30 Days of Manics - Day 6

[askygoneonfire]

Day 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.

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[draigwen]

My first memory of the Manics was them playing Design for Life at the Brits (which I'm guessing was 96/97). It was the drums at the end that really got me, and from that moment I was hooked (and bought the album - on cassette - immediately after). I can't remember anything else about the awards that year but, like you at the V festival, I clearly remember Design for Life - it's just one of those songs that sticks in your mind.