A band bleeding on stage, turning grief into anthems you'll scream back at them.
Everything Live is a live video released in 1997, just after the Manics fourth album, Everything Must Go, a major commercial and critical success for the band. The atmosphere of the performance is great, with the bands and fans coming together after Richey's disappearance to create a wonderful, tense, sad and beautiful mood. Musically the Manics rock out with excellent versions of 7 of their best songs to date when the video was made and 6 tracks from the aforementioned then-new album, with Elvis Impersonator and No Surface All Feeling the picks of these.
Production
Captures the raw, fragile electricity of a band rebuilding itself live.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures the Manics at their impossible moment: expected to celebrate a hit album while mourning a missing lyricist who'd become their myth. British rock rarely looked this publicly wounded.
Richey Edwards vanished in February 1995; his car was found near the Severn Bridge. He was legally presumed dead in 2008. Every performance here is haunted by that absence—listen for which songs he wrote.
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