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Manic Street Preachers

June 2024

  • Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers at Llangollen Pavilion.

    Manic Street Preachers / Suede review – co-headliners bring out the best in each other

    More than merely a mutual love-in, this tour finds the two bands – and longterm friends – spurring each other on to be provocative and potent

March 2024

  • Sarah Brown performs with Jim Kerr of Simple Minds during the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, Las Vegas.

    ‘Don’t say: what if we did this reggae style?’ The huge yet humble lives of unofficial band members

    From Manic Street Preachers to Simple Minds, few bands are complete without their full-time touring players. They discuss the peaks and practicalities of life on the sidelines

January 2024

  • A general view of the exterior signage at the British Library in London.

    The Guardian view on the future of libraries: an old question of human dignity in a new form

    Editorial: A cyber-attack on the British Library has shown how vulnerable digital archives are. It has reinforced the value of physical books and librarians

October 2022

  • ‘Her first appearance takes some beating’ … Amy Winehouse.

    Ranked
    The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

    As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions

June 2022

  • Hitch a ride on the jubilee … a poster for the Sex Pistols’ 1977 single God Save the Queen.

    ‘The Queen’s gone round the bend!’ – HM in pop, from Slowthai to the Smiths to Blur

    She’s been called a fascist, a parasite and a pretty nice girl who doesn’t have a lot to say. So are all pop songs about the monarch treasonous? And are they really directed at her?

May 2022

  • John McGeoch playing with Siouxsie and the Banshees.

    ‘Invention, grace and bloodlust ballet’: post-punk guitarist John McGeoch

    McGeoch sent a jolt through the scene with Magazine, Siouxsie Sioux and more. Johnny Marr, James Dean Bradfield and others salute an overlooked musician

March 2022

  • Ed Sheeran, Camila Cabello and Gregory Porter, three of the performers at Concert for Ukraine.

    ‘It feels like Live Aid’: all-star Concert for Ukraine joins war relief effort

  • The effect of the Ford factory closure will have to Bridgend in south Wales, UK<br>COPY BY JOANNA PARTRIDGE Pictured: A Cofiwch Dryweryn graffiti (Remember Tryweryn) on a wall in Bridgend, Wales, UK. Wednesday 19 February 2020 Re: The effect of the Ford factory closure will have to Bridgend in south Wales, UK.

    Brittle With Relics by Richard King review – a portrait of Wales in flux

February 2022

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Ranked
    Manic Street Preachers’ 30 greatest songs – ranked!

    Marking 30 years of their debut album, Generation Terrorists, a look back at the Welsh rockers’ best bits: from the song about the Spanish civil war that kept Steps off No 1 to their glorious duets

October 2021

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    The month's best album reviews
    Lil Nas X, Lindsey Buckingham and Low: October’s best album reviews

    Discover all our four- and five-star album reviews from the last month, from pop to jazz and classical

September 2021

  • James Dean Bradfield performing with Manic Street Preachers at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena.

    Manic Street Preachers review – engaged veterans still energised by the present

    Honouring NHS workers, the Welsh trio’s show is anchored by current chart-topper The Ultra Vivid Lament but features hits and curveballs aplenty
  • Manic Street Preachers with their No 1 album trophy for The Ultra Vivid Lament.

    Manic Street Preachers score first No 1 album in 23 years

    In a dramatic revival of a 90s chart rivalry, the Welsh trio prevail over Steps with their album The Ultra Vivid Lament
  • Manic Street Preachers.

    Manic Street Preachers: The Ultra Vivid Lament review – magic, melancholy and a debt to Abba

    The Manics channel Benny and Björn in an album of mostly sparkling songcraft

January 2021

  • ‘Hugely influential’ ... Steve Brown in 2019.

    Steve Brown, pop producer for Wham!, Manic Street Preachers and more, dies aged 65

    Producer behind Wham!’s Club Tropicana and the Cult’s She Sells Sanctuary had suffered a short illness following a fall in December

August 2020

  • James Dean Bradfield

    James Dean Bradfield: Even in Exile review – a passionate tribute to Víctor Jara

  • Lianne La Havas.

    Original observer photography

July 2020

  • James Dean Bradfield

    James Dean Bradfield: 'I'm not sure musicians telling people who to vote for helps'

    The Manic Street Preacher on protest music, Wales’s response to Covid-19 and why you party with ballet dancers at your peril

April 2020

  • Liam Gallagher performing in Milan in February.

    Liam Gallagher leads wave of free concerts for NHS staff

  • Manic Street Preachers in 2018.

    Manic Street Preachers announce free arena show for NHS workers

March 2020

  • Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage.

    Glastonbury defies coronavirus threat to announce lineup with Kendrick Lamar

    Over 90 more names including Pet Shop Boys, Dua Lipa and Noel Gallagher have been announced for 50th-anniversary edition of the festival
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