Here’s a wonderfully humorous review I found. I just had to share it with you.
Before we left for Cardiff International Arena last Sunday morning, I had to bid a special farewell to Sean. My hamster is named after Sean Moore, the Manics' drummer (it started as a joke to wind up my sister and just stuck) and it would have been unthinkable to go off to a concert without acknowledging the unspoken bond between the two chubby little rascals. Sure enough, the furry little scamp squeezed his nose through the bars of his cage and muttered: 'If that bitch Moore fails to respect me, bite his face off'.
Nicky introduced the band's infamous cover of Suicide is Painless by telling the audience that Richey had originally wanted to cover a Bay City Rollers track, and went on to chronicle how each of the members had been saddled with a different M*A*S*H nickname at school. The taciturn Moore was apparently associated with 'the miserable f***er who never says anything'.
Moore's retiring nature was highlighted later on in another piece of band banter as James took the mickey out of him for several minutes. Petitions for Moore to play his fantastic trumpet solos in Ocean Spray and Kevin Carter are a long-standing tradition at Manics concerts, and a nice way of passing the time waiting for the doors to open. The Moore fans were apparently demanding that Sean sing on Sunday, however, and Bradfield found this intensely amusing.
'Do you think we can tell this bast**d to do ANYTHING? The last time he sang backing vocals was on Born to End!' The video screens zoomed in on Sean's embarrassed smile as James waved a microphone at him, urging us to yell our support. He didn't sing.
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