While some bands have made a career resting on their laurels, Manic Street Preachers have prolonged theirs by continuing to push the envelope. Having emerged in 1990 with a glut of three-minute punk ...

This is, says bassist-vocalist Nicky Wire “a record of opposites colliding - of dialectics trying to find a path of resolution.” The songs “are microcosms of meaninglessness in a world so brutal and ...

The album is sufficiently front-loaded with hits to give the Welsh trio, plus three supporting musicians, the chance to warm up the crowd, with stately epic “The Everlasting” and fan favourite “You ...