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Manic Street Preachers and Suede played the first gig of their co-headline tour of the UK last night. Check out the setlist below.

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The two indie giants kicked off their joint tour last night at Llangollen International Eisteddfod 2024. The bands first toured Europe together back in 1993, before last year they recreated the line-up for a string of US shows. They’ll also return for joint dates in Japan this winter.

On their UK and Ireland tour, each act will perform for approximately 75 minutes, taking it in turns to play last each evening. Last night, Manic Street Preachers took the finale spot, closing the show with ‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next’ from their 1998 album ‘This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours’.

Prior to the tour, Manics’ frontman James Dean Bradfield promised that the Manics would deliver “a banging greatest hits set – as simple as that”. And it seemed they delivered, with the band playing hits from each era of their almost 40-year career.

Speaking to NME ahead of their US tour together in 2022, Bradfield recalled their joint 1994 tour, when the Manics were promoting their seminal third album ‘The Holy Bible’. “God almighty, that’s a long time ago, isn’t it? I vividly remember those gigs because Richey [Edwards, now missing guitarist] was coming back from what you might call his emotional event and was insisting that he wanted to come on the road,” he said. “We were treading softly with Richey at some points, and Suede had lost Bernard Butler as their guitarist and were going through the transition of Richard Oakes coming into the band.

Manic Street Preachers, so relevant even today. Yesterday in Wales. pic.twitter.com/9RR1lfVU36

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“I remember just looking at them and thinking, ‘Wow, are they going to survive after losing Bernard?’ Because he was such a brilliant guitarist and musical architect. He had that chemistry of writing with Brett and left big shoes to fill. I remember being obsessed with ‘Dog Man Star’ (1994) when it came out, which is such an amazing album that I used to listen to all the time.”

“Watching Suede on stage and Richard Oakes was just amazing. He had the hair, he had the moves, he had the chops, and he fitted in on stage. The next question was if they could write songs together, they came out with [1996 album] ‘Coming Up’ which is one of the best albums of the ‘90s.”

Suede’s setlist was:

‘Turn Off Your Brain and Yell’
‘Trash’
‘Animal Nitrate’
‘The Drowners’
‘We Are the Pigs’
‘Pale Snow’
‘I Don’t Know How to Reach You’
‘Killing of a Flashboy’
‘Filmstar’
‘Antidepressants’
‘Life Is Golden’
‘She Still Leads Me On’
‘Shadow Self’
‘The 2 of Us’
‘So Young’
‘Metal Mickey’
‘Beautiful Ones’

Manic Street Preachers’ setlist was:

‘Motorcycle Emptiness’
‘From Despair to Where’
‘Everything Must Go’
‘Slash ‘n’ Burn’
‘You Stole The Sun From My Heart’
‘To Repel Ghosts’
‘Little Baby Nothing (with The Anchoress)’
‘Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (with The Anchoress)’
‘Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier’
‘A Design For Life’
‘La tristesse durera (Scream to a Sigh)’
‘Walk Me To The Bridge’
‘Tsunami’
‘Orwellian’
‘You Love Us’
‘No Surface All Feeling’
‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next’

Suede recently announced that the recording of a new album is under way, and it’s going to be “noisy”, “unhinged” and “raw”, according to Brett Anderson. They debuted a taste of it at Isle Of Wight Festival earlier this month, playing a new track titled ‘Antidepressants’ during their set at the festival on June 23. Based around urgent post-punk guitar riffs and a typically Suede anthemic chorus, the song offers a preview of their self-described “raw”, new era.

Meanwhile, earlier this month Manic Street Preachers shared details of a new book of previously unseen Valerie Phillips photographs of the band, titled Little Baby Nothings.The book will feature over 200 photographs taken by the artist in 1991 and 1992, around the time of the release of their debut album ‘Generation Terrorists’.

Suede and Manic Street Preachers will head to Dublin next week (July 5), before playing Cardiff, Edinburgh, Manchester and Leeds. The tour will wrap up in London’s Alexandra Palace Park on July 18. You can find any remaining tickets here.

The remaining Suede and Manic Street Preachers tour dates are:

Tuesday 2 – Dublin Trinity College **
Friday 5 – Cardiff Castle *
Wednesday 10 – Edinburgh Castle *
Friday 12 – Manchester Castlefield Bowl *
Saturday 13 – Leeds Millenium Square **
Thursday 18 – London Alexandra Palace Park **

*Manic Street Preachers close the show
**Suede close the show

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Kasabian have confirmed they will be performing at Glastonbury 2024 after much fan speculation.

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In the lead-up to the annual festival – currently taking place at Worthy Farm until Sunday (June 30) – rumours have been rife of a surprise performance at the Woodsies Stage today (June 29) with a 6pm slot that has been listed as ‘TBA’.

In a social media post by the band, they have confirmed that they are the ‘TBA’ act set for 6pm at the Woodsies Stage, sharing a picture of the onsite notice, along with a timelapse clip of the band on the way to the festival in a private car.

Twitter/X account @secretglasto shared earlier today that the 6pm slot has indeed been filled by Kasabian, referencing the band’s 2004 hit ‘L.S.F.’. “Anyone lonely and stuck for something to do at 1800?” the account tweeted. “Head to Woodsies and you won’t be LOST SOULS FOREVER”.

Anyone lonely and stuck for something to do at 1800? Head to Woodsies and you won’t be LOST SOULS FOREVER

— Secretglasto (@secretglasto) June 29, 2024

Last December, NME spoke to Kasabian about the possibility of returning to Glastonbury this year, which marks a decade since the band headlined the Pyramid Stage. “There isn’t any kind of [plan],” said chief songwriter Serge Pizzorno. “There was before – ‘We want this, this, this and this’, you know what I mean? Now there’s none. Now there’s like: great record, and then go and play.

“The American shows… seeing one kid on the shoulders, direct eye contact, singing every word, having that moment. You realise after it all – that’s as good as it gets. So we’re just going to see where it goes, but have no plan.”

This will mark Kasabian’s first Glastonbury performance since the departure of frontman Tom Meighan in 2020. The band’s vocal duties is now handled by keyboardist Tim Carter. Their eighth studio album ‘Happenings’ is due for release on July 5.

Check back at NME for the latest Glastonbury 2024 news, reviews, interviews, photos, rumours and more. Check out the NME liveblog here for all the latest Glastonbury action as it happens.

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Brazil’s biggest popstar and the queen of twerk, Anitta brings her sixth studio album, Funk Generation to London for the first of two nights at the Kentish Town forum – captured in photos by Burak Cingi.

Michael Jackson reportedly died with over $500million (£395million) worth of debt, court filings have revealed.

In a document filed on June 21 by executors of his estate, The King of Pop – who died in June 2009 from a heart attack – was apparently dealing with a staggering $500million in “debt and creditors’ claims, with some of the debt accruing interest at extremely high interest rates, and some debt in default”.

Filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the document showed that Jackson had more than 65 claims made against him by creditors, which sparked further litigation. Executors wrote in the filing that they did settle these claims or had otherwise resolved them.

Along with creditors, Jackson’s untimely death also left his estate liable financially – he reportedly owed $40million to promoter AEG for his ‘This Is It’ residency. Jackson was supposed to take to London’s O2 Arena between July 2009 and March 2010.

The ‘Thriller’ singer also apparently faced lawsuits both foreign and domestic at the time of his death. Additionally, the executors also requested reimbursement for their attorneys with money from his estate for legal services in 2018.

Michael Jackson. Credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage

It was previously reported in 2013 that the singer was £250million in debt at the time of his death, which was revealed by a forensic accountant in wrongful death trial Jackson’s mother Katherine has filed against concert promoters AEG Live.

Forensic accountant William Ackerman testified that the singer was “tapped out”, detailing how he spent the majority of his money on travel, art, charity, gifts and lavish furniture.

Ackerman also added that Jackson was reportedly paying £15million per year on old debts, saying that “consistently, his [Jackson] largest expenditure was interest expense. He spent a ton of money on interest.”

In other news, one of Michael Jackson’s iconic ‘Thriller’ jackets is now up for auction.

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Coldplay have responded to Rachel Chinouriri‘s recent cover of ‘The Scientist’ for Spotify Singles.

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The NME Cover star recently performed her rendition of the track for Spotify Singles, which follows her vocal love for Coldplay, telling The Forty Five that they “saved my life”.

“I was 13 and going through that the worst time ever as I was in a racist secondary school, but Coldplay was one thing that kept me going,” she told the publication. “I have this love and connection with Coldplay that is just endless, and no one can ever change my mind. I don’t care what music that they put out; I don’t want to hear a single thing about them that is bad.”

Now, the band themselves have responded to the cover on social media. Taking to Instagram stories yesterday (June 28), they uploaded a screenshot of the cover in question. In addition, the band’s creative director and manager Phil Harvey wrote that he “love[d] this version” and signed off with his initials.

The co-sign comes ahead of their respective upcoming Glastonbury performances. Chinouriri is due to perform on The Other Stage at 12.30pm on Sunday (June 30), whilst Coldplay will round out Saturday with a record-breaking fifth headline performance at the Pyramid Stage.

Earlier this year, Chinouriri released her debut album ‘What A Devastating Turn Of Events‘. In a four-star review of the LP, NME shared: “As a portrait of a life (and career) transformed, however, ‘What A Devastating Turn Of Events’ – despite its slightly macabre title – is consistently charming, while offering enough range in sound and scope to hint at Chinouriri’s future ambitions. She has worked hard to make it sound this easy.”

Speaking to NME about her album as part of The Cover, the singer revealed that she took inspiration from the noughties while working on the LP as a way to reclaim her position in British society and the indie scene, where Black womanhood is routinely ignored and misrepresented.

“It’s me trying to relive the place I grew up in, but also understand that those things caused me so much trauma,” she said. “Even though I was having some of the worst times of my life, when I heard songs like [Phoenix’s] ‘1901’ or [Kings Of Leon’s] ‘Sex on Fire’, they used to make me so happy. I wanted an album that felt as nostalgic as those songs.”

Elsewhere, ‘What A Devastating Turn Of Events’ has landed spots on NME’s Best Albums of 2024 So Far and Best Debut Albums of 2024 So Far lists.

The gates to Glastonbury 2024 opened on Wednesday (June 26), ahead of a weekend of music from the likes of headliners Dua Lipa, Coldplay, and SZA, alongside Shania Twain’s legends slot and performances from LCD Soundsystem, PJ Harvey, Little Simz, Burna Boy, Idles, Anne-Marie, Confidence Man, Disclosure, Camila Cabello, The Last Dinner Party, Avril Lavigne, The National, Jessie Ware, Jungle, Justice, Masego, Sugababes and countless more. Check out the full line-up here. 

Meanwhile, here are the worst clashes to expect this year, as well as the latest weather forecasts for Glastonbury 2024.

Check back at NME here for the latest news, reviews, interviews, photos, rumours and more from Glastonbury 2024. Check out the NME liveblog here for all the latest Glastonbury action as it happens.

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