Manic Street Preachers have announced details of a huge headline gig in Bristol – taking place the day before Glastonbury 2017.
The band, who are currently working on their ‘heavier and rockier’ new album as well as reissuing 2007’s huge comeback record ‘Send Away The Tigers‘, will be performing at Bristol Sounds held at Canons Marsh Ampiteatre on Thursday June 22 – where they’ll be joined by past touring mates British Sea Power And The Anchoress. Tickets are on sale from 9am on Friday March 22 and will be available here.
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“I suppose in my head, not that it fucking matters, but I would like to kick against the oblique, delineated, opaque groove that everybody is into,” frontman James Dean Bradfield told NME about their new album. “I’d like to rock again. I can’t help but just love the new Ryan Adams album at the moment. I think it’s just fucking brilliant. You read a review that says ‘oh it’s full of bluster’, and you’re like ‘fuck off – if you think that’s full of bluster, then your idea of dirt is very clean’. It’s just a really good heartbreak album.
“I was watching him on the Jimmy Fallon show the other night and he was playing a Flying V guitar. I was just thinking ‘fuck me, I want to do that again’. That’s my mood.”
The Manics are headlining Bristol Sounds on 22nd June this summer, with special guests British Sea Power and The…
Posted by Manic Street Preachers on Sunday, March 26, 2017
Meanwhile, Run The Jewels recently confirmed themselves for Glastonbury, while Diana Ross now seems unlikely to perform in the Sunday legends’ slot. There are also reports that Radiohead will be using their headline set to honour the 20th anniversary of their seminal, third album ‘OK Computer’.
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This month has also seen Nile Rodgers confirm himself for Glastonbury 2017, Ed ewasSheeran recently revealed as the third and final headliner, joining Radiohead and Foo Fighters in topping the bill on the Pyramid Stage, other acts rumoured to be appearing include Depeche Mode, Liam Gallagher, Lady Gaga, and many more.
As well as the headliners, Wiley has confirmed himself for the festival and The Avalanches have also leaked that they would be performing. Country icon Kris Kristofferson also looks set to play.
Last month, the Glastonbury bosses told NME that they’d booked ‘twice as many bands to play’ this year and that they’d be introducing the new area of a ‘drive-in cinema‘.
The full Glastonbury 2017 line-up will be revealed this month.