Manic Street Preachers announced for huge outdoor show at Audley End House & Gardens this summer

Manic Street Preachers have been announced to headline a massive summer line-up as part of Heritage Live Festival’s 2025 summer outdoor shows, set in the grounds of English Heritage’s Audley End House & Gardens.

They’ll be joined for the huge show on Saturday, 2 August, by fellow indie luminaries, The Charlatans and Ash.

Tickets for the show will be available for pre-sale on Wednesday 26, February, at 9am. Customers must pre-register at arep.co/p/manicstreetpreachers for pre-sale access.

Tickets will then go on general sale on Friday, 28 February, at 9am from axs.com/heritagelive.

Manic Street Preachers are one of the most influential and iconic rock bands to have come out of Wales. Formed in Blackwood, they have gone on to headline festivals including Glastonbury, T in the Park, V Festival and Reading & Leeds.

They have won 11 NME Awards, eight Q Awards, two Ivor Novello Awards and four BRIT Awards, and were also nominated for the Mercury Prize and the MTV Europe Music Awards.

At their live shows early tracks such as You Love Us and Motorcycle Emptiness comfortably sit alongside huge chart hits such as the number one single If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next and other singles such as You Stole the Sun from My Heart and Design for Life.

They recently toured the US, Far East and UK with Suede and have just released their 15th studio album, Critical Thinking.

For more than 30 years, The Charlatans have been an inspirational force in British music, notching up 13 top 40 studio albums – three of them number ones – alongside 22 Top 40 singles, four of them top 10 hits.

The band – Tim Burgess, Mark Collins, Martin Blunt and Tony Rogers – remain one of the most brilliant live acts around.

Their back catalogue is a non-stop jukebox of some of indie rock’s greatest hits, including The Only One I Know, Just When You’re Thinkin’ Things Over, One to Another, How High, and North Country Boy.

Ash came to prominence as teenagers in the 1990s, with their thrashing brand of indie pop-punk. Their debut album 1997 went straight to number one in the album charts, with huge singles such as Oh Yeah and Girl from Mars. The NME count the album as one of the 500 greatest of all-time.

For all show info, including venue information and VIP packages, visit heritagelive.net.