The Manics have just announced a 38 song single retrospective, featuring every single the band has released in their twenty three years of existence. To celebrate this they are playing a show at 02 where they'll play all of those singles.
It's hard to talk in detail about those twenty three years, or at
least to take in everything, from Blackwood in suburban Wales, to
underground fame, controversy, inconoclasm, the disappearance of
Richey Edwards, becoming a mid 90s chart straddling arena rock act
to being the first western band to play a show in Cuba in 2001 and
numerous reinventions over the last decade.
Then there is the numerous stylistic shifts, from their early days
as a punk band, to the heavy glam rock of their first two albums,
to the darkness of their most critically acclaimed album The Holy
Bible, which the track below, Revol, is taken from.
