Manchester Apollo
The sardonic dark lord of industrial pop may no longer terrify polite society – but his melodic songcraft,delivered from a gothic wheelchair, remains potent‘I may be a bit broken but you can’t fucking shatter me, and ” Marilyn Manson says after the heavy thunder of his most recent album opener,Revelation #12, subsides. He says this with his leg in a cast, and propped up in a black throne that doubles as a standing wheelchair.
Behind the black-clothed and makeup-clad singer are two giant guns. It was these prop firearms that recently fell on Manson in fresh York and broke his leg,postponing the tour. Its not the only incident surrounding his latest album, Heaven Upside Down he also recently parted ways with longtime bandmate Twiggy Ramirez, and after sexual assault allegations were made against the bass player (although Johnny Depp stars in Manson’s recent Say10 video despite the actor’s domestic abuse allegations). He then drew criticism on his return present when he brought out a prop assault rifle on stage the day of the Sutherland Springs church shooting; his fascination with firearms also led to him pulling a fake gun on the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis earlier this year. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk