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Winterlover
I was just wondering if between us we had enough to fill in all the gaps?
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE TOUR
Southampton Guildhall – 03/04/2005
'To betray you must first belong'
- Kim Philby
Derby Assembly Rooms – 04/04/2005
'To be obsessive is far more important than talent'
- Kyffin Williams
Wolverhampton Civic Hall – 06/04/2005
'The void is more daring than the whole'
- Edmond Jabes
Swansea Brangwyn Hall – 07/04/2005
'I have come to the borders of sleep the deep frost where all must lose their way. '
- Edward Thomas
Liverpool Royal Court – 09/04/2005
'All our knowledge – past, present and future – is nothing compared to what we will never know'
- Tsiolkovsky
Bristol Colston Hall – 11/04/2005
'One likes to believe in the freedom of music but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity '
- Rush
Cambridge Corn Exchange – 12/04/2005
'Ambition is critical'
- Dylan Thomas
Newcastle City Hall – 14/04/2005
'Be Pure, Be Vigilant, behave'
Edinburgh Corn Exchange – 15/04/2005
'I listen to money singing. It's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town.'
- Philip Larkin
Leeds University Refectory – 17/04/2005
'There is no truce with the furies'
- R.S Thomas
Hammersmith Apollo – 18/04/2005
'You cannot love too much only the wrong way'
[Thomas Traherne/Elizabeth Jennings]
'There is work to be done'
- Lenin
NICKY WIRE SOLO 'TOUR'
Stay Beautiful – 01/07/2006
"I never think of the future it comes soon enough" – A. Einstein
Latitude Festival – 17/07/2006
"Freedom is the recognition of necessity" – F. Engels
Gwyl Macs Festival – 02/09/2006
"My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health" – Kyffin Williams
SEND AWAY THE TIGERS TOURS & FESTIVALS
Manchester 8/12/2006
"When a man is young he is usually a revolutionary of some kind, so here I am speaking of my revolution" Wyndham Lewis
Cambridge 8/05
"Prostitutes go to heaven it's their clients that go to hell" D. Chapple
Leeds 9/05
"I can't be anymore than I say" D. Albarn
Cardiff 11/05
"Brands are like spirits - disrupting your life, bombarding you. Your suspicious of them, but attracted too. Its like a trap." Wang Qingsong
"No his mind is not for rent to any God or government" N. Peart
Glasgow 14/05
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm" Winston Churchill
Newcastle 15/05
"This not my life, just a fond farewell to a friend" E. Smith
Sheffield 17/05
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex." Bertrand Russel
Carlisle 18/05
"Tyranny, like hell is not easily conquered, yet we have this consolation with us, the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph" Thomas Paine
Preston 20/05
"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more unbearable." Kurt Vonnegut
Wolverhampton 21/05
"This is not rock n roll it's the geometry of contempt" R Edwards
Norwich 23/05
"An architect is a foreigner - a strange person - a person that thinks buildings are alive" M.Wigley
Nottingham 24/05
"I'm trying to turn myself inside out on the canvas. I'm trying to completely bare what I think at that moment" Don Van Vilet
Llandudno 26/05
""One solitary, overriding thought: to get away from here, people frighten me" - Werner Herzog"
Manchester 27/05
"Anybody interested in the effects of war quickly becomes an expert in ruins" C Lorrain/S Norfolk
London 29/05
"Stab a sorry heart with your favourite finger, paint the whole world blue and stop your tears from stinging" I. McCulloch
"Where there's a will to win my red dream is everything" McCarthy
"The soul singer in the session band shredded to ribbons beneath the microphone stand" C. Oberst
Bristol 2/06
"You come from an island. You're cutting diamonds with a rubber knife" Nina Persson
Truro 3/06
"When there's no future how can there be sin?" J. Lydon
Southampton 5/06
"My most creative moment is the point zero" Naoto Fukasawa
Brighton 6/06
"I'm all lost in the supermarket I can no longer shop happily" Strummer/Jones
Leicester 8/06
"Last cigarettes all you can get - turning your orbit around" J. Tweedy
Reading 9/06
"What i want i want now and it's a whole lot more than anyhow" T Verlaine
Rock Ness 10/06
"Who's responsible? You fucking are" R. Edwards
"In the Cardiff Afterlife we sensed the breaking of our lives"
Hultsfred 16/06
"And like the charge of the light brigade or a bitter, twisted thachterite".
Greenfield 17/06
"..."
Southside 22/06
Hurricane 23/06
Glastonbury 24/06
"I like a look of agony, because I know it's true" Emily Dickinson
Summer Sonic, Osaka 11/08
Summer Sonic, Tokyo 12/08
V Festival, Stafford 18/08
V Festival, Chelmsford 19/08
Tennants Vital, Belfast 21/08
Electric Picnic 31/08
"I THINK THE CAMERA IS A WONDERFUL MACHINE, DON'T YOU? NOT TO TAKE PICTURES IS CRAZY". PETER BEARD.
Rock'n'Coke, Istanbul 02/09
Q Awards Launch Party 12/09
"I wish I was like you, easily amused" K Cobain
Terra Vibe, Athens 06/10
"The more that you follow me, the more I get lost" - Pete Doherty
Barcelona 09/11
"I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD" - Betrand Russell
Dublin 29/11
"Put some lipstick on at least your lies will be pretty" R Edwards
"Teenage angst has served me well, now i'm bored and old" K cobain
Aberdeen 02/12
Edinburgh 03/12
"LAUGHTER IS AN ESCAPE FROM THE DARKNESS" - P. MERTON
Birmingham 08/12
"IN THE SUN, IN THE SUN, IN THE SUN I FEEL AS ONE" - K COBAIN
Bournemouth 09/12
"THE NET IS A MEDIUM WHICH UNFORTUNATELY MAKES IT EASIER FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BAD NOVELS AND MISCELANNEOUS OTHER SCREEDS TO GET THEM OUT". WILL SELF
Brixton 11/12
"After silence that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music" - [Aldous Huxley]
"REPETITION IS A FORM OF CHANGE." - ANON/[BRIAN ENO]
Brighton 14/12
"I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me" - [Fabio Capello]
NME BIG GIG 28/2/08
"I DON'T THRIVE ON CHAOS. I JUST NAVIGATE IT." S. EARLE
Manchester City of Light Stadium - 02/06/2008
"If you're going to play it out of tune then play it out of tune properly" - Mark E. Smith
Caribana Festival, Switzerland - 05/06/2008
"The subject matter is the usual-god, destiny and me thinking everyone's a tit-head." - Ian McCulloch
Rock Am Ring Festival, Germany - 07/06/08
Rock Im Park Festival, Germany - 08/06/08
Radar Festival Varaždin, Croatia - 13/06/08
Allegro Muzyka Festival, Poland - 21/06/08
"An artist is his own fault" - John O'Hara
Open Air St Gallen Festival, Switzerland - 27/06/08
B'est Fest, Bucharest, Romania - 05/07/08
"DIGITAL PICTURES HAVE NO SOUL - DIGITAL IS COLD IT CAN'T DEAL WITH LIGHT PROPERLY" - S. GULLICK
Oxegen Festival, Ireland - 12/07/08
"FAME IS THE NEW WEALTH. OBSCURITY IS THE NEW POVERTY" - LEE SIEGEL
Positivus AB Festival, Latvia - 18/07/08
B1 Club, Moscow, Russia - 23/07/08
"IS A DREAM A LIE THAT DON'T COME TRUE OR IS IT SOMETHING WORSE" - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Q Stock, Finland - 25/07/08
FM4 Frequency Festival, Austria - 15/08/08
Pukkelpop Festival, Belgium - 16/08/08
Newport - 21/08/08
"We Live In Urban Hell. We Destroy Rock N Roll"
Reading Festival - 23/08/08
"do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage"- Brian de palma
Leeds Festival - 24/08/08
Hydro Connect Festival, Inverary - 29/08/08
Royal Festival Hall, London Believe in Magic - 12/09/08
"There's nothing that the road cannot heal" - Conor Oberst
Fort Canning Park, Singapore - 24/11/08
"I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one" - Shane Meadows
Hitec Star Hall, Hong Kong - 26/11/08
"I never found the campanion that was so campanionable as solitude" - H David Thoreau
Journal for Plague Lovers
Glasgow - 25/05/09
Journal for Plague Lovers set:
Hits set:
Llandudno - 26/05/09
London - 28/05/09
"I LIKE MIDDLES - IT IS IN MIDDLES THAT EXTREMES CLASH,WHERE AMBIGUITY RULES" JOHN UPDIKE
"Avant Garde is French for bullshit" – J Lydon
"CAPITALISM IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW WAYS TO SELL US STUFF, AND NOW IT'S FOUND THE PAST": -ALEXEI SAYLE
"MY LIFE IS SUBSERVIENT TO PAINTING - I CAN'T FIND A SUBSTITUTE FOR IT IN THE WORLD" - J SAVILLE
"I'M AN ANGEL BORED LIKE HELL AND YOU'RE A DEVIL MEANING WELL" NINA PERSSON
"THE WAY WOMEN WERE DEPICTED DIDN'T FEEL LIKE MINE; TOO CUTE. I WASN'T INTERESTED IN ADMIRED OR IDEALISED BEAUTY" JENNY SAVILLE
Wolverhampton - 01/06/09
"There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark"
- Alexei Sayle
Brighton - 02/06/09
"I THOUGHT I COULD TURN PEOPLE ON WITH A NOTE OF SADNESS" - PETER GREEN
"IF SOMEBODY SAYS I LOVE YOU, TO ME, I FEEL AS THOUGH I'VE HAD A PISTOL POINTED AT MY HEAD" - KURT VONNEGURT
Dublin - 04/06/09
Belfast - 06/06/09
"I WAS ABLE TO TAP INTO THINGS PEOPLE SECRETLY WANTED TO SAY AND DO. THOSE CONDITIONS AREN'T THERE ANY MORE" - I. POP
"I DON'T WANT TO BE IN SOME FUCKING LOUSY INDEPENDENT PIECE OF CRAP THAT NO ONE WATCHES. I WANNA BE IN THE ONES THAT MATTER. I WANNA BE A FUCKING MOVIE STAR" - M. ROURKE
London Mojo Awards Show - 08/06/09
"Humans cannot save the world, but this is no reason for despair. It does not need saving. Happily humans will never live in a world of their own making" - John Gray
Rock Under Broen, Denmark - 13/06/09
Szczecin Rock Festival, Poland - 25/06/09
"Popular culture has become too popular, too easy to consume, too widely broadcast and too accessible" - Rob Fitzpatrick.
Exit festival, Serbia - 10/07/09
T in the Park, Scotland - 11/07/09
Oxegen, Ireland - 12/07/09
Lokerse Festival, Belgium - 04/08/09
Sziget, Hungary - 15/08/09
"We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not." - Billy Childish
Parkenfestivalen, Norway - 22/08/09
"New stars are seldom 'authentic'- they actually go to fame schools and train for the job. Today's audience doesn't mind if the performers have svengalis & stylists. After all, the notion of the makeover is central to modern TV." -Paul Du Noyer.
Seattle - 21/09/09
"I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form" - Lars Von Trier
Vancouver - 22/09/09
"There is no progression in music or art. Theres change and different people being happy in different ways." - Robert Wyatt
San Francisco - 24/09/09
"Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes" - Morrissey
Los Angeles - 25/09/09
"I tried living in the real world instead of a shell but before I began - I was bored before I ever began" - Morrissey
Denver - 28/09/09
"Society is our frail barrier against nature" - Cammille Paglia
Minneapolis - 30/09/09
"I begin with no plan. I face the void - I play - I do nothing" -R. Johnson
Chicago - 01/10/09
"I never considered another profession. My only other desire was to do as little as possible" - Kevin Ayres
Detroit - 02/10/09
"One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something" - Francis Ford Coppola
Toronto - 04/10/09
"We are all modernisers today. We have no idea what being modern means, but we are sure that it guarantees us a future." John Gray.
Philadelphia - 06/10/09
"One: I am a Welshman; Two; I am a drunkard; Three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women." Dylan Thomas
New York - 07/10/09
"I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question." - Dylan Thomas
Boston - 08/10/09
"My inspiration has always been life. Just look around, see whats going on and work from that." - Smokey Robinson
King Tuts - 18/02/10
"Let us never assume there is not more and more and more and more and then more to write about." - Norman Mailer
Bergen - 01/05/10
"Making enough money for six months to have the next six months off. It's the greatest experience I can have!" - The Late Great Alex Chilton
Cardiff (Macca Support) - 26/06/10
Optimus Alive - 09/07/10
"The guitar is your best friend, your wife, your mistress, your psychiatrist, your bartender - it's everything" - Les Paul
Bilbao BBK Live - 10/07/10
"I am broke out of my mind, most of my fans hate me - but I don't give a shit" - Mark Eitzel
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Footprint of history
Originally Posted by Amanda
Nicky loves a bit of Bright Eyes, dosn't he!
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*Found That Soul*
I live to fall asleep
"Prostitutes go to heaven it's their clients that go to hell"D chapple
"This is not rock n roll it's the geometry of contempt"R Edawrds
"My most creative moment is the point zero"Naojo Fukasawa
"im all lost in the supermarket i can no longer shop happily"Strummer/Jones
"what i want i want now and it's a whole lot more than anyhow"T Verlaine
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egaeci
I am purity, they call me perverted
Truro 3/6:
When there's no future how can there be sin? - J. Lydon
Hultsfred 1999 | Hultsfred 2001 | Truro 2007 | Hultsfred 2007 | London x2 2007 | Newport 2010 | London x2 2011 | Karlskoga 2011 | London 2011 | Copenhagen 2012 | Stockholm 2014 | Osaka 2015 | Copenhagen 2016
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Knowlede Is Power
I've got Newcastle but the end has been ripped off sadly.
Anyway, what I've got is..
"This not my life, just a fond farewell to a frie.."
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Originally Posted by Glasnost
a quick google search gives us "friend" as the last word, and it's from a song by elliott smith.
Thank you, have gone back and editted to add them in, just 8 to go now
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Originally Posted by *Found That Soul*
Is that the whole quote, it's a bit nonsensical!
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Art Vandelay
Originally Posted by Takk
Yes, it's from Television's See No Evil, and the first name of the wonderful Mr Verlaine is Tom, by the way. I reckon he should have used the lines that follow (I understand all/destructive urges/ it seems so perfect).
Nicky's been using some quotes from the songs that were played before the band came to the stage.
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mothers_are_saints
Bored of being bored
Location: Wolverhampton, UK
could anyone scan in the setlists please? especially the ones for cardiff 2nd night, wolves, llandudno (if it turns up), bristol and truro? thanks xxx
1998 - Birmingham
1999 - V99
2002 - V2002, Birmingham
2003 - Punchestown, Birmingham
2004 - Nottingham, Birmingham
2005 - Cardiff, Derby, Wolverhampton, Bristol, London, London
2006 - V2006, Gwyl Macs, Sheffield, Birmingham, Newbridge, Stoke, Manchester
2007 - Cardiff, Wolverhampton, Llandudno, Bristol, Truro, Cardiff Point, V2007, Birmingham
2009 - London, Wolverhampton
2011 - Wolverhampton, T in The Park, V2011, o2 Arena
2014 - Cardiff, Wolverhampton, Brixton, T in The Park, Manchester, London
2015 - Wolverhampton, Cardiff
2016 - Birmingham, Swansea, Truck Festival
2017 - Bristol
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MSPKYE
Mr Msppedia
Originally Posted by mothers_are_saints
Ooh and the Cariff Point one so we actually know for certain what was played after my little cock up with the texting
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hysteria18
Location: Cambridge, UK
Soul Singer In A Session Band? That's pretty much the worst Bright Eyes song ever.
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i-accuse-history
Location: Canada/Switzerland
I'd really love to see this filled up, so I'm bumping it back up
And is it just me or Nicky was getting slightly melancholic for the last dates?
edit: whoops, i fucked up and didn't see the updates, so no need for bumping, lol.
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Doors slowly closing
Location: The Holte End
Theres a nottingham set list for sale on ebay but the picture is too small for me to read the quote...its quite a long one though...someone else can have a go
Ive got as far as:
"I'm trying to turn myself inside out on the...
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I googled it and it's from an interview:
"as a painter, do you have any inspirations... what are you trying to do as a painter?
i'm trying to turn myself inside out on the canvas. i'm trying to completely bare what i think at that moment, yet i put a lot of thought into what i'm doing... it sounds like a contradiction, but ... -- "
I think it's with Don Van Vliet? I have no idea who it is: http://members.lycos.nl/teejo/dutch/copyright2.html
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