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General Category => On The Road => Topic started by: dark horse on November 16, 2013, 09:13:45 PM
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Manchester 16 Nov 2013
I Need More Time
Today Is a Good Day
March in September
Did You Make it Safe
Pull the Sun
The Hunt
Archway Towers
Here Comes the War
Knievel
Between Dog and Wolf
Stormclouds
No Rest
High
Seven Times
Vagabonds (*)
Purity (*)
Wonderful Way to Go
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Christian Militia
Lust for Power
Get Me Out
Green and Grey (**)
(*) featuring Ed Alleyne-Johnson
(**) featuring Ed Alleyne-Johnson and fire alarm
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Great gig!!! Eddie baby! Yes! :D :D
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Very nice to see Ed indeed. An unexpected but very pleasant surprise.
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Had a fantastic night ;)
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Thanks for posting n.
What a great night and an epic curry afterwards, however Stoney really should stick to lap dancing as tables really don't work for him :-)
Cheers
jc
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Brilliant night last night. Shame the Ritz stuck absolutely to the bloody 10 o clock curfew and pulled the plug half way through green and grey. Good job we all knew the words and helped finish it off. The new stuff sounded like they'd been playing it forever. Was about half way back in the crowd and got some great video of the dancing totem poles during Vagabonds and Purity. Will post on youtube later and leave a link here for anyone who wants to see. Ceri's drumming was top. Shaking his head around, he reminded me of Animal off the muppets. That is absolutely not meant as an insult.
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What a great night! Ed playing was the icing on the cake!
Met some great people, and yes, was a shame they pulled the
Plug early but the sing along was brilliant!
Suffering today tho'! :)
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Was the plug pulled? I thought it was a malfunction on JS' mike, which happened at pretty much the same time Ed came back on... I thought it was a soundboard issue.
Either way, cracking night, brilliant set...
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Hello everybody - I'm feeling like I'm going to write a bit too much here - feel free to go do something better with your life than read this.
First i want to say thank you to the mosh pit - wonderful people.
I'm a bit embarressed to write this next bit - well - for me I'm used to an NMA mosh pit being three or four rows back - don't know why - maybe I usually enter the mosh later on when its settled to ths position - so I thought I was ok to stand in the second row with my beer waiting fro the band to come on.
There was a guy near me told me that it was daft to be in the second row with a beer. I really should have listened to him and I am truly humbled and embarressed that I didn't.
So second song in my beer goes down my shirt and my girl fucks off to the edges of the pit and she swore that it was cool for me to stay and dig that energy; that she's ok and so I went with that.
I loved the pit; I loved the dance but for me the gig went by in a blur - it was gone before i knew it. I didn't seem to catch the atmosphere of the band and its blown me a bit - man I love this new record and I really wanted to soak it up live but the night went by like a kid on acid and i don't recall it - I wasn't drunk - there's no reason why I should be left feeling like I missed the gig but that's how I'm feeling. I feel a bit bad folks. I'm not happy to have missed the gig.
Hehe I took a break midway and went to see from the balcony and it was just as JS was introducing Knievel! So I absorbed those three minutes at least but the rest of the gig - well I remember bits but not a full impression - or even a part impression.
I'm not sure how I feel - I was speaking to a good friend and telling him how I feel like my relationship with gigs is changing. I've left this gig feeling that there is no point in seeing this band once - its like a movie that develops with repeated views and that I need to see them a few times in one tour and I just can't do that and so maybe I won't see this band again.
I don't know - that feels too heavy to write!
It's good to hear Ray's talk of taking it all in from the balcony - maybe that is what I need to do - somehow slow it down...
Somehow slow it down
It was a ******* brilliant gig - but I missed it.
And again - thank you mosh pit - thanks, you were great.
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Lovely words, Mr K! I know exactly what you mean...
Personally, I usually see the gigs from a vantage point nowadays... I have a couple of minor health problems that mean my moshpit days are pretty much behind me (nothing life-threatening!) and god knows, I was Captain Moshpit back in the day, but it doesn't bother me at all. In fact, I really enjoyed watching the pit go mental from up in the balcony... dammit, it looked intense! NMA gigs are the only gigs I've ever seen where watching the crowd is almost as enjoyable as watching the band... :)
Bloody great gig anyway, here's hoping I can make it to Nottingham next month...
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i got my usual place ,right in the front row if i dont get in the front row i dont feel part of things,my daughter and her boyfriend stood to the back of me and became like a barricade for me so i could just dance without being rammed ,i didnt stop dancing the whole way through. with the new album being a little bit more chilled out ,i thought it woldnt be quite as rough but i was wrong because when they played older songs with a bit more drive the crowd went twice as mad,but i loved it. Great atmosphere ,and the afterparty was great i never stopped dancing there, every time a song finished id go to sit down and another of my old favourites came on and id be back up again .The next day i was aching all over ,and when i got home found id lost as quarter of a stone,just want to say thanks to the dj for great music and to shush for making us feel at home ,and roll on nottingham ;) :D :D :D :D :D :D
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I watched from the balcony as I know I'm not physically capable of being down on the floor anymore. It was great to be able to absorb every song and detail of what the band were doing.
I loved every minute of it.
I was thinking this morning on the way to work that the intensity of "I Need More Time" live was just mind blowing!
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I never used to see the band, if I think of all the 1000's of gigs I have been to over the years I spent the first 15 years of my gig watching life with my back to whomever was playing. I decided to see if I could watch a gig from further back about 5 years ago and have not really been back down the front since, seems funny but I do seem to savour it more now. Was tempted at Manchester and Bilston though.
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Anybody lose a t-shirt down the front at Manchester? Black Carnival, XL, sleeves cut out? Let me know and I'll send it on. Had a fantastic time there, I thought Buckley was good, Manchester blew it away...., superb.
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Purplehaze, thanks for the kind comments re the tunes at the after show. I was the DJ and I also enjoyed it. Same again in Notts, by the way. Details soon.
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it was great to be able to dance to some top tunes,and if i was havin a party id hire you like :D