Manics Album Gigs? - Forever Delayed

y2kyle16 · #1 08-10-2010, 08:10

Hi,

I was thinking, a lot of bands do "album tours" now

For example - Suede played 7 nights at the same venue, and every night did a whole album in full and the b sides from that album

If the Manics were to do one, which nights would you make the most effort to get to

For me, it would be Lifeblood, JFPL and Postcards

Ben · #2 08-10-2010, 08:12

All of them.

centralscrutiniser · #3 08-10-2010, 08:15

Same here - I've never done 10 gigs in a row before..

y2kyle16 · #4 08-10-2010, 08:16

I was thinking, its a great idea, it varies the sets - and you can pick and choose what you want to see

A good venue choice would be hammersmith or brixton

Noisy Cat · #5 08-10-2010, 08:22

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Originally Posted by y2kyle16

A good venue choice would be hammersmith or brixton

... Yes, if you live in London

y2kyle16 · #6 08-10-2010, 08:23

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Originally Posted by Noisy Cat

... Yes, if you live in London

Yes true - but the only way this would work - is if they were all at a central location - where everyone can get to.

centralscrutiniser · #7 08-10-2010, 09:05

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Originally Posted by y2kyle16

Yes true - but the only way this would work - is if they were all at a central location - where everyone can get to.

Birmingham then

MSPKYE · #8 08-10-2010, 08:26

If they did album gigs they'd probably have to pair up the albums, well maybe not GT, just do B Sides and rarities with that one. And fuck London they should do 'em back home in Cardiff CIA

Diaga · #9 08-10-2010, 08:32

I would love to go to all of them!

I think the GT one would be interesting. It would allow them to change a few things they've always wanted to - like the arrangement/style of 'Love's Sweet Exile'.

I'd like to see which version of 'Spectators of Suicide' gets played as I've always much preferred the Heavenly version.

If they did b-sides too perhaps 'A Vision of Dead Desire' could return to its punky roots of 'UK Channel Boredom' (much better verse arrangements)...

EDIT:

How would they do Stars and Stripes though? I don't like the song, but it if they could pull it off it would certainly be different.

begging_to_be_cool · #10 08-10-2010, 09:17

Not going to happen, which I'm fine with.

But if they did do Generation Terrorists start to finish they'd finally have to play So Dead!

Scarecrow · #11 08-10-2010, 11:55

That'd be the dream. Shame they hate half of it.

BrianPowell · #12 08-10-2010, 12:09

If they ever do it, I can only really see it being Everything Must Go and a slight chance it could be Send Away The Tigers, The Holy Bible or Generation Terrorists.
They play A Design For Life, Kevin Carter, Everything Must Go, Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky, Australia and No Surface All Feeling frequently plus Enola/Alone now and again. Plus, it being the album most music fans associate with the Manic Street Preachers.

darkanddivine · #13 08-10-2010, 12:50

I think they should do Truth, I think that would make a great gig as so many of that albums tracks are great live, plus the B-sides of the time were pretty good, and you could do a 2nd half featuring Masses, as that kinda closed the book on that period.

I also agree that Lifeblood would be nice because there was a huge amount of good material around at the time with all the random Forever Delayed stuff that could/would fit in with all of that.

Much as I love THB, I don't think it would be right to re-re-visit it.

JDMANIC · #14 08-10-2010, 12:57

If they ever do any of these album gigs in the future, I just hope they film some of them for dvd release.

Beej · #15 08-10-2010, 14:35

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Originally Posted by JDMANIC

If they ever do any of these album gigs in the future, I just hope they film some of them for dvd release.

Yes! I would love to do GT, GATS and THB, but obviously any would do for me.

I think if this ever happens I will sell all of my material posessions in order to attend every date. It would probably be worth running away from home too.