Wednesday 27 May 2020

Fantasy Setlists 25th - 26th May

Two further setlists from the last couple of days, both covering the whole of the Manics' career to date but heavily weighted towards the older days.  Another guest appearance from Kylie too, not to mention a cover of one of her songs!  Well I say "her song"......

Bleistift @EinBleistift


Europ-Ian @kevincartermsp

1. Motown Junk
2. Show Me The Wonder
3. From Despair To Where
4. You Love Us
5. International Blue
6. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
7. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
8. Marlon J.D.
9. Intravenous Agnostic
10. Sleepflower
11. Everything Must Go
12. Motorcycle Emptiness
13. Baby Elian (Acoustic)
14. Ready For Drowning (Acoustic)
15. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
16. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
17. No Surface All Feeling
18. The Masses Against The Classes
19. Of Walking Abortion
20. 1985
21. Australia
22. Faster
23. Stay Beautiful
24. P.C.P.
25. A Design For Life

Monday 25 May 2020

Fantasy Setlists 24th May

The setlists just keep on coming, with another bumper crop of four!  This time Wire gets himself another stint in the spotlight, Bag Lady gains its first vote and then its second immediately after that and Starlover also finds its way into its first setlist, buried amongst the fan favourites.

There are already more on the way for the next blog so no sense of the last minute rush stopping just yet!

Liz @LondonLady70

1. Archives of Pain
2. Sex, Power, Love & Money
3. Found That Soul
4. Sleepflower
5. Everything Must Go
6. Futurology
7. International Blue
8. 1985
9. A Song For Departure
10. Some Kind of Nothingness
11. Wattsville Blues
12. Rewind The Film (Wire on main vocals)
13. Door To The River
14. Anthem For A Lost Cause
15. Glasnost
16. Let Robeson Sing
17. The Second Great Depression
18. Out Of Time
19. No Surface All Feeling
20. Faster
21. Stay Beautiful
22. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
23. Prologue To History
24. Motorcycle Emptiness
25. A Design For Life

Manic Dave @scully161280


Rich @richierabs

1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Yourself
3. The Masses Against The Classes
4. Vivian
5. Winterlovers
6. The Everlasting
7. Of Walking Abortion
8. Picturesque
9. Sleepflower
10. Door to the River 
11. Imperial Bodybags
12. Cardiff Afterlife
13. Repeat (UK)
14. Bag Lady
15. Running Out Of Fantasy (JDB Acoustic Solo)
16. Too Cold Here (JDB Acoustic Solo)
17. Peeled Apples
18. Let’s Go To War
19. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
20. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
21. 30-Year War
22. Yes
23. This Joke Sport Severed
24. A Design For Life
25. You Love Us (Full Instrumental Outro)

a lot of miles from home @ofmilesfromhome

1. Found That Soul
2. Sleepflower
3. Faster
4. Australia
5. Suicide Is Painless (Theme From MASH)
6. Tsunami
7. No Surface All Feeling
8. The Masses Against the Classes
9. In Eternity
10. Roses in the Hospital
11. Prologue to History
12. 4 Ever Delayed
13. This Is Yesterday (Acoustic)
14. All Is Vanity
15. 1985
16. Door To The River
17. Futurology
18. 30-Year War
19. Send Away The Tigers
20. Some Kind Of Nothingness
21. Starlover
22. A Song For The Sadness
23. Motown Junk
24. A Design For Life
25. You Love Us

Sunday 24 May 2020

Fantasy Setlists 23rd May

Another flurry of setlists in one day as we rush headlong towards the deadline a week today.  This time we have a run through the albums before turning around and going straight back again, as well as setlists with stage directions, various guest appearances, solo spots for both James AND Nicky and the always welcome setlist quotes.  And of course a Manics author, no less!

I know some of you are still working through your own entries so let's get as many as we can and make the final fans' setlist a true representation of what the fans want!

Me Judith Manics @judith_rafferty


Steven @Manics101


Stephen LN @RiffsandMeaning

Friday 22 May 2020

Fantasy Setlists 20th -21st May

You wait a few weeks for some more fantasy setlists to come along and then they start coming along in threes.......

So here are three more for you to marvel at and critique, the return of Sweet Child O' Mine, a concerted effort to buck the trend of ADFL closers and a few more of those underdog songs (excuse the pun) getting their day in the sun.

wirette @crazycatwoman70

1. Sleepflower
2. Faster
3. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
4. Yes
5. P.C.P.
6. Peeled Apples
7. Autumnsong
8. A Design For Life
9. Marlon J.D.
10. Rewind The Film
11. Nobody Loved You
12. The Left Behind
13. Everything Must Go
14. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
15. Let Robeson Sing
16. From Despair To Where
17. Sweet Child O' Mine
18. The Masses Against The Classes
19. New Art Riot
20. You Love Us
21. Stay Beautiful
22. Motorcycle Emptiness
23. Prologue To History
24. Underdogs
25. William's Last Words

wade fletcher @wade_fletch

1. Stay Beautiful
2. A Design For Life
3. Walk Me To The Bridge
4. 1985
5. Found That Soul
6. Liverpool Revisited
7. Broken Algorithms
8. Motorcycle Emptiness
9. Roses in the Hospital
10. Ready for Drowning
11. Baby Elian
12. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children
13. All Is Vanity
14. 30-Year War (Acoustic)
15. Postcards From a Young Man (Acoustic)
16. Show Me The Wonder
17. Leviathan
18. Black Square
19. Methadone Pretty
20. Faster
21. 4 Ever Delayed
22. In Eternity
23. Sleepflower
24. Everything Must Go
25. You Love Us

"A grain of poetry suffices to season a century." -- Jose Marti

BOB CARIDAD @deporbags



Wednesday 20 May 2020

Fantasy Setlists 18th - 19th May

And it looks like we're into the home stretch now with another multi-setlist post, including extended acoustic slots, multiple Wire costume changes and songs getting their first vote even at this late stage.

The deadline is looming at 31st May so make sure yours is ready on time if you haven't submitted yet!

Sleepflowerrr @_sleepflowerrr_

1. Slash 'N' Burn
2. Judge Yr'self
3. I Live To Fall Asleep
4. 30-Year War
5. Sleepflower
6. Ready For Drowning
7. Archives Of Pain
8. Anthem For A Lost Cause
9. Hold Me Like A Heaven
10. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
11. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky (Acoustic)
12. Door To The River (Acoustic)
13. Be Natural (Acoustic)
14. Golden Platitudes (Acoustic)
15. Motorcycle Emptiness
16. International Blue
17. Prologue to History
18. Faster
19. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
20. Some Kind of Nothingness
21. Autumnsong
22. Rewind The Film
23. No Surface All Feeling
24. You Love Us
25. A Design For Life

JENNI VIDGREN @jenvidg


Monkey Marl @MonkeyMarl

1. Found That Soul
2. 1985
3. Sleepflower
4. Mr Carbohydrate
5. Peeled Apples
6. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
7. Ready For Drowning
8. Enola/Alone
9. Tennessee
10. A Design For Life
11. Take the Skinheads Bowling
12. Intravenous Agnostic
13. Marlon J.D.
14. From Despair to Where
15. Roses in the Hospital
16. Nostalgic Pushead
17. Faster
18. Motorcycle Emptiness
19. Yes
20. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
21. The Masses Against the Classes
22. P.C.P.
23. No Surface All Feeling
24. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
25. You Love Us

Friday 8 May 2020

Fantasy Setlists 7th May

Two more setlists to study and a few more songs picking up their first votes alongside some of the more popular choices.  Note the triple duet ending of the first offering.

This could be the start of the final stretch as everyone who was meaning to do a setlist finally starts to feel the deadline looming.  Keep them coming, we're almost past the number of participants we had last time!

Chorizo Garbanzo @ChorizoGarbanzo

1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Faster
3. The Masses Against the Classes
4. From Despair to Where
5. All Is Vanity
6. Of Walking Abortion
7. Donkeys
8. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever
9. Removables
10. 4st 7lb
11. Liverpool Revisited
12. This Is Yesterday
13. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
14. My Little Empire
15. Mr Carbohydrate
16. No Surface All Feeling
17. Mausoleum
18. Me And Stephen Hawking
19. Found That Soul
20. Rendition
21. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
22. Yes
23. Little Baby Nothing
24. Dylan & Caitlin
25. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough


AC Obliterate/Ugly OUT NOW @StiltOwl



Thursday 7 May 2020

Fantasy Setlists 5th May

Another single setlist for your perusal today and another one to feature a total fantasy cover.  Always nice to see a setlist quote too.

Only around 3 weeks to get yours in now if you haven't submitted yet, we had a flurry at the start so will we see a flurry at the end too?

Jan R. V. @SirManic