Festivals
Manic Street Preachers and The Specials to headline Nottingham’s Splendour
It takes place in the city’s Wollaton Park this July.
The headliners for this year’s Splendour have been announced.
Manic Street Preachers and The Specials will top the bill at this year’s event, which takes place in the city’s Wollaton Park on 20th July.
It’ll be the former’s first show in the city since Rock City in 2007.
Manic Street Preachers released latest album, ‘Resistance is Futile’, in April 2018.
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