Considering this was most likely filmed on an actual film camera, the quality is actually amazing for the time! Also seeing a concert with Richey in it makes me miss him even more and I wasn't even born by this point. Watching this makes me proud to be Welsh!
thanks for posting I too was at this gig. A friend of mine convinced me to go along to watch them having not heard too much about them. Great performance. I remember the smoke going off in the show wasn't by a smoke machine but two military style smoke grenade tied to sticks on the edge of the stage that stunk when they set them off. There was also a blonde haired kid that kept crowd surfing so much I punch him in the nuts the fifth time he passed over me. Sorry for that fella but even I have a short fuse.
I was planning to see them on this tour but decided against it at the last minute as I thought this four piece would tour sometime in the new year.....ah well how was I supposed to know ?
I understand you. I hope you managed to see them live even as a trio after 1995. I saw them at the Bataclan (I'm French) in May 2014 and one thing that struck me is that one of the two additional musicians had Richey's physical profile!
@@lyonslaforet I've seen them loads of times from 1999 onwards - I still have regrets for not making it to this gig though ! Most young men look like Richey !
Agreed, I love the sound, but I don't think it's an adaptation, rather the fact they only have one guitarist (for the most part), and the GT era songs were quite expensively recorded. James had time for overdubs, a couple of rhythm tracks, and some spit and polish. This is what they actually sound like live. They didn't ever sound like GT live. :-)
@@Gunn27 Well... yes and not. The only had James from EMG onwards, but at some point they started having a second guitarist called Wayne play live with them, but I think it took a long time for that to happen. Not being in the band Gavin isn't high in the mix... or rather he wasn't high in the mix to begin with. These days James has got lazy about playing live and if you watch anything from the last 5 years Gavin is doing a lot of the work with James just pumping it for solos. The did have a third guy on guitar at one point. I think the TIMTTMY anniversary tour. I don't know why he was needed, but he was there for a bit. Really, the most important non-member of the manics on stage is Nick Naysmith (?) who is on keyboards, and one assumes is the guy who presses the play button for samples and backing tracks. The Manics live linup is quite interesting. It would be cool if they could be interviewed about being in the live band, but they might have contracts keeping them quiet. I think that's fairly standard with all bands who use extra live musicians. So, ultimately, they could play any early tune with two loud guitars if they wanted, but in my experience Wayne has always been so quite you really have to try to hear him. I am/was a bedroom guitarist so I always look out for this kind of stuff. Happy to be proved wrong on any point :-)
David Manic I happened to find it one day and I thought I had made the discovery of a century! Made all the sense to share it :) I suppose there is hope for humanity.
I've always said it, without JDB Richey is just another unpublished poet. There's GREAT unpublished poets. Richey would simply have been just another one of those numbers.
Sadly not, a friend of mine recorded the 21st show, while I went in the standing section, was going to go to the Wednesday show, but was sick, otherwise he may have recorded that one also.
I think he says 'we were gonna get a guest to do this but with all the other shit [inaudible] we couldn't be bothered'. He's talking about getting someone to do the duet parts of Little Baby Nothing. I do remember James saying that in Germany at one point on this tour they got a girl from the crowd to sing but she didn't know the words 😂
No it was not, they played two more gigs the following two nights -- Richey's last show was Dec 21. I can't find a video for it on TH-cam but the audio is... here apparently: www.richeyedwards.net/last_astoria.html
Considering this was most likely filmed on an actual film camera, the quality is actually amazing for the time! Also seeing a concert with Richey in it makes me miss him even more and I wasn't even born by this point. Watching this makes me proud to be Welsh!
The Manics at their peak - in so many ways - i was at this gig - breathtaking
Definitely at their peak
I saw thme in Dublin previously. My first and only time to see Richie performing live.
thanks for posting I too was at this gig. A friend of mine convinced me to go along to watch them having not heard too much about them. Great performance. I remember the smoke going off in the show wasn't by a smoke machine but two military style smoke grenade tied to sticks on the edge of the stage that stunk when they set them off.
There was also a blonde haired kid that kept crowd surfing so much I punch him in the nuts the fifth time he passed over me. Sorry for that fella but even I have a short fuse.
Just watched them at Cardiff Castle with Suede. I wish i have been there in 94. What a performance, the atmosphere must have been electirc!!🎉🎉🎉
So wonderful to see this, I was there. Oh, they were ON FIRE around this time...and seeing Richey breaks my heart all over again.
I was planning to see them on this tour but decided against it at the last minute as I thought this four piece would tour sometime in the new year.....ah well how was I supposed to know ?
I understand you. I hope you managed to see them live even as a trio after 1995. I saw them at the Bataclan (I'm French) in May 2014 and one thing that struck me is that one of the two additional musicians had Richey's physical profile!
@@lyonslaforet I've seen them loads of times from 1999 onwards - I still have regrets for not making it to this gig though ! Most young men look like Richey !
@@revol148 please, find me one.
@@BrookeEvangelineWinter same body: thin, not much in the way of a bottom etc - none with his cherubic face I regret ! LOL
I love how the pre-Holy Bible songs have a harder and more aggressive sounding edge, as if they've been adapted for this era of the band.
Agreed, I love the sound, but I don't think it's an adaptation, rather the fact they only have one guitarist (for the most part), and the GT era songs were quite expensively recorded. James had time for overdubs, a couple of rhythm tracks, and some spit and polish. This is what they actually sound like live. They didn't ever sound like GT live. :-)
@@leehawkins616 They had two guitarists though?
@@Gunn27 Well... yes and not. The only had James from EMG onwards, but at some point they started having a second guitarist called Wayne play live with them, but I think it took a long time for that to happen. Not being in the band Gavin isn't high in the mix... or rather he wasn't high in the mix to begin with. These days James has got lazy about playing live and if you watch anything from the last 5 years Gavin is doing a lot of the work with James just pumping it for solos. The did have a third guy on guitar at one point. I think the TIMTTMY anniversary tour. I don't know why he was needed, but he was there for a bit. Really, the most important non-member of the manics on stage is Nick Naysmith (?) who is on keyboards, and one assumes is the guy who presses the play button for samples and backing tracks. The Manics live linup is quite interesting. It would be cool if they could be interviewed about being in the live band, but they might have contracts keeping them quiet. I think that's fairly standard with all bands who use extra live musicians. So, ultimately, they could play any early tune with two loud guitars if they wanted, but in my experience Wayne has always been so quite you really have to try to hear him. I am/was a bedroom guitarist so I always look out for this kind of stuff. Happy to be proved wrong on any point :-)
I was at the 21st December show, with my gf at the time and my mate
So glad this has been uploaded,had it in vid for years.
Richie looks fantastic
I think Ritchie knew what was coming - if he's reading this - thanks for this album
Little baby nothing is amazing here! I love the added solo. too bad it was a bit faster
Richey's last performance. Thanks for uploading this.
Yzacata Thanks for the correction a even a link to the files! There's hope for humanity.
David Manic
I happened to find it one day and I thought I had made the discovery of a century! Made all the sense to share it :)
I suppose there is hope for humanity.
Not Richey last gig that was on the 21st of December day before his birthday this is from the 19th
Strawberry Soup there no full gig only the smashing up of equipment that the band released. On this gig he’s playing ok
@@paulgrahamedwardspencer5161 Played great on the 20th, check out Motown junk where JBD, changes his guitars over.
Thank you for this.
Historic !
I simply cannot believe that James is a real entity. The guy IS ROCKNROLL.
He's pretty much the entire band by himself isn't he? How he managed it without cracking up I'll never know!
@@leehawkins616 Him and Sean were holding it together in those days, Nicky and Richey were the rebellious ones.
I've always said it, without JDB Richey is just another unpublished poet. There's GREAT unpublished poets. Richey would simply have been just another one of those numbers.
Amazing
good stuff. wonder if anyone filmed the 21st dec show??
if only
Sadly not, a friend of mine recorded the 21st show, while I went in the standing section, was going to go to the Wednesday show, but was sick, otherwise he may have recorded that one also.
Is there another night at this venue in 1994 where they played 4st 7 and Bright Eyes?
there’s really ads in this huh
can anybody tell me what is Nicky saying at 22:01 to 22:05? I hear 'Poland' in it...
mopiszczon in fact there is 'Poland' in the lyrics of White America
I think he says 'we were gonna get a guest to do this but with all the other shit [inaudible] we couldn't be bothered'. He's talking about getting someone to do the duet parts of Little Baby Nothing. I do remember James saying that in Germany at one point on this tour they got a girl from the crowd to sing but she didn't know the words 😂
Wasn't this Richey's last show?
Yes it was
No it was not, they played two more gigs the following two nights -- Richey's last show was Dec 21. I can't find a video for it on TH-cam but the audio is... here apparently: www.richeyedwards.net/last_astoria.html
@@slidenaway cheers mate
No not his last gig the day before his birthday was his last gig 21st December