Chris Moyles added to Manic Street Preachers’ outdoor summer show at Audley End
Famed DJ Chris Moyles has been added to the bill for Heritage Live Festivals’ massive summer line-up in the grounds of English Heritage’s Audley End House & Gardens on Saturday, 2 August, headlined by the Manic Street Preachers.
Chris Moyles joins the supporting bill for this impressive line-up of British guitar bands, which also features The Charlatans and Ash.
Tickets for the show are on-sale now via axs.com/heritagelive.
Chris Moyles boasts a long successful career spanning more than 30 years in the entertainment industry, working as an author and radio and television presenter.
Starting his radio career in his home town of Leeds at the age of just 16, Chris worked for well-known stations such as Radio Luxembourg and London’s Capital FM before joining BBC Radio 1 and quickly becoming one of the stations most talked about and popular DJs.
He presented the breakfast show to an audience of eight million people for a record-breaking eight and a half years and remains the longest serving breakfast host in Radio 1’s history.
He is a two-time Sunday Times best-selling author and has recorded and released two top 20 albums of his popular parody songs.
During the Covid lockdown, Chris ran many online live DJ events, entertaining his 360k followers on Instagram each Friday night, totalling more than five million combined views.
He has now transitioned to in-person appearances and shows.
Chris currently hosts his own show on Radio X which began in 2015 (Weekdays 6.30am-10am, Saturday 8am-11am), and its weekly podcast attracts over half a million downloads a month.
Manic Street Preachers are one of the most influential and iconic rock bands to have come out of the UK.
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.
Other songs like You Stole the Sun From My Heart and Design for Life play alongside recent tracks such as Decline and Fall and Hiding in Plain Sight.
They released their 15th studio album, Critical Thinking, earlier this year.
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.
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 counts the album as one of the 500 greatest of all time.
Previous years of Heritage Live Festivals at Audley End have featured Richard Ashcroft, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Elbow, Soft Cell, Madness, Boy George & Culture Club, Sir Tom Jones, Jess Glynne, Simple Minds, and many more.
