Summary
AT YESTERDAY afternoon's awards ceremony, the NME anointed Manic Street Preachers as "godlike geniuses" and invited them to headline yesterday evening' s Big Gig. Now, in some far-off parallel universe Manic Street Preachers may be "godlike" and "geniuses". In this one they're occasionally brilliant, sometimes mundane, mostly tired rockers. And they can no more summon the masses to fill the O2 than they can garner interest in their current album.
However, support act Kaiser Chiefs could sell out the O2 as surely as they filled Earls Court in December. The imbalance made for a most curious evening, where, shortly after Kaiser Chiefs had played to pandemonium, Manic Street Preachers played to a rapidly emptying arena and were not accorded an encore.See the full content of this document
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Twilight of the Gods ; Pop
If Kaiser Chiefs were bemused by their silly billing, they held t...
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