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The outsider’s outsider: John Cale by Cate Le Bon, Gruff Rhys and James Dean Bradfield
- Before they take to the stage with Cale for his 80th birthday concert, the three reflect on how Wales’s greatest living musician subverted what it means to be a Welsh musician
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Brittle With Relics by Richard King; Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales – reviews
A gritty oral history and a vibrant set of essays examine Wales’s past and its renewed sense of purpose, sparked by a new generation of Welsh speakers
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Manic Street Preachers’ 30 greatest songs – ranked!
Manic Street Preachers’ 30 greatest songs – ranked!. Marking 30 years of their debut album, Generation Terrorists, a look back at the Welsh rockers’ best bits: from the song about the Spanish civil war that kept Steps off No 1 to their glorious duets
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Culture war and revolution: 30 Years of Manic Street Preachers’ Generation Terrorists
The Manics detonated the narcosis of the early Nineties music scene with punk glamour, an uncompromising political stance, and a debut album that still stuns today, says Mark Beaumont
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Crossword roundup: the real-life Darby (and Joan?)
Crossword roundup: the real-life Darby (and Joan?)We poke around in some old slang in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues ‘They’re ever uneasy asunder’ Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA
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Manic Street Preachers review – engaged veterans still energised by the present
Manic Street Preachers review – engaged veterans still energised by the presentMotorpoint 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 Pop bliss … James Dean Bradfield performing with Manic Street Preachers at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena. Photograph: Graham Harries/Rex/Shutterstock
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Manic Street Preachers: The Ultra Vivid Lament review – magic, melancholy and a debt to Abba
Manic Street Preachers: The Ultra Vivid Lament review – magic, melancholy and a debt to Abba(Columbia/Sony)The Manics channel Benny and Björn in an album of mostly sparkling songcraft ‘A welcome return to form: Manic Street Preachers. Photograph: Alex Lake
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Manic Street Preachers - The Utra Vivid Lament review: ABBA-ish album could do with sharper teeth
3/5 If you can’t wait for the return of the shiny Swedes, then this is a fun diversion
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The Anchoress: The Art of Losing review – giving voice to her grief
The Anchoress: The Art of Losing review – giving voice to her grief. (Kscope)The Welsh multi-instrumentalist navigates a small battalion of sorrows on this richly wrought second album
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Nile Rodgers to host digital carol service featuring Sir Cliff Richard
The event will raise money for a music therapy charity to enrich the lives of people affected by life-limiting illness, isolation or disability.
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‘I’ve no idea whose Rolodex Johnny Depp was on’: how the stars collided to make War Child’s Help
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the greatest musical charity event since Live Aid, Ed O’Brien remembers life in the former Yugoslavia, or at least a snapshot of it. In the Radiohead guitarist’s 1970s and 1980s childhood, he says, “my father took us on three consecutive cheap holidays [there]. It was like Greece or Italy. Then you heard about Srebrenica.” As he puts it, “much of the early- to mid-1990s seemed to be defined by what was going on in the Balkans”, as the collapse of the So
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