Manic Street Preachers review – middle age and middling material dampens insurrection

SSE Hydro, GlasgowThe national treasures offered up a not-completely-satisfying mix of the magnificent, the obscure and the curiously judgedA Twitter meme at the Manic Street Preachers’ expense, witheringly captioning a promo photograph of the band posing in a field wearing crumpled, ill-fitting suits, rather captures their present dilemma: the once balaclava-sporting Welsh punk-rock insurrectionaries are shuffling slightly awkwardly into middle age. One tweeter likened them to the cast o...

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