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Manic Street Preachers: This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours
Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, October 1998
FOLLOW-UP TO 1996's chart-topping Everything Must Go. Named after a line in a speech by miner's son and NHS founder Aneurin Bevan. ...
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Manic Street Preachers: Cube Club, Kentish Town, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, Sounds, 27 October 1990
Preaching to the perverted ...
Manic Street Preachers: Manic On The Streets Of London
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 5 January 1991
"SMASH HITS is more effective in polluting minds than Goebbels ever was…" ...
Saint Etienne, Flowered Up, Manic Street Preachers et al: Heavenly Records Night, Underworld, London
Live Review by Susan Corrigan, New Musical Express, 12 January 1991
HEAVENLY RECORDS gave 1990 some of its finest moments. A winning combination of happy housers, hippy haircuts, and hopped-up hyacinth heroes, their vibe generated fleeting, ...
Manic Street Preachers: Royal Holloway College, Egham
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 19 January 1991
ONE OF the debates raging around selected corners of the NME office currently is: Are the Manic Street Preachers thrashing in the fizzy waters of ...
Manic Street Preachers Take No Prisoners!
Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 1 June 1991
Guitarist Richey carving the words '4 REAL' into his forearm with a razorblade last week was just the latest stunt from this year's most contentious ...
Manic Street Preachers: Rock'n'Roll Suicide
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 20 July 1991
CAN YOU FEEL IT? A creeping paralysis accompanying every advance in the obese accumulation of "good music", a seeping slide into the mire of eclecticism. ...
Manic Street Preachers: Righteous Hate 4 Real
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 10 November 1991
When Malcolm McLaren rewrote the Sex Pistols story as The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, he invented a new genre – rock bands who come ...
Manic Street Preachers: Manic Panic
Interview by Chris Heath, Details, December 1991
The Manic Street Preachers — Britain's latest punk exports — have a way with words. And razor blades. ...
Manic Street Preachers: The Junction, Cambridge
Live Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 4 January 1992
THE MANIC kampfwagen rolls on, picking up speed, one album to total oblivion, wannabe girl-boys with Welsh haircuts and purple scarves and blue blouses and ...
Manic Street Preachers: Drags to Riches
Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 25 January 1992
Sacrilege! The Manics are re-releasing a single! SIMON PRICE watches the Welsh wastrels get all tarted up for a video and gives them grief over ...
Manic Street Preachers: Generation Terrorists (Sony)
Review by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 8 February 1992
THE FIRST thing to acknowledge about Generation Terrorists is that the Manics have done it, they've pulled it off, they've released the debut double album ...
Manic Street Preachers: Generation Terrorists (Columbia 471060 2)
Review by David Toop, The Times, 15 February 1992
Genuinely hopeless? ...
Manic Street Preachers: It Takes An Advance Of Millions To Hold Us, Bach
Interview by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 15 February 1992
Glammed up gobshites from the arse-end of nowhere, the MANIC STREET PREACHERS have, in a few short months, achieved their hearts' desires — a Top ...
Manic Street Preachers: Cardiff University
Live Review by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 29 February 1992
"All revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door"J K Galbraith ...
Manic Street Preachers: Look Back In Bangor
Interview by John Robb, Siren, April 1992
THE BEAUTY of contradiction. Incendiary intellectuals tarted up on oxfam glam rags, sensitive made up boyos from the beer swilling valleys, the Manic Street Preachers ...
Manic Street Preachers: Pathetic…
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, May 1992
Well it is, isn't It? You expected to be confronted by a group of palace-torching, system-smashing situationist art guerillas and you wind up having a ...
Glam Rock: Manic Street Preachers
Profile and Interview by Simon Witter, Sky, 1993
The Manic Street Preachers were wearing Boots No.17 eyeliner and women's fun-fur coats way before Brett Anderson could even spell androgyny. "Our idea of glamour ...
Manic Street Preachers: Manic… depression!
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 29 May 1993
This is the MANIC STREET PREACHERS' first interview of 1993. That's the good news over with. Now for the bad: RICHEY believes that "ninety per ...
Manic Street Preachers, Blaggers ITA, Credit to the Nation: Eclectic Riot Orchestra
Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 10 July 1993
It's the most exciting and important tour to take place this year. In the last six months, politics has roared back onto the musical agenda ...
Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against The Soul
Review by Stuart Maconie, Select, August 1993
THE MANICS go for gold with their all-mature second album. They're bach...with a vengeance! Attitude is the most overrated concept in modem pop. What it ...
Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against The Soul
Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, August 1993
ONCE IT HAD BECOME OBVIOUS that MI5 had nothing to fear from four mascara'd bedroom situationists fond of carving lumps out of their own flesh ...
Manic Street Preachers: Dead End Street?
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1993
The revolution will not be… stretched to a second album, they once proclaimed. However, their initial dreams of world domination unrealized, what the Manic Street ...
Manic Street Preachers: Academy, Manchester
Live Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, September 1993
SULTRY: Manic Street Preachers neither stale nor cartoon punks. ...
Manic Street Preachers: All That Glitters…
Interview by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 29 January 1994
It's been eight months since The Maker met the Manic Street Preachers, and they haven't cheered up in that time. On the eve of a ...
Manic Street Preachers: Siamese Animal Men
Report and Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 28 May 1994
MANIC STREET PREACHERS were once provincial PC lads, but give them a sniff of Bangkok's infamous Pat-Pong district and morality flies out the window. BARBARA ...
Primal Scream, Radiohead, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers et al: Reading Festival, Berkshire — Saturday
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 3 September 1994
ON A REMARKABLE autumn's day on which Chelsea go from to two down to three up at Leeds, Everett True gets hospitalised because he's too ...
Culture, Alienation, Bordeaux and Despair: Manic Street Preachers: The Barbey, Bordeaux
Live Review by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 8 October 1994
Only a couple of weeks out of hospital, and Richey James is back on a stage, scarred, skinny, bloodshot, but still beautiful. It's a dangerous ...
Manic Street Preachers: Manchester Academy
Live Review by Simon Warner, The Guardian, 18 October 1994
IF EMPTY intellectualism has been etched on pop's calling card, there has always been the odd renegade determined to transform rock into an intelligent medium. ...
Manic Street Preachers: Smile, It Might Never Happen
Report and Interview by Stuart Maconie, Q, December 1994
'THE INTENSE Humming Of Evil', 'Mausoleum', 'Archives Of Pain', 'Die In The Summertime'. Even a cursory glance at the titles will confirm that this is ...
Bible Of Hate: Manic Street Preachers: The Astoria, London
Live Review by 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 ...
Manic Street Preachers: From despair to... where?
Report by John Harris, New Musical Express, 25 February 1995
The disappearance of RICHEY EDWARDS has rekindled all sorts of fears and rumours, from the possibility of suicide to the seemingly inevitable split of the ...
Essay by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 3 March 1995
The remarkable thing about Richey Edwards's disappearance is not that he's gone, but that more pop stars have not followed him ...
Report by Andrew Smith, The Guardian, 31 March 1995
AN ARTICLE in this week's Melody Maker describes some of the dozens of letters the paper has been receiving every week since Richey James's departure ...
Comment by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 21 April 1995
When a pop icon disappears or kills himself, teenagers recognise that their own despair is being mirrored. ...
A Design For The Future: Manic Street Preachers
Interview by Jon Savage, Dazed & Confused, 1996
What follows is a transcript of an interview Jon Savage did with Nicky Wire in February 1996, during which Nicky agreed to talk frankly and ...
Manic Street Preachers: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 13 January 1996
THE MANICS HAVE made a career out of keeping the most impossible of promises and breaking the simplest of trusts. They said they'd split up ...
Oasis: ...And Noddy Holder Came Too
Report by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 May 1996
What a weekend! The parties! The stars! The footballers! The, er, free candyfloss! Yes, we were there at those exclusive do's held in honour of ...
Manic Street Preachers: Everything Must Go
Review by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 18 May 1996
IMAGINE ONLY good things. Imagine that after checking out of the Embassy Hotel in London on February 1, 1995, Richey James drove to his flat ...
Manic Street Preachers: Cool LA Shakers!
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 12 October 1996
It should have been great Supporting Oasis in the US. But the Gallaghers' squabbles also meant that the MANIC STREET PREACHERS had to fly home ...
Manic Street Preachers: More!!
Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, December 1996
Cambridge Corn Exchange, October 11, 1996 ...
Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 21 December 1996
'...Apart from the Super Furries album, and the Suede and Boos ones. Oh, and ours wasn't bad...' Since THE MANICS won MM's Album Of The ...
Richey Edwards: Missing street preacher
Retrospective by Andy Beckett, The Independent, 2 March 1997
LATE LAST MONDAY night, near the weary end of the televised blare called the Brits Awards, three dressed-down Welshmen — two small, one awkwardly tall ...
Manic Street Preachers: NYNEX, Manchester
Live Review by John McCready, MOJO, May 1997
FOR A group who have long flirted with the traditional tricks of "rawk", this is really a hell of a risk. The potential for misunderstanding ...
Manic Stations: Manic Street Preachers: Brighton Centre ****
Live Review by David Bennun, Uncut, June 1997
THE SURVIVING REPRESENTATIVE of The Culture Of Despair sits on the drum riser, bass on his knees, fingers every which way across the fretboard, laughing ...
Report and Interview by Susan Corrigan, i-D, August 1997
Blur and Damien Hirst? Pet Shop Boys and Sam Taylor-Wood? No doubt about it, pop stars dabbling in art is a bad idea. But what ...
Manic Street Preachers: Richey Edwards: Vanishing Point
Report by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 31 January 1998
It's now three years since Richey James disappeared — and he's still "The Most Sadly Missed" in The Maker Polls. We trace his early, confused ...
Manic Street Preachers: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 1998
Fifth album, and long-awaited follow-up to Everything Must Go ...
Manic Street Preachers: Northgate Arena, Chester
Review and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999
"It’s quite corny," James Dean Bradfield allows, reflecting on Manic Street Preachers' September tour of the towns that rock forgot. "I just remember where we ...
Manic Street Preachers' Richey Edwards
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
"It's about detesting the body. That's why you choose to mark it...all my life I've felt weak compared to others. If they want to crush ...
Report and Interview by Simon Price, The Guardian, 2 March 2001
Wales's fab three have just become the first major western rock act ever to play in Cuba. Simon Price went with them ...
Our Manics in Havana: Manic Street Preachers
Report and Interview by Andrew Smith, The Observer, 18 March 2001
THURSDAY MORNING and the short journey to the national radio station affords a first look at Havana, which turns out to be exactly what I ...
Manic Street Preachers: Know Your Enemy
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, May 2001
Tentatively experimental, hardline political stuff from Wire, Bradfield and Moore ...
Not So Manic Now: Manic Street Preachers
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 1 October 2004
TOP OF THE POPS audience members are nothing if not versatile. Five minutes ago, on the last Friday evening in September, they were directing their ...
Manic Street Preachers: Just Another Manic Day
Interview by Ian Watson, The Scotsman, 30 October 2004
WHEN Nicky Wire was at school, as soon as someone he hated got into his favourite band he went off them. ...
Manic Street Preachers: Out Demons Out!
Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, February 2005
With The Holy Bible The Manic Street Preachers jettisoned situationist glamour for a defiant, post-punk nihilism that chartered the mental deterioration of their chief lyricist, ...
The Manic Street Preachers: Nicky Wire reflects on the Musical Tradition of his Home Country
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 15 February 2008
"THERE'S A LOVELY Welsh word, cynefin, which means 'habitat'. It's the idea that there are factors in your environment that have an influence on you ...
Richey Edwards: Guitarist and Lyricist with the Manic Street Preachers who Disappeared in 1995
Retrospective by Andy Gill, The Independent, 28 November 2008
WHEN MANIC Street Preachers' lyricist Richey Edwards disappeared from his room at the Embassy Hotel in London's Bayswater district on the night of 1 February ...
Manic Street Preachers: Postcards from a Young Man
Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 17 September 2010
ANYONE WANTING TO HOLD the Manics to account on the basis of what they believed in their early twenties may struggle with this album. ...
Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Venue , October 2010
PRICKLY, POLEMICAL, poetic provocateurs in love with lofty ideals and lost causes, the Manic Street Preachers are one of Britrock's longest-running soap operas. ...
Manic Street Preachers: Postcards From A Young Man
Review and Interview by David Quantick, Uncut, October 2010
Their 10th album is a glam belter, full of fire and thunder, gospel choirs and orchestras. But still not pompous, says David Quantick ...
Manic Street Preachers: Sziget Festival, Budapest
Live Review by John Robb, Louder Than War, 17 August 2011
THERE'S SOMETHING idiosyncratic about seeing former snotty firebrands playing the festival circuit. The wide eyed talk of changing the world with a song, the idealism ...
Manic Street Preachers: Rewind The Film
Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, October 2013
Cassette-culture vultures pick at their own carcass ...
Melancholy Optimism: Manic Street Preachers
Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 19 February 2018
The Manic Street Preachers thought they might never make another album again, then along came Resistance Is Futile. Patrick Clarke meets Nicky Wire to discuss ...
Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, December 2018
The Manic Street Preachers frontman on fame, hecklers and getting beaten to UK#1 by the "fucking Greatest Showman…" ...
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