Send Away the Tigers Send Away the Tigers Send Away the Tigers is the eighth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, released on 7 May 2007 by record label Columbia. It reached number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. The album was due to hit number 1 in the charts, but at the end of the week 690 copies separated the Manics from the Arctic Monkeys on the top spot. The album is named after a phrase the English comedian Tony Hancock used to refer to "battling one's inner demons by getting drunk". The album is widely seen as a
Send Away the Tigers in a rut with no way out." Retrospectively, "NME" cited the record as when the band "rediscovered their sense of purpose and ushered in their third great phase" with the critically acclaimed "Journal for Plague Lovers" and "Postcards from a Young Man" following. Bassist Nicky Wire remains fond of the album, saying of the pre-"Send Away the Tigers" period: "It didn't feel like we were a band just before that. We were on the verge of nothingness and to dig that out of ourselves made us fall in love with music again." The album helped earn the band the following