Brian in Manchester 13th September

[RollPlymouthRock]

Great set by Brian and the band. Including Brian playing keyboard and strapping on a guitar! Also a bizarre incident were he got the audience to sing Mary had a little lamb. Very nice end to the show with love and mercy.

[smile-holland]

Great set by Brian and the band. Including Brian playing keyboard and strapping on a guitar! Also a bizarre incident were he got the audience to sing Mary had a little lamb. Very nice end to the show with love and mercy.

Love And Mercy?  In Gateshead and Glasgow they ended with All Summer Long. Hmm.


By the way: it would be a nice closure to end with "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off"...

[MaxL]

Someone posted this setlist for the Manchester concert, does it sound accurate?

Set 1: Gershwin album

Set 2:
California Girls 
Dance, Dance, Dance 
Catch a Wave 
Surfer Girl 
"Mary Had A Little Lamb" 
In My Room 
Don't Worry Baby 
Do You Wanna Dance? 
Do It Again 
Darlin' 
All Summer Long 
Breakaway 
I Get Around 
Your Imagination 
Sail On, Sailor 
Pet Sounds 
Sloop John B 
Wouldn't It Be Nice 
God Only Knows 
Heroes and Villains 
Good Vibrations 

Encore:
Johnny B. Goode   
Help Me, Rhonda 
Barbara Ann 
Surfin' USA 
Fun, Fun, Fun 

Encore 2:
Love and Mercy 

"Your Imagination", "Break Away" and the return of "L&M"? Hope that stays around till the RFH shows!

[RollPlymouthRock]

Yeah that setlist is right i was very surprised about Your Imagination when they started playing it i didn't recognise . Other vocalists Jeff on Don't Worry Baby and Wouldn't it be Nice, Darian on Darlin' and Scott on Sail On Sailor. Only criticism of the show was that there were too many up tempo songs i would have prefered some more slower ones like DTPYHOMS or Caroline No or IJWMFTT other than that a truly great set. Funny story the person i was with left after the first encore even though i'd said there would probably be two encores and ended up rushing back in half way through love & mercy.

[smile-holland]

The Gateshead and Glasgow setlists were almost identical, the only difference being Breakaway which was played in Glasgow but not in Gateshead.

Nice aditions in Manchester I see. Rather different compared to the setlists from Gateshead and Glasgow.
(see: http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,11057.msg212085.html#msg212085)

[Zander]

I thought of the 10 or so Brian shows I've been to this was in the top 5. Good setlist, amazing sound / venue and the guy on the mixing board got a great balance of the whole band.

I thought Brian got better and better with each song he did and he appeared a lot more confident compared to the Bestival appearance a few days earlier.

Only complaint - a pretty ropey selection of tour merchandise. They don't have programmes but they sell a "wine cooler" bag thing? Huh?!

Favourite songs of the night - TLIILY, TCTTAFM, WIBN and YI.

Great stuff Brian... 

[Shady]

What a night in Manchester.

I never thought Dublin could be beat buy they did it

[smile-holland]

They don't have programmes but they sell a "wine cooler" bag thing? Huh?!

Yep, that would've been my only complaint as well. The tour programes are usually well worth the buy. As for the wine cooler (with a drawing of giraffe on it): I assume they had some left after the BW/AJ Pet Sounds tour of a few years back...

[Zander]

They don't have programmes but they sell a "wine cooler" bag thing? Huh?!

Yep, that would've been my only complaint as well. The tour programes are usually well worth the buy. As for the wine cooler (with a drawing of giraffe on it): I assume they had some left after the BW/AJ Pet Sounds tour of a few years back...

I must have missed the wine bags the first time round. The guy at BW Marketing must have been "thinking outside of the box" when he thought that the demand for this item would be a winner