Two iconic bands.
Suede are excited to announce two shows alongside @Manics in Tokyo, where Suede will be closing the 1st night + MSP closing the 2nd.
Tickets on general sale at 10am 10th June, with the E-Plus pre-sale running from 27th May-8th June.
Info: https://t.co/FHdMKq5Q3F
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— Suede HQ (@suedeHQ) May 18, 2023
Two iconic songs.
– MANIC STREET PREACHERS –
– SUEDE –
Welsh icons MANIC STREET PREACHERS covered several songs/artists in the
past (The Cure, Guns ‘n Roses, Small faces, Echo and The Bunnymen, and more).
Last March they played another of their fav songs – Madonna‘s 1984 hit Borderline
live for the 1st time. They love it so much that they went soon after to the studio to
record it.
Have a listen…
The Madonona original
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The Manics added the recorded version of the cover to their Covers playlist on Spotify.
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Back in time
23 December 2022
One of my all-time beloved MANIC STREET PREACHERS
classics is YOU LOVE US from their thunderous debut LP
(a double one) from 1992.
The accompanying culture sluts video clip still is as fab as the day
it came out, featuring the late Richey Edwards who disappeared
mysteriously in 1995. Still sorely missed. R.I.P.
We are not your sinners
Our voices are for real
We realised and won’t be mourned
We gonna burn your deathmask uniforms
We won’t die of devotion
Understand we can never belong
Thrown some acid on the Mona-Lisa’s face
Pollute your mineral water
with a strychnine taste
You love us
You love us
You love us
MANIC STREET PREACHERS: Facebook
The single’s artwork
Great concert posters from the past
MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Cardiff, Wales
31 December 1999
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Daily noise that works faster and harder than any stimulant
6 April 2023
British wayward indie team OPUS KINK are one of the most
arousing bands of the British post-punk rebirth of the past years
(Ditz, Shame, black midi, Life, Crows, Lice, Deadletter).
The ambitious misfits have another EP, named MY EYES, BROTHER!
coming up next month. More info here. Following the jarring piece
Dust OK upset again with 1.18 .
“A song about letting your hair down and finding peace in the unreasonable
squalid indifference of the universe.. You do you, hun!”
TUTV: 1:18 is a neurotic caterwaul that goes forth and back with burning pzazz. Monomaniacal vocalist Angus Rogers gets worked up to an almost hysterical level
and sounds like a tormented and obsessed soul and the band’s horn duo blow
their lungs out with nerve-racking urgency. Blimey! Breathtaking!
Tune in.
Get mental.
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Also st(r)eaming on Spotify.
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OPUS KINK: Facebook – Instagram
21 February 2022
(photo by Turn Up The Volume – Belgium, 2019)
JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD was born on
21 February 1969 in Pontypool, Wales.
Happy 53 to the singer/guitarist
of Manic Street Preachers, one
of my all-time favorite bands.
There’s no way better to celebrate JDB’s birthday than
with the Manics’ 1996 masterstroke A Design For Life…
JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD: Facebook
Nicky Wire remembers his close friend and his Manic Street Preachers‘s bandmate
Richy Edwards who disappeared without leaving a trace on 27 years ago.
On stage
7 May 2022
Band: SILVERBACKS
Who: Up and coming indie guitar team from Dublin City, Ireland
Albums: FAD (2020) and the a.w.e.s.o.m.e new one Archive Material
Concert: Botanique venue, Brussels City, Belgium – 5 May 2022
HIGHS
1. Guitarist Kilian O’Kelly is a riff wizard. He produces riff after riff after riff the way NYC’s Television maestro Tom Verlaine used to blow minds with his electrifying guitar style.
2. Fluently French-speaking frontman Daniel O’Kelly (yep, Killian‘s brother in crime) is the man in the middle of this Irish team. His sharp-edged vocals made me think of David Byrne in his early talking heads days when he articulated his words like an anxious misfit.
3. Bassist and vocalist Emma Hanlon is the band’s silent one. She’s extremely focused throughout the concert while plugging her bass and when she comes up front for the lead vocals on Wear My Medals and Up The Nurses she looks a bit shy and nervous which made her really cute.
4. No fillers, all killers. On record and on stage.
All rollicking ripsnorters all rip-roaring rockers.
5. After a short technical problem the band explodes once again with psychedelic knockout Recycle Culture. Hair-rasing. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
D.C. triumph in B.C.
LOWS: None.
Here’s an idea of Silverbacks‘ live swagger…
Stream ARCHIVE MATERIAL here…
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Buy the album via Bandcamp
em>Great music magazine covers from the past…
MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Melody Maker
20 July 1991
R.I.P. Richey Edwards
Top singles from the past
5 September 2022
Twenty-four years ago today, on 5 September 1998 – Welsh legends MANIC STREET PREACHERS nailed their first numero uno hit single in the UK with one of their most emotive masterstrokes. IF YOU TOLERATE THIS YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT (more than 60 million streams on Spotify) is a titanic anthem that takes your breath away every single second of its almost 5 magnificent minutes.
The song’s title came from a Republican propaganda poster during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), showing a captivating photograph of a young child killed by the Nationalists under a sky filled with bomber planes, with the warning “If you tolerate this, your children will be next” written below.
Sing it, Manics.
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