Manic Street Preachers
Alexis Maindrault

Manic Street Preachers & Bear Hands @ Webster Hall - pics

photos by Alexis Maindrault

Manic Street Preachers

Near the end of their first New York show in 10 years, at Webster Hall on October 7th, singer-guitarist James Dean Bradfield of the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers hit the plaintive opening lick of the Small Faces’ 1966 British hit “All or Nothing,” leading the rest of his group into a verse and chorus of that mod-soul classic — a song about giving without quitting — before veering into the Manics’ own 1990 Molotov cocktail “Motown Junk.” You can count the number of times the Manics have played New York on one hand; this was the biggest room I’ve seen them in here. But Bradfield, drummer Sean Moore and bassist Nicky Wire, traveling with a second guitarist and a keyboard player, ran through the whole of their history in 90 minutes — a greatest-hits set anywhere across the Atlantic, a long list of shots in the dark in the U.S. — like still-hungry animals with conquerors’ pride. There was no encore but, as Bradfield told the ecstatic faithful on the Webster floor, “That doesn’t mean we don’t love you from the bottom of our filthy Welsh hearts.” [David Fricke]

They play Boston tonight (10/8). More pictures from Webster Hall below…

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