The first bona fide Welsh pop star was Shirley Bassey. Her first hit, The Banana Boat Song, came in 1957, and with the release in 1964 of Goldfinger she became a chart storm on both sides of the ...

KillerStar are doing live shows at The 100 Club in London on March 7 & 8.  David Bowie alumni Mike Garson, Mark Plati and ...

From Central Cee to Mogwai, via Lady Gaga and Lana Del Rey, the already announced releases of 2025 sound mighty promising. Here are the 10 albums we’re looking forward to the most in the first half of ...

Human life is limited, but I would like to live forever,” read the note Yukio Mishima left on his desk shortly before he left ...

The third track to be made available from Manic Street Preachers forthcoming fifteenth album is ‘People Ruin Paintings’. Out today, its a lithe and airy new wave track that sa ...

Manic Street Preachers have shared their new single 'People Ruin Paintings'. The Welsh rockers' latest track from their upcoming 15th studio album 'Critical Thinking' is about the "hypocrisy" of ...

Much like the former, the new single is a rousing widescreen anthem which sees frontman James Dean Bradfield explore the “destruction of truth” as he sings: “ People ruin paintings, faces for the view ...

An important local site, it has hosted numerous events since opening as a snooker hall in the 1920s, including performances by local band the Manic Street Preachers. The plans to close the venue ...

Then there are big releases by Franz Ferdinand, Ringo Starr, Manic Street Preachers, The Darkness and ... do well to cast your eyes over that cover art, featuring blood smears and a drippy title ...