Manics look back on infamous US tour with Oasis and Screaming Trees
Manic Street Preachers have shared their memories of an infamous US tour with Oasis and Screaming Trees in 1996 – which led to a feud between Liam Gallagher and Mark Lanegan.The Manics were talking to NME about their upcoming 14th album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’, which features a collaboration with grunge icon Lanegan on the track ‘Blank Diary Entry’. They first met the frontman when the Manics supported Oasis in the US along with his band Screaming Trees back in 1996.Details of the tour made headlines again last year with the release of Lanegan’s memoir Sing Backwards And Weep, in which he wrote about how a fight arose after Gallagher mocked the band backstage.