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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Mark Beaumont

Suede and Manic Street Preachers at Alexandra Palace review: every song was an encore-worthy blow-out

One legendary indie behemoth alone is not enough? Then luckily alt-rock’s hottest double-header ticket of the year landed in the Alexandra Palace grounds last night like a précis of all the dream Glastonburys you missed in the Nineties.

Don’t call it a Britpop package tour. The Manic Street Preachers and Suede are arguably the two greatest and most influential acts that stood proudly above and apart from that scene, making them ideologically perfect touring partners.

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