Do you think you could Manage the Bunnymen Better

by **Dr Cheese** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:29 pm

I quite enjoyed the Siberia tour, mind you I've not been arsed to see them since!

by **Dave Smith** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:20 pm

You tell him.Siberia tour was great.

by **Scouser** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:12 am

Dave Smith wrote:You tell him.Siberia tour was great.

Great as in they played exactly the same setlist as the previous 10 years but threw in a couple of tracks from a substandard album (none of which were Scissors In The Sand, the only decent track on there) and changed the session monkeys around abit?

In that case it was "great".

I bet your wetting your pants in anticipation of The Fountrain tour. Cant wait to read your review!

by **Dr Evil** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:03 am

Scouser wrote:I did see the Siberia tour actually.

It was shit.

I second that. There was no excuse, they had decent material from the Siberia album which should have propelled them to the top, and they blew it!
It was as if each musician was in a separate room-could they hear what they were doing? Some technical problem perhaps? A complete contrast to the Flowers tour when despite their Flowers album only having a decent title track and one great song -SuperMellowMan- though Buried Alive was OK, they blew everyone away-possibly some of the best shows they ever did.
In fairness they seemed to have got it together live again, despite a mediocre album, so if they come to the Hampshire/Dorset area I might just go to their show again.

by **Dave Smith** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:49 am

Stormy Weather,Of a Life,In the Margins,and Scissors in the Sand all played October 2005 on Siberia tour.

I give up.I get it on this site for being too soft and the other one for being too critical!I'm off to the Gary Barlow twitter page instead.

by **Scouser** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:32 am

I'll get Mr Brian to delete your account

by **Dr Cheese** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:56 am

Come on Dave you get a much better class of abuse on this site.

by **black francis** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:37 am

Dave Smith wrote:Stormy Weather,Of a Life,In the Margins,and Scissors in the Sand all played October 2005 on Siberia tour.

I give up.I get it on this site for being too soft and the other one for being too critical!I'm off to the Gary Barlow twitter page instead.

In the Margins, Of a Life and Scissors in the Sand were (besides the Killing Moon) the highlights of the Siberia tour. Much better live than on album. I did enjoy that tour. The 25th anniversary tour was a let down though after seeing Mac live a few months before.

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:46 am

I never went to any of the gigs during the Siberia tour, but bought that Me I'm All Smiles CD later and Scissors in the Sand sounded impressive in a foot-tapping type of a way, complete with it morphing into All That Jazz. They should have kept it in the setlist for this tour and also added November, which sounds like it is screaming out to be played live.

The 25th Anniversary Tour was the worst I have seen as a chicken in the basket gig. I vowed never to go again after that (did obviously for Ocean Rain RAH).

by **In The Margins** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:53 am

black francis wrote:In the Margins, Of a Life and Scissors in the Sand were (besides the Killing Moon) the highlights of the Siberia tour. Much better live than on album. I did enjoy that tour. The 25th anniversary tour was a let down though after seeing Mac live a few months before.

The Siberia tour was pretty good with the new songs.

On the 25th anniversary tour, they took the stage with Ian's hair in the updo style (he still had some hair then) and started with Show Of Strength, which they hadn't played in a long time. It was like being transported back in time. Then they settled into the same old same old predictable set.

by **Scouser** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:23 am

Actually, I went to that tour as well. I remember the SOS start and then the inevitable sense of crushing disappointment. God they are all merging into a morass of mediocrity.

Last great Bunnymen gigs I went to - LIPA, Cream and the Xmas Royal Court before they moved it to the Carling (now O2) Academy.

by **vertigone** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:14 pm

It might be that I smoked too much green around that time, but I don't have any strong memories of that tour. I do remember thinking it's the same old sh*t and that I probably wouldn't see them live for a while.

But then the Ocean Rain show came about, and then the tiny show at Mercury Lounge...

by **Scouser** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:27 pm

vertigone wrote:Ouch Monkeys is one of my top 3 fave songs of theirs. Strange House in the Snow and Soft Enough for You are other good ones on that. 2 other songs were redone on Cope's first solo album.

by **Scouser** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:30 pm

by **Mr. Brian** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:12 pm

Scouser wrote:
Last great Bunnymen gigs I went to - LIPA, Cream and the Xmas Royal Court before they moved it to the Carling (now O2) Academy.

That LIPA thing, there was a lot of excitement around those shows and maybe you had to be there but... the Live in Liverpool DVD from those shows is so incredibly dull. I had also heard they did quite a bit of overdubbing for the recording.

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