Manic Street Preachers perform International Blue on Later…With Jools Holland


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Nicky Wire, Manic Street Preachers – Wolverhampton Civic Hall (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)




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.

“And yet, from the opening note of Resistance Is Futile’s lead single International Blue, it is utterly doubtless who its creators are; a signature guitar peal from James Dean Bradfield begging recognition whether you’re in Taipei or Tallahassee.”


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