Manics

[UEF]

have bands ever done full album sets at Glastonbury? let alone ones as un-commercial / not their most mainstream work like The Holy Bible?

if they headline the John Peel then i think that'd work out brilliantly (due to it no doubt being full of big Manics fans anyway if they're willing to miss the other headliners) but if they get a higher Pyramid / Other position then probably not

Not a direct answer to your question but I remember Muse doing the whole of Origin of Symmetry at Reading and Roger Waters doing all of Dark Side of the Moon at Hyde Park so at least it has been somewhat precedented in the industry.

[Zoo Music Girl]

Didn't Primal Scream do something like that?

[FloorFiller]

both of those albums had some of the bands biggest hits on them, though, whereas The Holy Bible doesn't (not to a casual fan, anyway)

and didn't Muse's full Origin set go down rather badly? wasn't there so can't say myself but that's what i heard

i know a few bands have done full album sets at festival but obviously the bigger the band gets the more difficult it becomes, especially when that album has pretty much zero hit singles on it

[FloorFiller]

Didn't Primal Scream do something like that?

ah of course they did! wasn't quite a full album set but was Screamadelica almost in full with a couple of 'hits' tacked on at the end. i guess the Manics could do the same - most of / all of The Holy Bible with Design For Life etc as the encore

Edited October 22, 2013 by FloorFiller

[Zoo Music Girl]

Holy Bible is very niche as you say though. It's not like Waters doing Dark Side or Primal Scream. I dunno, I just can't quite see it.

[evilduck]

Even with Muse doing Origin, which has some really big singles, the crowd was still a bit lacklustre.

Can we not have a double of a hits set on the Other one day, then Holy Bible in JP the next

[Zoo Music Girl]

Can we not have a double of a hits set on the Other one day, then Holy Bible in JP the next

This ^

[Yesiamaduck]

both of those albums had some of the bands biggest hits on them, though, whereas The Holy Bible doesn't (not to a casual fan, anyway)

and didn't Muse's full Origin set go down rather badly? wasn't there so can't say myself but that's what i heard

i know a few bands have done full album sets at festival but obviously the bigger the band gets the more difficult it becomes, especially when that album has pretty much zero hit singles on it

I saw Yeah Yeah Yeahs do the entire of 'Fever To Tell' a couple of years ago, I'd LOVE that

[Zoo Music Girl]

I'm sorry Mr Wire, but ever since it's been pointed out to me, that apostrophe's doing my head in. And a little '(sic)' at the end of my signature is not going to stop me feeling like I itch deep inside my bones so it's going.

I feel like a bitch for pointing it out now. But I get paid to root out rogue apostrophes for a living so letting them lie does not sit easy with me.

Bask in the knowledge that you have a better grasp of punctuation than Mr Wire!

[Zoo Music Girl]

It looks much nicer without it from a symmetry point of view too.

[Zoo Music Girl]

(wait while I see him at glastonbury, I'll give him a piece of my mind....)

No you won't - you'll be too busy going mental like the fanboy that you are!

[Zoo Music Girl]

I could take a cardboard sign a la a Springsteen fanboy, with his grammatical error highlighted on it!

You'll need a bloody long sign...

[Zoo Music Girl]

Just seen this setlist from their gig in Manchester last month. It makes the set list Wooderson posted look positively amazing. (And they're not even playing 'faster.' How can that be? Revol is the worse song on the Holy Bible! (I know this isn't a widely held opinion)).

Plus, if they got an hour on the Pyramid, they'd probably lose the whole JDB acoustic bit, one new song, Sleepflower and Elvis Impersonator at least, then it looks very weak indeed. They have to headline the JP now or there's no chance of recovering some of the 'lost' fans.

1. Manorbier - Intro over PA
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Ready for Drowning
4. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
5. Show Me the Wonder
6. Anthem for a Lost Cause
8. You Stole the Sun From My Heart
9. As Holy as the Soil (that Buries Your Skin)
   (Some Kind of Nothingness Intro)
10. Rewind the Film
11. Sleepflower
12. You Love Us
13. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
14. This Sullen Welsh Heart
    (James Dean Bradfield acoustic solo)
15. (The Stone Roses cover) (James Dean Bradfield acoustic solo, snippet)
16. This Charming Man
    (The Smiths cover) (James Dean Bradfield acoustic solo, snippet)
17. (I Miss the) Tokyo Skyline
    (James Dean Bradfield acoustic solo, snippet)
18. (Frankie Valli cover) (James Dean Bradfield acoustic solo, snippet)
19. The Everlasting
    (James Dean Bradfield acoustic solo)
20. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
21. Revol
22. Tsunami
23. 30-Year War
24. Kevin Carter
25. Motown Junk
26. A Design for Life

I agree that Revol is the worst song on THB. Muppets. I hardly know anything on that setlist so it would test my patience considerably.

Don't really see them on Pyramid myself though. Other headline or sub or JP headline in my opinion.

I really think the double set thing is the best option for them at this stage. It acknowledges that different fans want different things.

Edit: OK I know a fair bit of it. I think the word I meant was 'like'!

Edited October 23, 2013 by RebeccaD

[Zoo Music Girl]

That set is a lot better to be fair.

Seriously, dudes, how can you not play Faster? It's such an epic song. I feel like I need to have a word with them.

I'll be miffed if they go up against the Mac too as I fancied a bit of that.

[Zoo Music Girl]

They were Pyramid headliner sized for a while there weren't they? Even if they never did it, I'd say around EMG release time they could have. Might be wrong though.

I'm assuming they will tell us in advance if it's a HB set though won't they? They bloody better had.

Is that from Journal too? You're slowly going to dripfeed the whole album aren't you?

[Mardy]

I saw them just around the time of the release of GT at the Astoria. Broke my glasses when JDB jumped in the crowd. Mind, if he did that these days, It'd break a lot more than my glasses.

[Zoo Music Girl]

I saw them just around the time of the release of GT at the Astoria. Broke my glasses when JDB jumped in the crowd. Mind, if he did that these days, It'd break a lot more than my glasses.

Extremely jealous right here!

[Zoo Music Girl]

Not about the glasses bit, obviously.

[jeffie]

A quick google says they headlined in 1999, along with REM and Skunk Anansie. My 22 year old self would have loved that.

Ooh ooh, i saw that

[Zoo Music Girl]

A quick google says they headlined in 1999, along with REM and Skunk Anansie. My 22 year old self would have loved that.

As would my 16-year-old self! I loved all three bands then. Still gutted I never saw REM live.

I finally saw SA last year though, mainly for the nostalgia but it was amazing. They did Little Baby Swastika!

[Zoo Music Girl]

I reckon I must have seen Manics headline Reading in 2001. I remember nothing about it though! How annoying.

I do of course remember Mazza Manson on the Sunday. Was an uber fan back then.

[Zoo Music Girl]

Here's the setlist for that Reading performance. Archives of Pain FFS! Could you imagine? And Miss Europa Disco Dancer. From the ridiculous to the sublime.

You Love Us

You Stole the Sun From My Heart

La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

Found That Soul

Little Baby Nothing

Kevin Carter

(with Yazek Manzano)

Motorcycle Emptiness

Motown Junk

Let Robeson Sing

Archives of Pain

Royal Correspondent

(Acoustic)

Miss Europa Disco Dancer

Everything Must Go

It's So Easy

(Guns N Roses cover)

Tsunami

Ocean Spray

(with Yazek Manzano)

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

A Design for Life

The Masses Against the Classes

[Simpo]

That recent gig in Manchester, smaller venue, a set suited to touring this quieter album. Ready For Drowning's return has been popular with the fans. Yet still had the "soft metal crap" song fans semi-jokingly shouted for for years, Sleepflower!

And apparently the atmosphere was fantastic, wish I'd gone

[UEF]

Here's the setlist for that Reading performance. Archives of Pain FFS! Could you imagine? And Miss Europa Disco Dancer. From the ridiculous to the sublime.

You Love Us

You Stole the Sun From My Heart

La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

Found That Soul

Little Baby Nothing

Kevin Carter

(with Yazek Manzano)

Motorcycle Emptiness

Motown Junk

Let Robeson Sing

Archives of Pain

Royal Correspondent

(Acoustic)

Miss Europa Disco Dancer

Everything Must Go

It's So Easy

(Guns N Roses cover)

Tsunami

Ocean Spray

(with Yazek Manzano)

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

A Design for Life

The Masses Against the Classes

Always thought that was one of the best sets they ever did. It's So Easy too!

[Zoo Music Girl]

Always thought that was one of the best sets they ever did. It's So Easy too!

Yeah it's gradually coming back to me now. Their It's So Easy cover was great.

I'd love to see Sleepflower! It is, as the monster says, a choon.