Early in the Manic Street Preachers’ set at the O2 Apollo, frontman James Dean Bradfield declared the Manics were at “the ...

James' voice was given a rest when the Apollo sang whole verses and choruses in his honour. Three decades on, having ...

Manic Street Preachers have revealed that a new "definitive history" of the band will be published in September.

As frontman James Dean Bradfield remarked during the show, this is familiar territory for the Manics. He recalled sitting on the Beacon Balcony back in 1985 to watch Echo & the Bunnymen, a major ...

That kind of attitude never existed when we were young.” Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire live at Glastonbury 2023. Credit: Andy Ford for NME The bassist and lyricist said that he thought a ...

There was a decidedly Mancunian feel to Friday night with the Manic Street Preachers ... Step On or I am the Resurrection, or Nicky Wire's Mark E. Smith and John Cooper Clarke inspired spoken ...

John Cale has cropped up on a Manics track offering “keyboards and noise” (on the Futurology cut Auto-Intoxication), Nicky Wire has handed bass duties over to a Guns N’Roses legend ...

The Manics are currently out on their 2025 ... Speaking to NME earlier this year, Nicky Wire described the collection as “a different kind of record” to what fans may have heard from ...

The fresh material was less rousing, more pleasingly melodic, with a sweetness running throughout the opening “Decline & Fall” and the reflective pop of the Morrisery referencing “Dear Stephen”, and ...