This is a much more raw Manic Street Preachers, fuelled by despair as usual but also simplicity. The songs are rock ...

Guitarist and lyricist Richey Edwards carved ‘4 Real’ into his arm. They released singles slaughtering sacred cows such as ...

N o matter what the music of Manic Street Preachers has sounded like, the words have always mattered. Maybe you began at one ...

In 2014, the Manic Street Preachers embarked on a tour to celebrate 20 years of their album ‘Holy Bible.’ Each night of the ...

The guitarist vanished on 1 February 1995 and is widely presumed to have taken his own life, but a body was never found and ...

There’s a charming lack of cynicism to the Manic Street Preachers’ new album, Critical Thinking. Despite concerning themselves explicitly with hyper-capitalism, managed decline, and political unrest, ...

Graduates of The Clash, the Manic Street Preachers were born to disrupt. In their formative years of fight and risk, Steve Lamacq, then an NME journalist, questioned how serious Edwards was about his ...

After 30 years, 14 albums and a small library’s worth of column inches, the Manic Street Preachers are an established feature ... million-selling debut album and then break up. Inevitably, real life ...

The Welsh rockers are preparing to release their 15th studio album Critical Thinking on 14th February and frontman James Dean ...

Legendary Welsh rock band Manic Street Preaches have revealed what it was like to be on the road with Oasis - and why they're not supporting them on their upcoming reunion. Members Nicky Wire and ...

The only real rock’n’roll was coming out of ... so that’s how the Manic Street Preachers came about.” “He was so enigmatic on the inside and outside and played the part of the rock ...

Manic Street Preachers, one of the most important bands ever to emerge from Wales, arrived in the late 1980s with heavy eyeliner, feather boas and political sloganeering. Not the sort of thing you ...