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Manic Street Preachers 05/14/2011

SHOWID 518442

Set I

Slash N' Burn
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Motorcycle Emptiness
Just The End Of Love
Life Becoming A Landslide
Enola/alone
My Little Empire
Faster
Stay Beautiful
Postcards From A Young Man
You Stole The Sun From My Heart
Of Walking Abortion
Motown Junk
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
The Everlasting
The Masses Against The Classes
Let Robeson Sing
Some Kind Of Nothingness
Suicide Is Painless (theme From M*a*s*h)
You Love Us
A Design For Life

Set II

 

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Tulum (5/0) FLAC / 26 View   2 x DPA 4060 mics -> DPA MMA6000 amplifier (100 Hz low-cut filter) -> Edirol R-09HR recorder...
Notes: At last; Manic Street Preachers finally return to Amsterdam. How long has it been? I don't know; at least ten years. Too bloody long, that's for sure. The Joy Formidable are supporting the Manics on most of the dates of this tour, but not this one. They'd buggered off to Carlisle for Radio 1's Big Weekend. My loss. Instead, we got some uninspired generic rock from Belgium's Sore Losers. The Manics came on stage in a long since sold-out Melkweg at 21:20 and launched straight into 'Slash n' Burn', after which they barely came up for air between songs. It was an interesting set-list, containing nothing from 'Lifeblood' and nothing even from 2009's 'Journal For Plague Lovers'. On the other hand, we got four songs a piece from 'Generation Terrorists' and 'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours', which is as many as they drew from the latest album, 'Postcards From A Young Man'. As such, the set was a little top-heavy with older material, but the audience probably preferred it that way. Banter was kept to a minimum and there was no encore. The way they were steaming through the songs, I had a feeling there wouldn't be. Not that they weren't enjoying themselves -- they clearly were -- but more and more bands these days are dispensing with the hackneyed concept of the automatic encore. As long as they still play the same number of songs, I don't care. Highlights for me were 'You Stole The Sun From My Heart' and the anthemic set closer, 'A Design For Life'. Having lost nothing of their vitality and appearing scarcely a day older than when I last saw them live, the Manics demonstrated last night that they are still one of the greatest bands the UK has ever produced. I'm grateful for the opportunity to renew my acquaintance. As usual, nothing has been added to the recording and nothing taken away. What you hear is what I got. Enjoy!
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Notes: 2 x DPA 4060 mics -> DPA MMA6000 amplifier (100 Hz low-cut filter) -> Edirol R-09HR
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