ALBUM REVIEW – MANIC STREET PREACHERS: THE HOLY BIBLE LIVE

For those living in their own world of eyeliner, leopard print, boredom and despair, Manic Street Preacher’s ‘The Holy Bible’ is an absolute life source. In 2014, the band marked 20 years since the album’s release and embarked on a sold-out tour, finishing at London’s Roundhouse. Despite lead singer James Dean Bradfield’s bout of flu […]
From 25-28 July, the Lake District welcomes back Kendal Calling, an eclectic festival featuring up and coming artists and legends of the industry. This year’s “legends” come in the shape of Welsh rock gods Manic Street Preachers, super guitar funk maestro Nile Rodgers and Manchester indie cult heroes Doves. Of course, Courteeners will also be […]

KENDAL CALLING RETURNS NEXT MONTH

LIVE: MANIC STREET PREACHERS / GWENNO – 20/05/2019

-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- “C’mon everyone… sing along!” Normally at a charged, fizzing, visceral gig like the Manics in the rather cosy environs of The Ritz, a call to arms such as this would garner an immediate, loyal response. Only, the issue here is that it isn’t the Manics… it’s the support act, Gwenno. And the […]
-MANCHESTER ARENA- Manic Street Preachers are a band of mythologies. They were born as hard-line punks, so devoted to their ideology that their original bassist Flicker left because he felt the band were betraying their roots. That was in 1988. At times tonight, some three decades later, the Manics look and sound every bit a […]

LIVE: MANIC STREET PREACHERS – 28/04/2018

LIVE REVIEW: FESTIVAL NO. 6 – 15/09/2013

– SUNDAY 15/09/2013 – It’s half five in the morning and the wind has now been giving our tent a bit of kicking for the last hour or so, so I decide it’s time to go outside and make sure all the tent’s guy ropes are still intact. As it turns out most of them […]
It’s hard to imagine now, but at the turn of the millennium The Manics were firmly out of favour. I remember seeing a picture in the NME of an overweight, dishevelled looking James Dean Bradfield with a caption saying something like, “Who ate all the pies”? Trust the NME to not see beyond the image. […]

SINGLE: Manic Street Preachers – (It’s Not War) Just the End of Love