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Manic Street Preachers just reminded Glastonbury why they're one of the most important bands of our time - launching Futurology and celebrating The Holy Bible on their sunset set at the Other Stage set tonight (Saturday 28 June, 2014).

There was some anticipation as to whether the band would play their seminal 1994 album The Holy Bible in full - 20 years after the band made their Glasto debut with a legendary performance. Bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire expressed a desire to play the iconic LP at Glasto last year, but the band then told Gigwise that they would not be doing so, but would honour it. 

And honour it they did, - but while celebrating the full breadth and caibre of their career. After the opening tracks of the flawless classics of 'Motorcycle Emptiness' and 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough', the band tore into recent single 'Walk Me To The Bridge'.

What followed was a riotously received rendition of 'You Love Us' followed by the first Holy Bible of the evening 'PCP', it was totally incredible. Then came the stuff of festival dreams, performing the huge 'You Stole The Sun From My Heart', 'Everything Must Go', and they invited the annoyingly underrated German actress Nina Hoss on stage to perform Futurology highlight 'Europa Geht Durch Mich'. 

Then came, the surprisingly early but utterly magnificent outing of No.1 single 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next' before Wire laid into bands who 'hit floor toms at the front of the stage' and ultimately sing about nothing - while noting that here stand a band who got to the top of the charts with a song about the Spanish Civil War. The Manics have always mattered, and always will. 

They then performed Holy Bible favourite 'Die In The Summertime', paid tribute to missing and irreplaceable guitarist and lyricist Richey Edwards and ended the finest set of the day with a run of some alt-rock that all other bands should envy. Good luck topping that, Pixies, Jake Bugg and Metallica.

Manic Street Preachers played:
Motorcycle Emptiness
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Walk Me to the Bridge
P.C.P.
You Stole the Sun From My Heart
Everything Must Go
Europa Geht Durch Mich
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
You Love Us
Die in the Summertime
Tsunami
Futurology
Show Me the Wonder
A Design for Life

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