The Manic Street Preachers aired their Resistance Is Futile single International Blue on Later…With Jools Holland earlier this week – check it out below if you’re able to.
The band were guests on the show with Gwenno, Melissa Laveaux, Ray Lamontagne and Ben Howard after releasing their latest LP last month. “Never more than fully immersed in this uncivil war of sensibilities, the Manic Street Preachers have never really gone in for assuming a new posture every time they meet their public again, although in the past they’ve taken leopard print punk, stadium monolithics and, on their last album Futurology, even krautrock into a stable brimming with ideas and also cautious, paternalistic socialism with the smallest of S’s,” we said in our review.