Big Budget Gig To Celebrate Manic Street Preachers’ Singles Collection


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Manic Street Preachers have announced details of a hugely ambitious show to mark their new singles collection ‘National Treasures’, due for release on October 31st.

The Welsh band plan to play each of the 38 tracks which comprise the new album during the gig, with a high-production, visually-led interval also planned.

“We’ve never done anything on this scale before, so we’ll be playing for an hour-and-a-half, then there will be a half-an-hour interval, with lots of stuff, film stuff to do, and then we’ll finish with another 20 songs,” bass player Nicky Wire told NME.

“It’s going to be an immense project, production-wise, screens, videos, you name it. It will be a completely unique thing and we’ll never do it again.”

The gig will be held at London’s O2 Arena on December 17th. The band have previously hinted the show will mark the beginning of a prolonged break, after a successful period in the wake of the release of ‘Postcards From a Young Man‘ last year.

Tickets will go on sale from this Friday (September 2nd) at 9.30am.

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