Manic Street Preachers make triumphant return to T In The Park

Manic Street Preachers played a rapturously-received set at T In The Park to close the King Tut's Wah Wah Tent tonight (July 11).

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The Welsh trio played some thing of a greatest hits set to the packed tent. Opening with their classic early single 'Motorcycle Emptiness', from the off most of the crowd were singing along.

Playing a selection of tracks spanning the length of their career, the band kept banter to a minimum, instead choosing to play old favourites such as 'Faster' and 'Little Baby Nothing' as well as a viciously impressive 'Peeled Apples' from their recent album 'Journal For Plague Lovers'.

Frontman James Dean Bradfield played an acoustic version of 'The Everlasting' alone with a guitar. The song, which the band haven't played regularly for years, was sang back by the crowd with such vigour that the singer was visibly taken aback and let the assembled faithful belt out the chorus.

'You Love Us' whipped the tent up into a frenzy, with bassist Wire strutting around the stage, evidently having recovered fully from the back problems which troubled him earlier in the year.

Dean Bradfield segued from 'Stop In The Name Of Love' into 'Motown Junk' in the same manner as on their most recent tour, changing the lyrics to "Stop in the name of junk" before launching into the fiery punk classic.

The climax came, in standard Manics fashion, in the form of 'A Design For Life', which was rendered anthemically. The crowd took relish in drowning the band out while Wire stomped around in circles, kicking his knees up and singing.

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Manic Street Preachers played:

'Motorcycle Emptiness'
'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough'
'No Surface All Feeling'
'Peeled Apples'
'Tsunami'
'Autumnsong'
'Ocean Spray'
'Faster'
'If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next'
'The Everlasting'
'Everything Must Go'
‘You Stole The Sun From My Heart'
'You Love Us'
'Little Baby Nothing'
'Stop In The Name Of Love'/'Motown Junk'
'A Design For Life'




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