Manic Street Preachers bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire has announced tha the band are set to go on a ‘two or three year’ hiatus following the release of their forthcoming greatest hits compilation ‘National Treasures – The Complete Singles’. Talking to the NME backstage at this weekend’s V festival he said:
“It’s the end of an era, not the end of the band but we’re going to disappear for quite a long time.”
Speaking backstage at this weekend’s V Festival he said the band are set to embark on a long break after their second ‘Best Of’ collection is released in October. Watch footage of Wire revealing their future plans via the video here.
Wire confirmed that the band will continue working on their new album ’70 Songs Of Hatred And Failure’ but it will be sometime before they resurface.
He added:
“Ideally we have to push ourselves to do something that we haven’t done before. But I do feel it is going to be at least two or three years before we come back after this greatest hits collection.”
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Manic Street Preachers new single is rumoured to be a cover of This Is The Day by The The
Louder than War are reporting that the next Manics single will be a cover of This Is The Day by The The.
It’s rumoured to be the extra track recorded for their hit singles album ‘National Treasures.’ It’s the Welsh band’s take on the Matt Johnson and The The classic.
The The were the groundbreaking eighties band that Johnny Marr nearly joined before the Smiths and it was at Matt Johnson’s flat that Marr stayed at when he went to London to hustle a deal for the Smiths with Rough Trade.
