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Manic Street Preachers, Future Of The Left and Gruff Rhys have all been nominated for this year's Welsh Music Prize.
For the fourth annual celebration of Welsh music, Nicky Wire and co. lead the nominations with their album Futurology. Previous winners have included Gruff Rhys and Future Of The Left, after the awards were launched in 2001 by Radio One's Huw Stephens.
The albums nominated for this year's Welsh Music Prize are as follows:
9Bach – Tincian
Cate Le Bon – Mug Museum
Euros Child – Situation Comedy
Future Of The Left – How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident
Gruff Rhys – American Interior
Gulp – Season Sun
Joanna Gruesome – Weird Sister
Manic Street Preachers – Futurology
Samoans – Rescue
Slowly Rolling Camera – Slowly Rolling Camera
The Gentle Good – Y Bardd Anfarwol
The People The Poet – The Narrator
The judges for this year's awards are Helen Weatherhead (BBC 6Music), Sian Rowe (XL) Folu Babatola (Red Bull), Owain Schiavone (Y Selar), Teleri Glyn Jones (Juxtaposed), Laura Snapes (NME), Ben Lovett (from Mumford & Sons), producer David Wrench and Xenomania's David Wrench.
The Welsh Music Prize 2013-2014 ceremony will be held on 28th November 2014.
After months of rumour and speculation, the Manics have confirmed that they will play The Holy Bible in full for the first time ever to mark its 20th anniversary with a run of dates at Glasgow's Barrowland, Manchester's Albert Hall, Dublin's Olympia Theatre and London's Roundhouse this December.
The full list of dates is below. Tickets are on sale now. For tickets and more information, visit here.
A spokesman added: "A 20th anniversary edition of ‘The Holy Bible’ will be released later this year with further details to follow."
- Read Manic Street Preachers reflecting on The Holy Bible and choosing their album highlights for Gigwise here.
"We actually feel the looming presence of 20th anniversary of The Holy Bible, I think we feel it quite a lot," said frontman James Dean Bradfield in an interview with Gigwise. "We're a bit scared of it really. If we were ever a band who felt like the past defined us too much, and that our past contained too much baggage for us to haul around, I think we'd be finished. We are constantly asked about our past because so much has happened, and naturally we're on our 12th album. If you're so scared of the past like that, it's just game over."
When asked what spirit from The Holy Bible the band carried onto their latest astonishing record Futurology, Bradfield replied: "That we could still trade in a language that is still exclusively ours, that we could still want to write songs that other people are just never going to go near. I just don't think that anyone else would go near that subject matter. We never laid claim to being the most 'original' band, but I think we're unique in that sense."
Below: Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible, the tracks ranked in order of greatness
