I think you mean the Brotherhood of Manfred Man.
Do bands still do pretend encores?
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I've only ever seen a couple of bands where they seemed to be doing genuinely unplanned encores. Springsteen would often do three or four, depending on how he was going down. Roy Harper too. Bloody Nik Turner would play until everybody had had more than enough rock 'n' roll sax and had walked out.
clandestino
no llevar papel
That story is hilarious. I remember being in the Landor pub on Stockwell Road one New Year's Eve and they put the word out that the bar would shut for half an hour from quarter to twelve to quarter past. So all the randoms came in, found they couldn't get a drink and were told the pub had shut. We had to keep schtum, "finishing" our pints. Then once the riff raff had fucked off the bar opened again. Maybe Lou Reed was the landlord that night.
A similar but less crowd pleasing story to the Lou Reed one is Neil Young doing some new, experimental album live. He played all of the album in order, but said at the start "don't worry, after this you'll hear some songs you'll have heard before". So everyone sat patiently through his new stuff, then he came back on for the encore...and did the new album again!
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
daftest comment of the day award!
skyscraper101
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The funniest ones are when a band doesn't do an encore, and nobody will leave until they do.
Motley Crue in 2007 was like this. And when the roadies started loading up the gear, everyone started rioting and throwing bottles at them.
Motley Crue in 2007 was like this. And when the roadies started loading up the gear, everyone started rioting and throwing bottles at them.
A similar but less crowd pleasing story to the Lou Reed one is Neil Young doing some new, experimental album live. He played all of the album in order, but said at the start "don't worry, after this you'll hear some songs you'll have heard before". So everyone sat patiently through his new stuff, then he came back on for the encore...and did the new album again!
Brilliant!
But if he does that at glastonbury this year:
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
The manics became shit the day they started doing encores. Time was an encore would have been out of the question because everything on stage, including Richey, would already have been reduced to rubble 
clandestino
no llevar papel
I quite like encores - nothing wrong with a bit of theatre at gigs. But the best encores are the unpredictable ones - a cover or an old rarely played song or whatever. Saving your big hit for the end is just lame.
And they can still be genuine - ie not planned. As a promoter, I've done that thing where I've coaxed an artist back out on stage. "C'mon, just one more - send 'em home happy." It's usually when I say "They'll start booing soon..." that the idea of an encore becomes a good one.
And they can still be genuine - ie not planned. As a promoter, I've done that thing where I've coaxed an artist back out on stage. "C'mon, just one more - send 'em home happy." It's usually when I say "They'll start booing soon..." that the idea of an encore becomes a good one.
subversplat
writer of wrongs
I do rememeber one genuine encore actually, when we put OutCryFire on for the first time in this town and everybody went crazy demanding more, and the lead singer could only go "But we haven't got any more" so we sent them back out to play the same songs again
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Whoops yes. Manfred Mann are pretty good.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I do rememeber one genuine encore actually, when we put OutCryFire on for the first time in this town and everybody went crazy demanding more, and the lead singer could only go "But we haven't got any more" so we sent them back out to play the same songs again
playing the same songs is really naff, unless you really need to, like then. My very first gig was Ozzy Osbourne, and HE encored with three songs from the main set (Crazy Train, Paranoid & Iron Man iirr)
dooley
Well-Known Member
fucking aces
on topic - the nightmarchers did this, and i lost any respect i might have had for the chubby elvis wannabe
I do rememeber one genuine encore actually, when we put OutCryFire on for the first time in this town and everybody went crazy demanding more, and the lead singer could only go "But we haven't got any more" so we sent them back out to play the same songs again
lol OutCryFire! Say hi to Cheggers for me!
Chubby? Speedo's positively fucking svelte at the moment
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
An encore is an encore. If I've payed to see a band i like, I'll want to see as much as I can, whether it's an obscure song or a big hit.
The unexpected ones are the best. When i saw the Violent Femmes in the mid 80s. They did 2 encores. Then the lights went up and half the audience left - and they came on again!
strung out
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biggest anticlimax was at aswad last summer when they didnt play shine. they came back for an encore and we all expected them to do shine. they didnt fucking do it though
what? played the accordian badly?
i've missed any encore they've done when i've seen them play.
basically.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I am sure I read a story about The Eels that said that they played in some place with seating, and kept stopping and refusing to play because some people were stood up and dancing and it broke fire regulations.
I was at that Glastonbury with Elvis Costello too. The funniest thing was everyone I was with got bored and left during the long acoustic bit.
I stayed coz I quite like long boring acoustic songs. That went on for about an hour, then the curtains behind him dropped to the ground and they went into Oliver's Army with the full band.
I stayed coz I quite like long boring acoustic songs. That went on for about an hour, then the curtains behind him dropped to the ground and they went into Oliver's Army with the full band.
Encores are quite strange because you know with a major act they are going to come back especially if they haven't done one they are famous for but if you are in a little pub band it's really nice if people shout and ask for another even if you've done everything you know and have to repeat one.
