Marilyn Manson - London - Review
Being fashionably late the self proclaimed 'God of Fuck' Marilyn Manson erupted a smoke filled Wembley Arena from behind a dark cloth covering the front of the stage, as the opening guitar work of #Revelation 12 teased the audience before the cloth dropped revealing Manson, leg in cast, strapped to an upright throne on wheels. Driving the stage centre his band mates made up the energy running spots either side of him, "How are we feeling tonight London?" he shouts as two stagehands clad in blood stained surgery gowns help him from his throne and into a leg support allowing him to walk. His lack of movement and heavy leg support don't hinder the incredible vocal ability put on show throughout Disposable Teens and mOBSCENE before taking a seat back in his throne for Deep Six, as the surgeons change his attire to a gown of jet black feathers he introduces the next song with a change of title "We're all stars now, in the Depp show" and his good friend Johnny Depp walks on stage to take lead guitar for The Dope Show.
The backdrop changes to unreadable words scribbled onto a dingy miscoloured wall and another costume change mirrors it, the Antichrist Superstar now dons a matching hospital gown as his assistants hoist him onto a gurney, fill the stage with eerie smoke, dim the lights and hand him a simple spotlight for his chilling rendition of Eurymthics classic 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)'.
Clambering into a wheelchair holding a video camera styled microphone he came to the front of the stage to be met by bras thrown from the crowd during 'WEKNOWWHEREYOUFUCKINGLIVE' and 'Say10' from his latest album before returning to centre stage, attaching his leg stand and changing into a military overcoat to almost end his set with 'The Beautiful People', joined by Depp on guitar again. The stage goes black and everyone exits, chants of 'Manson! Manson!' ring in the arena leading to The Pale Emperor and his band to return for a final encore, he stands still centre stage in a long black rain coat, the slow tune of The Nobodies begins as Manson puts up his hood and rain starts to fall over him.
A truly monumental and long overdue visit back to London, looking physically better than ever and hitting every note and key the new fresh faced and sobered up Anarchist showed age and injuries won't stop him still being a true performer and one of the best at that.
tEN / tEN
The backdrop changes to unreadable words scribbled onto a dingy miscoloured wall and another costume change mirrors it, the Antichrist Superstar now dons a matching hospital gown as his assistants hoist him onto a gurney, fill the stage with eerie smoke, dim the lights and hand him a simple spotlight for his chilling rendition of Eurymthics classic 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)'.
Clambering into a wheelchair holding a video camera styled microphone he came to the front of the stage to be met by bras thrown from the crowd during 'WEKNOWWHEREYOUFUCKINGLIVE' and 'Say10' from his latest album before returning to centre stage, attaching his leg stand and changing into a military overcoat to almost end his set with 'The Beautiful People', joined by Depp on guitar again. The stage goes black and everyone exits, chants of 'Manson! Manson!' ring in the arena leading to The Pale Emperor and his band to return for a final encore, he stands still centre stage in a long black rain coat, the slow tune of The Nobodies begins as Manson puts up his hood and rain starts to fall over him.
A truly monumental and long overdue visit back to London, looking physically better than ever and hitting every note and key the new fresh faced and sobered up Anarchist showed age and injuries won't stop him still being a true performer and one of the best at that.
tEN / tEN
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