Manic Street Preachers mulling over playing ‘The Holy Bible’ in full live


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Manic Street Preachers bass player Nicky Wire has said the band are ‘yinging and yanging’ over the possibility of playing their 1994 album ‘The Holy Bible‘ in full live, but are unsure due to the highly charged nature of the record.

“We’re just yinging and yanging about it as we speak,” he has told XFM.

“We were talking about it just then, actually. I like to think it would be good, but 20 years is a long time. The attitude we had then – we weren’t singing about Parklife and stuff, we were singing about the holocaust, while the rest of Britain bathed in the glow of euphoria. To get that mindset in your head is pretty difficult. You have to be convincing. If we did it just to enjoy ourselves would be wrong.”

Two decades on from ‘The Holy Bible’, the Manics released their twelfth studio LP ‘Futurology‘ earlier this month. Check out Live4ever’s verdict right here.


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