Yes, my initial reaction was this could be International Blue 2… 😬

As always I'm intrigued, I adored the tuvl album teaser, sounded immense and intriguing. It'll be interesting if this is an album announcement, if it's got some overarching theme etc holding it together

Yeah I get that as well, it’s not too dissimilar to the RiF trailer which I loved.

Looks like we’re close then. Guessing it’ll be available for download from next Friday.

I can't get the TOTP theme tune from the early 80s out of my head after hearing that drum fill in that teaser....

Not a bad thing I think - I love IB!

Yep, I think we will get more info later this week and then a download at the end of the week (or probably just the new single "dropping" without much more warning)

If it is International Blue 2 does that also make it Motorcycle Emptiness 3?

I guess this is not motorcycle emptiness 3 or international blue 2. It is like Just the end of love without strings and polished production.. It is not intro but solo section.

😂😂😂

Sound very Manicsy! It's definitely new material, so we can bury the Lipstick traces part 2 for now. New music, new tour, yay!

Though I remember being extremely enthusiastic in the teaser for what turned out to be Liverpool revisited (which was underwhelming imho)

Beat me to it!

Should have placed some money on RiF 2.

Looks like we're going to get a single or an album announcement this week. I suspect we should be checking our music players of choice on Friday morning....

NME reported on it https://www.nme.com/news/music/manic...e-fall-3787472
But! They attributed the "I don't feel particularly energetic" quote to James when it was not only Nicky. But I linked the interview a few pages ago! We even had a discussion on how Nicky seemed tired and miserable.
But other than that. The drumming is great. About the only thing possible to detect from the clip.

I was certainly hoping for more crunch on the guitar sound instead of staying in the vain of RIF and TUVL that others have picked up on, but we'll see

Can't wait. Not excited by the prospect of more dull, low budget videos by Kieran Evans though. Oh, and the fact that the official Facebook page follows only 3 other pages, one of which is Oasis, could be a sign they'll support them at the upcoming shows... if that Oasis are going to announce tomorrow haha!

Clear to me that the big Oasis thing tomorrow is Noel and Liam announcing a new Manics album!

If anyone is playing along, the chords for the new music are G, Em, A /Asus4 / A (or x07600 / x07700 /x07600).

Or something like that.