MANIC STREET PREACHERS release 20th Year Collector’s Edition of ‘This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours’ on 7th December

Manic Street Preachers release a 20th Year Collector’s Edition of their fifth album ‘This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours’ on 7th December 2018 on Columbia/Sony.  Released as a deluxe 3 cd box set, double vinyl edition and digital package the album contains unheard demos and live rehearsal recordings as well as remixes by the likes of Massive Attack, David Holmes and Mogwai.  The artwork features many unseen photographs by long-term collaborator Mitch Ikeda including a different album cover from the original session on Black Rock Sands near Porthmadog in Wales. The band will also be going out on tour next year playing some of their favourite intimate venues over the UK performing the album in full alongside other hits and rarities. They hope to announce a special one-off gig in Wales in the next few months and support on all dates comes from Gwenno. 

‘This Is My Truth ….”  went to No.1 in the charts on its release and stayed in the UK charts for over a year and went on to sell over five million copies.  It won the Brit Award for Best Album (and the band for best group), and all the big prizes at the NME Awards – Best Band, Best Album, Best Live Act, Best Single and Best Video and the group were awarded the Best Band in the World Award by Q Magazine.   The album was preceded by the group’s first No. 1 single, ‘If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next’ – the first,  and only No. 1 inspired by the Spanish Civil War, and three more singles were released ‘You Stole The Sun From My Heart’, ‘Tsunami, and ‘The Everlasting’.   Nicky Wire said recently to the NME “I’ve just been listening to ‘This Is My Truth’ a lot. It’s such a deep and heavy album for a record that was so big. It just makes you realise that you can push the limits and have success.”

The band released their 13th album ‘Resistance Is Futile’ earlier this year and played their biggest tour in a decade.  They headlined several festivals over the summer and all the singles including ‘International Blue’ and ‘Hold Me Live A Heaven’ were a- listed across all the major radio stations.  The album has been nominated for the 2018 Welsh Music Prize.

UK Tour

12 May           DUBLIN, Olympia Theatre
14 May           CAMBRIDGE, Corn Exchange
15 May           BATH, Forum
17/18 May     LONDON, Shepherds Bush Empire
20/21 May     MANCHESTER, Ritz
23 May           BIRMINGHAM, Academy 1
24 May           SOUTHAMPTON, Guildhall
26 May           EDINBURGH, Usher Hall
27 May           YORK, Barbican
30 May           LIVERPOOL, Olympia
31 May           LEICESTER, De Montford Hall

With very special guest Gwenno.

Limited Edition Deluxe 3CD book set  / digital
CD 1 – Remastered original album

1             The Everlasting
2             If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
3             You Stole the Sun from My Heart
4             Ready for Drowning
5             Tsunami
6             My Little Empire
7             I’m Not Working
8             You’re Tender and You’re Tired
9             Born a Girl
10           Be Natural
11           Black Dog On My Shoulder
12           Prologue To History
13           S.Y.M.M.

CD 2 –  Demos & Live Rehearsals
1       The Everlasting
2       If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (Dave Bascombe Mix)
3       You Stole the Sun from My Heart
4       Ready for Drowning
5       Tsunami
6       My Little Empire
7       I’m Not Working
8       You’re Tender and You’re Tired
9        Born A Girl
10     Be Natural
11     Black Dog On My Shoulder
12     Prologue To History
13     S.Y.M.M.
14     Nobody Loved You

 CD3  – Remixes & B Sides

1       If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (Massive Attack Remix)
2       If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (David Holmes Remix)
3       The Everlasting (Deadly Avenger’s Psalm 315)
4       The Everlasting (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Remix)
5       You Stole the Sun from My Heart (David Holmes Remix)
6       You Stole the Sun from My Heart (Mogwai Remix)
7       Tsunami (Cornelius Remix)
8       Tsunami (Stereolab Remix)
9       Montana/ Autumn/78
10     Black Holes For The Young
11     Valley Boy
12     Socialist Serenade
13     Buildings For Dead People

Double 180gm vinyl in gatefold sleeve
*Includes limited edition poster on first pressing*
SIDE A
1    The Everlasting
2    If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
3    You Stole the Sun from My Heart

SIDE B
4    Ready for Drowning
5    Tsunami
6    My Little Empire

SIDE C
7    I’m Not Working
8    You’re Tender and You’re Tired
9    Born a Girl
10  Be Natural

SIDE D
11 Black Dog On My Shoulder
12 Prologue To History
13 S.Y.M.M.  (Remastered)