Forever Delayed

📆[10/02/1992]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released their debut album Generation Terrorists.

Chart Position: #13

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Nearly 70,000 words - over 300 songs - 15 album essays - 3 weeks to go! Plus, the cover of Manic Street Preachers: Song by Song in front of an image of a bookshop interior

Nearly 70,000 words, over 300 songs covered, 15 album essays - and only 3 weeks until MANIC STREET PREACHERS: SONG BY SONG is out. More info and preorder links at andyjohnson.xyz/manics

BBC Two - Top of the Pops, 19/03/1999 With Steps, The Beautiful South, Roxette, Travis, REM, Manic Street Preachers and Boyzone.

📺| Top Of The Pops - BBC4, Friday 06/02/2026, 7:00pm

Featuring Manic Street Preachers performing You Stole The Sun From My Heart, first broadcast 19/03/1999.

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📰| Nina Persson on collaborating with Manic Street Preachers on Your Love Alone Is Not Enough, from a Q&A with The Guardian

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📷| Nicky Wire in 'Keep The World Away: Finding Gwen John'

Watch now on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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📆[05/02/1986]| On This Day 40 years ago Manic Street Preachers played their first ever gig at Crumlin's Railway Hotel. Their set featured covers of Teenage Kicks, God Save The Queen and Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) and 3 early Manics originals.

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🎫| Manic Street Preachers announced for Heartland Festival, Egeskov, Denmark 🇩🇰 on Friday 19th June 2026

Tickets: heartlandfestival.dk

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Huw Stephens

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From Despair To Where

Manic Street Preachers James Dean Bradfield's first solo album 'The Great Western' will be reissued on coloured vinyl and Nicky Wire's second solo album 'Intimism' will be released physically for the first time for Record Store Day 2026 on Saturday 18th April 2026.

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MANIC STREET PREACHERS: SONG BY SONG By Andy Johnson Out February 28 February 2026 Preorder now

I have a book coming out and would really appreciate you spreading the word! MANIC STREET PREACHERS: SONG BY SONG is published by Fonthill Media and out on 28 February. A complete, concise guide to every song from 1988 to 2025.

More info and preorder: www.andyjohnson.xyz/manicssongby...

📆[31/01/2025]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released Brushstrokes Of Reunion, the fourth single from Critical Thinking.

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📆[31/01/1994]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released Life Becoming A Landslide, the fourth and final single from Gold Against The Soul.

Chart Position: #36

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Six years of podcasting and we're still talking about the Manics! This week, we wrapped up our thoughts on Critical Thinking. Available now wherever you get your podcasts!

Thank you to everyone who has been with us for the last six years, or on any part of that journey - it means a lot to us!

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Craig Charles

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Motorcycle Emptiness

We're looking forward to picking up the #Manics Discography Showdown around here. Every track vs every track. A decades continuous fan powered ranking experiment!

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Radcliffe and Maconie

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Sleepflower

BBC Two - Keeping the World Away - Finding Gwen John Sian Eleri uncovers the real Gwen John, now revered as Wales's greatest female artist.

📺| Keeping the World Away - Finding Gwen John - BBC2 Wales & iPlayer - Thursday 05/02/2026, 9pm

Nicky Wire features in Sian Eleri's documentary about the life and work of painter Gwen John.

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Nick Grimshaw

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Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

📆[21/01/1991]| On This Day 35 years ago Manic Street Preachers released Motown Junk.

Chart Position: #94

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📆[20/01/1992]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released You Love Us, the third single from Generation Terrorists.

Chart Position: #16

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A very Happy Birthday to the killer of the zeitgeist, hiding in plain sight on bass, lyrics and legs, Mr Nicholas Allen Wire! xx

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Today, before we get back to Arctic Monkeys, we catch up with Manic Street Preachers and review their 15th studio album, Critical Thinking. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Something big is coming for #Manics fans. Something involving every studio track. Follow & share — we would love to hit 500 followers* before we launch!

(*not out of vanity or neediness, just to give the results more of a chance!)

🎙️| Mark Goodier announcing Manic Street Preachers' The Masses Against The Classes as Number 1 on the BBC Radio 1 UK Top 40 Chart Show and talking to Nicky Wire

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📆[16/01/2000]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers' The Masses Against The Classes reached Number 1 in the UK @officialcharts.bsky.social, becoming the band's second Number 1 single and the first new Number 1 of the 21st Century.

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TICKETS/TOCYNNAU | laugharne-weekend

🎫| Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire will be in conversation with Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller at The Laugharne Weekend 2026 taking place Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd March 2026

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New licensed Manics Merch available from @banquetrecords.com

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Welcome if you find us! We have been running this project since October 2018, now reaching out to explore other media rounds to keep things active. In short, we are polling every Manic Street Preachers song against every Manic Street Preachers song to create an unofficial chart due around 2040.

Test #poll! What are you going to do now you've found us?

1️⃣ Pretend you didn't see us here and move on
2️⃣ Tell all your #Manics friends!

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