News: Manics New Album and Tour Details
Manic Street Preachers announce details of their tenth studio album. Postcards From A Young Man will be released in September.
To coincide with the release the band will undertake their most extensive UK tour ever, with support from very special guests British Sea Power, kicking off in Glasgow on September 29th.
Tickets go on sale on Friday 4th June 2010 at 9am from Gigs And Tours.
The complete UK Tour dates are:
29 September – GLASGOW, Academy
30 September – ABERDEEN, Music Hall
2 October – EDINBURGH, Corn Exchange
3 October – CARLISLE, Sands Centre
5 October – HULL, City Hall
6 October – SHEFFIELD, Academy
8 October – LIVERPOOL, University
9 October – BLACKBURN, Kings Georges Hall
11 October – LEEDS, Academy
12 October – DERBY, Assembly Rooms
14 October – MANCHESTER, Apollo
16 October – LINCOLN, Engine Shed
17 October – NORWICH, UEA
19 October – SOUTHAMPTON, Guildhall
20 October – SOUTHEND, Cliffs Pavillion
22 October – BOURNEMOUTH, Academy
23 October – NEWPORT, Centre
25 October – BRISTOL, Colston Hall
26 October – BIRMINGHAM, Academy
28 October – LONDON, Brixton Academy
29 October – LONDON, Brixton Academy
31 October – LEICESTER, De Montford Hall
1 November – CAMBRIDGE, Corn Exchange
British Sea Power – Man Of Aran OST
Any British Sea Power release is something that I get excited about. Man Of Aran is something a little different for the Brighton band. The album is a score to the 1934 film “Man Of Aran.” Robert J Flaherty’s 1934 docu-drama about the life of fishermen in Ireland. It is a project that you could really only see British Sea Power taking on. The album on a whole is mostly instrumental. But where the album really shines is as a film score. The images of the film combined with these gentle songs are something beautiful. The album gets going early with “The South Sound” – a gigantic epic piece of music that would fit comfortably in the next record. There are not many 11+ minute tunes that give you the feeling that something is just beginning and a new journey is about to start.
The only track with vocals, “Come Wander with Me” follows up next. This track is that it is a Jeff Alexander composition first aired on the TV series the Twilight Zone and it is worth your while to track down the clip of the song from the show. The band even manage to rework a few of their older tracks into this release as in the case of “It Comes Back Again” which is a reworking of “True Adventures.” They manage to pack a more elegant and graceful tune this time around. The album closes with “No Man Is An Archipelago” which is a reworking of their track “The Great Skua” off of last year’s Do You Like Rock Music? During, the first listen I was thinking the tracks should have been switched to finish off the record. But, those last seconds showed why it was the better track to finish off this ambitious set.
It is hard to compare this album to the band’s other three records but they seem to be more adventurous. Having the movie to work with allowed the band to work in a framework but still allow these songs to grow and feel so organic at times. We have to give it up to British Sea Power for such for the effort and for something this year that is very different.
British Sea Power soundtrack Man of Aran
British Sea Power’s soundtrack for the 1934 movie ‘Man Of Aran’ is due out on May 4th The package includes two discs – the re-scored ‘Man Of Aran’ DVD, plus the soundtrack by itself on CD. The movie was shot in the Aran Islands on the West Coast of Ireland, and BSP guitarist Martin Noble compares the fisherman’s costumes to a “1930s Irish version of Jack White or Kraftwerk”. The film won the Grand Prix at the 1935 Venice Film Festival.
Tracklisting
1. Man Of Aran
2. The South Sound
3. Come Wander With Me
4. Tiger King
5. The Currach
6. Boy Vertiginous
7. Spearing The Sunfish
8. Conneely Of The West
9. The North Sound
10. Woman Of Aran
11. It Comes Back Again
12. No Man Is An Archipelago