An honour to welcome two titans of the music press to The Long Play Sessions at ICMP this week. Keith Cameron joined us to discuss his superb book on the history of the Manic Street Preachers, 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure. Will Hodgkinson hosted this truly special evening.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David's Day!

📆[28/02/2011]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released Postcards From A Young Man, the third single from Postcards From A Young Man. Chart Position: 54 #ManicStreetPreachers

📰| Manic Street Preachers revisit Everything Must Go for its 30th Anniversary in a 6 page feature in this month's @uncutmagazine.bsky.social (April 2026), out now. #ManicStreetPreachers | #EMG30

📆[26/02/2001]| On This Day 25 years ago Manic Street Preachers released So Why So Sad and Found That Soul, the first and second singles from Know Your Enemy. Chart Positions - So Why So Sad: #8 Found That Soul: #9 #ManicStreetPreachers

📰| Manic Street Preachers feature in the new issue of @uncutmagazine.bsky.social (April 2026), talking about the 30th Anniversary of Everything Must Go. Out Friday 27th February 2026 shop.kelsey.co.uk/single-issue... #ManicStreetPreachers | #EMG30

www.icmp.ac.uk/news/music-b... The Long Play Sessions welcomes Keith Cameron to discuss his hugely acclaimed book 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure with Will Hodgkinson. Held at ICMP Queen's Park, it's an unmissable event for Manic Street Preachers fans.

📆[24/02/1997]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers won Best British Group and British Album Of The Year for Everything Must Go at The Brit Awards. #ManicStreetPreachers | #EMG30

A full scale #ManicStreetPreachers song ranking project is set to continue next month. Want to influence the outcome? Follow us as we head towards launch on Bluesky and contribute with comments, campaigning for your favourites or simply adding your vote when you have the chance!

BBC Radio 6 Music Radcliffe and Maconie Now Playing Manic Street Preachers Some Kind of Nothingness (feat. Ian McCulloch)

Wishing a very happy birthday to James Dean Bradfield. Raise a glass to James and enjoy Manics biographer Keith Cameron’s complete rundown of every Manic Street Preachers album.

Just one week to go until the release of MANIC STREET PREACHERS: SONG BY SONG! andyjohnson.xyz/manics

The word is out! Posters have gone up this week for the launch of MANIC STREET PREACHERS: SONG BY SONG on 11 March at Curio Books and Culture. It'll be secure, as it's inside a former bank vault.

A very Happy Birthday to our guitar hero Manic Street Preachers' Mr James Dean Bradfield!! xx #ManicStreetPreachers | #HappyBirthdayJDB

34 years ago today Manic Street Preachers at the Hanging Gardens (Cardiff University), 17th February 1992 #manicstreetpreachers #cardiffuniversity @cardiffunilib.bsky.social #cardiff #wales #caerdydd #cymru #cardiffmusichistory

Just two weeks until I discuss my Manic Street Preachers book with the brilliant @willhodgkinson.bsky.social at London’s Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. www.tickettailor.com/events/insti...

DJed at this gig. What a trip it all was.

📆[17/02/2001]| On This Day 25 years ago Manic Street Preachers launched Know Your Enemy at Havana's Teatro Karl Marx, becoming the first major Western rock band to play Cuba. 📷 by Greg Haver #ManicStreetPreachers | #KYE25

📆[16/02/1999]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers won Best Group and Best Album for This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours at The Brit Awards. #ManicStreetPreachers | #BRITs

📷[16/02/2018]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released Distant Colours, the second single from Resistance Is Futile. #ManicStreetPreachers

📆[14/02/2025]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released their fifteenth studio album Critical Thinking. Chart Position: #2 #ManicStreetPreachers

BBC Radio 6 Music Chris Hawkins Now Playing Manic Street Preachers Motown Junk

📆[10/02/1992]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released their debut album Generation Terrorists. Chart Position: #13 #ManicStreetPreachers

Nearly 70,000 words, over 300 songs covered, 15 album essays - and only 3 weeks until MANIC STREET PREACHERS: SONG BY SONG is out. More info and preorder links at andyjohnson.xyz/manics

📺| Top Of The Pops - BBC4, Friday 06/02/2026, 7:00pm Featuring Manic Street Preachers performing You Stole The Sun From My Heart, first broadcast 19/03/1999. #ManicStreetPreachers

📰| Nina Persson on collaborating with Manic Street Preachers on Your Love Alone Is Not Enough, from a Q&A with The Guardian www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f... #ManicStreetPreachers

📷| Nicky Wire in 'Keep The World Away: Finding Gwen John' Watch now on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #ManicStreetPreachers

📆[05/02/1986]| On This Day 40 years ago Manic Street Preachers played their first ever gig at Crumlin's Railway Hotel. Their set featured covers of Teenage Kicks, God Save The Queen and Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) and 3 early Manics originals. #ManicStreetPreachers

🎫| Manic Street Preachers announced for Heartland Festival, Egeskov, Denmark 🇩🇰 on Friday 19th June 2026 Tickets: heartlandfestival.dk #ManicStreetPreachers

BBC Radio 6 Music Huw Stephens Now Playing Manic Street Preachers From Despair To Where

Manic Street Preachers James Dean Bradfield's first solo album 'The Great Western' will be reissued on coloured vinyl and Nicky Wire's second solo album 'Intimism' will be released physically for the first time for Record Store Day 2026 on Saturday 18th April 2026. #ManicStreetPreachers

I have a book coming out and would really appreciate you spreading the word! MANIC STREET PREACHERS: SONG BY SONG is published by Fonthill Media and out on 28 February. A complete, concise guide to every song from 1988 to 2025. More info and preorder: www.andyjohnson.xyz/manicssongby...

📆[31/01/2025]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released Brushstrokes Of Reunion, the fourth single from Critical Thinking. #ManicStreetPreachers

📆[31/01/1994]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released Life Becoming A Landslide, the fourth and final single from Gold Against The Soul. Chart Position: #36 #ManicStreetPreachers

Six years of podcasting and we're still talking about the Manics! This week, we wrapped up our thoughts on Critical Thinking. Available now wherever you get your podcasts! Thank you to everyone who has been with us for the last six years, or on any part of that journey - it means a lot to us!

BBC Radio 6 Music Craig Charles Now Playing Manic Street Preachers Motorcycle Emptiness

We're looking forward to picking up the #Manics Discography Showdown around here. Every track vs every track. A decades continuous fan powered ranking experiment!

BBC Radio 6 Music Radcliffe and Maconie Now Playing Manic Street Preachers Sleepflower

📺| Keeping the World Away - Finding Gwen John - BBC2 Wales & iPlayer - Thursday 05/02/2026, 9pm Nicky Wire features in Sian Eleri's documentary about the life and work of painter Gwen John. #ManicStreetPreachers

BBC Radio 6 Music Nick Grimshaw Now Playing Manic Street Preachers Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

📆[21/01/1991]| On This Day 35 years ago Manic Street Preachers released Motown Junk. Chart Position: #94 #ManicStreetPreachers | #MotownJunk35

📆[20/01/1992]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers released You Love Us, the third single from Generation Terrorists. Chart Position: #16 #ManicStreetPreachers

A very Happy Birthday to the killer of the zeitgeist, hiding in plain sight on bass, lyrics and legs, Mr Nicholas Allen Wire! xx #ManicStreetPreachers | #HappyBirthdayNickyWire

Today, before we get back to Arctic Monkeys, we catch up with Manic Street Preachers and review their 15th studio album, Critical Thinking. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Something big is coming for #Manics fans. Something involving every studio track. Follow & share — we would love to hit 500 followers* before we launch! (*not out of vanity or neediness, just to give the results more of a chance!)

📆[16/01/2000]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers' The Masses Against The Classes reached Number 1 in the UK @officialcharts.bsky.social, becoming the band's second Number 1 single and the first new Number 1 of the 21st Century. #ManicStreetPreachers

🎫| Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire will be in conversation with Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller at The Laugharne Weekend 2026 taking place Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd March 2026 #ManicStreetPreachers

New licensed Manics Merch available from @banquetrecords.com www.banquetrecords.com/search?q=Man... #ManicStreetPreachers

Welcome if you find us! We have been running this project since October 2018, now reaching out to explore other media rounds to keep things active. In short, we are polling every Manic Street Preachers song against every Manic Street Preachers song to create an unofficial chart due around 2040.