Welsh trio Manic Street Preachers - still going strong after however many albums now - are planning to release a special Christmas single later this year. Around Christmas, we'd wager.
The band are touring in December, so expect said release to drop around the same time as the band are driving about the country, stopping only to belt out 'Motorcycle Emptiness', and whatever other songs they play these days. 'Australia', maybe, or that one where Nicky Wire jumps rope. Does he still do that?
Says singer James Dean Bradfield of the Christmas single (as told to BBC 6Music):
"I think we've got more of a sense of humour than people realise. We regard [Christmas singles] as a great, great tradition.
"The way it reads is a bit funny at the moment. We've got to decide what we're going to do with it. We've always got lots of little plans and dreams - one of is to do a Christmas single."
The band's December dates are as follows:
December
2 Aberdeen Music Hall
3 Edinburgh Corn Exchange
5 Manchester Central
6 Cardiff CIA
8 Birmingham NIA
9 Bournemouth BIC
11 + 12 London Brixton Academy
14 Brighton Brighton Centre
A cover
of 'Don't Let The Bells End' with even more widdly rawk guitar...
Mozalini's suggestion
seconded.
They should call it
"Fear Of Presents"
I heart the Manics anyway, so will be interested to see what they come up with. If only they could have left "Underdogs" off the last record (and ANY record ever)...
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Someone should tell them that no-one has cared about Christmas single races since Simon Cowell and his talent shows turned them into a pointless redundancy (geddit?!).
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Someone should tell them that no-one has cared about the Manics since Everything Must Go.
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Oh aye, apart from Brit Awards, Number one singles, sold out tours, etc, etc. Yeah no-one cares at all! :/
I can't wait for this, I'm really interested to hear how it turns out. Should be a brilliant little addition to the December tour :)
I don't care
and that' it all that count.
Remember Mika has a number record and can sell out concerts, that doesn't make him good.
You don't care..
About typing properly either it seems! Sure success doesn't make an artist or band automatically good...but you can't really compare Mika, a here one minute, gone the next flavour of the week, to a band that has a career spanning over a decade and a half with 8 studio albums under their belts.
Anyway, my point wasn't about whether they're good or not, it was that people obviously do care and will always care about the Manics!
Somone should tell tem that noone had cared about the Manics since
The Holy Bible
Yeah tem, hope you heard.
Them, too.
they did a one off "special" end-of-year single once before
and it was the fucking embarassing "masses against the classes"
please dont do it again
were they not
going to fuck off after Generatation Terrorists sold one million copies? surely it's done this by now?
try
16 million.
what? That was awesome!
First new number one of this millenium fact-hunters!
Everything the MSP have done
since The Holy Bible has been embarassing toss, and i wish they would go away and find some new despotic tin-pot regime to endorse..and not tell us about it.
Wonder if this single
will be piss.
Verse chorus verse chorus, bad middle eight, chorus.
Wafty meaningless political message (like, ooo arent politicians bad and that), no tune, and cunts playing it.
I cant wait.
fooooook off
i find comments like that embarrassing and rather boring.
why some people can't just admit to themselves that 'everything must go' was a great record, and Manics have at least peppered a few decent songs since then, even if the albums have been patchy.
They're a band that the fans love for their mistakes as much as their achievements. I welcome the Christmas single. I hope it's a bittersweet classic - Just leave Nicky out of it.