This guitar got its first outing on 26th May 2007, at the Rockhal Festival in Luxembourg. Throughout its life it was often thrown in the air or into Dom's drums, or even stabbed in the amp by Matt. A few times the guitar was too damaged to be playable, and was sent to Hugh Manson to repair it.
At the Seattle KeyArena 2010 it was tossed by Matt and bounced off of Dom's drum riser after Stockholm Syndrome was performed. Originally it was believed that the neck snapped off the body, but it is confirmed to have just been the guitar strap that flopped up after the guitar landed.
In the first of the two Wembley gigs in September 2010, Matt threw the guitar vertically after playing Stockholm Syndrome leaving it too damaged to be played the next gig.
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The guitar was seen being repaired by Hugh at Manson's and was back on the road at Viejas Arena.
Ironically after months of being chucked around by Matt, normally after the Stockholm Syndrome's outro, "Glitterati" (Manson Red Glitter) finally met it's end after falling from the towers at the start of Uprising at Los Angeles Staples Center gig in September 2010.
Bellamy has been throwing this guitar around quite extensively, mostly at the end of Stockholm Syndrome, throwing it at Howard's kick drum at the Rod Laver Arena gig in Melbourne, shows the guitar getting a battering.
This guitar got its first outing at Leeds Festival on 26th August 2011, where it was thrown into the air by Bellamy at the end of both Space Dementia and Stockholm Syndrome.
It made a return for the Reading Festival, 28th August 2011. It was thrown high in the air at the end of Space Dementia. At the end of Stockholm Syndrome, it was smashed into Dominic's bass drum twice and thrown in the air yet again.
At the War Child gig, 18 February 2013, Matt smashed this guitar first into Dom's bass drum, then a few times into his Dickinson amp and finally across Dom's drum kit.
Some pieces of the mirror cover can be seen detached during the impacts. The guitar has been repaired since, and was seen back in action at the April 10th, 2013 Toronto gig.
On the April 10, 2013 Toronto gig this guitar featured a new (natural) maple neck. It was thrown out of the pyramid the evening before during the outro of Stockholm Syndrome.
At the June 18th, Werchter gig he threw this guitar into Doms bass drum, presuambly because it cut out at the New Born outro. He threw it then over Doms drumkit. After finishing the song, Dom threw the guitar over the kit to the front of the stage.
At the Las Vegas gig, at the end of the Freedom riff, Dom exits the stage, and as Matt begins the Headup riff, Chris takes up drums, and Morgan picks up Chris' bass. Matt is observed to smash up a camera that is filming him, then later throws his guitar through the slots of the pyramid:
Also, at the Las Vegas gig Matt threw it out through the slots again, this time the guitar even flew nearly to the crowd. With the beginning of the Uprising outro riff he smashed it four times very heavily and and finally threw this guitar into the audience. Apparantly someone from the crowd was slightly injured because of the throw and/or the fight for the guitar:
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This guitar appeared at April 9, 2013 Toronto gig. It was the successor of the destroyed Manson Matt Black II. It was only used for one song. At the outro of Uprising Matt threw it in the air and its body split into two pieces because of the hard landing.
This guitar appeared at April 12, 2013 Boston gig. It was the successor of the destroyed Manson Matt Black III and had exactly the same specs.
At the April 15, 2013 New York gig Matt threw this guitar to the Dickinson amp. The neck together with a small part from the body were broken off from the guitar.
This guitar made it's first appearence at May 22nd, 2013 Coventry gig (Stockholm Syndrome). It was the successor of the Manson Matt Black V.
It was thrown around several times at the end of Uprising at the May 25th Emirates gig where it did not appear to be damaged and then was thrown again at the end of Stockholm Syndrome at the May 26th, Emirates gig where the body split in half and the guitar was destroyed.
This guitar appeared at the June 1st Manchester Etihad Stadium gig. The guitar was used for Stockholm Syndrome. At the end of the Freedom outro, Matt threw the Matt Black VII into the air and the impact of it landing on the stage smashed the guitar's body in half.
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This guitar appeared at the June 4th, Amsterdam Arena Stadium gig. It was the successor of the destroyed Manson Matt Black VII. The guitar was thrown around five times after the Uprising.
