When there was that spell where James was saying he was tired of putting vocal tracks down on Manics' albums, I reckoned it was as good a time as ever for them to do a whole album with either one woman, or many women, taking singing duties.

The idea still stands up as a great one, listening to this...

Ok I did not have a Madonna cover on my bingo card for this gig?! :lol:

Madonna does covers so you can too!

Don't ever let the band tell you again that they can't do a deep cut setlist!

It's funny looking earlier in this thread, people seeing it's an hour-long gig, and thinking they could guess the setlist there and then.

It's like they saw that and took it as a challenge!

Great song to cover tho, fair play.

You Love Us (presumably followed by Design?)

Nah, i could always choose a deeper cut setlist but it's still pretty good. And a madonna cover to boot, good lord...

Always does. Sound-filling with extra live guitars always takes something away

What Madonna cover?

Has James done the harmonics during the chorus before?

James seems to be enjoying his guitar of late, as the football phrase might go!

Borderline

Per FDbook

Tonight's Manic Street Preachers setlist from Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach 31/03/2022

01. Motorcycle Emptiness
02. From Despair To Where
03. His Last Painting
04. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
05. Still Snowing in Sapporo
06. Year Of Purification
07. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
08. Everything Must Go
09. Blank Diary Entry
10. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
11. Methadone Pretty
12. The Secret He Had Missed
13. Spectators Of Suicide with Gwenno
14. Borderline
15. You Love Us
16. A Design For Life

Borderline. Seemed to morph into You Love Us. I thought he was trolling in the way Baby Love went into Motown Junk.

That’s a very interesting set.

Recorded this on the Sky box so looking forward to having a listen tomorrow.