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

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

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.

It’s a trick that Manic Street Preachers have pulled off for ... bassist Nicky Wire and drummer Sean Moore feeling their way through material, jamming and experimenting – allowing the best ...

Though I am loathe to begin talking about this masterpiece by the Manic Street Preachers, one of the darkest ... singer and guitarist James Dean Bradfield and drummer Sean Moore scrambling to cram ...

Manic Street Preachers: Sean Moore, James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire. Picture: Paul Bergen/Redferns/Getty Images The song, A Design For Life, would be their biggest hit to date. Richey Edwards and ...

The Manic Street Preachers are the Millerites of rock music ... but for the fact that Bradfield and Moore were able to crowbar them into rock anthems, of a sort. The results can still send shivers up ...

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 ...

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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 ...