This week’s concert at Cardiff featured the brilliant performance by veteran rock band Manic Street Preachers. The fans were ecstatic to experience the performances.
This week Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers have been performing live at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff free honoring the works of the NHS workers at the time of the recent pandemic. This was the second of the two shows that they have performed. There has been a ticketed event on September 20th and all the profits acquired from the shows will go to the NHS Wales Charity. The band has once again topped the UK charts after 23 years with their latest album, ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’.
The band formed in 1987 in Blackwood has proved that it possesses the same amount of agility and dexterity after so many years. Nicky Wire won the hearts with his poignant yet exuberant performance. The band members have said that they were doing the show to show their appreciation for the NHS workers who have tirelessly done their jobs at the time of the need. Their show has proved their sincerity towards the matter and brought out their true love and respect for the NHS workers.
As James Dean Bradfield strikes the stage with the opening notes of the band’s 1992 hit, ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’, James Baldwin’s words, ‘People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them’ is displayed on the screen behind him. Along with its music videos, the photos of the band’s younger days and their missing bandmate Richey Edwards are shown intensifying the acoustic experience of the audience.
Though Manic Street Preachers has already lived its best years in the past, the talented musicians still have such an amount of brilliance that many contemporary rock bands lack. They performed, ‘Your Love Alone Is Not Enough’, ‘Ocean Spray’, ‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next’, and more with a subtle new twist keeping up with the contemporary resonance. They also performed the more latest single, ‘The Secret He Had Missed’ winning the love of the visitors.
Due to the recent lockdowns, the shows have been postponed twice. The fans were eagerly waiting for the concerts and now they are happy that it is finally happening. The performances like, ‘Little Baby Nothing’ and ‘International Blue’ bring out their musical ferocity to the audience. The listeners had the time of their lives with the brilliant presentation of, ‘A Design for Life’. The nostalgia-filled event has bridged a gap between generations.
