As you might expect from a Manic Street Preachers gig, literary influences were never far away. A DH Lawrence quote was ...

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As Manic Street Preachers kick off their 2025 UK tour, check out part two of our interview with the band where they discuss politics, ’90s nostalgia, and how culture has “muzzled” the ...

Manic Street Preachers have been around for almost 40 years - but fans are just realising one thing about their name. The Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood, Caerphilly, in 1986 and formed a key ...

The first in their string of UK shows kicked off last night (April 11) at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom. They’ll play there again tonight (April 12) before heading to London, Wolverhampton ...

How do you know you are at a Manics gig? Because before anything else we get the Welsh working-class academic, writer and socialist Raymond Williams. On the screen behind the stage at the ...

By their own early plans, Manic Street Preachers shouldn’t exist in 2025. In the flush of youth, frontman James Dean ...

"I think nobody has looked beyond that for quite a long time.” Manic Street Preachers biographer, Simon Price, also knew Richey Edwards and says he was "the most intelligent rock star I've ever ...

Though I am loathe to begin talking about this masterpiece by the Manic Street Preachers, one of the darkest, most harrowing and most spectacular rock albums ever made by invoking Chris Martin; I ...