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Encores Jan 10, 2022 19:33:11 GMT

Post by bfc on Jan 10, 2022 19:33:11 GMT

Hi

I spent an enjoyable hour looking at set lists over the years on setlist.fm and thought I'd share the songs and formats that the encore has taken over the years and from gigs I've been to.

A summary would be that there have been a similar number of 3 and 4 song encores with 3 being favoured earlier for obvious reasons.
Smokers is the song that has appeared in most encores followed by Papillon which is obviously one album later.

Encores played by tour are shown below and I feel very lucky to have seen all of these. If only I'd been able to drive to Frome for the unique and very special encore gig!

What has been your favourite encore of those listed below?
I'd have to toss up between the early album 2 gigs such as Warrington when Smokers was very fresh or the In Dream tour when my tastes had changed a little.

How about what would be your dream encore - I've gone for a different 3 and a 4 with no repetition.

Fading

Nothing (full band)

Papillon

Marching Orders

Ocean of Night

Fingers

Magazine

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The Back Room - 2 encores used

Lights

French Disko
Fingers

Lights

Road to Nowhere

Fingers

An End Has a Start tour - 2 encores used

Fading

Smokers

Fingers

Racing Rats

Fading

Smokers

In this Light tour - 3 encores used

Walk the Fleet Road

Smokers

Munich

Bricks and Mortar

Walk the Fleet Road

Munich

Papillon

Fingers

NSBTW

Bricks and Mortar

Papillon

Fingers

The Weight of Your Love tour - 1 encore

Nothing

Bricks and Mortar

Papillon

In Dream tour - 1 encore

Ocean of Night

Papillon

Marching Orders

Violence tour - 2 encores

Smokers (acoustic)

The Racing Rats

Papillon

Marching Orders

Cold

The Racing Rats

Munich

Smokers

Black Gold tour - 1 encore
Distance

The Racing Rats

Munich

Smokers

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Encores Jan 10, 2022 20:29:52 GMT via mobile

Post by ALifeAsAGhost on Jan 10, 2022 20:29:52 GMT

I’ve seen the normal TWOYL, In Dream and both Violence encores(btw some of them had NSBTW acoustic instead of Smokers). Also Beyond the Tracks which had Open Your Arms, Bullets, Munich and Papillon, and a couple of other festivals which didn’t have encores but ended on other songs, one Munich and one Frankenstein.

I’m not sure if I necessarily have a dream one, but it would definitely end on Papillon (wasn’t fan of Marching Orders being the last song at all, but also not a huge fan of the song anyway). Also sick of Smokers being last as the last 4 gigs I’ve been to it’s been last.

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Encores Jan 11, 2022 21:18:26 GMT via mobile

Post by DannyManta on Jan 11, 2022 21:18:26 GMT

If I had to pick I would say. None are perfect but this is close. Walk the fleet road set was close.

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Nothing (full band)

Papillon

Marching Orders

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Encores Jan 12, 2022 19:41:53 GMT

Post by Captain Crieff on Jan 12, 2022 19:41:53 GMT

Jan 11, 2022 21:18:26 GMT DannyManta said:

If I had to pick I would say. None are perfect but this is close. Walk the fleet road set was close.

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Nothing (full band)

Papillon

Marching Orders

this. I completely agree with this.

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Encores Jan 16, 2022 13:32:15 GMT

Post by garyuk on Jan 16, 2022 13:32:15 GMT

none of the above, Frome and Ascheffenburg were great though as was the RAH gig cept for the inclusion of ITLAOTE

And the encore on the Violence tour in the USA was great as well which is not listed above

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Encores Jan 27, 2022 20:33:04 GMT

Post by bfc on Jan 27, 2022 20:33:04 GMT

Thanks Gary. As someone who has watched a good number of gigs from a few people behind you I welcomed your views.

The encores I listed were the main ones for UK tours which are the ones I have seen.

I always wondered if it was known in advance at Frome that there would be a Cuttings encore or if it was a joyous surprise?

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Encores Jan 28, 2022 18:54:31 GMT

Post by garyuk on Jan 28, 2022 18:54:31 GMT

Jan 27, 2022 20:33:04 GMT bfc said:

Thanks Gary. As someone who has watched a good number of gigs from a few people behind you I welcomed your views.

The encores I listed were the main ones for UK tours which are the ones I have seen.

I always wondered if it was known in advance at Frome that there would be a Cuttings encore or if it was a joyous surprise?

We knew going in that it would be something interesting as they said in the forum ahead of the gig that the main set would be a run through of their Glastonbury set that they would play that weekend and then they would come back on and do something special and invited suggestions from the forum on what to play. At this point I very colourfully suggested Colours as I love that track and knew it would be awesome live. Thankfully they did play it and it was even better than one could possibly imagine. Back then Mr U (not Chris, his dad) frequented the forum often and I spoke to him after the gig, he was behind us in the crowd dancing away as he often did, and he said that he seen my post and loved it and that Colours went straight on the list. They have never played it since alas.

The USA Violence encores were some of the best imo. There was just something about that selection of songs that worked really well.

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Encores Aug 28, 2022 9:16:40 GMT via mobile

Post by theboxer on Aug 28, 2022 9:16:40 GMT

Dream encore would include:

Two Hearted Spider (Old version)
All The Kings
The Big Exit
My Life As A Ghost

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