New tour!

[Tish]

Yes is exciting, hopefully that stays in the setlist. I wish they'd drop LBN though, I do love the song but I feel like we've had it every gig for the last four years.

[LA ex]

Originally Posted by MSPKYE

rockin'on sonic setlist:

01. You Love Us
02. La Tristesse Durera
03. Decline & Fall
04. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
05. No Surface All Feeling
06. Motorcycle Emptiness
07. From Despair To Where
08. Yes
09. A Design For Life
10. Little Baby Nothing
11. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
12. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Setlist.fm is now saying International Blue and Motown Junk were also played after Your Love Alone.

Overall looks quite a nice hour long festival set. Fingers crossed Yes sticks around for a while.

[LA ex]

Originally Posted by Tish

Yes is exciting, hopefully that stays in the setlist. I wish they'd drop LBN though, I do love the song but I feel like we've had it every gig for the last four years.

Show how much different fans get things differently - the shows with Suede last summer were the first time I'd heard Little Baby Nothing since the National Treasures gig in 2011 - with fifteen shows without it in between (admittedly there were five full album shows and a couple of shorter support shows in there, but that's still a lot without it)

[Routine Builder]

Originally Posted by MSPKYE

rockin'on sonic setlist:

01. You Love Us
02. La Tristesse Durera
03. Decline & Fall
04. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
05. No Surface All Feeling
06. Motorcycle Emptiness
07. From Despair To Where
08. Yes
09. A Design For Life
10. Little Baby Nothing
11. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
12. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Christ, one track from the nine albums between TIMT and CT (hope HIPS won't be dropped from the setlist too soon, but it's a Wire track so odds are not good).

[Tish]

Originally Posted by LA ex

Show how much different fans get things differently - the shows with Suede last summer were the first time I'd heard Little Baby Nothing since the National Treasures gig in 2011 - with fifteen shows without it in between (admittedly there were five full album shows and a couple of shorter support shows in there, but that's still a lot without it)

I guess it’s just chance, I’ve only seen them four times in the past four years and LBN was on the set list for three of those gigs. I thought it was at all four but I’ve just checked the set list for the Portsmouth 2021 gig and it was actually The Secret He Had Missed that night, so it’s not quite as omnipresent as I imagined.

[Europa Gluten Free]

Is there a pro stream? Just fan videos so far on YouTube.

Nice to see the LP custom, the blonde Eastman and the black LP custom.

[Lee]

Off to Norway to headline a festival on the 23rd August.

[Routine Builder]

James and The Anchoress resurected Dylan and Caitlin last Tuesday at the Senedd:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/owXTJu3DmVo

[LA ex]

So I googled manic street preachers tour support 2025 and the AI overview came back with this:

The Manic Street Preachers will not have any support acts on their 2025 UK tour. The band will be promoting their new album, Critical Thinking, which was released on January 31, 2025.

I'm guessing this is bollocks and just AI overview getting confused between support not being announced yet and there not being any support... I note they've still got the wrong album release date!

[Son of Stopped]

This date next month and people will be queuing at Glasgow Barrowlands by now.

[Routine Builder]

Do we think they'll forego having a support this time? (Tour poster says nothing about special guests)

[Europa Gluten Free]

Originally Posted by Routine Builder

Do we think they'll forego having a support this time? (Tour poster says nothing about special guests)

I would say no support but I don't know. This seems to be a very particular type of tour (Fri/Sat) that they have designed for themselves and they are doing it how they want to do it (Did they feel obliged to do things as part of the Manics/Suede machine?).

[LA ex]

The only time in recent years I can remember going to see a band and there not being a support act was the Flaming Lips, who ended up playing a two and a half hour set, Which I can't see the Manics doing.

I can't remember quite when support acts were announced in the past, but a month before feels a bit late. My money is still on Hope of the States, who are set to put some new material out on the next couple of weeks. And by money I mean wile speciality with little to nothing to back it up.

[Anaconda Vice]

Originally Posted by LA ex

The only time in recent years I can remember going to see a band and there not being a support act was the Flaming Lips, who ended up playing a two and a half hour set, Which I can't see the Manics doing.

The THB20 shows (the December 2014 ones at least) had no support from what I remember.

[Europa Gluten Free]

I think it would be difficult or weird to get a support act ot just play a friday and saturdya night and then head home again until the next week.