The band reel through the short and sharp psychic shocks of Journal , which sounds as good live as it does on record.

Manics mine richey’s last words for a return to the heart of darkness

Fourteen years after Richey Edwards disappeared without trace, THE MANIC STREET PREACHERS have summoned the courage to fashion an album from the lyrics he...

The group visit the Olympia Theatre and the newly-opened Ulster Hall in June.

The Manic Street Preachers, Paddy Casey and Bell X1 are among the latest group of acts announced for this year's Oxegen festival.

The Manic Street Preachers have confirmed a second Dublin date in November.

Welsh wizards The Manic Street Preachers have been added to the lineup for the Hot Press Chatroom at Electric Picnic.

Send Away The Tigers is the sound of a group straining, and failing, to recapture glories long vanished. Time, chaps, to move on.

Returning from an extended hiatus, Manic Street Preachers are in stridently upbeat form. In a revealing interview, they reflect on their enduring cultural...

Welsh wonders Manic Street Preachers have announced they're to play the Electric Picnic this summer.

Manic Street Preachers have turned the guitars down, but not the bile. A slimline James Dean Bradfield tells a pleasantly plump Stuart Clark why John F....

James Dean Bradfield explains to hotpress.com why Westmeath's Grouse Lodge Studios should win the World Enterprise Award

Manic Street Preachers return to Ireland this December with a brand new studio album to boot

A compilation, a new album in the works, more distressing rumours about Richey and the prospect of the greatest football song ever – Eamon Sweeney finds...

Lipstick Traces comprises two CDs of covers, live, and unreleased tracks spanning their eleven-year career of consistently strong, intellectual rock on release.

Stop Press: The Manics added to Witness bill

From gigs with cider punks in limerick to playing for Fidel in Havana and from the low of Richey’s disappearance to the high of performing before Wales’...

You heard it here first: the Manic Street Preachers are recording an "album of city songs" to be completed next year - and our own capital has made the final...

Manic Street Preachers Heineken Green Energy, Smithfield, Dublin There was a time that being a Manic Street Preachers fan meant something.

On the face of it, you could take the title as indicating a reversal of the Manics' musical prejudices. Nicky Wire might've always professed a hatred of the...

MANIC STREET PREACHERS: “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next” (Epic)

MANIC STREET PREACHERS/SCHTUM (Tivoli, Dublin)

MANIC STREET PREACHERS: “The Holy Bible” (Sony)

Manic Street Preachers: "Roses In The Hospital" (Sony)

MANIC STREET PREACHERS: 'La Tristesse Durera' (Columbia)

On the face of it, you could take the title as indicating a reversal of the Manics' musical prejudices. Nicky Wire might've always professed a hatred of the...