Manic Street Preachers announce Critical Thinking album launch show for 2025
12 December 2024, 09:35
The Welsh trio will play a special show for Banquet Records at Przym in Kingston on 1st February next year.
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Manic Street Preachers have announced an album launch show for next year.
The Welsh trio - comprised of James Dean Bradfield, James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore - will play a special gig at Pryzm in Kingston upon Thames on Saturday 1st February 2025, to celebrate the release of their Critical Thinking album the day before.
Tickets for the Banquet Records show will go on sale this morning (Thursday 12th December) from 11am.
To celebrate the release of ‘Critical Thinking’, Manic Street Preachers are pleased to announce a special album launch show for @BanquetRecords at Pryzm in Kingston upon Thames on Sat Feb 1st 2025.
— Manic Street Preachers (@Manics) December 11, 2024
Tickets on sale tomorrow morning, Thu 12th Dec, at 11am: https://t.co/uJxG5VkU01 pic.twitter.com/s0FJuHst4Q
The veteran rockers recently unveiled a fresh taste of their fifteenth studio album with the single Hiding In Plain Sight, which saw bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire take on lead vocals for the first time ever.
Watch the official video for the single here:
Manic Street Preachers - Hiding in Plain Sight (Official Video)
Nicky Wire said of Critical Thinking: “This is a record of opposites colliding - of dialectics trying to find a path of resolution. While the music has an effervescence and an elegiac uplift, most of the words deal with the cold analysis of the self, the exception being the three lyrics by James (Dean Bradfield) which look for and hopefully find answers in people, their memories, language and beliefs. The music is energised and at times euphoric. Recording could sometimes be sporadic and isolated, at other times we played live in a band setting, again the opposites making sense with each other. There are crises at the heart of these songs. They are microcosms of skepticism and suspicion, the drive to the internal seems inevitable - start with yourself, maybe the rest will follow.”
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Critical Thinking is available to pre-order in various formats at the Manic Street Preachers store.
Manic Street Preachers have also announced a series of UK tour dates to follow the release of the album, which culminates in two homecoming shows at the Swansea arena on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th May.
See Manic Street Preachers' 2025 dates:
February
- Sat 1st - Album launch show, Pryzm, Kingston upon Thames
April 2025
- Fri 11th Glasgow Barrowland
- Sat 12th Glasgow Barrowland
- Fri 18th London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
- Sat 19th London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
- Fri 25th Wolverhampton The Civic at the Halls
- Sat 26th Bristol Beacon
May 2025
- Fri 2nd Manchester O2 Apollo
- Sat 3rd Manchester O2 Apollo
- Fri 9th Swansea Arena
- Sat 10th Swansea Arena
