Sorry The Rolling Stones - Manic Street Preachers played Cuba before you did

Over the weekend, The Rolling Stones played an historic outdoor show in Cuba capital Havana, to over 450,000 people. But this landmark moment has been overegged slightly, according to Manic Street Preachers. The Welsh trio played a show at the city’s Karl Mark Theatre fifteen years ago, back in 2001. Not that it’s been wiped away from history or anything, but they’ve given fans a friendly reminder that they were the first Western rock band to play the country post-revolution. At the time, they played to an audience of 5,000 - including Fidel Castro - dubbing the experience “the greatest honour” of their lives. Tickets were priced at the equivalent of 17p. Asked if he could handle the show’s noise, Castro famously replied that it couldn’t be “louder than war,” thus birthing a subsequent concert film of the same name. Just to add to their historic accolades, James Dean Bradfield co. have just been confirmed as Wales’ official song-penners for Euro 2016.