2009 Detroit Majestic Theatre, Michigan "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 04/10/2009 Toronto Phoenix Concert Theatre "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 06/10/2009 Philadelphia World Café Live, Pennsylvania "One: I am a Welshman; Two; I am a drunkard; Three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women" - Dylan Thomas 07/10/2009 New York Webster Hall, New York "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 08/10/2009 Boston Paradise Rock Club, Massachusetts "My inspiration has always been life. Just look around, see whats going on and work from that" - Smokey Robinson Postcards From A Young Man Tour 18/02/2010 Glasgow King Tut's Wah Wah Hut "Let us never assume there is not more and more and more and more and then more to write about" - Norman Mailer 01/05/2010 Bergenfest Festival "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 26/06/2010 Cardiff Millennium Stadium 09/07/2010 Optimus Alive! Festival "The guitar is your best friend, your wife, your mistress, your psychiatrist, your bartender - it's everything" - Les Paul 10/07/2010 Bilbao BBK Live Festival Spain "I am broke out of my mind, most of my fans hate me - but I don't give a shit" - Mark Eitzel 05/08/2010 London Hammersmith Working Men's Club "It astounds me the lack of revolution in teenagers, there's no compunction to alter their reality" – John Lydon 20/08/2010 Trutnov Festival 23/09/2010 Dublin St James' Gate Brewery 29/09/2010 Glasgow O2 Academy 30/09/2010 Aberdeen Music Hall "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use" - Søren Kierkegaard 02/10/2010 Edinburgh Corn Exchange "Computers are useless, They can only give you answers" - Pablo Picasso 04/10/2010 London Hammersmith Apollo 05/10/2010 Hull City Hall "Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent" - Emily Dickinson 06/10/2010 Sheffield O2 Academy "Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells" - Elizabeth Taylor 08/10/2010 Liverpool University “The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good” – Stanley Kubrick 09/10/2010 Blackburn King George's Hall "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon" - Woody Allen 11/10/2010 Leeds O2 Academy “Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world” – Malcolm McLaren 12/10/2010 Derby Assembly Rooms "And in this drought of truth and invention whoever shouts the loudest gets the most attention" - Patrick Wolf 14/10/2010 Manchester Apollo “And to the sun we all will bow and say goodbye - but just for now” – Dylan Thomas 16/10/2010 Lincoln Engine Shed "But who can live with his own truth? It is enough to know it is as last and that it feeds a secret and silent fervour in the self in the face of death" - Albert Camus 17/10/2010 Norwich UEA "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. it goes on" - Robert Frost 19/10/2010 Southampton Guildhall “Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors” ― Hunter S. Thompson 20/10/2010 Southend Cliffs Pavilion "I have nothing to say, and I'm saying it" - John Cage 22/10/2010 Bournemouth O2 Academy "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others" - Groucho Marx 23/10/2010 Newport Centre “No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party” – Nye Bevan 25/10/2010 Bristol Colston Hall "He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest" - Dylan Thomas 31/10/2010 Leicester De Montfort Hall “One thing that success has taught me is censorship” – Tracey Emin 01/11/2010 Cambridge Corn Exchange "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it” – Oscar Wilde 02/11/2010 Carlisle Sands Centre “Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does” - Jonathan Safran Foer 13/11/2010 Brisbane Hi Fi "The only thing you know for sure is the present tense" - Dennis Potter 15/11/2010 Sydney Metro “We’re not a pretty band. We’re not a heavy band. I don’t know what we are” – Ray Davies 18/11/2010 Adelaide HQ “It is only in our decisions that we are important” – Jean-Paul Sartre 20/11/2010 Melbourne Forum "I picked out my dresses myself - I had a very clear idea of the woman I wanted to be..." - Tony Curtis 22/11/2010 Perth Metropolis Fremantle “There are two flames burning in the human heart all the time. The flame of anger against injustice, and the flame of hope you can build a better world” – Tony Benn 26/11/2010 Tokyo Studio Coast “I think nihilism is the most extreme form of. Romanticism” – Sarah Kane 27/11/2010 Yokohama Bay Hall "After the age of 30 a man's life is the odd island of pleasure in a sea of ennui" - George Orwell (1903-1950) 14/12/2010 Birmingham O2 Academy “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful” – William Morris 15/12/2010 London Brixton O2 Academy “I just wanted to be an artist trying to get through, like a painter does. The colours are what count, so I try to colour my songs with my feelings, my spirit. That’s what’s important” – Solomon Burke 21/01/2011 London Brixton O2 Academy “The clever working-class youth of this country has been socially and spiritually "kettled" - hemmed in, suffocated and stifled” – Julie Burchill 22/01/2011 London Brixton O2 Academy "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell 27/01/2011 Blackwood Miners Institute “To hold a pen is to be at war” – Voltaire 02/02/2011 London Hard Rock Cafe “I want to be illustrious and unknown” – Edgar Degas 13/05/2011 Hamburg Markthalle "Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out" - Anton Chekhov 14/05/2011 Amsterdam Melkweg "Here I am in Amsterdam, I like it here they speak my language even though it's not my own" - Valley Boy 16/05/2011 Dublin Olympia "Everything has been figured out, except how to live" - Jean-Paul Sartre 18/05/2011 Llandudno Venue Cymru Arena "Excessive vehemence is probably my greatest weakness" - Niall Ferguson 19/05/2011 Wolverhampton Civic Hall “A last kiss at an international railway station is like a premonition of infinity” – Jan Morris 21/05/2011 Cardiff Motorpoint Arena “Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice” E. 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Forster 11/06/2011 Pinkpop Festival "The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity" - Andre Gide 12/06/2011 Isle Of Wight Festival “Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived” - Jonathan Swift 02/07/2011 One Love Festival 03/07/2011 iTunes Festival “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies” – Thomas Jefferson 08/07/2011 Putte I Parken Festival ‘I was 3 or perhaps 4 years old when I realized that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl” – Jan Morris 09/07/2011 T In The Park Festival “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain” – Mark Twain 10/07/2011 Oxegen Festival 17/07/2011 Nano-Mugen Festival “Don’t ever take down a fence until you know why it was put up” – Robert Frost 18/07/2011 Shinjuku Blaze "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else" - Emily Dickinson 22/07/2011 Wanaja Festival "I accept chaos. I'm not sure whether it accepts me" - Bob Dylan 14/08/2011 Sziget Fesztival “People would rather see a beautiful person sing a mediocre song than some who’s awkward. It’s all about spectacle these days. Sometimes you see a show and it’s like Cirque Du Soleil up there” – Ron Sexsmith 20/08/2011 V2011 Festival Stafford 21/08/2011 V2011 Festival Chelmsford 28/08/2011 Musikfestwochen Winterthur "If you dare condemn my life, it will come after you with a sharpened rake. My poetry is my life” – Steven Jesse Bernstein National & International Treasures Tour 17/12/2011 London O2 Arena Set 1: "The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." - Virginia Woolf Set 2: "It takes a long time to become young." - Pablo Picasso 15/04/2012 Copenhagen Amager Bio "I live in a remote place. I intend to stay in it - I'm not very social" - David Hockney 16/04/2012 Hamburg Markthalle “I Don't Like Anybody -That's Why The Fall Exist” – Mark E. Smith 18/04/2012 The Hague Paard van Troje "Maybe that's all I was supposed to do - Be a signpost then fuck off." - Ian McCulloch 19/04/2012 Amsterdam Paradiso "Given the option of permanent companionship or any kind & solitude, I'd chose the latter" - David Sylvian 21/04/2012 Antwerp Trix "The definition of growing up is that you are supposed to get better at tolerating ambiguity" - Jeff Tweedy 22/04/2012 Cologne E-Werk "When I write I never have a window nearby. I make crosshairs on the wall, have it in sharp focus: that's the point." - Werner Herzog 24/04/2012 Berlin Huxleys Neue Welt "I want to live to be 80 so I can piss more people off." - Charles Bukowski 25/04/2012 Prague Lucerna "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery" - Francis Bacon 27/04/2012 Munich Theaterfabrik 28/04/2012 Vienna Arena "Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art" - Garson Kanin 30/04/2012 Zurich X-tra "In this business there is no golden rule. When you put something out there you never know what's going to happen" - Lawrence Hayward (Felt) 02/05/2012 Barcelona Razzmatazz "You write new songs because you're tired of the old ones" - Tom Waits 17/05/2012 Tokyo Studio Coast “I will pin up my soul on the wall and let people read it. They can laugh, they can cry. It's up to them. I don't really mind” - Kevin Rowland 18/05/2012 Tokyo Studio Coast "All through history there's been these kind of divine losers that just take a deep breath and go ahead, knowing that society's not going to understand it" - Ken Kesey 26/05/2012 Jelling Musikfestival "I'm a very lonely man. But I like to be lonely. I can go where I please. I don't have to worry about anybody" - L.S. Lowry 06/07/2012 Õllesummer Festival "My language is painting. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble" - Jenny Saville 21/07/2012 Positivus Festival "Music is still a safe place for me. It really helps people in many ways, and in my life, it’s the only real magic I've ever come across." Tom Petty 12/08/2012 Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival "The point is that destruction is fundamental to the process; without it, you never get anywhere interesting. But fundamental to that is knowing what you can excavate from the destruction" - Jenny Saville 28/09/2012 Music Way Festival Do what you believe in, don't listen to anybody else. You'll never be any good at something you don't want to do. People talk about security, but there is no security, and there never was" - Kevin Rowland 29/09/2012 Dia De San Miguel Festival "I'm not really that balanced, I think I'm very complicated. What does it say about me that I feel more comfortable on stage than I do off? It's a very safe place to be. Life is much more complicated than a rock'n'roll set" - Tom Petty The Send Away The Lions Tour 15/06/2013 Norwegian Wood Festival "For me, there's no music industry any more, not like it used to be. There's no way to survive as a band" 28/06/2013 Melbourne Festival Hall "Despite the fact my self hate is so deeply ingrained, I still feel a child-like wonder in the world. I'm like a cockroach. No matter how much I'm crushed, I get back up" - John Grant 02/07/2013 Auckland Vector Arena "In film everyone saw the same image whereas with radio forms their own image" - David Hockney 05/07/2013 Sydney Hordern Pavilion "Make the best of every moment, we're not evolving. We're not going anywhere" - David Bowie Rewind The Film Tour 06/09/2013 Crammerock Festival "Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love" - Albert Camus 08/09/2013 Hyde Park Live "I'm not dedicated. I never was. In a sense I'm totally alienated from the craft that I employ so superficially and successfully" - Richard Burton 10/09/2013 London The 100 Club "I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us" - J.G. Ballard 13/09/2013 Newport Centre "I paint my own reality" - Frida Kahlo 15/09/2013 Festival No.6 "I believe in the mystery and melancholy of a hand, in the kindness of trees, in the wisdom of light" – J.G. Ballard 20/09/2013 Dublin Olympia "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself" - Richard Burton 21/09/2013 Belfast Ulster Hall "I gave my entire self to the task of saving my entire self" - Jean-Paul Sartre 23/09/2013 Bristol Colston Hall “We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap" - Anthony Hopkins 24/09/2013 London Shepherds Bush Empire "I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?" - Bradford Cox 26/09/2013 Galway The King's Head "Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing" - Doris Lessing 27/09/2013 Manchester Ritz "You can get rid of a neurosis but you are never cured of yourself" - Jean-Paul Sartre 29/09/2013 Glasgow Barrowland "Once I finished school, I was like, well fuck it, I'm done with people. I'll just hang out with myself forever" - Kevin Parker 17/10/2013 London Maida Vale Studios "I believe in the next 5 minutes" - J.G Ballard 22/11/2013 Bilbao Exhibition Centre "I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important" - William Eggleston Futurology Tour 28/03/2014 Leeds First Direct Arena "I don't write for myself, I write to communicate" - Greil Marcus 29/03/2014 Cardiff Motorpoint Arena "Today kids are being sold the same thing they used to rebel against" - Bradford Cox 31/03/2014 Leicester De Montfort Hall "I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure" - Jasper Johns 01/04/2014 Manchester O2 Apollo "The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough" - William Eggleston 03/04/2014 Edinburgh Corn Exchange "Everything is art. Everything is politics" - Ai Weiwei 04/04/2014 Glasgow Barrowland "Nowadays musicians have to be an exhibit for a lifestyle rather than telling people what they feel or think" - Ry Cooder 06/04/2014 Wolverhampton Civic Hall "Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it" - Ai Weiwei 08/04/2014 Bournemouth O2 Academy "My voice is an instrument of torture and that's good enough for me. I'm an expressionist" - John Lydon 09/04/2014 Brighton Centre "Grey is the colour - the most important of all - absent of opinion, nothing, neither/or" - Gerhard Richter 11/04/2014 London Brixton O2 Academy "Art is either a complaint or appeasement" - Jasper Johns 12/04/2014 London Brixton O2 Academy "The language of communication will always need to be renewed" - Ai Weiwei 07/05/2014 Helsinki Circus "When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes" - Dylan Thomas 09/05/2014 Oslo Rockefeller "Art is longing, you never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will" - Anslem Kiefer 11/05/2014 Stockholm Berns "The law of unintended consequences will always fuck things up for you in the end" - John Cooper Clarke 12/05/2014 Copenhagen Vega "The world is fucked and so am I - maybe it's the other way round. I can't decide" - Andy Cairns 14/05/2014 Prague Lucerna "Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth" - Philip Larkin 15/05/2014 Berlin Huxleys Neue Welt "My memory is my only homeland" - Anslem Kiefer 17/05/2014 Munich Backstage-Werk "The function of posterity is to look after itself" - Dylan Thomas 20/05/2014 Frankfurt Gibson Club "I want to deliberately be uncommercial and get popular through doing that" - Jeff Beck 21/05/2014 Cologne Live Music Hall "I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book" - Will Self 23/05/2014 Paris Bataclan "Ask that sick fuck Wire whose dick I gotta suck to get a Niven quote on a @Manics set list" - John Niven 24/05/2014 Eindhoven Effenaar "Somebody's boring me. I think it's me" - Dylan Thomas 26/05/2014 Amsterdam Paradiso "Isn't life a series of images as they repeat themselves?" - Andy Warhol 27/05/2014 Brussels Ancienne Belgique "In art truth is needed, not sincerity" - Kazimir Malevich 29/05/2014 Luxembourg City Den Atelier "Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence" - Byron 02/06/2014 Rock In Idro Festival "Sorrow is knowledge. They who know the most must mourn the deepest" - Byron 28/06/2014 Glastonbury Festival "I believe that fires burn in the heart of the void, as well as in the heart of man" - Yves Klein 08/07/2014 London Rough Trade East "Life is an illustration. I am held together in the nothingness by art" - Anselm Kiefer 11/07/2014 T In The Park "The universe will be our vocabulary" - The Futurist Cinema (1916) 19/07/2014 Benicàssim Festival "There's no answer. Everything just evolves - nobody's in charge, it's just an inexplicable unfolding of events" - Harry Dean Stanton 26/07/2014 Fuji Rock Festival "A painter ought to paint one single masterpiece, himself, perpetually" - Yves Klein 09/08/2014 Flow Festival "The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep" - Andy Warhol 15/08/2014 Sziget Festival "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize" - Robert Hughes 17/08/2014 V2014 Festival Stafford 29/08/2014 Zürich Openair Festival "So heedless have we become of our own image that second hand mobile phones now invariably come with a sim card chock full of discarded memories" - Will Self The Holy Bible 20 Tour 08/12/2014 Glasgow Barrowland THB20: Hits: "Art is not a democracy. Art is the enemy of democracy" - Gore Vidal 10/12/2014 Manchester Albert Hall THB20: "When we are not sure, we are alive" - Graham Greene Hits: "Human nature is not black and white but black & grey" - Graham Greene 11/12/2014 Manchester Albert Hall THB20: "Civilisation is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness" - Werner Herzog Hits: "I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom" - Andy Warhol 13/12/2014 Dublin Olympia THB20: "Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance" - Graham Greene Hits: "The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety" - Norman Mailer 15/12/2014 London Roundhouse THB20: "Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art" - Robert Hughes Hits: "In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity" - Robert Hughes 16/12/2014 London Roundhouse THB20: "What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?" - Robert Hughes Hits: "Any idiot can face a crisis - It's this day to day living that wears you out" - Anton Chekhov 17/12/2014 London Roundhouse THB20: "The novel made us individuals. The internet makes us units" - Douglas Coupland Hits: "I'm profoundly optimistic about nothing" - Francis Bacon 20/04/2015 Washington 9.30 Club, D.C. "Nothing dates faster than people's fantasies about the future" - Robert Hughes 23/04/2015 New York Webster Hall, New York "All of my books come from pain" - Bret Easton Ellis 24/04/2015 Cambridge The Sinclair, Massachusetts “The patterns of our lives reveal us" - Mary Oliver 27/04/2015 Toronto Danforth Music Hall "The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas" - Vivienne Westwood 29/04/2015 Chicago Metro, Illinois "My impulse is my life" - Francis Bacon 02/05/2015 Los Angeles Fonda Theatre, California "I hate everything which is not in myself" - Norman Mailer 04/05/2015 San Francisco Bimbo's 365 Club, California "That's my principal message to writers. For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you" - William Burroughs 30/05/2015 Edinburgh Usher Hall THB20: "I enjoy the freedom of a blank page" - Irvine Welsh Hits: "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" - T.S. Eliot 01/06/2015 Wolverhampton Civic Hall THB20: "I like to deal in the reality of life" - Geezer Butler Hits: "It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity" - Vivienne Westwood 02/06/2015 Southampton Guildhall THB20: "I cannot over explain how much of my life I spent trembling in fear of everything" - Henry Rollins Hits: "Music is the best means we have of digesting time" - W. H. Auden 05/06/2015 Cardiff Castle THB20: "It's important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are" - Richard Edwards Hits: "I turned down the OBE because it's not a club you want to join when you look at the villains who've got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage and deferring to the monarchy" - Ken Loach 19/07/2015 Latitude Festival “My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud" - Virginia Woolf 07/08/2015 Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival "In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space" - William Burroughs 15/08/2015 Summer Sonic Festival Tokyo "You may think I'm small, but I have a universe inside my mind" - Yoko Ono 16/08/2015 Summer Sonic Festival Osaka "The future is forever a projection of the present" - Kobo Abe 06/09/2015 Electric Picnic Festival "The completely solitary self: That's where poetry comes from" - Seamus Heaney 12/09/2015 On Blackheath Festival "To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves" - Virginia Woolf Everything Must Go 20 Tour 18/04/2016 Tallinn Nordea Kontserdimaja "Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth" - Virginia Woolf 20/04/2016 Helsinki Black Box Club "I want to scratch something on the wall of the cave, to leave a grain of something that said I was alive for some pale sliver of a moment in the evening of this species" - Marlon Brando 22/04/2016 Stockholm Münchenbryggeriet "Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face" - John Updike 23/04/2016 Copenhagen Vega "I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other" - Pete Doherty 25/04/2016 Cologne Live Music Hall "I do not feel I have a legacy to protect" - Bret Easton Ellis 26/04/2016 Hamburg Grosse Freiheit "For me poetry is always a search for order" - Elizabeth Jennings 28/04/2016 Eindhoven Effenaar "Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it" - Greta Garbo 29/04/2016 Amsterdam Paradiso "Perhaps all pleasure is only relief" - William Burroughs 01/05/2016 Brussels Ancienne Belgique "If poetry & the arts do anything they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness" - Seamus Heaney 06/05/2016 Festival SOS 4.8 "The works must be conceived with fire in the soul, but executed with critical coolness" - Joan Miró 13/05/2016 Liverpool Echo Arena "Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else" - Alexei Sayle 14/05/2016 Birmingham Genting Arena "It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes" - Ozzy Osbourne 16/05/2016 London Royal Albert Hall "I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know" - Helen Mirren 17/05/2016 London Royal Albert Hall "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming" - David Bowie 20/05/2016 Leeds First Direct Arena "I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control" - Alan Bennett 21/05/2016 Glasgow SSE Hydro "There is hope in honest error, none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist" - Charles Rennie Mackintosh 28/05/2016 Swansea Liberty Stadium "Observe precisely. Record exactly. Neglect nothing. Fear no foe. Never swerve from your purpose" - Dylan Thomas 01-06-16 Hensol Vale Resort "You've got to have a dream. If you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens" - Ian Rush 08/07/2016 Cardiff City Stadium "The dragon on my shirt is all I need" - Gareth Bale 09/07/2016 St Austell Eden Project "The Manics are waiting for us. My favourite band" - Chris Coleman 16/07/2016 Truck Festival "Work is more fun than fun. I’m working class. My grandfather was a coalminer and a communist. The importance of having work to people who are poor – you never underestimate it” - John Cale 13/08/2016 Wasa Open Air Festival "We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal" - Tennessee Williams 27/08/2016 Victorious Festival “There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go” - Tennessee Williams 08/11/2016 Tokyo Studio Coast "Become one with eternity...Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace" - Yayoi Kusama 09/11/2016 Osaka Namba Hatch "I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live" - Yayoi Kusama 2017 Summer Festivals 22/06/2017 Bristol Lloyds Amphitheatre "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories" - Michel de Montaigne 09/07/2017 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod "Music is the emotional life of most people" - Leonard Cohen 2017 Summer Festivals 22/06/2017 Bristol Lloyds Amphitheatre "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories" - Michel de Montaigne 09/07/2017 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod "Music is the emotional life of most people" - Leonard Cohen 29/07/2017 Kendal Calling I work very hard not... - Ritchie Blackmore 30/07/2017 CarFest North "I pull everything inwards but everything is loose" - Stuart Adamson 05/08/2017 Newcastle Times Square "I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue" - Yves Klein 27/08/2017 CarFest South "There are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup" - Leonard Cohen 01/09/2017 Bingley Live Music "I leak truth like a wound" - Barry MacSweeney 18/10/2017 London Roundhouse "The culture has changed. It has all gone. I really don't know why we stick to the word photography any more" - Wim Wenders Resistance Is Futile Tour 23/04/2018 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena "The meaning is in the waiting" - R.S. Thomas 25/04/2018 Glasgow SSE Hydro "The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foothold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism" - Albert Camus 27/04/2018 Birmingham Arena "The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt" - Phil Ochs 28/04/2018 Manchester Arena "The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul" - Wassily Kandinsky 01/05/2018 Llandudno Venue Cymru Arena "If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint" - Edward Hopper 02/05/2018 Leeds First Direct Arena "Still falls the rain, dark as the world of man" - Edith Sitwell 04/05/2018 London Wembley SSE Arena "In such ugly times the only true protest is beauty" - Phil Ochs 05/05/2018 Cardiff Motorpoint Arena "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend" - Albert Camus 19/06/2018 London Southbank Centre "Everybody needs memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door" - Saul Bellow 24/06/2018 Isle Of Wight Festival "Wherever I go, the abyss follows me. It's a volcanic anger you have, and it's fuel. But of course it can rip you to pieces and kill you" - Anthony Hopkins 30/06/2018 4ever Valencia Fest "Well, my sense of humanity is going down the drain. Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain. I just don't see why I should even care. It's not dark yet but it's getting there" - Bob Dylan 05/07/2018 House Festival "I had a Welsh temperament and didn’t have that 'fitting in' mechanism. I would fight, I would rebel. I thought, 'Well, I don’t belong here'" - Anthony Hopkins 21/07/2018 Penn Festival "God, I feel so alone in the music world. I don't relate to other musicians. I have completely different thoughts. I'm on my own. I'm right on the edge" - Lawrence Felt 27/07/2018 Y Not Festival "I don't know what I want. I think I'm looking for the song that loves me back" - Ian McCulloch 10/08/2018 Lokerse Feesten "Take care of all you memories. For you cannot relive them" - Bob Dylan 11/08/2018 Festival Interceltique Lorient "I'm finding my voice - But the more I find my voice, the more I hate myself" - Ryley Walker 17/08/2018 RiZE Festival "The most calamitous and fragile of all creatures is man" - Montaigne 18/08/2018 Beautiful Days Festival "The only interesting answers are those that destroy questions" - Susan Sontag 09/09/2018 London Hyde Park "It takes you a long time to sound like yourself" - Miles Davis 25/09/2018 London Shepherd's Bush Empire "The entire Polaroid process has nothing to do with our contemporary experience" - Wim Wenders This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 20 Tour 12/05/2019 Dublin Olympia "My works are an imitation of my own past and present" - Barbara Hepworth 14/05/2019 Cambridge Corn Exchange "Etonians are an absolute curse on the earth" - John le Carré 15/05/2019 Bath Forum "Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future" - Susan Sontag 17/05/2019 London Shepherd's Bush O2 Empire "When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks" - Zadie Smith 18/05/2019 London Shepherd's Bush O2 Empire "There's such an incestuous art world in this country. All the critics, artists and gallery owners are part of a network. You have to play a social game with them and I've never done that" - Jamie Reid 20/05/2019 Manchester O2 Ritz "I disbelieve, and therefore strongly resent, the assertion that I or anybody else could write better or more easily with a computer than with a pencil" - Wendell Berry 21/05/2019 Manchester O2 Ritz "I think I’m in a constant state of adjustment" - Patti Smith 23/05/2019 Birmingham O2 Academy "Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement" - C.S. Lewis 24/05/2019 Southampton O2 Guildhall "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought" - George Orwell 26/05/2019 Edinburgh Usher Hall "The slow cancellation of the future has been accompanied by a deflation of expectations" - Mark Fisher 27/05/2019 York Barbican "Radical ideas will always get appropriated. The establishment will rob everything they can because they lack the ability to be creative" - Jamie Reid 30/05/2019 Liverpool Eventim Olympia "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality" - Yoko Ono 31/05/2019 Leicester De Montford Hall "I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it" - Melvyn Bragg 15/06/2019 Dublin RDS Stadium "How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles" - Richard Burton 16/06/2019 Dublin RDS Stadium "Memory...is the diary that we all carry about with us" - Oscar Wilde 19/06/2019 Liverpool Anfield Stadium "In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us" - Virginia Woolf 21/06/2019 London Wembley Stadium "The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing" - Anthony Hopkins 23/06/19 Coventry Ricoh Arena 29/06/2019 Cardiff Castle "The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there" - R. S. Thomas 06/07/2019 Rock For People Festival "I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there" - Anthony Hopkins 19/07/2019 Tramlines Festival "Pale blinds drawn all day, nothing to do, nothing to say" - David Bowie 20/07/2019 Splendour Festival "Accept loss forever" - Jack Kerouac 27/07/2019 Kendal Calling "At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy" - Frederico Garcia Lorca 16/08/2019 Brussels Summer Festival "It may be the theme of everything I do - isolation and involvement, commitment and ambivalence" - Bruce Springsteen 17/08/2019 Hardwick Live "An astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher" - R. S. Thomas 22/08/2019 EDP Vilar de Mouras "I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is" - Anne Sexton 26/09/19 Tokyo Zepp DiverCity "My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings" - Yayoi Kusama 27/09/19 Tokyo Toyosu PIT "Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart" - Haruki Murakami The Ultra Vivid Lament Tour 12/08/21 Cardiff St David's Hall "It's only through form that we can realise emptiness" - Jack Kerouac 28/08/21 Victorious Festival "The world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words" - Jack Kerouac 29/08/21 Camper Calling "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them" - James Baldwin 10/09/21 Halifax Piece Hall "It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing is the next line" - Tom Stoppard 18/09/21 Electric Park Festival "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs" - Susan Sontag 19/09/21 Cardiff Motorpoint Arena "We are leaves and we jiggle in the wind, that's all, we come and go, grow and fall" - Jack Kerouac 20/09/21 Cardiff Motorpoint Arena "The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do" - Raymond Williams 26/09/21 Newcastle O2 City Hall "You have to pick the places you don't walk away from" - Joan Didion 28/09/21 Edinburgh Usher Hall "History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth"- Jill Lepore 29/09/21 Dundee Fat Sams "The past is never dead. It's not even past" - William Faulkner 01/10/21 Stoke Victoria Hall "The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide" - Raymond Williams 02/10/21 Manchester O2 Apollo "There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses" - Raymond Williams 04/10/21 York Barbican "What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare" - W. H. Davies 05/10/21 Glasgow Barrowland "Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart" - R. S. Thomas 07/10/21 Leeds O2 Academy "I dwell in possibility" - Emily Dickinson 08/10/21 Portsmouth Guildhall "Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system" - David Hare 10/10/21 Bournemouth O2 Academy "I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it" - Sarah Kane 11/10/21 Cambridge Corn Exchange "I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant" - Jenny Saville 13/10/21 Bath Forum "Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task" - Harold Pinter 14/10/21 Brighton Dome "The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember" - Harold Pinter 01/12/21 Llandudno Venue Cymu "I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against" - Michael Sheen 03/12/21 London Wembley SSE Arena "My desk is littered with papers, beautiful to look at through half closed eyes the delicate milky litter of papers piled" - Jack Kerouac 31/03/22 Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach “You don't get older, you get better” - Shirley Bassey 25/05/22 Bristol Ashton Gate Stadium 28/05/22 Coventry Building Society Arena 29/05/22 Neighbourhood Weekender “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say” - F. Scott Fitzgerald 01/06/22 Middlesbrough Riverside Stadium 04/06/22 The Great Estate “I make a lot of mistakes, but I keep them. I use them, recycle them” - Christopher Wool 24/07/22 Latitude Festival “The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana” - Jack Kerouac 29/07/22 Y Not? Festival “My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light” - Miles Davis 13/08/22 Lakefest “From the digital fountains to the analogue mountains, let the mirror express the room” - David Berman 03/11/22 Vancouver Commodore Ballroom “In the late day peaks I saw the hope” - Jack Kerouac 05/11/22 Seattle Neptune Theatre “When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships” - Andy Warhol 07/11/22 San Francisco The Warfield “I am tired. I learnt everything too late. Everything was always one jump ahead of me” - Jean Rhys 09/11/22 Anaheim House Of Blues “That the truth is not alive or dead. The truth is struggling to be said” - David Berman 10/11/22 Los Angeles Hollywood Palladium “The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say” - Tom Stoppard 13/11/22 Austin ACL Live At The Moody Theater “It was one of those days when you can see the ghosts of all the other lovely days” - Jean Rhys 16/11/ 22 Chicago Auditorium Theatre “Hope never trickles down, it always springs up” - Studs Terkel 18/11/22 Silver Spring The Fillmore “Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become” - Jack Kerouac 19/11/22 Philadelphia The Met “I do so feel that I am exhausting everybody. The only thing is that I've exhausted myself too - from rage to despair and back again” - Jean Rhys 21/11/22 New York Brooklyn Kings Theatre “Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes” - Andy Warhol 22/11/22 Boston Orpheum Theatre “Moments can be monuments to you if your life is interesting and true” - David Berman 24/11/22 Toronto Massey Hall “You look around and you see a world that is impenetrable, that cannot be made sense of. You either raise your fist or you say ‘Hallelujah.’ I try to do both” - Leonard Cohen 15/06/23 Bath Forum “Have all beautiful things sad destinies?” - Jean Rhys 18/06/23 Isle Of Wight Festival “The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate” - J.B. Priestley 24/06/23 Glastonbury Festival “So, I say, life is too sweet to waste on self propaganda, I quit self promotion, I enter my page” - Jack Kerouac 08/11/23 Barcelona Fira Gran Via “I like you; your eyes are full of language” - Anne Sexton 15/11/23 New Taipei Zepp “Now I am almost as wary of books as I am of people. They are also capable of hurting you, pushing you into the limbo of the forgotten” - Jean Rhys 18/11/23 Tokyo Zepp Haneda “We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory” - Louise Gluck 19/11/23 Tokyo Zepp Haneda “Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real” - Iris Murdoch 22/11/23 Singapore Star Theatre “I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone” - Jean Rhys 28/06/2024 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod “A man provided with paper, pencil and eraser, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine” - Alan Turing 29/06/2024 St Austell Eden Project “I rarely actually feel what a line says. I get interested in the words, which seem to come from nowhere” - Louise Glück 02/07/2024 Dublin Trinity College “...I feel like kicking myself in the ass when I go to gatherings, even if the drinks are free. It never works for me. People empty me. I have to get away to refill” - Charles Bukowski 05/07/2024 Cardiff Castle “Every word I write, I suspect the next day” - Richard Burton 06/07/2024 Cardiff Castle “The highest hymns of the sun are written in the dark” - Dylan Thomas 10/07/2024 Edinburgh Castle “If you really want to piss people off, you can do two things: Attain some happiness or tell the truth” - Tennessee Williams 12/07/2024 Manchester Castlefield Bowl “Fashion and rejection are experiences felt by all. Know that, or go mad” - Arthur Miller 13/07/2024 Leeds Millennium Square “Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going” - Tennessee Williams 18/07/2024 London Alexandra Palace Park “Memories have huge staying power but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed” - J.G. Ballard 19/07/2024 Margate Dreamland “...the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul” - J.G. Ballard 17/08/2024 Stoke Trentham Gardens “I am a series of small victories and large defeats” - Charles Bukowski 08/09/2024 Preston Moor Park "I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life" - Jean-Michel Basquiat
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