Manic Street Preachers at the O2

02 Arena, London"There are many songs you might go to the bar for," says the singer James Dean Bradfield. "But this one, I think, everyone stays for." Correct on both counts. In a three-hour show, it's inevitable that some numbers will signal an exodus to the beer queue. But this particular hit, Motorcycle Emptiness, is one of the cornerstones of the Manic Street Preachers' catalogue, and nobody is going anywhere. As Bradfield reaches the song's soaring apex, he's drowned out by a backing choir ...

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