Manic Street Preachers & Suede

Manic Street Preachers and Suede share a bill at Co-op Live in Manchester, with two British rock bands whose debut albums were released a year apart in the early 1990s. The concert draws on pop, rock and indie.

Manic Street Preachers are a British alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Blackwood. They are signed to Columbia Records, and their first album, Generation Terrorists, appeared in 1992. Suede is a British rock band from London, playing alternative rock, formed in 1989. The group also signed to Columbia Records and released its first album, Movin', in 1993.

Both acts therefore arrived with debut records within a year of each other, and this concert brings them together on one bill. The evening's music spans pop, rock and indie, with both bands rooted in guitar-led rock.

Co-op Live is a concert and performance venue in Manchester, hosting this evening as part of the city's live music calendar. It suits listeners who follow British alternative rock of the 1990s and the bands that shaped it.