Llangollen staged something of a nineties indie music celebration last night complete with added Welsh pride.

Llangollen International Eisteddfod, celebrating its 75th anniversary, is playing host to a series of concerts by acclaimed musicians, and Friday’s (June 28) took us back to a time before Glastonbury headliner Duo Lipa was even born with a brace of legendary bands.

First up as part of the first date in what has been termed as a co-headline tour by Suede and the Manic Street Preachers, were the alternative rock greats fronted by the forever young Brett Anderson.

He was in fine form gliding across the Llangollen pavilion stage with ease mining the band’s rich back catalogue for ecstatic fans.

Starting with the band’s blistering opener Turn off your brain and Yell, Anderson took us on a journey down memory lane early on with back-to-back classics, the anthemic Trash followed by a sensational performance of the band’s biggest hit  Animal Nitrate.

Anderson’s unfaltering voice successfully performed The Drowners, Filmstar and We are the Pigs while contorting his body to the delight of the audience and Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire watching on from the side of the stage.

On this occasion being a Welsh date on the pair’s tour, Suede may have served as support to the Manic Street Preachers, but the band’s last three songs guaranteed their appearance would not be forgotten any time soon.

So Young, Metal Mickey and the finale, The Beautiful Ones proved explosive with Anderson labelling the Llangollen audience “beautiful”.

While still recovering from Suede’s performance, the crowd who had been kept busy cheering along stage crew and technicians waving a Welsh flag witnessed the Manics burst onto the stage launching into one of their biggest hits Motorcycle Emptiness.

For the next 80 minutes the Caerphilly band reminded us of their lengthy music career.

Lead singer James Dean Bradfield spoke of his joy at being back in Llangollen after having performed previously with the band and as a member of the choir while attending the Eisteddfod as a child.

Explosive versions of Slash n Burn and You Stole the Sun from My Heart had the crowd chanting along while uniform pogoing ensued during blistering performances of La Tristesse durera (Scream to a Sigh) and You Love Us – temporary halted by Nicky Wire for an appeal for first aiders to attend to an audience member.

The biggest reactions however were reserved for hits from the band’s biggest album Everything Must Go.

Cheers and singalongs broke out during monumental versions of A Design for Life and Everything Must Go.

The legendary Welsh group closed the show with a spinetingling version of If You Tolerate This complete with confetti cannons.