Here's what Manic Street Preachers played as they kicked off their 2025 UK 'Critical Thinking' tour. Click here to find remaining tickets.

As you might expect from a Manic Street Preachers gig, literary influences were never far away. A DH Lawrence quote was ...

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Manic Street Preachers have been around for almost 40 years - but fans are just realising one thing about their name. The Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood, Caerphilly, in 1986 and formed a key ...

By their own early plans, Manic Street Preachers shouldn’t exist in 2025. In the flush of youth, frontman James Dean ...

How do you know you are at a Manics gig? Because before anything else we get the Welsh working-class academic, writer and socialist Raymond Williams. On the screen behind the stage at the ...

Manic Street Preachers' new album, Critical Thinking, had Bradfield reconnecting with guitars new and old, Nicky Wire unleashing on the title track, and it is a typically unique work from the Welsh ro ...

A crackdown on busking and street preaching in Birmingham city centre could soon be expanded. The city council has proposed to introduce a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) in areas currently ...