Biggest Manics Regret - Page 5 - Forever Delayed

Ken Korda · #61 03-09-2010, 12:21

Not liking The Manics before Nicky Wire decided to play in my home town, in the only live venue available, a cow shed.

hummingbird · #62 03-09-2010, 21:38

not buying GT when it was released
chucking all my manics posters/magazine articles in the bin in 1999
not going to the millenium gig
not going to any gig before 2002
not going to see them in the US last year
not having a gig buddy

Valley_Girl · #63 03-09-2010, 22:15

Years ago, a friend called me from a London record fair asking if she should buy a New Art Riot-record for me.
Because she told me that the record was in a dirty-pale-reddish colour I didn't want it - I thought the rare "pink vinyl" would be bright pink.
I definitely was wrong, and might have gotten my hands on a rarity then...
oh well.

There are more things I don't regret doing, Manics-wise, so I don't worry too much.

Mr Inconspicuous · #64 03-09-2010, 22:21

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Originally Posted by hummingbird

chucking all my manics posters/magazine articles in the bin in 1999

Thankfully I didn't do anything this drastic, but I regret not keeping most of the earliest Manics music press stuff I bought. There was a Nicky piece in an NME student supplement from 1993 that I'd love to have kept, for instance. I combed my parents attic for old music mags a few years ago, and found to my disappointment that most of the stuff I had kept was from the late nineties, when I had almost ceased to care about the Manics. I know I could get a lot of this stuff on Rocks Back Pages or wherever but it's not the same somehow...

Abstract Unknown Girl · #65 03-09-2010, 22:26

I don't have too many regrets really; I'm not going to regret when I was born, because then I wouldn't have been me with the life I have now. It would have been nice to see the band when Richey was around, but I was just too young and interested in other things at that point.

The only things I can really think of are bothering to attend the MEN gig on the Lifeblood tour. I'd already done Nottingham, which I thoroughly enjoyed, but everything about the MEN was miserable and I wish I hadn't bothered tbh. But that's probably only about one or two gigs ever that I've really not enjoyed, so I should count myself lucky.

The other thing is not appreciating Lifeblood as much when it came out as I do now. I had a bit of a break from the Manics around that time and just couldn't really get into the album. Plus, other unrelated crappy things were happening at the time, which for a while I tended to associate with the album, but as time has gone by, I don't connect the two as much anymore and can enjoy it a lot more.

hummingbird · #66 03-09-2010, 22:39

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Originally Posted by Abstract Unknown Girl

The other thing is not appreciating Lifeblood as much when it came out as I do now. I had a bit of a break from the Manics around that time and just couldn't really get into the album. Plus, other unrelated crappy things were happening at the time, which for a while I tended to associate with the album, but as time has gone by, I don't connect the two as much anymore and can enjoy it a lot more.

same thing happened to me. Lifeblood is one of my favourite albums now but barely paid attention at the time and didnt go to the wembley gig despite having a ticket.

Alan Noir · #67 03-09-2010, 22:51

Seeing them more than twice a year. Booooring. Beans for tea again.

allofwho · #68 03-09-2010, 22:53

I definitely regret only going to Philadelphia and NYC when they played the US last year. I should have at least done Boston. Stupid stupid stupid.

starfucker · #69 03-09-2010, 22:56

Mine is getting refused entrance to the Brighton Dome SATT tour date for sneaking into the soundcheck. Got to see James soundcheck Yes and met him too, but was not worth missing the gig for getting the bloke who led me and my mate to the band's dressing room sacked.

appleof88 · #70 03-09-2010, 23:16

Not seeing Nicky at latitude festival during his solo period. shame. Wasn't into them at the time, even though i had a unlisted to holy bible sitting at home.

I currently regret not doing another date on the current tour, could of done norwich, would be been nice

relic · #71 04-09-2010, 07:22

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Originally Posted by Abstract Unknown Girl

I don't have too many regrets really; I'm not going to regret when I was born, because then I wouldn't have been me with the life I have now. It would have been nice to see the band when Richey was around, but I was just too young and interested in other things at that point.

I know what you mean, I wish I could have seen them back at the beginning, but I was too short of money and too busy with work to see any bands back then, and you can only regret something that you had a choice about.

hummingbird · #72 04-09-2010, 21:19

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Originally Posted by starfucker

Mine is getting refused entrance to the Brighton Dome SATT tour date for sneaking into the soundcheck. Got to see James soundcheck Yes and met him too, but was not worth missing the gig for getting the bloke who led me and my mate to the band's dressing room sacked.

he shouldn't've let you in then the twatt. Shame ..that sounded like a great gig from the bootleg.

Mr.Selfdestruct · #73 04-09-2010, 23:17

I have no manics regrets. I was too young for pre EMG, so i never had any hope of seeing them with Richey. I got into them big time in 99 and since then have seen them every year bar 2000, 2006 and 2008.

Europa Gluten Free · #74 04-09-2010, 23:23

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Originally Posted by Zee

I regret never seeing them in concert with Richey in the lineup. I was a fan back then but for some reason didn't hear about the concert in Toronto in time.

Love your Avatar photo Zee. Very cute.

Europa Gluten Free · #75 04-09-2010, 23:24

I regret not going to the PPF tour when my mate, the tight arse, actually had a spare ticket that he didnt want me to pay for. But it was the height of my phobias so I didnt go. And they played WhiteAmerica. Bollocks.