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Set list quotes
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 Last edited by Amanda; 11-07-2010 at 17:29. |
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Nicky loves a bit of Bright Eyes, dosn't he!
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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 |
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Truro 3/6:
When there's no future how can there be sin? - J. Lydon
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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 |
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a quick google search gives us "friend" as the last word, and it's from a song by elliott smith.
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Thank you, have gone back and editted to add them in, just 8 to go now
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Is that the whole quote, it's a bit nonsensical!
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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. |
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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
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Ooh and the Cariff Point one so we actually know for certain what was played after my little cock up with the texting
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Soul Singer In A Session Band? That's pretty much the worst Bright Eyes song ever.
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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.
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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 |
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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
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