Nicky Wire, Manic Street Preachers – Wolverhampton Civic Hall (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Tomorrow, the Manic Street Preachers‘ will document their Holy Bible anniversary tour on the BE PURE. BE VIGILANT. BEHAVE film at Premiere Cinemas in Cardiff, and they’ve now shared a short clip to get things going.
It’s been directed by the band’s long-time collaborator Kieran Evans, who’s shared his thoughts on the album with NME.
“Despite what people may say, it’s a very hooky album,” he said. “There are moments like ‘Faster’ and ‘Revol’ that are some of the most thrilling rock n’ roll songs that you can see – the effect on the audience is incredible.”
“Wire and I were discussing how we’d pitch it, and we settled on ‘The Sex Pistols directed by Gaspar Noé’.”
After a fair bit of umming and ahhing, the Manics did indeed start a 20th anniversary tour of their third album in 2014, and also prepared a reissue for release that year.
