Wall of Mouths

not_that_kind_of_guy wrote:

nice little review there. so “archives of pain” was acoustic then? dammit. i was sure they were playing it properly on this tour. i noticed they left out “the girl who wanted to be god” which they’d been playing on previous nights. oh well, roll on the 12th…

and thank god they’re not still finishing with “a design for life” :)

Thanks!

Archives of Pain was like this:
James Dean had his electric guitar set with no distortion, sang first verse and “chorus” (if u wanna call it that) and then the full band joined in. Sounds a bit shit when described like that, but worked well, nice bit of tension built up then a nice big release. I hate acoustic versions, full stop, and whilst I would have preferred a full-band version of the whole song, it worked well as it was, and was far from an “acoustic” version as some reports would describe it. (I cut and pasted the setlist from another website, so ignore the “acoustic” after Archives..)

I also liked the way he was hitting himself in the head in rhythm with the drums on Of Walking Abortion, daft sod.

And yes, I was glad Design For Life and You Love Us got buried into the set instead of being obvious encores.

Wait, there were no encores! Hey, the Manics of old are back!! Lol

Apart from the awful You Stole the Sun From My Heart thats not a bad setlist.A friend of mine was at that gig last night she said they were brilliant one of the best gigs ever.

gb199 wrote:

Quite a different setlist from the Soton, we didnt hear Found that Soul, Ocean Spray(thank God!!!), No Surface All Feeling or To Repel Ghosts, but then again we had Empty Souls, 1985, The Girl Who Wanted to be God and the Mighty 4st 7lbs, So I was more than happy :D

I would much rather have No Surface..and To Repel Ghosts (best track on Lifeblood…?) than Empty Souls or 1985, but I woulda LOVED to have heard 4st 7lbs, so you have turned me green. Ya bugger!

Mind U, at least I heard them play it on the Holy Bible tour (Best tour ever by any band ever I would argue. Mind you, not many would wanna sit through Intense Humming Of Evil live…!).

And you are right about Ocean Spray, too!

What do you think of Lifeblood Dennis have you heard it?

REVOL :eek:

why are those b*stards not coming to europe,it’s not fair :mad: i wanna see THB songs being played tooooo! :(

Bad Karma wrote:

What do you think of Lifeblood Dennis have you heard it?

Yes I have heard it, although it was the first Manics album that I didn’t get at the first possible opportunity, as I expected it to be crap.

In actual fact, I think it is a very strong album, with some very well-crafted songs, interesting sounds and a consisitent feel (something that has been missing from recent MSP albums..)

HOWEVER the lyrics are just damn rubbish and it is a shame that the edge has gone from their music.

If Lifeblood was their only release, I’d find them a pretty underwhelming band. As the current tour shows,though, mixed in with the older material, Lifeblood adds another dimension to the band’s career as a whole.

I loved them as angry young men, I adore the Holy Bible ,and whilst I will never feel that way about Lifeblood, it is a good, solid work.

its been a good few years since i seen ‘em last, and to be fair a good few albums since i stopped caring, but my GOD how good are those setlists??