![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
30 Days of Manics - Day 6
Jul. 21st, 2010 08:44 pmDay 6: The most memorable Manics’ moment to you.
Wow. This is a hard one.
Um, in lieu of having any memory for Nicky's verbal diaorhea* - the usual most memorable Manics moment - I'm just going to choose something personal.
At the V festival in 2002 my friend and I went to see Badly Drawn Boy (who had won the Mercury Music Prize that year, if memory serves) whilst the Manics were playing on the NME stage. I had pushed for BDB and she was more keen on having a look at the Manics. We watched a couple of songs by Badly Drawn Boy, who turned out to be awful (stopping songs about 30 seconds in/as they hit the chorus, to light a cigarette/bitch about another artist) and hot footed it over to the other side of the festival site to see the Manics. We got there for the last 4 songs. I really truly don't remember what the first 3 were, but I was there for A Design for Life.
I was there for A Design for Life. In 2002.
It was glorious. And it was the moment everything changed for me and the Manics.
* Yes, I did watch the Brits in...err...whatever year that was, I have no memory of Nicky drunkenly ranting. I watched it on YouTube after Elizabeth pressed me to have a memory of it in my No Manifesto interview - I remembered it in that deja-vu sorta way.
Wow. This is a hard one.
Um, in lieu of having any memory for Nicky's verbal diaorhea* - the usual most memorable Manics moment - I'm just going to choose something personal.
At the V festival in 2002 my friend and I went to see Badly Drawn Boy (who had won the Mercury Music Prize that year, if memory serves) whilst the Manics were playing on the NME stage. I had pushed for BDB and she was more keen on having a look at the Manics. We watched a couple of songs by Badly Drawn Boy, who turned out to be awful (stopping songs about 30 seconds in/as they hit the chorus, to light a cigarette/bitch about another artist) and hot footed it over to the other side of the festival site to see the Manics. We got there for the last 4 songs. I really truly don't remember what the first 3 were, but I was there for A Design for Life.
I was there for A Design for Life. In 2002.
It was glorious. And it was the moment everything changed for me and the Manics.
* Yes, I did watch the Brits in...err...whatever year that was, I have no memory of Nicky drunkenly ranting. I watched it on YouTube after Elizabeth pressed me to have a memory of it in my No Manifesto interview - I remembered it in that deja-vu sorta way.
