Manic Street Preachers

[GhostofCain]

“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

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[GhostofCain]

The band will be playing two brand new songs live at Jools Holland's BBC show this Saturday, 26th October.

Can't wait for the new album, out on 31st January!



Yesterday there was a pre-sale for their UK tour and I managed to get tickets to see them in Bristol. Happy days!

 

[GhostofCain]

James Dean Bradfield, live at Other Voices in Cardigan St Mary’s Church.

You’ve got to love him: two F-bombs in an acoustic set in a small church.

James Dean Bradfield Setlist at Other Voices 2024

Get the James Dean Bradfield Setlist of the concert at St. Mary's Church, Cardigan, Wales on November 1, 2024 and other James Dean Bradfield Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

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[GhostofCain]

A recent acoustic performance of Motorcycle Emptiness inside the art installation Under Neon Loneliness:

Mark James Works on Instagram: "Earlier this month we had the honour of James Dean Bradfield paying a visit to ‘Under Neon Loneliness’, where he performed an acoustic rendition of the classic @manics ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’ for us. We can’t thank yo

392 likes, 14 comments - markjamesworks on November 1, 2024: "Earlier this month we had the honour of James Dean Bradfield paying a visit to ‘Under Neon Loneliness’, where he performed an acoustic rendition of the classic @manics ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’ for us. We can’t thank you enough James...

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Experience being ‘Under Neon Loneliness' during Cardiff Music City Festival

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[GhostofCain]

Guess the names of the musicians!

 

[The_7th_one]

Benny Hill & Johnny Rotten with mama Osbourne LOL

 

[GhostofCain]

Long interview with James Dean Bradfield by Guitarist, discussing the album Everything Must Go.

 

[GhostofCain]

 

[lira]

Great topic about the Manics. I know them since 'This Is My Truth' era when a friend of mine lend me a tape. After the 3rd listen i was really hooked. As they were not well known in Brasil (still aren't), I had to import the CD and wait for 2 endlessly months for it to arrive.

Another great album is Lifeblood. I must get back to this band as soon as possible!

 

[GhostofCain]

A track-by-track guide to new Manic Street Preachers album 'Critical Thinking'

Nicky Wire This is a record of opposites colliding – of dialectics trying to find a path of resolution. While the music has an effervescence and an elegiac uplift, most of the words deal with the cold analysis of the self (the exception being the three lyrics by James Dean Bradfield which look...

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Track-by-track guide to the new album by Nicky Wire.

 

[GhostofCain]

Great topic about the Manics. I know them since 'This Is My Truth' era when a friend of mine lend me a tape. After the 3rd listen i was really hooked. As they were not well known in Brasil (still aren't), I had to import the CD and wait for 2 endlessly months for it to arrive.

Another great album is Lifeblood. I must get back to this band as soon as possible!

Nice to hear you like them!

Lifeblood is an underappreciated album. Solitude Sometimes Is is an absolute gem!

 

[lira]

Nice to hear you like them!

Lifeblood is an underappreciated album. Solitude Sometimes Is is an absolute gem!

I didn't like the mix of styles they did on Know Your Enemy in 2000 (although there are great songs), but Lifeblood came surprisingly good with a clean Tony Visconti production. From the very opener "1985" through songs like "Empty Souls" and "Glasnost" it is a very solid album from beginning to end. Yes, "Solitude Sometimes Is" is a very cool song also.

 

[GhostofCain]

I didn't like the mix of styles they did on Know Your Enemy in 2000 (although there are great songs), but Lifeblood came surprisingly good with a clean Tony Visconti production. From the very opener "1985" through songs like "Empty Souls" and "Glasnost" it is a very solid album from beginning to end. Yes, "Solitude Sometimes Is" is a very cool song also.

Know Your Enemy is probably their weakest album. It was intended to be a double one, with one album more aggressive and the other much quieter and gentle, but they chickened out and ended up releasing a hotchpotch instead. The expanded edition released a couple of years ago, as two separate albums (entitled Door to the River and Solidarity, respectively), works much better.

 

[GhostofCain]

Manic Street Preachers: ‘The band feels like something you can go into battle with against the world’

As they release their 15th album, the Manic Street Preachers are as fired up as ever. They talk about tech bros, stealing hotel shampoo and four decades of combining friendship with being in a band

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[reimdaase]

I don't know about rest of you guys, but I have a sneaking suspicion that GhostofCain likes the band "Manic Street Preachers"

 

[GhostofCain]

I don't know about rest of you guys, but I have a sneaking suspicion that GhostofCain likes the band "Manic Street Preachers"

 

[GhostofCain]

@reimdaase No need to be sad mate! I am a big fan of the Manics and we use the “No shit Sherlock” phrase humorously in the UK when someone mentions something obvious.

Sorry!

 

[The_7th_one]

New album out next Friday!!!

 

[GhostofCain]

New album out next Friday!!!

And I will be seeing them at a special album launch show on Saturday 1st February!

As Mick Box would say, ‘appy days!