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HISTORICAL FACTS: Manics - Caught on Camera

Manic Street Preachers cover The Cure at London gig

The Welsh rockers were playing the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Evening Standard

The 10 best B-side albums

Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Oasis, The Smiths, Deftones, the Manics and more all had classics going spare, as these superlative compilations prove

Louder

“What angle have we missed on this? Ah yeah, getting some other ****er to sing it!”: the 10 best Manics songs featuring a guest singer (and the odd bassist and guitarist)

From Cate Le Bon to Duff McKagan and Lucy Rose to Kevin Shields, the Welsh legends have often welcomed other artists into their songs. Here’s ten of their finest.

Louder

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“We’ve done a lot of our growing up in public, made our mistakes too. We’ve suffered at times with that. Our extremes are extreme”: How the Manic Street Preachers shook things up to make new album Critical Thinking

Even after all this time, the Manic Street Preachers still bow to no one

Louder

"Fuelled by despair as usual but also simplicity, the songs are rock throughout": Manic Street Preachers show that rage never sleeps on Critical Thinking

A vein of melancholy runs through Manic Street Preachers' 15th album Critical Thinking

Louder

Why we all need sisu – the Finnish concept of action and creativity in hard times

This is something more profound than resilience. It is the part of us that comes alive when we feel we have nothing left

The Guardian - UK

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including The Wildhearts, Saxon, Manic Street Preachers and five other red rockers, purple hazers and golden goddesses

Louder

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Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking review – older and wiser

The Welsh rockers’ 15th album finds them in thought-provoking mood

The Guardian - UK

"It's about man's insatiable addiction to discover and use”: Manic Street Preachers on their new single People Ruin Paintings

It’s the latest cut to be unveiled from the Welsh trio’s forthcoming 15th album Critical Thinking

Louder

“It feels like our last punk single, this mad little blip on the radar”: the story behind the Manics’ 2000 hit The Masses Against The Classes

The tale of how the Welsh trio's last Number One single, which was released 25 years ago next week, came together.

Louder

“It was me being a complete and utter dunderhead”: Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield on the guitar solo where he went full method

There was more to Bradfield’s searing guitar part on this classic Manics cut than flashy playing, the singer and guitarist explains

Louder

“I hate cooking programmes, some fat chef telling us what to eat to make our lives more whole”: a very enjoyable rant from Nicky Wire as the Manics bassist takes on TV chefs and cookery programmes

The Manics man, who also reveals the very unique approach he has to making baked beans, probably didn’t tune in to the Great British Bake Off finale this week

Louder

“I felt I was cut adrift from a massive part of the band and I didn’t know what to do without it”: James Dean Bradfield on how Manic Street Preachers had to reinvent themselves after 2011’s National Treasures celebrations

The band capped off one glorious era with a Best Of and huge arena show in 2011 but it left their singer and guitarist feeling like they’d lost their way

Louder

“This is a record of opposites colliding”: Manic Street Preachers announce details of new album

The Welsh rockers will release Critical Thinking, their 15th record, in January and a tour will follow in the spring

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"A joyous anthem for an era of self-hatred": Manic Street Preachers launch celebratory new single Decline & Fall

Decline & Fall is the first track to emerge from the Manics' upcoming fifteenth studio album

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“I couldn’t be arsed and James said, ‘Why don’t we ask Duff McKagan?’”: Nicky Wire on the time the Guns N' Roses legend played bass on a Manics song

Duff appeared on the band's 2010 track A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun

The Guardian - UK

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

Louder

"I'm just racked with self-loathing and criticism": Manic Street Preachers' bassist Nicky Wire once wanted to lacerate the world - now he's doing it to himself

Nicky Wire talks about the upcoming Manics tour, Richey Edwards, Rush and the band’s next album

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"Do you mind if I wear this as a laugh?" The true story of the night that 25,000 thick British TV viewers thought Manic Street Preachers had started supporting Irish terrorists

Manic Street Preachers' June 1994 performance on Top Of The Pops was one of the more memorable moments in the show's history

The Guardian - UK

‘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

Louder

“It was us trying to be a different version of ourselves”: James Dean Bradfield on the making of Manic Street Preachers' 2004 album Lifeblood

The band recently announced a 20th anniversary reissue of their seventh album

Louder

"The new drugs are working better than anyone could have hoped for": The Alarm's Mike Peters is feeling good, thanks for asking

The Alarm's Mike Peters on when the drugs do and don’t work, thinking he might never sing again, the new album, and the state of rock

The Guardian - UK

‘Suddenly misfits became pop stars, and we were part of it’: How Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq made Radio 1’s Evening Session

We were going to all these gigs and it was like all these bands – Suede, Blur, Oasis, the Verve – were our mates down the pub. There was no fakery or pretence

Louder

Listen to The Anchoress' elegant version of Manic Street Preachers' This Is Yesterday

Fresh from her Glastonbury performance, The Anchoress teams up with Knifeworld's Charlie Cawood for Manics cover

Wales Online

Manic Street Preachers say 'we had a f***ing blast' as they blow away Glastonbury crowd

Fans were hugely impressed by the Manic Street Preachers' amazing set at Glastonbury 2023

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