Manic Street Preachers News

The Killers, Metallica and Rage Against the Machine have been announced as this year's headline acts for the Reading and Leeds....

Read news story: KILLERS METALLICA AND RAGE TO HEADLINE READING LEEDS

"PUBLIC ENEMY - get CHUCK D to get that (award) because I think he's a true inspiration. Best rapper ever." MANIC STREET PREACHERS bassist NICKY WIRE....

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DJ and producer MARK RONSON is to work with the KAISER CHIEFS on their next album, it has been reported. According to the Mirror, the BRIT....

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Welsh rockers MANIC STREET PREACHERS are planning to perform a show-stopping duet with KYLIE MINOGUE at next year's (08) NME Awards. The band - who....

Read news story: MANICS PLAN A KYLIE COLLABORATION

The MANIC STREET PREACHERS would like KYLIE MINOGUE to join them on stage when they perform at the Shockwaves NME Awards Big Gig in....

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Mystery still surrounds MANIC STREET PREACHERS' troubled guitarist RICHEY EDWARDS, who disappeared in 1995. Edwards, who was burdened with many....

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Welsh rockers MANIC STREET PREACHERS are to be honoured with British music magazine NME's highest accolade - the Godlike Genius Award. The band....

Read news story: MANICS GIVEN GODLIKE GENIUS AWARD

The Manic Street Preachers are to receive the Godlike Genius accolade at the 2008 Shockwave NME awards, it has been revealed. The Welsh....

Read news story: MANICS NAMED GODLIKE GENIUSES

Welsh rockers MANIC STREET PREACHERS have slammed RADIOHEAD for ruining the music industry. Radiohead stunned the record business last month (Oct07)....

Read news story: MANICS ACCUSE RADIOHEAD OF RUINING MUSIC

MANIC STREET PREACHERS are celebrating the holidays by giving fans a free Christmas single. The rockers have made the track Ghost Of Christmas....

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Welsh rockers MANIC STREET PREACHERS have patched up their rift with singer BILLY BRAGG, after they fell out over a portable toilet. Bragg, 49,....

Read news story: MANICS AND BRAGG END RIFT

Welsh rockers MANIC STREET PREACHERS have shelved plans to release a Christmas single - insisting the song is too "cheesy". The band were hoping to....

Read news story: MANICS SHELVE FESTIVE SINGLE

The Arctic Monkeys have been named the best act in the world today at the 2007 Q Music awards. The Sheffield band beat some heavyweight....

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Amy Winehouse's Back to Black has again been nominated for a best record of the year award. The troubled singer's album has been put up for....

Read news story: WINEHOUSE UP AGAINST MONKEYS AND KAISERS AT QS

MANIC STREET PREACHERS rocker NICKY WIRE finds it difficult to understand how a band as "utterly deplorable" as SNOW PATROL can be so popular. Wire....

Read news story: WIRE BLASTS DEPLORABLE SNOW PATROL

Manic Street Preachers guitarist Nicky Wire has laid into fellow V Festival headliners Snow Patrol, calling them "utterly....

Read news story: MANICS LEGEND LAYS INTO SNOW PATROL

Swansea's Fflam music festival has been cancelled after scheduling problems prevented a rearranged date for the event being....

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Timbaland's The Way I Are has finally ended Rihanna's ten-week stay at the top of the UK singles chart. The Barbadian singer's Umbrella was....

Read news story: RIHANNA SLIPS FROM NUMBER ONE PERCH

Wales' Fflam festival has been postponed due to "consistently bad weather conditions" threatening to turn the event into a mud....

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Rock legends The Who closed out this year's Glastonbury festival which has seen about 180,000 people brave regular downpours and muddy conditions to....

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A festival-goer has died at Glastonbury after being found unconscious in the early hours yesterday, police have confirmed. The 26-year-old....

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MANIC STREET PREACHERS rocker NICKY WIRE has apologised for making a derogatory comment about England's legendary Glastonbury festival - and insists....

Read news story: WIRE APOLOGISES FOR GLASTONBURY COMMENT

Glastonbury festival-goers look set to require a mix of "sun cream and wellie boots" according to the Met Office. A heavy bout of....

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A man has died after being discovered unconscious in his car at a festival headlined by THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS and MANIC STREET PREACHERS in the....

Read news story: MAN DIES AT SCOTTISH ROCK FESTIVAL

Arctic Monkeys, the Killers and the Who have all been confirmed as the headline acts at this year's Glastonbury festival. Festival....

Read news story: GLASTONBURY LINEUP UNVEILED

Welsh rockers the MANIC STREET PREACHERS made an emotional return to London venue Astoria on Wednesday night (30May07) - 13 years after their last....

Read news story: MANIC STREET PREACHERS EMOTIONAL RETURN TO LONDON VENUE

MANIC STREET PREACHERS guitarist JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD has heaped praise on fellow rockers ARCADE FIRE - much to the disapproval of his bandmates. ....

Read news story: MANIC STREET PREACHERS SPLIT OVER ARCADE FIRE

Welsh rockers the MANIC STREET PREACHERS have slammed the British music scene - insisting they don't want their children to listen to their music....

Read news story: MANICS SLAM BRITISH MUSIC SCENE

The Thrills and McFly have been added to the V Festival line-up taking place in Chelmsford and Staffordshire. Irish band the Thrills will....

Read news story: THRILLS AND MCFLY ADDED TO V FESTIVAL LINE-UP

Pop band McFly have scored their seventh number one single after beating Beyonce and Shakira's Beautiful Liar to the top of the UK....

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