KENDAL CALLING RETURNS NEXT MONTH

From 25-28 July, the Lake District welcomes back Kendal Calling, an eclectic festival featuring up and coming artists and legends of the industry. This year’s “legends” come in the shape of Welsh rock gods Manic Street Preachers, super guitar funk maestro Nile Rodgers and Manchester indie cult heroes Doves. Of course, Courteeners will also be […]
-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- “C’mon everyone… sing along!” Normally at a charged, fizzing, visceral gig like the Manics in the rather cosy environs of The Ritz, a call to arms such as this would garner an immediate, loyal response. Only, the issue here is that it isn’t the Manics… it’s the support act, Gwenno. And the […]

LIVE: MANIC STREET PREACHERS / GWENNO – 20/05/2019

LIVE: MANIC STREET PREACHERS – 28/04/2018

-MANCHESTER ARENA- Manic Street Preachers are a band of mythologies. They were born as hard-line punks, so devoted to their ideology that their original bassist Flicker left because he felt the band were betraying their roots. That was in 1988. At times tonight, some three decades later, the Manics look and sound every bit a […]
– SUNDAY 15/09/2013 – It’s half five in the morning and the wind has now been giving our tent a bit of kicking for the last hour or so, so I decide it’s time to go outside and make sure all the tent’s guy ropes are still intact. As it turns out most of them […]

LIVE REVIEW: FESTIVAL NO. 6 – 15/09/2013

SINGLE: Manic Street Preachers – (It’s Not War) Just the End of Love

It’s hard to imagine now, but at the turn of the millennium The Manics were firmly out of favour. I remember seeing a picture in the NME of an overweight, dishevelled looking James Dean Bradfield with a caption saying something like, “Who ate all the pies”? Trust the NME to not see beyond the image. […]