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
The Beta Band (album) in both pop music and Dali surrealism." The album is featured in "Mojo" magazine's book "The Mojo Collection", which lists "the greatest albums of all time." All tracks written by The Beta Band. The Beta Band (album) The Beta Band is the official studio debut album of The Beta Band, released in 1999 on Regal Records. The album followed the critically acclaimed compilation of their first three EPs titled "The Three E.P.'s" (1998). With high anticipation for "The Beta Band", the band originally planned to record the album in four separate continents, but financial constraints slimmed the recording locations down;