Manic Street Preachers announce 15th album and April/May 2025 UK tour

Welsh rock legends Manic Street Preachers have confirmed a headline tour for April and May 2025 in support of their newly announced studio album ‘Critical Thinking.’

The Manics’ tour opens with two nights at Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom (11th and 12th April), and the band also play a pair of dates at London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire (18th and 19th April), Manchester O2 Apollo (2nd and 3rd May) and Swansea Arena (9th and 10th May).

Sandwiched by the two-night residencies are standalone shows at Wolverhampton The Civic at The Halls (25th April) and Bristol Beacon (26th April).

Tickets to Manic Street Preachers’ UK tour go on sale from Absolute Radio Tickets at 9.30am on Friday 1st November.

Manic Street Preachers are currently on heavy rotation on Absolute Radio’s airwaves with their euphoric single ‘Decline & Fall.’

The track is the first taster of Manic Street Preachers’ 15th studio album ‘Critical Thinking’, which is released on Friday 31st January 2025.

To celebrate the album announcement, the trio have shared new song 'Hiding in Plain Sight', the first-ever Manics single with lead vocals from Nicky Wire. Watch the video:

Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire on '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."

Manic Street Preachers’ UK tour dates:

APRIL 2025

Glasgow Barrowland – Fri 11th

Glasgow Barrowland – Sat 12th

London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire – Fri 18th

London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire – Sat 19th

Wolverhampton The Civic at The Halls – Fri 25th

Bristol Beacon – Sat 26th

MAY 2025

Manchester O2 Apollo – Fri 2nd

Manchester O2 Apollo – Sat 3rd

Swansea Arena – Fri 9th

Swansea Arena – Sat 10th

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