Tickets at all major sellers for the Manic Street Preachers' 20th anniversary The Holy Bible shows have sold out in minutes.

Earlier this week, the band confirmed long-teased rumours that they would be playing the 1994 album in full for the first time.

Tickets sold- time to learn the basslines now!!!xxx — ManicStreetPreachers (@Manics) September 26, 2014

Tickets for shows at Glasgow's Barrowland (December 8), Manchester's Albert Hall (December 10, 11), Dublin's Olympia Theatre (December 13) and London's Roundhouse (December 15, 16, 17) sold out at Ticketmaster, Gigs and Tours, and See Tickets in around ten minutes this morning (September 26).

Released on August 29, 1994, The Holy Bible was the band's last album to feature guitarist Richey James Edwards, who disappeared on February 1, 1995.

The only previous time the band have played an album in full was in 2009 after the release of that year's Journal For Plague Lovers, an album constructed from lyrics left by Edwards.



Last year, Wire quipped to Digital Spy: "It's 20 years since The Holy Bible next year, and there's a bit of us that thinks, maybe we should for once, stop being so f**king principled and make loads of money and play it!

"Try and get a hologram of Richey or something, like Tupac!"

A 20th anniversary edition of The Holy Bible will be released later this year with further details to follow.

Manic Street Preachers' last studio album was this year's Futurology.

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