MANIC STREET PREACHERS

Manic Street Preachers have been announced to headline a massive summer event as part of Heritage Live's summer festivals, set in the stunning grounds of Audley End in Saffron Walden, Essex.

They’ll be joined for the huge show by fellow indie legends, The Charlatans and Ash and an exclusive set from legendary DJ, Chris Moyles.

Manic Street Preachers are one of the most influential and iconic rock bands to have come out of the UK. Formed in Blackwood in Wales, they went on to headline the UK's biggest festivals, including Glastonbury, T in the Park, V Festival and Reading & Leeds.

They have won 11x NME Awards, 8x Q Awards, 2x Ivor Novello Awards and 4x BRIT Awards, and were also nominated for the Mercury Prize and the MTV Europe Music Awards.

Their first album ‘Generation Terrorists’ released in February 1992 was a hugely ambitious debut, establishing them as unique artists, combining classic rock riffs with the attitude of pop and punk and lyrically setting themselves head and shoulders above their contemporaries.

Throughout the years they have collected fans from all over the world, maturing and changing musically whilst always keeping the classic Manics sound. At their live shows early tracks such as ‘You Love Us’ and ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’ comfortably sit alongside huge chart hits such as the No.1 single ‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next’, other singles ‘You Stole The Sun From My Heart’ and ‘Design For Life’ play alongside newer songs such as ‘International Blue’ and ‘Orwellian’.

They recently toured the US, Far East and UK with Suede and have just released their 15th studio album, ‘Critical Thinking’.

For more than 30 years, The Charlatans have been an inspirational force in British music, notching up 13 Top 40 studio albums – three of them number ones – alongside 22 Top 40 singles, four of them Top 10 hits.

The band – Tim Burgess, Mark Collins, Martin Blunt and Tony Rogers – remain one of the most brilliant live acts around. Their back catalogue is a non-stop jukebox of indie rock’s greatest hits including the instantly recognisable ‘The Only One I Know’, ‘Weirdo’, ‘Just When You're Thinkin' Things Over’, ‘One to Another, How High’, ‘North Country Boy’, and ‘Come Home Baby’.

Ash came to prominence as teenagers in the 1990s, with their thrashing brand of indie pop-punk. Their debut album ‘1997’ went straight to No.1 in the album charts, with huge singles such as ‘Oh Yeah’ and ‘Girl from Mars’. The NME count the album as one of the 500 greatest of all-time.

The three-piece have since toured the world numerous times over, releasing 8 albums including 2023’s ‘Race The Night’.

Chris Moyles boasts a long successful career spanning over 30 years in the entertainment industry working as an author, and radio and television presenter.

Starting his radio career in his hometown of Leeds at the age of just 16, Chris worked for legendary stations such as Radio Luxembourg and London’s Capital FM before joining BBC Radio 1 and quickly becoming one of the stations most talked about and popular DJ’s. He presented the legendary breakfast show to an audience of 8 million people for a record-breaking 8 and a half years and remains the longest serving breakfast host in Radio 1’s history! He’s a two time Sunday Times best-selling author and has recorded and released two top 20 albums of his popular parody songs.

During the Covid lockdown, Chris ran many online live DJ events, entertaining his 360k followers on Instagram each Friday night, totalling over 5 million combined views. He has now transitioned to in-person appearances and shows.

Chris currently hosts his own show on Radio X which began in 2015 (Weekdays 6:30am - 10am, Saturday 8am - 11am), and its weekly podcast attracts over half a million downloads a month!

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