Manic Street Preachers - any news of a US tour?

[Giles]

Setlist of the 1st show of the tour from last night (courtesy of the Forever Delayed forum)

SEATTLE - NEUMOS - Monday September 21st.

SET LIST:

1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. No Surface All Feeling
3. Peeled Apples
4. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (with a false start as James' guitar tuning was off)
5. La Tristessa Durera
6. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
7. Let Robeson Sing
8. You Love Us
9. Everything Must Go
10. Faster
11. Take The Skinheads Bowling
12. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
13. Small Black Flowers (acc)
14. This is Yesterday (acc)
15. Send Away The Tigers
16. You Stole The Sun
17. (extended) 'All or Nothing' into Motown Junk
18. Me And Stephen Hawking
19. Little Baby Nothing
20. This Joke Sport Severed
21. Design For Life

what no 'Tsunami'?  interesting that they did 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough' since it's technically a duet - oh well...

so who here is doing a roadtrip up to the Philly show?

[TheREALHunter]

Setlist of the 1st show of the tour from last night (courtesy of the Forever Delayed forum)

SEATTLE - NEUMOS - Monday September 21st.

SET LIST:

1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. No Surface All Feeling
3. Peeled Apples
4. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (with a false start as James' guitar tuning was off)
5. La Tristessa Durera
6. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
7. Let Robeson Sing
8. You Love Us
9. Everything Must Go
10. Faster
11. Take The Skinheads Bowling
12. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
13. Small Black Flowers (acc)
14. This is Yesterday (acc)
15. Send Away The Tigers
16. You Stole The Sun
17. (extended) 'All or Nothing' into Motown Junk
18. Me And Stephen Hawking
19. Little Baby Nothing
20. This Joke Sport Severed
21. Design For Life

what no 'Tsunami'?  interesting that they did 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough' since it's technically a duet - oh well...

so who here is doing a roadtrip up to the Philly show?

I'm roadtripping to the Philly show, still debating whether to make a 2 day run of it and go to NYC as well.

[eros]

Great setlist.  Getting really really excited for this.

[TheREALHunter]

I promise I won't post every setlist but posting this one to show that most of the set is the same, hope they bring back "Take the skinheads bowling" though haha

Commodore Ballroom Vancouver 9/22 (again, courtesy of the Forever Delayed forum)

1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. No Surface All Feeling
3. Peeled Apples
4. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
5. La Tristessa Durera
6. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
7. Let Robeson Sing
8. Faster
9. Everything Must Go
10. This Joke Sport Severed
11. From Despair To Where
12. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
13. This Is Yesterday - acc (James offered the option of this or 'Small Black Flower' ... TIY won)
14. The Everlasting - acc
15. Send Away The Tigers
16. You Stole The Sun
17. 'All Or Nothing' (extended) into Motown Junk
18. Me And Stephen Hawling
19. Little Baby Nothing
20. You Love Us
21. Design For Life

[lily1]

those of you that went-how was it?

[eros]

those of you that went-how was it?

Excellent.  Nice venue, kinda like a smaller version of the State Theater and seemingly smaller than what they are typically playing on this tour.  The band seemed genuinely happy to be there.  Lots of energy/pogoing/scissor kicking on stage.

More or less the same setlist as the other nights.  And for once it's nice to see a crowd that is totally engaged at what is going on up on the stage. 

So glad I'm finally getting a chance to see this band.

Off to NYC for tonight...

[TheREALHunter]

The Philly show was SO goddamned good, great sound in a perfectly sized venue and definitely worth the drive from Virginia (especially since a couple folks on the Forever Delayed messageboard said that James specifically commented outside last night after the show that a return to the states wouldn't be happening for another couple years when the next album is released).

Also, I met one of the folks behind the "No Manifesto" project (i.e. Manics documentary) which I didn't know about until last night (I just hit him up after the show because he was running a video camera HAHA), DEFINITELY looking forward to seeing this!
http://www.youtube.com/user/NoManifestoFilm

[xneverwherex]

does anyone know what band the other guitarist was in? I thought James had said Boy Kill Boy but Im not 100% certain. Dont have time to search endlessly through the forever delayed board and read how everyone met James and Nicky and all their other stories.

Thanks! Show last night was awesome. Sad they didnt play 'so why so sad', but theres so many songs Id have loved to have heard. Cant believe it was 10 years since I last saw them, but they still managed to put on one hell of a show. And seems 2 years is when they should be back as James mentioned at the show.

[D.Enece]

Im with you coachdobbs  I keep checking the tour page hoping and praying for Clearwater, Florida.  Im happy Im not the only one doing that......LOL