iTunes Festival 2011

[Bryter Layter]

Originally Posted by UEF

[*]On next year: "We weren't going to play next near, the whole year 100% off. Then we realised it's the fucking jubilee. We're being saturated by the royal family, so we'll play one gig. Just one gig! So you don't have to look at Prince Philip for an hour[/LIST]

Oh yeah, I heard about that! Apparently they're going to rent a boat and sail up the Thames. Eventually, they hope the police will have the boat forced into port so they can be arrested on the pier.

Those Manics, such rebels!

[relic]

Originally Posted by meganslastwords

I had an amazing time, maybe it'd be different if I had other Manics gigs to compare it with but I don't my dad, who is not easily impressed said to me that he cannot tell me how impressed he was with them, especially James

I'm glad you enjoyed your first Manics gig, It's a special thing for a lass.

[Tidus]

Regarding the keyboards.

During Everything Must Go and Autumn Song, they were most noticably awry.

However, whilst at first (during EMG) I thought he was playing completely out of key, I realised during Autumn Song that he was actually a "chord" ahead (or behind, can't remember now) all the time.

Either he really didn't know the songs, and was playing from sheet music and reading it wrong, or there was a strange issue with the broadcast, and the piano track was out of sync.

Given that UEF didn't notice it, I'm assuming it was the second theory.

Moreover, although James doesn't use inner ear monitors, even if he only had guitar, drums, bass and vocals coming through his monitors, there's no way he'd not catch some piano at some point during either of those songs, and he'd notice, and he'd get pissed off - he's a professional. So I'm pretty sure it was a broadcast sync issue, not him actually playing out of tune.

Couple this with the terrible censorship (why get a band with "Repeat after me, fuck Queen and country" and "We don't want your fucking love" as a band to play, then censor them?) and the poor mixing on both the tambourine mic and nicky's vocals (and bass imho) and you've got an average gig (with non-hardcore crowd) and bad mixing.

[Mouse]

I'm still glad i decided to go, my friend and i were jumping up and down and singing along, met a nice couple of fans who commented that it was nice to be next to somone who knew the words
It was only my sixth Manics gig and i had a great time.

[Stillborn Christ]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Hiya!

People without ID were being made to go and stand in the reserves queue. So yeah, you can't get in without ID. But there were loads of spare wristbands anyway, i didn't win tickets, just waited in the reseve queue. Got in and had a fab time with one of my friends. Bit sad that there were too many general public non-fans in the crowd but really enjoyed the gig itself.

What time did they start letting the reserves in? Did you get any priority over people with no ticket at all?

IKWYM about general public, I've been to a few iTunes shows where the audience just talked the whole way through until the band did their 'hit', and then they carried on talking. Makes you wanna kick them in the shins.

[Mouse]

Originally Posted by Stillborn Christ

What time did they start letting the reserves in? Did you get any priority over people with no ticket at all?

IKWYM about general public, I've been to a few iTunes shows where the audience just talked the whole way through until the band did their 'hit', and then they carried on talking. Makes you wanna kick them in the shins.

It was about quater to nine before they started letting the reserve queue in.
Once you're in the reserve queue there's no kind of priority so even if you have somone else's ticket it's not guaranteed you get in. Though there seemed to be lots left over last night and the whole reserve queue managed to get in.

[ZiZi]

anyone able to post just the setlist?

[Manic Ricky]

Gutted that I missed the stream, going to have to keep up to date the next time because I didn't even know it was on. But I see everybody had a great time so I hope they enjoyed themselves

[Rock Junkie]

I'm with Hanna on this one, there must have definitely been something wrong with the broadcasting as we sure did have a fantastic time and venue wise it all sounded pretty good and in sync. Yes it was safe setlist which was just as well as it was a lot of people experiencing the Manics live for the first time, which I kind of quite enjoyed as the front row barrier was crushed at all and there was plenty of room to dance and head bang! But as for Sean Read and the keys... I actually thought how good they was sounding in places.

Loved the Everlasting and seeing Hanna's face beam around the screens haha....

[Bathtub]

They sure love their power ballads these days don't they?

Autumnsong and The Everlasting in one gig. Do they hate their fans that much?

[Abstract Unknown Girl]

Originally Posted by harrijack

It's Sean Read (not Reid or Reed or however people are spelling it)

Considering how shit he sounded (on the broadcast least), the spelling of his name wasn't really the issue...

Plus, spelling the name of the Manics' keyboardist correctly has never been a strong point, not even for the band, seen as they couldn't even decide on how to spell Naysmith in their own album booklets

Keyboards were fine (if anything, I remember thinking they sounded particularly good at one point) so don't know what half this thread is about - must have been a broadcast issue.

Well obviously it must have been, seen as I hardly think that many people simply imagined it sounded that bad

[UEF]

It was rubbish.

I made a fake ID with the winners name on it

Just won tickets for White Lies on the 13th.

[meganslastwords]

Did anyone wait after to meet the band?

[Lindz Delirium]

Enough with the Saxy bashing....he's there because the Manics want him there*. End of.

*He's also multi-talented and sexy and I love him.

So there.

[Stillborn Christ]

Originally Posted by UEF

It was rubbish.

I made a fake ID with the winners name on it

lol. for real? what sort of id?

would a credit card in the ticket holder's name be enough? were they really asking for photo id?