Manic Street Preachers tease debut album anniversary announcement as Suede premiere new song ‘My City’ as

Manic Street Preachers and Suede have kicked off their co-headline UK arena tour in Glasgow, with the latter premiering new song ‘My City’ and the former teasing an announcement to mark the anniversary of their debut album.

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Earlier this spring the two bands confirmed that they would be rejoining forces – having first hit the road together in 1994, and later embarking on a run of joint North American shows in 2022 and a UK trek in 2024.

Each night will see the two bands alternate between who plays first and who closes the night, and for the opening night, which kicked off at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow last night (Wednesday October 28), it was the Manics who played first.

They opened their 18-song set with 1992 classic ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’, before going onto 2001’s ‘Ocean Spray’ and newer track ‘Decline & Fall’.

Highlights of their set included acoustic renditions of ‘From Despair To Where’ and ‘The Everlasting’, as well as performances of ‘Faster’ and ‘Die In The Summertime’ – two cuts from ‘The Holy Bible’, which got a huge re-release last week in collaboration with Steven Wilson.

Eagle-eyed fans at the merch stands also noticed posters displaying the artwork for Manics’ 1992 album ‘Generation Terrorists’ alongside a QR code. When scanned, the code encourages people to sign up for updates with their name and email address, and also shows the artwork with the writing “18/11/26 10am” – suggesting that an announcement to mark the record’s 35th anniversary could be announced next month.

Check out the poster, setlist and more footage from their set below, and visit here to sign up for the updates.

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Manic Street Preachers’ setlist was.

As for Suede, the indie icons kicked off the second set of the night with ‘Antidepressants’ songs ‘Disintegrate’ and ‘Dancing With The Europeans’, before going into ‘90s classic ‘Trash’.

Other songs from their latest album on the setlist included title track ‘Antidepressants’ as well as ‘June Rain’ and ‘Trance State’, as well as longtime fan favourites ‘Beautiful Ones’, ‘Metal Mickey’ and ‘Animal Nitrate’.

Anderson and guitarist Richard Oakes played an acoustic rendition of ‘The Wild Ones’ on the night too, and the band also broke out a brand new, currently unreleased song called ‘My City’ – expected to be featured in an upcoming album.

The band have recently been hinting at a follow-up to the Mercury Prize-nominated ‘Antidepressants’, and told NME last week that they are “deep into” progress and centring on an “anarcho-punk” sound.

The tour continues tomorrow (Friday October 30) with a stop at Leeds First Direct Arena, followed by shows in Manchester, London, Birmingham and more over the next couple of weeks.

Speaking to NME ahead of their North American tour with Suede in 2022, the Manics’ James Dean Bradfield recalled their joint 1994 trek, when the Manics were promoting their seminal third album ‘The Holy Bible’, and said that the collaboration worked as the two bands “shared the same DNA”.

Last year, Suede frontman Anderson told NME: “The Manics are lovely boys and I’m very, very fond of them. They’re a fantastic band and it was a wonderful tour. There’s something very complimentary about the bands and their fans.

We tessellate quite beautifully, but at the same time it doesn’t feel like some kind of nostalgic ‘90s Britpop party. We occupy similar territory, but different enough to be complimentary.”.

Manic Street Preachers released their latest album, ‘Critical Thinking’, in early 2025.

As well as talking to NME about revisiting ‘The Holy Bible’ last month, Manics also told us about plans for new material and what they’ve been working on in the studio.

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