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Manic Street Preachers to record Christmas single

Manic Street Preachers, Channel 4 Stage, 20.05pm , V Festival, Weston Park, Staffordshire, August 18, 2007.  Pic: Andy Willsher

Manic Street Preachers, Channel 4 Stage, 20.05pm , V Festival, Weston Park, Staffordshire, August 18, 2007. Pic:...

The trio plan to record a new song for the festive season

Manic Street Preachers are planning to record a Christmas song to release this December.

The single will coincide with the band’s forthcoming UK tour.

Frontman James Dean Bradfield told BBC 6 Music that the band were in the early stages of writing the song.

“I think we’ve got more of a sense of humour than people realise,” he said. “We regard it [the Christmas single concept] as a great, great tradition.”

Explaining more about the songwriting process, Bradfield added: “The way it reads is a bit funny at the moment. We've got to decide what we're going to do with it. We've always got lots of little plans and dreams – one of is to do a Christmas single.”

The UK tour calls at:

Aberdeen Music Hall (December 2)
Edinburgh Corn Exchange (3)
Manchester Central (5)
Cardiff International Arena (6)
Birmingham NIA (8)
Bournemouth BIC (9)
London Brixton Carling Academy (11/12)
Brighton Centre (14)


To check ticket availability and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS, now.

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