Bible Of Hate: Manic Street Preachers: The Astoria, London
Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 21 December 1994
SINCE achieving cult fame in 1990, the Welsh quartet have preached nihilism juiced up with arty quotes from the Situationists and literary figures. The not-entirely-novel gist of their argument is that Hollywood and the media have turned us into mindless consumer-stooges.
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