Manic Street Preachers, Olympia, 12th of May 2019

Nowso · 10-05-2019 11:40pm

Always Be Closing wrote: »

They drink in the Mercantile

I imagine James and Sean will be there for the Liverpool game in the afternoon

That's where I met them a few times before - James was by himself watching the Forest play off game, the time after that they were watching Liverpool v Chelsea in the half 5 game before the Holy Bible gig

the everton game will be on in the mercantile so they might be on a loser

numbernine · 11-05-2019 5:25pm

Do we know what time theyre expected to start?

Nowso · 11-05-2019 6:00pm

numbernine wrote: »

Do we know what time theyre expected to start?

9 according to olympia site

keeponrockin · 11-05-2019 10:44pm

Nowso wrote: »

Always Be Closing wrote: »

They drink in the Mercantile

I imagine James and Sean will be there for the Liverpool game in the afternoon

That's where I met them a few times before - James was by himself watching the Forest play off game, the time after that they were watching Liverpool v Chelsea in the half 5 game before the Holy Bible gig

the everton game will be on in the mercantile so they might be on a loser

Maybe dumb question..why would the everton game be on in the Mercantile..surely Liverpool?

Nowso · 11-05-2019 11:49pm

keeponrockin wrote: »

Maybe dumb question..why would the everton game be on in the Mercantile..surely Liverpool?

everton supporters club meet and watch all the games there

maybe they put the city game on in another part

Always Be Closing · 12-05-2019 9:48am

I need one more standing ticket, will pay face value and an extra 20 to cover travel expenses

lukin · 12-05-2019 1:40pm

Does anyone know in what order the album will be played in?
Will it be the same order as the album listing?

laros · 12-05-2019 1:45pm

Will it be the same order as the album listing?

Yes , Thats normally how these things are done

Always Be Closing · 12-05-2019 3:50pm

Masses will replace Nobody Loved You

ScreamToASigh · 12-05-2019 4:09pm

Always Be Closing wrote: »

They drink in the Mercantile

I imagine James and Sean will be there for the Liverpool game in the afternoon

That's where I met them a few times before - James was by himself watching the Forest play off game, the time after that they were watching Liverpool v Chelsea in the half 5 game before the Holy Bible gig

I had a look in the Mercantle a while ago. No sign of them, but I might have another look in a bit. Find them in the end? ðŸ˜‚

lukin · 12-05-2019 6:20pm

Always Be Closing wrote: »

Masses will replace Nobody Loved You

How do you know?

MisterAnarchy · 12-05-2019 6:22pm

Hoping we get longer than a 90 minute set tonight but highly doubt it .
I cannot fathom why a band with such a back catalogue don't play longer gigs.

Rothko · 12-05-2019 6:24pm

Always Be Closing wrote: »

Masses will replace Nobody Loved You

I hope not as that's one of my favourite songs.

Qprmeath · 12-05-2019 6:33pm

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Hoping we get longer than a 90 minute set tonight but highly doubt it .
I cannot fathom why a band with such a back catalogue don't play longer gigs.

Its a few years since I seen them but doubt you’ll even get 90 minutes. And no encore is the norm I think?

Always Be Closing · 12-05-2019 6:39pm

It'll be

Everlasting
Tolerate
YSTSFMH
Drowning
Tsunami
Empire
Working
Tender and Tired
Born a Girl
Be Natural
Black Dog
Masses
SYMM

Motorcycle Emptiness
International Blue
Faster
KC
Walk me to the Bridge
Distant Colours
Hold Me Like a Heaven
LTD
You Love Us
Design

Something like that

scruff monkey · 12-05-2019 11:29pm

Close but no cigar

acquiescefc · 12-05-2019 11:39pm

Would've loved Valley Boy. God I loved that tune.
Got Sleepflower tho.

ScreamToASigh · 12-05-2019 11:41pm

scruff monkey wrote: »

Close but no cigar

Yes, the Scruff Monkey is correct, close but no cigar!

The final setlist in order was the following:

The Everlasting
You Stole the Sun
Ready for Drowning
Tsunami
My Little Empire
I'm not Working
You're Tender and You're Tired
Born a Girl
Be Natural
Black Dog on my Shoulder
Prologue to History
S.Y.M.M
Tolerate This

Sleepflower
Your Love Alone
International Blue
Motorcycle Emptiness
Solitude Sometimes Is
People Give In
You Love Us
No Surface All Feeling
Design For Life

I didn't expect Prologue, Sleepflower or Solitude to be played.

The rest I expected seeming that it's their usual singles.

scruff monkey · 13-05-2019 12:29am

Qprmeath wrote: »

Its a few years since I seen them but doubt you’ll even get 90 minutes. And no encore is the norm I think?

Arrested Development Narrator : We got 100 minutes.

Weepsie · 13-05-2019 12:30am

Solitude sometimes is was a nice surprise. Wonder if they played it all much since 04 tour. Only tour I've heard any lifeblood stuff.

That was also bloody loud.

Zwillinge · 13-05-2019 9:19am

That was a lot of fun

That was the second CD I ever bought when I was 12 and they were the second band I ever seen live - Smithfield with JJ72 (Big ole crush on Mark Greany at the time [ffs

])

Hearing that album in full and live was a complete teenage memory stirrer for me - from first gigs, first crushes, hanging out with friends on walls in pissings of rain...
Gloomy teenage life with a gloomier soundtrack

That resale ticket ended up being so strange. It was supposed to be emailed to me, then posted to me. I rang up Ticketmaster and seems they made a blunder as the Olympia can't scan PDFs (despite my bringing PDFs to the Olympia before :rolleyes:) so they had to give me a Reference Code to the Box Office to print off the ticket.
A guy next to me was having similar issues. In fairness to the Box Office they had never heard of ReSale tickets before.

rubadub · 13-05-2019 11:42am

ScreamToASigh wrote: »

I didn't expect Prologue, Sleepflower or Solitude to be played.

The rest I expected seeming that it's their usual singles.

setlist.fm has some extra info saying when songs were played last, e.g. Born a Girl (First time since 1998)

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/manic-street-preachers/2019/olympia-theatre-dublin-ireland-2b90ccee.html

Rothko · 13-05-2019 12:09pm

Great night. Disappointed that they didn't play Nobody Loved You but Prologue To History and Sleepflower were nice surprises. I'd agree that it was very loud, my ears are still ringing.

LithiumKid1976 · 13-05-2019 12:18pm

Not even joking, i think my right ear is damaged after that. its still Ringing this morning but not as bad as last night.

enjoyed the gig, hadnt seen them since a trip to tipp in 97 i think.

Weepsie wrote: »

Solitude sometimes is was a nice surprise. Wonder if they played it all much since 04 tour. Only tour I've heard any lifeblood stuff.

That was also bloody loud.

Acosta · 13-05-2019 2:18pm

Nothing from The Holy Bible is never a good set IMO, but nice to see Solitude Sometimes Is and Sleepflower in there.

Didn't bother going as I've never been a massive Truth fan and the last album was so bad it's still fresh in my memory. However Truth was the first tour I saw them on so have very fond memories of it.

roadmaster · 15-05-2019 2:47pm

Will it be the same setlist for the rds?

Weepsie · 15-05-2019 2:56pm

roadmaster wrote: »

Will it be the same setlist for the rds?

No. They won't have nearly as long a set. 45-60mins. More of a greatest hits/singles you'd think. Might get a good smattering of Generation Terrorists and Gold Against The Soul given that's the stuff they would've been playing when they first supported Bon Jovi in 1993

Sleepflower
From Despair to Where
La tristesse durera (Scream to a Sigh)
Slash 'n' Burn
Motorcycle Emptiness
Repeat (UK)
Stay Beautiful
Life Becoming a Landslide
Roses in the Hospital
Motown Junk
You Love Us

Their set in 93. That'd be bloody great!

scruff monkey · 15-05-2019 2:56pm

roadmaster wrote: »

Will it be the same setlist for the rds?

Doubt it. I’d assume a standard festival type greatest hits set.

rubadub · 15-05-2019 3:03pm

there are plenty of festival setlists of theirs to look at
https://www.setlist.fm/search?query=manic+street+preachers

Manic Street Preachers, Olympia, 12th of May 2019

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