Motorpoint Arena, CardiffHonouring NHS workers, the Welsh trio’s show is anchored by current chart-topper The Ultra Vivid Lament but features hits and curveballs aplenty
Manic Street Preachers are in a reflective place. As they stride on stage, for the second of two shows honouring the efforts of NHS workers during the pandemic, they have a
UK No 1 album for the first time in 23 years.
Nicky Wire, trousers still shiny after all this time, acknowledges the accolade only briefly, but it’s appropriate that songs from The Ultra Vivid Lament, an elegiac, questioning sort of chart-topper, anchor a show that provides hits alongside barbed slogans and selections that underline the nuance within the Manics’ catalogue.