Tag Archives: Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers, The Ultra Vivid Lament. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We are living in a time where the expression of grief is either firmly encouraged or damned as being self-interested, almost self-seeking, and there seems to be no middle ground between those who understand the empathy required to show someone you care enough to allow them the time and space needed to be able to go beyond the initial stages of hurt, and those who will do anything to ridicule and inflict further embarrassment on those willing to place their heart, not only on their sleeve, but in the glare of the intense judgement available of those with the loudest voices.

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Manic Street Preachers, Gig Review. Anfield Stadium, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Manic Street Preachers are no strangers to Liverpool, having the rare bestowment of love given to them by the city for the part they have played in music history but also in the way they have sided with the city in political respects, they have felt the damage to the city and its citizens’ reputations as surely had they plied their early days continually performing at the Lomax or gigging round the town on a daily basis. No strangers, just another opportunity in which to perform in a city they love, and to perform at the home of the European Champions as support to Bon Jovi must surely rank as one of the great moments of the band’s history.

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Manic Street Preachers, Resistance Is Futile. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

You can’t argue with the music, the sentiment and the ability, you can however feel that an element of what went before is missing, consigned perhaps to not being part of the moment or the future, and when that happens it calls into question the reasons and objections you may have in your own mind to how a band or artist will continue on in that vein.

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Manic Street Preachers, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Time has only has its own void to fill when you realise that a decade has gone past, when the thought of a great concert in the city by one of the most proficient, unambiguous and staunchly determined groups of their era, becomes once more a biting and tenacious reality.

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Manic Street Preachers, Futurology. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If the early part of The Manic Street Preacher’s career was an abundance of the brutal thought wrapped up in the assurance of a protection from four lads from South Wales then as the group have got older, as the more the world feels more insane and the feeling of being abandoned becomes more prevalent day by day, the more The Manic Street Preachers are needed to offer a light on the insidious, on the corrupt and corruptible and the need to understand that to feel angry is not just a feeling it is a right.

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Manic Street Preachers, Rewind The Film. Album Review.

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Rage and anger are very frustrating animals, in some it becomes lost in a rant that is fuelled by jealousy and is unattractive to see portrayed or seen. In many though the anger grinds under the surface, its reflection on society growing until the bubble bursts and comes pouring out, not in a diatribe of mixed, sometimes reactionary anguish but in a form of social belief, quiet fury that is softly spoken and carrying perhaps the biggest sack of wrath. For fury and change never seems to be misplaced in the anger of a patient man.

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Buffalo Summer, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.

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Wales has always managed to hold onto its musical secrets until the right time comes along to unleash them upon the world in a blaze of Welsh pride, especially its rock groups. The Alarm, Manic Street Preachers, The Reasoning and The Stereophonics all have become household names over the decades not just in their home country but across the River Severn and through the mountains and hills of the North and invaded the collective music thought of the neighbours in England.

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Manic Street Preachers, Gig Review. Civic Hall, Wolverhampton.

Originally published by The Birmingham Mail. June 2009.

With the new album, Journal for Plague Lovers, barely out its packaging, the Manic Street Preachers stoked up the heat at the Wolverhampton Civic as they showed what the music scene had been missing for the past few years.

By playing the new offering its entirety, the capacity crowd was given the chance to savour some of the last work of Richey Edwards, whose lyrics have been set to music by the band.

These included opening track Peeled Apples Me and Stephen Hawking and the lament William’s Last Words.

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Manic Street Preachers, Postcards From A Young Man. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. October 1st 2010.

The Manic Street Preachers have always been one of those bands that want to go from populist music makers to ground breaking visionaries that produce an album just because they can.

Postcards from a Young Man, the tenth studio album by the Welsh rockers, seems as if the band has managed to combine these two separate ways of thinking into one album. With instantly recognisable songs that have the Manic feel stamped all over them, to songs that don’t quite fit with the rest of the endeavour, one thing for sure is that this album will never be accused of being staid or neglectful to its core fan base.

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Manic Street Preachers, Gig Review. King George’s Hall, Blackburn.

Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Originally published by L.S. Media. October 10th 2010.

The Manic Street Preachers are a band that everybody should experience live at least once in their lifetime, understated, dramatic, proud and as real as you can get. There can no doubt that James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore are to be considered as three of the best live musicians of the last decade.

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(381 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)