Manic Street Preachers playing Fat Sam’s in Dundee on September 29th, 2021 (Paul Smith for Live4ever)
Manic Street Preachers will continue their UK tour in Stoke on October 1st.
Manic Street Preachers were live at Fat Sam’s in Dundee last night – check out Live4ever’s gallery below.
The veteran band are touring after the recent release of their Ultra Vivid Lament album – one which ‘channels curiosity and disillusionment’ according to our review:
“Drawing on a musical frame of reference paying homage to ABBA (a nod to Dancing Queen originally was made as far back as Motorcycle Emptiness) which then extends to pseudo-New Poppers like Echo & The Bunnymen and Simple Minds, atmospherically this is the sort of melancholia last heard on 2004’s Lifeblood.”
“Opener Still Snowing In Sapporo draws heavily on it, a stoking of memories real or dreamt of the band’s 1993 Japanese tour on which they were still a quartet; ‘How could four become so strong/Yet break and leave too soon’, Bradfield croons, before finishing with, ‘The four of us against the world’, as if any further emphasis on the void Richey Edwards’ death still leaves were required.”
Photos for Live4ever by Paul Smith.
