Manic Street Preachers To Tour

Revered Welsh alternative-rockers Manic Street Preachers have just announced their long awaited return to Australia!

The Manics will perform landmark tracks lifted from throughout their stellar 20-year career, plus songs from their highly anticipated new studio album, Postcards from a Young Man, scheduled for a September 24.

The first single to the taken from the band’ latest album offering will be It’s not War (Just The End Of Love), classic alternative rock, Manics style. The twelve-track album also features guests Ian McCulloch, John Cale and Duff McKagen.

Manic Street Preachers emerged from Wales and into the fore of the UK music press in 1992 with the release of their debut album Generation Terrorists, followed by Gold Against the Soul, The Holy Bible and in 1996 Everything Must Go featuring A Design for Life, earning numerous salutes for Album of the Year, racking up multi-platinum sales and establishing the band as superstars.

Postcards From A Young Man is the band’s 10th studio album, following 2009’s Journal for Plague Lovers, written with and inspired by the abandoned lyrics of past member Richey James.

Dates:

Saturday 13th November – The Hi-Fi, Brisbane
Monday 15th November – The Metro, Sydney
Thursday 18th November – HQ, Adelaide
Saturday 20th November – The Forum, Melbourne
Monday 22nd November – Metropolis Fremantle, Perth

Tickets on sale Wednesday 18th August