Magazine - Live "Real Life" In Concert Manchester 2009

[@joechiro]

Jesus. Why am i only seeing this now!!!!! Wow

[@MitchellSmith-w4l]

You can buy the DVD. Comes with. CD AND 6 more songs. Absolute, great quality. Devoto keeps everything buried. The man does not like the spotlight. Don't know what he lives on.

[@Alun49]

For me, the greatest band of the post-punk era. Howard Devoto's lyrics are in a league of their own. The songs stand up straight and tall all these years later. Like many fans of this incredible band, it saddens me that they failed to receive the success they so rightly deserved. Massively influential and in every respect, utterly iconic. I cannot say that of any other UK band of that era with the same passion.

[@duncaninglis3806]

I don't think I could say that any better. Point is, some of us know and still listen.

[@robjamieson7981]

“Thunder shook loose hail on the outhouse again” might be my favourite opening line in all rock n roll.

[@Alun49]

@@robjamieson7981 This is the problem with Howard Devoto as a lyricist. So many brilliant lines in so many great songs. I cannot for the life of me understand why Magazine failed to get the attention they so rightly deserved.

[@Alun49]

@Klaus Sperger Agreed, a unique blossoming of incredible creativity, but my all time favourite remains the music of Magazine.

[@keithlewis7706]

Ths stranglers

[@OwenGrantham]

The best band to come out of Manchester. Never commercial but always relevant!

[@gearhead188]

A great band i never got to see. Thanks for uploading this.

[@synchromystici5m]

0:00 Howard Devoto intro 0:41 The Light Pours Out of Me 6:29 Model Worker 9:43 The Great Beautician in the Sky (segues into Honeymoon Killers) 12:01 The Honeymoon Killers 15:43 Because You're Frightened 19:45 You Never Knew Me 25:30 Rhythm of Cruelty 28:39 I Want to Burn Again 33:27 This Poison 38:00 A Song From Under the Floorboards 42:43 Permafrost 48:25 The Book 51:25 Twenty Years Ago (segues into Definitive Gaze) 55:00 Definitive Gaze 58:55 Band Introductions/Parade 1:05:26 Shot by Both Sides 1:11:44 Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) 1:15:44 Motorcade 1:22:15 I Love You, You Big Dummy

[@birquepolkingont8220]

Hey, Mr. Technique, are you still standing around and posing just like this? (Nice seeing a fellow Cardiacs fan here)

[@synchromystici5m]

@@birquepolkingont8220 I'm doing well, thanks! After all, mine is a much better way... (and yeah, I thought there would be some crossover!)

[@OsoMarcol]

Remarkable and amazing band.

[@doggodantiman2728]

Permafrost is and always Will be. My favourite. These incredible lyrics. YUMMY.

[@crhkrebs]

What an absolutely wonderful performance from everyone involved. A stunning band.

[@styxcreek]

One of the most underrated post punk bands, should be as revered as Joy Division etc

[@paulknight8764]

better than Joy Division imho...... a death in the ranks will always elevate something into more 'mythical' status.

[@paulknight8764]

Well to put it simply if Mr Curtis had not decided to hang himself JD would not be so revered today as they are.

[@buckrogez87]

Magazine are held very highly in the minds of those who really know what's up. I love both equally, but musically magazine were on a whole other level.

[@michaelhaigh6405]

They are! JD No.1 and Magazine No.2. Always Still,40+ years later.

[@roblewis5044]

Pure class, this band always delivers the goods.

[@robjamieson7981]

This wasn't just old rockers squeezing the last juice from the lemon. This was pitch-perfect, as good as they ever were. Will we ever see them again?

[@nickchristian2506]

Couldn't agree more Rob. What a treat, Howard and Magazine back perfectly performing blisteringly great songs that have been coursing through my consciousness for the last 38 years. More than unique - pure genius. My favourite - You Never Knew Me.

[@LBOYLE18]

Nick, You Never Knew Me is my favourite Magazine song of all time - the backing vocals by Rosalie Cunningham on this version are absolutely fantastic..

[@nickchristian2506]

Yes, a very fine song among a host of other masterpieces. But for me Rosalie with her beautiful soaring vocals greatly enriches the pathos of this song. Watch her eyes too, they burn enigmatically like the eyes in the backdrop. A stunning performance all round.

[@icemanmwk]

you're not wrong, mate. sick to my soul I hadn't heard this was happening, I'd have travelled over to see it as I've been to Manchester so many times anyway. I had all their albums back in the day. Big fail on my part :(

[@hepoch]

very unlikely-Howard has retired to Thailand

[@superlove35]

This may be the best live gig I've ever seen on youtube. Incredible.

[@mozdickson]

PiL live at Glastonbury

[@bobbyshafto3259]

and it's even better if,like me,you attended the actual gig.

[@jamesgerrardbrown5169]

Amigo, I saw the Stones twice and the Who ( f**king dangerously loud!!) in LA... in the '80's , yet MAGAZINE in a Glasgow night club was totally funky revolution groove magical

[@Bavodekat]

Stunning like always ..🥰

[@lassebongo126]

The Light Pours Out of Me is one of the greatest songs ever written.

[@DJNE1-RebelliousSounds]

Just watched this for the first time and don't mind admitting, I've got tears in my eyes. Absolutely amazing. UPDATE - Just got to Definitive Gaze, got a wet face now!

[@cicobuff2003]

After getting into Magazine just after the split in 83, I never thought in a million years I’d get to see them, but, unbelievably…I saw them at Latittude Festival 2009/ 2010…utterly brilliant! After decades out of the limelight and involved in a completely different career, Howard and the co turn up and it’s like they’ve been doing it there entire lives. I’ve seen hundreds of bands over the years all of which I enjoyed, but Magazine along with one or two other bands such as the Cocteau Twins, have been the pinnacle.

[@michaelfields1113]

They still kick ass. RIP John McGeoch.

[@jamesgerrardbrown5169]

A real class act , way up there and never coming down

[@joechiro]

You’ll never hear such instrumental mastery combined with what sounds like a fairground attraction complete with spruker and interwoven melodic mastery and rough edged titillation oh and chuck in some rock n roll

[@norriechristie694]

Just love it. Now passing the baton onto my kid.

[@pcebpceb1638]

Howard's lyrics are sublime. Hard, Kind, smart, cruel, confused, violent, loving, hating, funny. One of the all time great bands. The opener "The Light Pours Out of Me" is wonderful. Into pandemonium.....

[@SpudgunMeUp]

Excellent comment. Much better than "so underrated". Thanks for explaining why you think they're sublime. I completely agree. I listened over and over to Secondhand Daylight in 1980 as a seventeen year old. It scared the shit out of me initially, e.g. "Permafrost" "Rhythm of Cruelty", what was Devoto thinking? I dug into everything they released subsequently, Devoto solo and Luxuria. Technically, I think they were the best band of the punk / new wave era. Great musicians. Love the back up vocalist channeling Louise Brooks in this performance too, she has great vocals.

[@nickchristian2506]

Nostalgic, eccentric, compelling, mystifying, monumental, BRILLIANT!

[@markcolonna6874]

Nick Christian Yes all those things and more

[@blishstern2769]

Howard the poet Magazine the Amazing musicians... astounding their songs and soundscapes as futuristic as they always were ..the Light pours out of Them

[@andymarantz]

Magazine and The Sound are such underrated bands...

[@fyvoin6964]

They're still Magazine . Sublime performance

[@LeighBlackmore]

Indescribably wonderful! And so many years on from their glory days!

[@HenryCovert]

Absolutely incredible gig.

[@olivierpanhuys8924]

I spent my all my life with them as soundtrack. Superb gig...

[@oneeyedjack24]

One of the most brilliant bands ever. Specially live sounds like studio. Incredible. Thx for uploading this gig...

[@LBOYLE18]

Your welcome !

[@LBOYLE18]

Your welcome !

[@MadderMel]

Of all the bands I've ever heard , Magazine are by far the most overlooked or underrated , at the time they were around , they were way too good and complex to chart ! Three minute fluffy punk pop ! No !! No !! Magazine were far too good to sell lots of records ! It will be interesting to see how they are viewed in years to come ? Truly Great Band !!

[@bobtomlin2306]

What a great showcase of a brilliant band. A truly unique, superb and mystifying sound ..... God were these guys good. Thank you Ian Russell, my friend - without you I would never have known the sheer excellence of Magazine .... I'm so sorry I repayed you the way I did. Mr Devoto and band, you are great

[@eamonquinn5188]

Fantastic concert, everything you would want from Magazine

[@hymek7017]

I have such happy memories of this night despite tears of emotion as The Thin Air struck up at the start (That track always gets me - thank you Mr Formula). The band were on fire and as Howard rightly says, "They are still Magazine". I was blessed to be right at the front between Howard's and Noko's monitors and appear frequently in the video (sorry about that). They guy to my left had travelled from Chicago to see the tour at Glasgow and again here in Manchester and there was me thinking I was their biggest fan :-) ha! I'd waited something like 30 years to see them again, having previously seen them at Exeter University when I was a kid and a mate had smuggled me in to see the band. Utter joy to be a fan of this superb band - more please.

[@christopherlowe4776]

I love Magazine, the most under rated band ever. Took my wife and kids (17 and 12, the kids not the wife). We were blown away how good they were. Sure I saw them back in the day, the others didn't. Big Bazza on Bass was coolness personified. But we also met up with my mate, who is a cool hipster arty playwright type and goes to every Gig in Manc pretty much. And he said it was the best gig he'd seen in ten years. (Second were Wire). Great songs, greatly performed!!

[@duantorruellas716]

Has always been one of my favorite bands . I had this album and I can still sing the great beautician by heart. The Real life album was a masterpiece and its great to see them here in Manchester but I wish they had done holy dotege of the know thy self album , good lord that must have been a great show. R.i.p. John.

[@FearIncorporatedBandOfficial]

Immaculate, timeless and magical

[@chamberpot969]

Fabulous.

[@roysb_2628]

AS GOOD AS EVER, LOVE MAGAZINE! still play and love their PLAY live album nearly 40 years on :-)

[@BFC442]

Play is an incredible Album.

[@littlechicotattoo9141]

Magazine are just magic. I love this band.

[@orion5992]

For Fans of this most incredible band ... PASS THE TORCH and SHARE with the world!

[@DuanTorruellas]

I've always loved this band , it's an acquired taste ❤

[@lucafay]

Best band of all time!

[@fvazquez64]

very very impressed.... they sound almost like yesterday... thanks for sharing I'm shocked

[@davidwaterhouse2552]

I was at the gig! I was so excited as I had never caught them back in the day. A great shame the late John Mcgeogh wasn't present, but 'NOKO' did not disappoint! Amazing MANCHESTER pUnK band, always underrated, but never by the fans! dx

[@bobbyshafto3259]

I was excited ,to say the least,more accurately you could say I was nearly bursting. Saw them at Leeds Uni about 1980,very capably supported by Bauhaus and then after this one ,saw them on the "No Thyself" tour at Sheffield Leadmill or Plug (can't remember which). Absolutely magnificent band. Also see Barry Adamson twice,he's out of this world!

[@DLMlive]

I think I wore out most of my Magazine albums three times over and can't think of a more iconic band of the era. Thank God for youtube and Great performances like this. You sound fantastic!

[@BFC442]

Same here :-)

[@EmiPianoMX]

All great players.

[@Bring_MeSunshine]

Whoever mixed the recording of this gig (not the front of house sound) did an excellent job

[@garethjohn6067]

This is a great show.dave Murray is maiden.blaze does a great job.wish they had done murders in the rue morgue.

[@juliamorris6486]

love love love this . . . thank you! so gorgeous

[@JesuChristus]

Absolutely magnificent on all fronts.

[@siloagrain2176]

I Come from prog music ,and i discover this ,all i Can Say IS that s GREAT

[@RemiPut]

Barry Adamson , wow , the motor of Magazine !! Listen to it ! 👍

[@dekkyboys]

i love magazine -very underrated punk band-brilliant band

[@themusicfella]

Brilliant performance.. Brought back lots of memories .. Wish I had been there for this... :-)

[@bobbyshafto3259]

Went to this gig with a mate of mine. It was an honour to be there. I had to buy this dvd,it's wonderful.....and then HAD TO attend the Sheffield Leadmill gig for NO THYSELF tour. One of the BEST BANDS of all time ! !

[@robbrewer7288]

remember them at malvern winter gardens with simple minds supporting excellent and this just reminds me of how good magazine are

[@joescott483]

Because your frightened Jesus How good are they live. Underrated Should’ve been huge

[@slygoodman5001]

Good to see you all again ,tribute to John McGeoch

[@nickchristian2506]

A truly wonderful performance. Barry providing the beating heart, John the smashing vigor and vitality, Noko and Dave stitching it all together with magnificent spine tingling interplay, Rosalie and Samantha adding a touch of extra class and Howard ever the complete showman orchestrating the whole superbly. This is mesmerising stuff the like we will never see again I fear.

[@johnblonde8589]

Simply incredible!! Magnificent renditions of timeless tunes performed with style and class with a great crowd by the looks of things. Shot by both sides was just amazing!! Pure quality no more to say.

[@patrickfrp6011]

A very spécial moment... Thanks ✌️

[@minjamuncha]

Amazing performance,got into Magazine because of Jonh Mcgeochs book (The light pours out of me),also love him in the Banshees,one of my favorite guitar players,up there with Johnny Marr.

[@LBOYLE18]

Agree totally

[@darrenlee1938]

Saw them on this tour. Outstanding! Noko played a blinder. Close your eyes and it was John

[@epiphanyx3705]

I was shirking my duty to miss this! This is the only band I still listen to from the days...& they are incredible...the lyrics and music are something else.. wish they would play again....it would be packed to the 'rafters' hee hee! incredible talent.

[@johnhayward9828]

Wire still kick it

[@craigbeasley1]

But of course my dear. Oh listen to Chairs Missing right in the middle. Some bands transcend, most just die.

[@garethjohn6067]

I want to thank an old mate Wayne for getting me into magazine.music does not get any better than this.

[@judys6663]

the only band who's record sounds as good as they do live

[@chrishayes2207]

Play is one of the best live LPs I've ever heard

[@doggodantiman2728]

The memories i have of. Going out. In 1980. All night punkclubs. And THEN listen. The whole of Sunday. To. Of course permafrost my nr1...playing magazines First 2 lp's. Are awesomly. Beautifull other records for Sunday come down. The Doors. Of course. And the Velvet underground. Magazine. Makes the light pour out of me. It CONNECTS. Straight to the soul. And stillsounds. So original. BUT. Yes the light and permafrost. On a Sunday come down. With. Ones first love. Is. Pure bliss. Pure. Happiness of the soul

[@pcebpceb8531]

Fantastic. Howard wrote some of the best lyrics and delivered them so so well live and in the studio. An incredible band. The first three albums have stood up so well over the last 30 years. Correct Use of Soap is such a wonderful album. I love you you big dummies! Thanks for posting.

[@front2427]

A great musician and also a great man.

[@halloweenjack8683]

Rock on lads best fkin band in the world 💙💙

[@dadaflux1]

RIP John McGeoch

[@Teddyb1939]

Still got it lads, always liked the sound.

[@gandorwheeze2527]

The conspiracy of silence ought to revolutionise my thought………….excellent! Saw them in Glasgow the night after this in 2009. One of the best gigs ever, even after so many years.

[@MadderMel]

This gig is truly sensational !!

[@jameslondon6956]

Never heard of this band until today. Saw a video from 1979...and this one 30 years later. Thought to myself, "these guys suck". Listed a little more as I read all the reviews as to how great they were and still are....I kept listening...found myself unable to stop...I get it... There is original genius here and it is so obvious. ...These guys are to punk what Allan Holdsworth was to jazz..I truly believe that massive success would kill what made them who they were...and still are...and will forever be..Hats off indeed.

[@LBOYLE18]

I'm glad you stuck with it James

[@bobbyshafto3259]

You made a very good decision there. Listen to all their albums if you get chance and check-out Barry Adamson's solo work (some of his songs are very Jazz-orientated.)

[@Dekompozycja]

I loved them since 30 years, and I do so!

[@Dekompozycja]

Te przepiękne dźwięki

[@apemoon1731]

This is as good as it gets 👌🏻

[@LBOYLE18]

Patrick, the ladies name is Rosalie Cunningham from at that time a band called Ipso Facto and now Purson. Brilliant backing vocals in this gig.

[@thehowlingterror]

A nice surprise to see this on my YT recommended list....and I was there t'boot.

[@chriscockerton1419]

First time listening to this band. Love it1

[@LBOYLE18]

Glad you enjoyed it Chris

[@bobbyshafto3259]

If you haven't already checked out their entire back-catalogue I'd thoroughly recommend you do. They're outstandingly brilliant !

[@westernsaharacampaignnz2657]

How good is that!!! Top drawer.

[@johnnebauer436]

Noko does those McGeoch riffs well 😊. What a wonderful Band

[@judys6663]

can't believe they sound even better live no other band I've heard can do that

[@SpaceJaicen]

Judy S they sound great , right ?? Not many bands can age like fine wine.

[@x77punk77x]

Have never been to Manchester UK but have dwelled so much in its sonic worlds throughout a misspent N.-American-tethered youth that I feel like I have somehow walked down its streets in many strange dreams. (Greater Manchester/Liverpool sphere, really -- EATB, Teardrop Explodes, Fall, Magazine, Smiths, Stone Roses, ...) Of course we have no city quite like that here; Chicago, perhaps comes closest -- the collapsing post-industrial identity, a working-man's city still in many ways, the harder/harsher & more defiant sounds that city's life has nurtured at times) and we have various small cities/towns named after your city. Spent some formative years in Scandinavia and that northern-skies-and-streets-and-faces feeling never left me so maybe that's why I have always connected so peculiarly with Manchester artists/works.

[@judys6663]

dummy was my song when i was 13 and howard marry me I'm grown up now you are lovely xxx

[@Tinxtin100]

Ich liebe die Band immer noch, nach so vielen, vielen Jahren. Einfach klasse.

[@MadderMel]

Fantastic !! The look on John's face , " I'm knackered already , and we've only just started ! " .

[@MitchellSmith-w4l]

Such an amazing show. I know John is looking down and helping. It burns my absolute core that they never played the US except for a brief stop in 1978 at the Hot club in Philly my home...played the Hot club. Wrote Philadelphia about it, apparently?

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

Absolutely Bloody Glorious

[@CatoMinor]

Great, great band.

[@frankzandkuijl917]

They still go it, great video!

[@adrienneparker8614]

just about one of the best bands of all time....for me and my cronies that is.....Howard Devoto sounds better than ever, what a legend that he is......so good.....

[@SteveRes]

What a band, awesome

[@markwordsworth1678]

"The monumental Mr Barry Adamson" 😎

[@LBOYLE18]

a true legend!!

[@bobbyshafto3259]

@@LBOYLE18 Absolute legend. He shook hands with us after his solo-gig at Manchester Royal Northern College of Music....not solo really,he had 9 other brilliant musicians on stage with him.

[@joaojosevazmurtinheira8650]

super très heureux d’écoute Magazine aujourd'hui 40 après toujours du bon

[@robertjohnson1647]

I love every ride in this demented fairground

[@bobbyshafto3259]

I must admit,when I attended this gig I wondered if Magazine could still "cut the mustard" after all the years of inactivity? Chuffin 'ell Howard Devoto had total control of the situation, John Doyle, Barry Adamson, Noko and Dave Formula were all QUITE MAGNIFICENT and the 2 young ladies from Ipso Facto Rosalie Cunningham and Samantha Valentine were also outstanding ! Howard's rapport with the crowd undeniably brilliant. Saw them also on NO THYSELF tour....unbelievable band!!

[@LBOYLE18]

Couldn't agree more with your comments - a top top performance

[@MadderMel]

Sublime musicians all !!

[@hymek7017]

67 seconds in an I'm covered in goosebumps. Only Magazine can do this.

[@helenedhervilly3424]

Thank you !!

[@LBOYLE18]

You're welcome Helene

[@bobbyshafto3259]

I only found out about this gig whilst attending a Marillion gig at the same venue,luckily picked up a "flier" which mentioned the Magazine gig. Couldn't believe my eyes ,it was an absolute no-brainer to go after all those years,after all,the tour for "Magic,Murder and the Weather" never happened so this was a massive bonus. Perhaps equally surprising,new album in 2011 " No Thyself" ... brilliant and the Sheffield Leadmill gig for that tour... one of the BEST I've EVER been to. What a band! ! ! !

[@gunnerjenson]

Great band... great trousers Howard.

[@Fractalite]

Wow amazing performance..

[@Ursulauu]

Ooh - glad to say I was here for this.

[@LBOYLE18]

Lucky you !!

[@Ursulauu]

...If it was from 14/02/09

[@johnforrest2399]

BRILLIANT ! Bands all talk about how their new album is so original / different ground breaking, BOLLOCKS. They should bow their heads to Magazine !!!! outstanding.

[@lanslater]

Starting at about 9 minutes in playing "The Great Beautician in the Sky" - omg they made a haims of it But liked ofc how could I not be grateful that you shared this concert - seriously I am

[@1963johnbhoy]

Still got it ................in abundance.