09/10/10 - King George's Hall, Blackburn - Page 12 - Forever Delayed

DestroyTheDancefloor · #**166** 10-10-2010, 17:58

Good gig, nice venue, decent crowd - highlight for me was Golden Platitudes, lovely.

waterintobeer · #**167** 10-10-2010, 18:05

Jut got home from my 8th manics gig. Overall impressed. Solid start of You Love US, Your Love Alone (Just doesn't sound good without the duet aspect) and motocycle. Manics started slowly though, it was only the last half where James seemed to get into it. Wire was subdued throughout. My thoughts

You Love Us (Perfect opener)
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (see above)
Motorcycle Emptiness (crowd were big into it)
It’s Not War (Just The End Of Love) (great song)
Jackie Collins’ Existential Question Time (nice to hear but why not more from JFAPL? Marlon JD would have been nice)
Roses In The Hospital (nice surprise to be back - james still out of sort missing one of the rudi rudi rudi bits)
Postcards From A Young Man (Great, an ode to Queens somebody to love during teh breakdown)
This Is Yesterday (Poor song, shoudl have been left of the lipstick traces tour)
Everything Must Go (Lowpoint of the set, enola/alone miles better)
Autumnsong (Great to hear - reminds me of being a 6th former)
Some Kind Of Nothingness (why anounce McCulloghs performance the previous night if he wasnt there that night?)
Tsunami (Great to hear again, and shock of the night)
Into The Valley into Motown Junk (best crowd reaction)
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (tearjerking)
Stay Beautiful (acoustic) (good)
You Stole The Sun From My Heart (acoustic) (Starnge but good - would've preferred Elvis as being in Lancashire)
Faster (same old shit)
Send Away The Tigers (nice to hear but come on Rendition, Imperial Bodybags, afr better album tracks, but bands seem to play the LP title tracks, must be a way of selling more records)
Golden Platitudes (So fucking depressing it's great that they played it)
Suicide is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H) (another nice surprise)
From Despair to Where (not my fave song but gald to hear it live)
Ocean Spray (BIG into this - James deserves to have his song done live - theres no way to tell a lie is better though , shhh.... don't tell wire)
ADFL (is there a better working class anthem for the 90s?)

Great venue. £6-20p for 2 pints of premium lager, and lots of room to dance. The gig itself felt like a night out with normal townfolk which was a nice change to being in the company of fellow freaks. No songs from Lifeblood - finally! What an embarrassment of a record. Would like to have heard another song from new record. Overall, it was good. Looking forward to Leeds and meeting Badger Wares sister.

hummingbird · #**168** 10-10-2010, 18:08

lifeblood is not an embarrassment of a record

franny · #**169** 10-10-2010, 18:08

Did you just call TIY and Faster bad?

TIY comes close to making me cry every time they play it. Glad you enjoyed it though, I liked the venue but would have been better on the ground floor and with a lower stage.

wireobsessed · #**170** 10-10-2010, 18:08

Thought last night was a great gig and we thoroughly enjoyed it; yes I wish they played more from PFAYM BUT I really enjoyed what they did play. Probably because we only decided to go at 10 yesterday morning and got front row balcony tickets at the far right hand side; which were amazing! We were actually infront of the people on the barrier and I've never had such a fantastic view (most of my gigs without the help of huge screens is seeing tiny little figures on stage or only seeing some of the action on stage)

None musical highlights were when they rolled out a thick black carpet on Nicky's side of the stage (prob for his bad back I thought) and when later in the show Nicky proceded to first take his shoes off and then his socks-so he spent the majority of the gig jumping about in his bare feet!!!! Then when he sang the wrong words to Golden Platitudes and started laughing at himself

Tsunami was a massive shock and I thought Stay Beautiful and YSTSFMH were amazing. James sounded great and Nicky was really enjoying himself.

I loved the fact James obviously loved the crowd and how noisy they were and the energy of the gig. I know I'm lucky cos I'm going to Manchester, Newport and Carlisle and have got those to look forward to and I hope Sleepflower gets another showing and Don't Be Evil, Billion Balconies, Hazleton Ave and more from Postcards get played. I agree with the fact they are turning into a cult band again but last night was a Saturday and they may have put a set list out that reflected that???

Getting a set list after the gig helped too.

Looking forward to Manchester now.

James1985 · #**171** 10-10-2010, 18:14

I laugehd when James called Naysmith Les Dawson after fucking up the intro into Tsunami on the keyboads...

Donkey · #**172** 10-10-2010, 18:16

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Originally Posted by James1985

I laugehd when James called Naysmith Les Dawson after fucking up the intro into Tsunami on the keyboads...

Naysmith?

waterintobeer · #**173** 10-10-2010, 18:16

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Originally Posted by franny

Did you just call TIY and Faster bad?

TIY comes close to making me cry every time they play it. Glad you enjoyed it though, I liked the venue but would have been better on the ground floor and with a lower stage.

TIY is a good song but it just didn't seem to fit in the place it was last night.

Faster is like many old Manics songs, words throw together from an A-level sociology seminar.(That said, I still got semi on when they played PCP at Glastonbury 99). Thats why SATT is for me the most complete and rounded Manics record.

Donkey · #**174** 10-10-2010, 18:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by waterintobeer

TIY is a good song but it just didn't seem to fit in the place it was last night.

Faster is like many old Manics songs, words throw together from an A-level sociology seminar.(That said, I still got semi on when they played PCP at Glastonbury 99). Thats why SATT is for me the most complete and rounded Manics record.