Nicky Wire with Manic Street Preachers at Y Not Festival 2022 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Manic Street Preachers were one of the main attractions during the Friday at Y Not Festival 2022.
Manic Street Preachers, Pale Waves and Calva Louise are some of the artists included in our round-up from the first full day of this year’s Y Not Festival.
The Manics were in Derbyshire having recently announced the continuation of their reissue series with a fresh look at 2001’s Know Your Enemy, this following the release of their most recent studio record The Ultra Vivid Lament in September 2021.
“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,” our review reads.
“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.”
