*** Manchester 2 Fanviews Here 6/21/12 ***

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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    dottles wrote:
    Thanks for the kind words on my blogs, very much appreciated :oops: - mwah!

    bookmarked.....for when I have more time ;)
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • dottles
    dottles Posts: 9,206
    imalive wrote:
    dottles wrote:
    Thanks for the kind words on my blogs, very much appreciated :oops: - mwah!

    bookmarked.....for when I have more time ;)
    :lol: my blogs are a stream of consciousness, I have to be succinct at work so no such luck here! :lol:
    2009 - Manchester. 2010 - Dublin, Belfast, London, Berlin, Arras, Werchter. 2011 - PJ20 i & ii, Montreal, Toronto i & ii, Ottawa, Hamilton. 
    2012 - Manchester i & ii, Berlin i & ii, Stockholm. 2014 - Amsterdam i & ii, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin, Leeds, Milton Keynes.
    2016 - Boston Fenway i & ii, 2018 - Amsterdam i & ii, Pinkpop, London i & ii, Padova, Krakow, Barcelona, Seattle i & ii. 
  • CornishMan
    CornishMan Cornwall, UK Posts: 455
    Olivavu wrote:
    CornishMan wrote:
    motorcade wrote:

    Would love to see a PJ/EV show at Eden. Going there on Sunday to see Frank Turner/Bellowhead, great venue, hope the rain keeps off.

    Great that there was a Cornish contingent! :D Can only dream about a show at the Eden Project... that would be something else!

    Would be a nightmare to get tickets for though... especially with the new 10C ticket lottery and such a small venue. Everyone would want to go because of the uniqueness of the venue, and the Cornish people would probably end up shut out!

    So what if the Cornish people didn't get tickets?

    We're all 10C members and have the same entitlement regardless of locality - that's the point of being a member, isn't it?!

    Not saying everyone wouldn't or shouldn't have the same entitlement! Closest PJ have ever played to my hometown is probs about 280 miles away, so I'm merely saying that it would just be my luck that if they played on my doorstep I wouldn't be able to get tix. The last thing I would say is that I should be more entitled than anybody else though. Tix for PJ can be tricky to get at the best of times, and it's a tiny venue, and a very unique/unusual location so tickets would be like gold dust. It's pointless discussing it anyway, because the chances of it happening are virtually zero!
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  • Given2Fly2012
    Given2Fly2012 Posts: 659
    veddertown wrote:
    Every once in a while […] Fingers crossed for you all I hope you all enjoy what could be a momentous tour!! :mrgreen:

    Thanks a million Gary!!

    @ dottles thanks for sharing your blog, I really enjoyed it :)

    & thanks for every review in this thread, I wish I had been there!
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    She will... rise above...
  • veddertown
    veddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    slimjamie86 wrote:
    I'm just going to say Manchester night 2 was the greatest concert of my entire life.
    Same for me. I was gobsmacked from start to finish! apart from during Amongst The Waves
    Like a book among the many on a shelf...

    Dublin 02 Arena - 22/6/10. Belfast Odyssey Arena - 23/6/10. London Hyde Park - 25/6/10. Berlin Wuhlheide - 30/6/10.
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  • Cs1mz
    Cs1mz Posts: 1
    First post. Very rarely post to any forums but feel I have to share my Manchester gig experiences. Where to start? Here's the context. Like many others, I've been attending gigs for nearly 25 years. PJ were a band I got into at college. I was 20, their music just felt like it was written for me at that time of my life. I never got to see them live until Hyde Park 2010, and I still don't know why, but probably a combination of things, excuses excuses. But now things are different. I'm 41 married with kids and in the last 5 years I've fallen back in love with the band. And Manchester over two nights was nothing short of a revelation. Most bands short change their fans. Pearl Jam don't. Can't fault the set lists, crowd were well up for it both nights, and the band? Completely tight and just rocked. Ed was coolness personified. There is no cooler rock star. Fact. Mike McCready was amazing, totally up for it. Indeed it's a bit churlish to highlight one member more than another. This band care about their fans, think about the sets, think about merchandise and genuinely do things differently like no other band I've seen over the last 25 or so years. Truly astonishing, and over the two nights the best live experience I've ever had. Thank you so much.
  • sibolt70
    sibolt70 Posts: 6
    Just loved every minute of it, first saw the band ooh must be 15 + years ago
    always tried to get tickets but never been lucky enough until now
    went to gig, loved it, best live band Ive seen.........just joined 10 club.......
  • Spags
    Spags Leigh-on-Sea, UK Posts: 3,057
    Lovin the first poster peeps!

    Welcome and HELLO!
    Nature drunk and High
  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    slimjamie86 wrote:
    I'm just going to say Manchester night 2 was the greatest concert of my entire life.

    Wow. A positive post from you.
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  • beeswax
    beeswax Posts: 119
    hitchhiker!
    oh, you lucky ones :)

    conversation on the way to the amsterdam show yesterday:

    "which song would you like to hear tonight?"
    "hitchhiker. but they don't play it anyway."
    "no? they just played it in manchester."
    "!?!?"

    :shock:
  • sboraston
    sboraston Posts: 22
    Went to both Manchester nights and I think the 2nd night was the better (only just). I did record 22 songs from the 2nd night (in HD too although a tad shaky). If you fancy they're all here (including Hitchhiker) in one handy playlist on youtube (and in order):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MdfEldfT8E&list=PLBC53BC56ED4E7951&feature=view_all

    Thanks and I could live last week, every week.
  • motorcade
    motorcade Posts: 108
    sboraston wrote:
    Went to both Manchester nights and I think the 2nd night was the better (only just). I did record 22 songs from the 2nd night (in HD too although a tad shaky). If you fancy they're all here (including Hitchhiker) in one handy playlist on youtube (and in order):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MdfEldfT8E&list=PLBC53BC56ED4E7951&feature=view_all

    Thanks and I could live last week, every week.

    Nice work...really enjoying watching through this, and reliving it all again! :D
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  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    My First 'BOOT" for 2012!...
  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    sboraston wrote:
    Went to both Manchester nights and I think the 2nd night was the better (only just). I did record 22 songs from the 2nd night (in HD too although a tad shaky). If you fancy they're all here (including Hitchhiker) in one handy playlist on youtube (and in order):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MdfEldfT8E&list=PLBC53BC56ED4E7951&feature=view_all

    Thanks and I could live last week, every week.

    Nice work!
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  • Weab76
    Weab76 Posts: 55
    sboraston wrote:
    Went to both Manchester nights and I think the 2nd night was the better (only just). I did record 22 songs from the 2nd night (in HD too although a tad shaky). If you fancy they're all here (including Hitchhiker) in one handy playlist on youtube (and in order):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MdfEldfT8E&list=PLBC53BC56ED4E7951&feature=view_all

    Thanks and I could live last week, every week.
    Fantastic mate, cheers for sharing :)
    I'm going to work my way through at the weekend with a few beers :D
  • sboraston
    sboraston Posts: 22
    Weab76 wrote:
    sboraston wrote:
    Went to both Manchester nights and I think the 2nd night was the better (only just). I did record 22 songs from the 2nd night (in HD too although a tad shaky). If you fancy they're all here (including Hitchhiker) in one handy playlist on youtube (and in order):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MdfEldfT8E&list=PLBC53BC56ED4E7951&feature=view_all

    Thanks and I could live last week, every week.
    Fantastic mate, cheers for sharing :)
    I'm going to work my way through at the weekend with a few beers :D

    thanks and enjoy...i might just do the same now the weekend is here
  • stardawg
    stardawg Posts: 34
    Those were two incredible shows in Manchester and - like most reviewers - I liked the second night better. I was so very happy to hear Hitchhiker live - one of my favourite tracks from Lost Dogs. What really made my day was them playing RVM and Sonic Reducer. I thought I'd never hear the latter live. It was an intense version and it really blew my mind. In RVM Ed threw me a little off the tracks when he started with the second verse. Was that a mistake or has anyone heard him do that before? Didn't make sense to me. The version of Even Flow they played on the second night was one of the longest I ever heard.
    I really feel happy to have seen the two Manchester shows (nearly 20 years to the day I saw them first back in 1992). The last show I had seen before was during the 2006 tour. It was a looong time. The trip to Manchester was well worth the time and the money.
    PJ still rule my musical world.
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  • Fabricio
    Fabricio Posts: 31
    pac wrote:
    After that first day, i was expecting a completely different setlist... and completely different it was! got standing tickets thanks to a fellow 10 clubber Fabricio and (...)

    Cheers, mate! Glad to know that you liked the show.
    pac wrote:
    Loved Deep (so intense), Not for you, inside job was great and i went crazy with Sonic reducer... got some pretty good pics as well of all the band lined up singing at the same time... it was great.

    Probably my favourites too! I would add Present Tense and Rearviewmirror.
    pac wrote:
    Didn't get to wave my portuguese flag, but there were two girls with a portugal scarf, so it's ok, the band knows that the portuguese jammers were there!

    And Brazilians too! ;)
  • blindsummit
    blindsummit Posts: 34
    Can't wait for the Manchester boots. :D
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  • jrd
    jrd Posts: 3,060
    blindsummit wrote:
    Can't wait for the Manchester boots. :D

    rumours are no boot from this tour... :shock: :o

    no idea if said rumours are true. bloody hope not!
    Oh yeah? Well, I've had about enough of morons and halfwits, dolts, dunces, dullards and dumbbells - and you chowderhead yokel, you blithering hayseed, you - you've had enough of me?

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