Manic Street Preachers Plan to Clash With Queen's Celebrations
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Monday, 04 July 2011 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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Welsh rockers the Manic Street Preachers have announced that they will put on a one-off gig next year – designed to clash with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
The ‘If You Tolerate This’ singers had vowed not to tour after this year’s festival slots and shows, and had scheduled to take 2012 off from live performance, after the mildly successful ‘Postcards from a Young Man’ was released last year.
But, performing at the iTunes festival yesterday, bassist Nicky Wire revealed that the band now have one show planned for next year.
“We were gonna take a year off from touring altogether next year, but we are gonna do one gig just to avoid the Diamond Jubilee.
“I mean, how fucking saturated have we been with the Royal Family this year? So there’ll be one gig, just to avoid having to listen to Prince Philip for an hour.”
The Manic Street Preachers are currently working eleventh studio album, with the working title ‘70 Songs of Hatred and Failure’, and is due out later this year. Wire described the album as different from ‘Postcards’.
"The next album will be pure indulgence. There’s only so much melody stored in your body that you can physically get onto one record. It was just so utterly commercial and melodic."
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