Manic Street Preachers get set for spring/summer of 2017 with a selection of activities both release wise and live.  Having recently moved into a new studio outside Newport after leaving their Cardiff base in the Autumn of 2016, they are about to start work on a new album, the follow up to 2014’s critically acclaimed No. 2 album ‘Futurology’.

Their eighth album ‘Send Away The Tigers’ enjoys its 10^th Anniversary and a very special edition is being released with a double cd + DVD bookset, double vinyl (with download codes) and digital versions available on 12^th May 2017.  Featuring all audio remastered by James Dean Bradfield of the original album, there will also be unheard demos; a bonus disc of b-sides and rare tracks; a DVD of their full 2007 Glastonbury set; promo videos and rare/never seen before footage from rehearsals. Nicky Wire has also contributed handwritten lyrics and imagery from his personal archive.  “Send Away The Tigers was a very important record for us, it gave us a new lease of life and helped us to rediscover our love of the band. This edition helps to tell the whole story. Through demos, home recordings and hand-written lyrics you find intimate details of a band about to reinvent themselves.”  Manic Street Preachers

Prior to this, Sky Arts will be screening a documentary on 15^th April of ‘Escape From History’ made by Manics collaborator BAFTA award winning director Kieran Evans.  The film describes the period after guitarist Richey Edwards went missing and follows the band as they record and release their landmark fourth album ‘everything must go’. Through the eyes of the band and close associates the film reveals the internal dynamics and creative relationships within Manic Street Preachers.

James Dean Bradfield has also composed the soundtrack to a new independent film released on 10th March.  ‘The Chamber’ is a claustrophobic survival thriller, set below the Yellow Sea and described as a “new sound from Bradfield and adds to the dark and atmospheric mood of the film”.  The album is released on Sony Classics on the same day as the film.

The band has also announced several dates for later this summer, see below:

 9 July                  Llanfest. Llangollen 2017, Eisteddfod

27 – 30 July          Kendall Calling, Lowther Deer Park, Penrith

30 July                 Carfest North, Bolesworth Castle, Chester

 4 – 6 August         Indiependence, Cork

 5 August              Live From Times Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne

27 August             Carfest South, Laverstoke Park Farm, Hampshire

1  September        Bingley Music Live, Myrtle Park, Bingley

1. Send Away The Tigers
2. Welcome To The Dead Zone
3. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
4. Indian Summer
5. The Second Great Depression
6. Rendition
7. Autumnsong
8. I’m Just A Patsy
9. Imperial Bodybags
10. Winterlovers
11. Working Class Hero
12. Send Away the Tigers (DEMO, Faster Studios)
13. Underdogs (DEMO, Faster Studios)
14. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (DEMO – 60’s Jangle, Faster Studios)
15. Indian Summer  (CASSETTE HOME ACCOUSTIC DEMO)
16. The Second Great Depression (DEMO, Faster Studios)
17. Rendition  (CASSETTE HOME ACOUSTIC DEMO)
18. Autumnsong  (DEMO, Faster Studios)
19. I’m Just a Patsy  (CASSETTE HOME ACOUSTIC DEMO)
20. Imperial Bodybags  (DEMO, Faster Studios)
21. Winterlovers (DEMO, Faster Studios)

1. Leviathan
2. Umbrella
3. Ghost Of Christmas
4. Boxes and Lists
5. Love Letter to the Future
6. Little Girl Lost
7. Fearless Punk Ballad
8. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (Nina Solo Acoustic)
9. Red Sleeping Beauty (McCarthy cover)
10. The Long Goodbye
11. Morning Comrades
12. 1404
13. The Vorticists
14. Autumnsong (Acoustic version)
15. Anorexic Rodin
16. Heyday of the Blood
17. Foggy Eyes (Beat Happening Cover)
18. Lady Lazarus
19. You Know It’s Going to Hurt

1. You Love Us
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. You Stole the Sun From My Heart
4. Faster
5. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (with Nina Persson)
6. Everything Must Go
7. From Despair to Where
8. Autumnsong
9. Ocean Spray
10. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
11. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
12. Imperial Bodybags
13. Motown Junk
14. A Design for Life

1. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough video
2. Making of ‘Your Love Alone Is Not Enough’ video
3. Autumnsong video
4. Autumnsong alternative video
5. Indian Summer video
6. Track By Track
7. Rehearsals, Cardiff March 2007
8. Practice Sessions

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