Manic Street Preachers Reschedule NHS Charity Gigs Until 2021

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Manic Street Preachers have rescheduled their two Cardiff NHS Charity shows for July 2021. The two shows were originally put on to thank the NHS for all their work over the Coronavirus pandemic.

The First of the shows was a free gig for NHS staff and the second was fundraising for the NHS, both gigs were due to take place in December at the Cardiff Motorpoint Arena, but have now been moved to next year.

The new date for the free concert for NHS staff is Friday 16th July, and the fundraising show will now take place on Saturday 17th July.

Both dates have already sold out but original tickets remain valid, and refunds are available for anyone who can’t make the new dates. Contact your ticket provider for refunds.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions for the live music industry, the Manics have moved their previously announced shows in December at the Cardiff Motorpoint Arena to Fri 16th & Sat 17th July 2021. All tickets remain valid.

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In an interview with NME earlier in the year, James Dean Bradfield said “We will play those gigs eventually, whatever happens, It will just be fucking beautiful to step on stage and just move to music. Playing music has been quite a solitary pursuit. You listen to it for comfort, context, prophecy and meaning – there’s a lot of pressure on music at the moment. But the least pressure you can put on music would be just to play it on stage and have pissed-up people moving along. Playing music for people to live to, to groove to, to get drunk to, it will be great.”

When asked why they’re putting on the shows, he said “We just saw the struggle. I know a lot of people around me who work for the NHS and you could see the immediate strain that they were all under. We’re talking about proper stress from proper hard work that you’d never ever begin to realise how hard it is. They’re under immense strain. The NHS is the biggest employer in Wales, and all around us we saw people giving and giving and giving and not getting enough back. We just thought that this should be for them.”