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Manics Recruit Former GNR / Velvet Underground Members For Album

McKagan and Cale appear on new LP

The new album by the Manic Street Preachers will feature guest appearances from former Velvet Underground member John Cale and former Guns N Roses bassist Duff McKagan, it has been revealed.

The band say that Postcards From A Young Man is more anthemic and uplifting than their brilliant, but ultimately difficult 2009 album Journal For Plague Lovers, which was created based upon missing guitarist Richey Edward’s journals.

The new album is released on 20 September and the album’s first single, (It’s Not War) Just The End of Love is released on 13 September.

Here’s the tracklist:

  1. (It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love
  2. Postcards From A Young Man
  3. Some Kind Of Nothingness (featuring Ian McCulloch)
  4. The Descent (Pages 1 &2)
  5. Hazleton Avenue
  6. Auto-Intoxication (with John Cale on piano)
  7. Golden Platitudes
  8. I Think I’ve Found It
  9. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun (with Duff McKagan)
    10.  All We Make Is Entertainment
  10. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever
    12.  Don’t Be Evil

The band have already announced a huge UK tour in support of the album, which will kick off in late September.

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WED, 29/09/2010 - O2 Academy Glasgow
THU, 30/09/2010 - Music Hall, Aberdeen
SAT, 02/10/2010 - Corn Exchange Edinburgh
SUN, 03/10/2010 - Sands Centre, Carlisle
TUE, 05/10/2010 - Hull City Hall
WED, 06/10/2010 - O2 Academy Sheffield
FRI, 08/10/2010 - Liverpool University
SAT, 09/10/2010 - King Georges Hall, Blackburn
MON, 11/10/2010 - O2 Academy Leeds
TUE, 12/10/2010 - Assembly Rooms, Derby
THU, 14/10/2010 - Apollo, Manchester
SAT, 16/10/2010 - Engine Shed, Lincoln
SUN, 17/10/2010 - Norwich U.E.A.
TUE, 19/10/2010 - Southampton Guildhall
WED, 20/10/2010 - Cliffs Pavilion, Southend
FRI, 22/10/2010 - O2 Academy Bournemouth
SAT, 23/10/2010 - Newport Centre
MON, 25/10/2010 - Colston Hall, Bristol
TUE, 26/10/2010 - O2 Academy Birmingham
THU, 28/10/2010 - O2 Academy Brixton, London
FRI, 29/10/2010 - O2 Academy Brixton, London
SUN, 31/10/2010 - De Montfort Hall, Leicester
MON, 01/11/2010 - Corn Exchange, Cambridge