Manic Street Preachers and Suede announce huge co-headline show at Dreamland in Margate
nme.comManic Street Preachers and Suede have announced a new co-headline show at Dreamland in Margate 2024.The bands revealed the addition to their previously announced summer co-headline tour on Monday (November 27), sharing that they’ll be closing out the run in Margate on Friday, July 19.Tickets are due to go on sale Friday (December 1) at 9am GMT from here.
Fans can also access the pre-sale starting Thursday (November 30) at 9am GMT by signing up here.A post shared by Manic Street Preachers (@manics) The extra date follows the addition of an Eden Sessions show in Cornwall to the run.The bands, who toured Europe together in 1993 before recreating the line-up for a North American tour in 2022, are due to stop in Dublin, Edinburgh, London and more in 2024.
Both acts also performed a run of Asia dates together this autumn.“We’ve both got a dedicated fanbase, but we do share a gene pool and a rabid denomination of fans,” Manics bassist and lyricist Nick Wire said on BBC Breakfast upon announcing the tour in October. “It’s because we never belonged to anything apart from ourselves.
We were never part of grunge, we never part of Britpop.”He added: “And we just looked better than anyone back then anyway.”Suede frontman Brett Anderson said: “It’s really inspiring to have a band that you love playing with you.
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