Manchester Ritz

[ALB]

Anyone else going tonight?

This will be my first gig since LIPA in 2001...

Anyone know what time they'll be on stage??
I noticed in another thread they came on earlier at Brum but later at Oxford.

'Ritz' website shows:

KELLEY STOLTZ 8-8.30PM
ECHO .A.T.B. 9PM
CLOSE 11PM

LIMITED TICKETS ON THE DOOR AT £27 FROM 7PM

[Stuart]

I'm going, hope to get there just before 9.

[Stuart]

That was great, absolutely loved it.

Highlights: practically all of Crocodiles esp Monkeys. It Was a Pleasure - which sounded like a funk band, or as Mac said A Certain Ratio.

[ALB]

That was great, absolutely loved it.

I agree...They sounded great!
Easily my favourite gig I've been to since the comeback gig at 'Cream'.

Actually, this was going to be last Bunnymen gig... but they were that good, I'd definitely go and see them again now.

Crocodiles & H.U.H - Great.

Encore was:

Lips Like Sugar
Dancing Horses (Aborted after roughly the first line)
NLF
Killing Moon
The Cutter


Here's what I can remember about the merchandise on sale:

Mugs ... £8
T-Shirts ... £18
Hoodie ... £35
Posters ... £5

[ALB]

Here's a couple of reviews of the Ritz gig...

Shaun Curran - City Life.
http://www.citylife.co.uk/news_and_revi ... __the_ritz

&

Luke Dixon - Live4ever.
http://www.live4ever.uk.com/2010/12/rev ... ster-ritz/

"Anyone else among the 500-strong crowd that crammed into The Ritz last Tuesday (7/12) "

I thought there were more than 500 people there...The place was packed and the venue capacity is 1,300.

[fat cherry]

new ro haircuts!!!!!!!

[fat cherry]

It is Will Sergeant, though, that is the star here. Head bowed and face hid by floppy fringe, his guitar work elevates these songs to an otherworldly stratosphere, redefining tracks absent from Bunnymen sets for nearly three decades; an incessent No Dark Things is bettered only by the swirling climax to Happy Death Men, a song that represents the essence of early Bunnymen material.

[ALB]

Just found another review...

manchestermusic.co.uk
http://www.music-dash.co.uk/live/live.asp?item=2126