Manic Street Preachers
Live Review: The Killers / Manic Street Preachers – Coventry Building Society Arena, Coventry 28.05.2022
As the temperature drops but the rain holds off over Coventry, Manic Street Preachers start this epic night with a bang by treating the audience to their classics. They’re an awesome warm up for a mixed crowd and watching from the rafters, you can see a great deal of dad dancing courtesy of both the …
Track: Manic Street Preachers Announce New Album And Share New Track ‘Orwellian’
Manic Street Preachers return with their 14 studio album entitled, ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ on 3rd September via Columbia/Sony and have announced a tour for this autumn. ‘Orwellian’ is the first track to be released and is classic Manic Street Preachers, dissecting the misuse of words against cascading, glacial melody. Manic Street Preachers on Orwellian: “The track is about the battle to claim meaning, the …
TRACK: James Dean Bradfield ‘There’ll Come A War’ & ‘Seeking The Room With The Three Windows’
James Dean Bradfield has released two new tracks. There’ll Come A War/Seeking The Room With The Three Windows are both available on June 26th. Two very different views of the forthcoming album, There’ll Come A War is a pensive, low slung threat of a track that points to the conflict yet to come. While Seeking The Room With The Three Windows is pure ascension, an instrumental with energy enough to ignite a dying star. …
Tour News: Manic Street Preachers to pay tribute to NHS staff.
Iconic Welsh group Manic Street Preachers have announced two shows to take place this December – both to pay tribute to the tireless efforts of NHS staff in Wales. The shows take place on the 4th and 5th of December at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena, with the first night a free show for NHS staff and …
News: Manic Street Preachers announce ‘Gold Against the Soul’ reissue
After many hints and teases MANIC STREET PREACHERS have confirmed the re-issue of a deluxe edition of their 1993 second album ‘GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL’on 12th June 2020 for Columbia/Sony. Available as a 120 page A4 book featuring unseen images from the bands’ long time photographic collaborator Mitch Ikeda, many personally annotated by Nicky Wire and original typed and handwritten lyrics from the bands own archive. …
Album Review: Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth: Tell Me Yours (20th Year Collectors Edition)
I remember moving to London during the peak of the Brit Pop years in the midst of the Blur versus Oasis hyperbole. But the albums from that era that really struck me were Pulp’s “Different Class”, The Verve’s “Urban Hymns” and most of all, “This is My Truth Tell Me Yours” from The Manic Street …
Track: Manic Street Preachers – Liverpool Revisited
In anticipation of the release of the new Manic Street Preachers album ‘Resistance is Futile’ on 13 April 2018, the Manics have released a classic track entitled ‘Liverpool Revisited’, which is about the Hillsborough Justice Campaign efforts to get some legal accountability for the death of 96 supporters in the 1989 stadium crush in Sheffield. …
Track: Manic Street Preachers – Dylan and Caitlin, plus tour news
The legendary Manic Street Preachers have released a new track called ‘Dylan and Caitlin’ off their forthcoming album ‘Resistance is Futile’ due out 13 April 2018. The track is a “conversation between Dylan and Caitlin Thomas at the apex of their alcohol soaked relationship” James Dean Bradfield explained. Nicky Wire added “The story itself rolls …
See: Manic Street Preachers reveal video for Distant Colours
Taken from their forthcoming album Resistance Is Futile, ‘Distant Colours’ was released on Friday 16th February on Columbia (Sony). Set for release on Friday 13th April, it will be the thirteenth studio album from the Manic Street Preachers. The first track from the album, ‘International Blue’ came out in December 2017 and was soon added …
See: Manic Street Preachers release video for new single “International Blue” and album tracklisting
Ahead of their brand new album “Resistance is Futile”, the Welsh evergreen indie heroes Manic Street Preachers have released the euphoric anthem “International Blue”. Neatly sitting alongside both their earlier and later phases, the track has been described as ‘a sister song to “Motorcyle Emptiness”‘. The video was shot in various locations around Nice in …