Manic Street Preachers – Australia music video 1.2M 2011

Manic Street PreachersAustralia

Directed by John Hillcoat, Simon Hilton

Australia' by Manic Street Preachers, a metaphorical escape reflecting on emotional turmoil, became a significant hit from their 'Everything Must Go' album in 1996. The…

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Manic Street Preachers, alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales
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About · Manic Street Preachers

Formed 1986 · Blackwood, Wales · alternative rock · Columbia Records

Manic Street Preachers (also informally referred to as the Manics) are a Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood, Caerphilly, in 1986. Since 1995, the band has been a three-piece of Nicky Wire (bass/lyrics) and cousins James Dean Bradfield (vocals/guitar/occasional lyrics) and Sean Moore (drums). They form a key part of the 1990s Welsh Cool Cymru cultural movement. The band's early releases were in a punk vein, eventually broadening to a wider alternative rock sound. Their early combination of androgynous glam imagery and lyrics about "culture, alienation, boredom and despair" gained them a loyal… via Wikipedia

Band Members: James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Sean Moore, Richey Edwards

Awards: MOJO Awards

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Discography

Manic Street Preachers’s studio albums / EPs · 15

Manic Street Preachers – Critical Thinking (2025) album cover Critical Thinking 2025
Manic Street Preachers – The Ultra Vivid Lament (2021) album cover The Ultra Vivid Lament 2021
Manic Street Preachers – Resistance Is Futile (2018) album cover Resistance Is Futile 2018
Manic Street Preachers – Futurology (2014) album cover Futurology 2014
Manic Street Preachers – Rewind the Film (2013) album cover Rewind the Film 2013
Manic Street Preachers – Postcards From a Young Man (2010) album cover Postcards From a Young Man 2010
Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers (2009) album cover Journal for Plague Lovers 2009
Manic Street Preachers – Send Away the Tigers (2007) album cover Send Away the Tigers 2007
Manic Street Preachers – Lifeblood (2004) album cover Lifeblood 2004
Manic Street Preachers – Know Your Enemy (2001) album cover Know Your Enemy 2001
Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998) album cover This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 1998
Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go (1996) album cover Everything Must Go 1996
Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible (1994) album cover The Holy Bible 1994
Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul (1993) album cover Gold Against the Soul 1993
Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists (1992) album cover Generation Terrorists 1992

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Artists who shaped Manic Street Preachers’s sound

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