Poll tester / taster incoming! Hopefully as many of you see this and find a second to make your pick over the next couple of days! Thank you.

Feel free to like or repost polls to campaign for your favourites or just spread the word! When we build up a strong base we'll push out about 10-15 polls at a time would be the plan, to really sink your teeth into! Aiming for 100+ votes a poll to make it feel like a 'reliable' result!

Still relevant.

Thanks to everyone new to the feed, who has found us and followed, or been happy to follow back after we have reached out! We're looking to build a #Manics community to support a long running project currently on hiatus... where we post a pair of MSP songs & you vote for your favourite / preferred!

Reminds us of Moore referring to Wire and Bradfield as Morecombe and Wise in a recent Uncut interview!

🐧 Penguin inspecting a camera 😂 #AnimalSky

#Debutalbums2026 #Lowhummer youtu.be/j4_3Bs1j7k0

So... has there been a particular #Manics song or lyric that has fundamentally changed your outlook on politics, culture or life in general?

📆[24/05/1997]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers played Manchester NYNEX Arena, at the time their biggest headline gig to date. The gig was filmed and later released as 'Everything Live'. #ManicStreetPreachers | #EMG30

Some very positive and thoughtful words from Diarmaid Kelliher, just published in The Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies. This is our eight review in an academic journal, which is pretty unprecedented. Drop us a line if you want a PDF.

I'm closer to home tomorrow (Bank Holiday Monday) with my Ransomed Hearts #Shapeshifter books. I'll have a stall at the Memory Lane craft stall at Fleetwood Sea Cadets, Princes Way, #Fleetwood #Lancashire. Come and say hi! My fellow author Angela Hartley will be there too! #HolidayReads #BookSky 💙📚🪐

The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaking #Womensart

Most Caribbean countries have restrictions on entry. Bahamas will only allow felons who have *completed* their sentences. A total of 38 countries will not allow felons to enter. #ProudBlue

Top thread 😁

Incredible evening of Manics music and conversation @hayfestival.bsky.social last night with James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and @keithcameron2.bsky.social, author of 168 SONGS OF HATRED FAILURE. 📸 by Sam Hardwick/Hay Festival

Tax The Super Rich Photographer star, Keira Anee's jacket at the 2026 Brig6Rock n Roll Circus 💖

🎫| Manic Street Preachers setlist from Hay Festival 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 21/05/2026 01. Behave Yourself Baby into Motorcycle Emptiness (Acoustic) 02. Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit’sworldwouldfallapart (Acoustic) 03. A Design For Life (Acoustic) 04. Let Robeson Sing (Acoustic)

📷| Nicky Wire returns to @hayfestival almost 20 years to the day since his glorious I Killed The Zeitgeist launch show. #ITKZ20 | #NickyWire | #ManicStreetPreachers

📺| James Dean Bradfield on the 30th Anniversary of Manic Street Preachers' Everything Must Go for @absoluteradio #ManicStreetPreachers

This made me laugh

📰| Waking Up With The Manic Street Preachers - 30 Years Of Everything Must Go By Anna Doble, the Quietus #ManicStreetPreachers | #EMG30

📰| From our MSPpedia archive: Everything Must Go…On By Stuart Bailie, NME 11/05/1996 #ManicStreetPreachers | #EMG30 www.foreverdelayed.org.uk/msppedia/ind...

Anna Doble remembers passing out during a Manics gig in 1996 and coming round clutching part of Nicky Wire's feather boa... and an album that came to define that summer Many Happy Returns to the #ManicStreetPreachers' Everything Must Go, which turns 30 today! buff.ly/qSjI6in

Plus he’s a cunt

Greenock Calling! We'll be playing at @thebeaconarts.bsky.social on 17 October - get yer tickets while you can! www.beaconartscentre.co.uk/events/the-t...

📰| Manic Street Preachers' Everything Must Go At 30: The Stories Behind The Songs By @RadioX #ManicStreetPreachers

🎫| Manic Street Preachers have been announced as part of the Corona Capital 🇲🇽 line up on Sunday 22nd November 2026, the first time they will play Mexico. Tickets onsale from Wednesday 27th May 2026. #ManicStreetPreachers | #CoronaCapital

This Thursday! I’ll be talking 168 Songs and all things #Manics with James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire at Hay Festival. www.hayfestival.com/p-25123-jame...

📆[18/05/2009]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released their ninth studio album Journal For Plague Lovers. Chart Position: #3 #ManicStreetPreachers

Manic Street Preachers stars James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire will reflect on the iconic Welsh band’s rise from the south Wales valleys to stardom during a special event at Hay Festival next week

Love this 😆 #Reform

A bunch of videos of Machine Head at Glasgow Academy and Manchester Victoria Warehouse are up here if anyone is so inclined youtu.be/-upAA8s1KcU?...

Don’t say we don’t treat you! After the @MonoDesireZine crew attended the Albert Hall gig, it got our creative juices flowing again and we ended up putting together an issue of the zine about it & you can read it for free! Click here to flip through it: tinyurl.com/59ucsu8v

We also printed a very limited run of physical copies, mainly so we could have one ourselves. The rest are up on the website now- if you want one, grab one now before they’re all gone! tinyurl.com/2m2bk8z4

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This month! #Lancashire author Jeanette Greaves is bringing her rock ‘n’ roll #werewolves to Lancaster library. THU 28th may, 12:30 pm Market Square, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 1HY #BookSky #Shapeshifters

Here is a very important video of an otter having his head stroked.

📺| Watch James Dean Bradfield and Neil Codling's full interview with @absoluteradio.bsky.social's Ben Burrell #ManicStreetPreachers | @suedehq.bsky.social | #Suede

➡️ Sunday 5th July 2026, Music Industry Soccer Six Fest at Mile End Stadium, London E3 4HL It's the Britpop 30th anniversary edition Rock n Goal on the pitches and live music stage! Get tickets or musicians/labels etc, apply to play in the tournament ⚽️🎵 good sports, good causes, good times!🎵⚽️

🎙️| Manic Street Preachers forthcoming radio appearances #ManicStreetPreachers | #EMG30

75 quid, no less. Incoming 😁

Spoke too soon 🤬

Ho hum.... everything takes an age up here.

Terrible to hear about Nigel Farage. Nothing bad happened to him it's just fucking terrible every time you have to hear his stupid name.

From last week's @glasgowtimes.bsky.social - www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2607047...