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I remember reviewers going crazy over the 2nd great depression. Flawless, Anthemic etc...etc...
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It's certainly less 'beholden' than the title track of the album is to David Axelrod's 'A Little Girl Lost', I think. 'Tokyo Riddle Song' from the album '24 Postcards in Full Colour': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7RtjM5k0wg (heheh... Postcards... )
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No, I don't think they did for that tour....not sure they hinted till quite a lot later.
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Tokyo Riddle Song, apparently.
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Yes, I agree with all this. It's a striking, lovely 'sonic texture' (good description, by the way), and I personally don't have a problem with them building the song around it, or adding it to the song after (I don't know which came first). As I said, Tokyo Skyline is one of my favourite tracks on RTF, and one of my favourite Manics songs of the last ten years. It's beautiful. Sounds like a bright morning. Little Girl Lost, of course, is one of the best SATT b-sides too. Wasn't aware of the Axelrod connection, but it's clear from its usage as a b-side inspiration that Nicky had been mulling Axelrod's stuff for a good few years before RTF. The band have always drawn their inspiration from a wide range of sources - sometimes somewhat shamelessly - and finding the sources of that inspiration is one of the aspects I enjoy most about their new material.
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PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE - APRIL 2005 TOUR “ALL OUR KNOWLEDGE – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE – IS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT WE WILL NEVER KNOW.” (TSIOLKOVSKY) 2004 ENDED WITH THE MANIC STREET PREACHERS SOLD OUT ARENA TOUR RECEIVING AMAZING REVIEWS ... DESCRIBED AS “THEIR BEST SHOWS FOR A DECADE” BY THE NME AND BY THE TIMES AS “A COMMUNAL CELEBRATION OF THE BANDS RETURN TO FORM”. MORE DATES HAVE NOW BEEN CONFIRMED FOR APRIL 2005 WITH THE BAND RETURNING TO VENUES AND CITIES THEY HAVE NOT VISITED IN ALMOST 10 YEARS. THEY HAVE PROMISED TO PLAY A VARIED SELECTION OF SONGS FROM THROUGHOUT THEIR BACK CATALOGUE, INCLUDING TRACKS SUCH AS ‘4ST 7LB’, ‘ARCHIVES OF PAIN’ AND ‘OF WALKING ABORTION’ FROM THEIR THIRD ALBUM ‘THE HOLY BIBLE’ WHICH WAS RELEASED AS A SPECIAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION AT THE END OF 2004. THE BAND ARE HOPING TO UNVEIL NEW MATERIAL ON THE FORTHCOMING TOUR, INCLUDING TRACKS, WHICH THEY ARE CURRENTLY RECORDING. THE DATES AND VENUES OF THE TOUR ARE AS FOLLOWS…. SUNDAY 3RD APRIL: SOUTHAMPTON, GUILDHALL - 02380 632601 MONDAY 4TH APRIL: DERBY, ASSEMBLY ROOMS - 01332 255800 WEDNESDAY 6TH APRIL: WOLVES, CIVIC HALL - 01902 552121 THURSDAY 7TH APRIL: SWANSEA, BRANGWYN HALL - 01792 475715 SATURDAY 9TH APRIL: LIVERPOOL, ROYAL COURT - 0151 709 4321 MONDAY 11TH APRIL: BRISTOL, COLSTON HALL - 0117 922 3686 TUESDAY 12TH APRIL: CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE - 01233 357851 THURSDAY 14TH APRIL: NEWCASTLE, CITY HALL - 0191 261 2606 FRIDAY 15TH APRIL: EDINBURGH, CORN EXCHANGE - 0131 443 0404 SUNDAY 17TH APRIL: LEEDS, UNIVERSITY REFECTORY - 0113 244 4600 MONDAY 18TH APRIL: LONDON HAMMERSMITH APOLLO - 08706 063400 SPECIAL GUESTS DELAYS. TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 4TH FEBRUARY AT 9AM PRICED £22.50 EXCEPT LONDON £23.50. 24 HOUR CREDIT CARD HOTLINE: 0871 2200 260 OR BUY ONLINE AT WWW.GIGSANDTOURS.COM. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR PRIORITY TICKET BOOKING DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON! |
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I agree with everything you say above.
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Great tour but fuck me ticket prices have shot up
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For a while I noted that the price went up a quid each time. Probably not entirely true, but it seemed to be that way for a bit. Naturally arena/20th shows are a bit more which may explain the recent increase.
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£22 a gig! Blimey. Still, we're living in a different world to 2015.
£23.50 adjusted for inflation is £33.36 in 2017 money (will be more in 2018). Add on the various fees and postage, and that sounds like the same price to me.
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Looking at the upcoming releases there's not a great deal of competition in the album chart for that period. Kylie's will be done the week before, Jack White a few weeks earlier, both pretty niche nowadays anyway. Their biggest competition might still be the bloody Greatest Showman which is still shifting 30k a week. Based on Futurology they'd expect circa 20k.
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Interested to know, but do people prefer this kind of release compared to what we've been used to in the past i.e. hearing all of the "singles" first before hearing the album in full?
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I prefer having b-sides, is what I prefer. At one point in time these three singles would have netted us as many as five further songs each.
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