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May 04, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Manic Street Preachers

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Welsh band Manic Street Preachers released a new album, Resistance Is Futile, last month via Shornday/The Orchard. Now they have shared a video for one of its songs, “Hold Me Like a Heaven.” Watch it below, followed by the band’s upcoming U.K. festival dates.

The band’s Nicky Wire had this to say about the song in a press release: “This track sprung from reading Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album by Phillip Larkin, and his poem Aubade as well. It was the last lyric written for the record and I knew it had to be special. It’s got one of my favorite ever lines, which is ‘what is the future of the future/when memory fades and gets boarded up.’ We’ve long been obsessed with writing something like ‘Ashes to Ashes;’ I think this is the closest we’ll ever get.”

Also read our 2015 interview with Manic Street Preachers’ bassist Nicky Wire on The Holy Bible and Futurology.

Manic Street Preachers U.K. Festival Dates:

19 June - MELTDOWN, Royal Festival Hall, London
21-24 June - ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL,
21 July - PENN FESTIVAL, Buckinghamshire (headline)
27 July - Y NOT FESTIVAL, Peak District
17 August - RIZE FESTIVAL, Hyland Park, Chelmsford
18 August - BEAUTIFUL DAYS, Escot Park, Devon (headline)

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