After months of toing froing, it seems the Manic Street Preachers have finally decided to mark the 20th anniversary of ‘The Holy Bible‘ by performing the album in full at a series of UK and Irish shows later this year.
‘The Holy Bible’ is arguably the Manics’ finest record, certainly their most confrontational, enraged and politically charged. Its release in 1994 marked the end of the Richey Edwards era; the guitarist disappeared in February 1995 and was officially presumed dead in 2008.
According to a post on Twitter, the LP will now be celebrated (if that’s the right word) at gigs in Glasgow, Manchester, London and Dublin this coming December.
It was only back in July when Nicky Wire was still agonising over whether to revisit his band’s third studio album. “We’re just yinging and yanging about it as we speak,” he 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.”
Glasgow, Manchester, Dublin, London #theholybible20 http://t.co/Laog40MRRq
— ManicStreetPreachers (@Manics) September 23, 2014
