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Fri 11 Nov 2009Once more with feeling
Some bands won’t do them. Others insist you endure two or three. But very few musicians still deliver encores as a spontaneous response to audience demands. CIAN TRAYNORasks what they’re really for
Manic Street Preachers are one of the few acts to have maintained a no-encore policy from their inception, having performed just one in their 23-year career. But what began as a “deluded manifest to change the world” was tested in 1991 when management goaded them into returning to the stage – only to find that nearly everyone had left.
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