Nicky Wire, Manic Street Preachers – Wolverhampton Civic Hall (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
The Manic Street Preachers have posted the first single from their next studio album Resistance Is Futile, which is due for release on April 6th, 2018.
“I’d been digesting the lyric for five years, since being in Nice and finally joining the dots between Yves Klein’s International Klein Blue and the vast open blue of the Mediterranean Sea,” Nicky Wire says of International Blue.
“It was a moment of connection that felt perfectly natural – not forced or intellectualised. A different kind of enrichment that feels increasingly difficult to find. The track itself is carried by the kind of naïve energy that powered ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’.”
“Often I just need a great title to set me off,” James Dean Bradfield adds. “Seeing the word blue struck a chord and set off memories of pure pop records we grew up with.”
The Manics head out on a UK arena tour after the release of their new LP, starting in Newcastle on April 23rd.
Tour dates:
April 2018
23 – Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena
25 – Glasgow, The SSE Hydro Arena
27 – Birmingham, Arena
28 – Manchester, Arena
May 2018
1 – Llandudno, Venue Cymru Arena
2 – Leeds, First Direct Arena
4 – London, The SSE Arena Wembley
5 – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
