Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield speak to Ben Jones at Hard Rock Cafe about hotel stationery, the rock memorabilia...
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Scratch any literate songwriter – Win Butler, David Bowie, PJ Harvey – and beneath the surface you will find a debt to TS EliotThe New Yorker critic Louis Men...
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Aussie star performs Manic Street Preachers track ahead of current 'Anti-Tour'
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A Vancounver-based blogger writes about 'a life in love with music'Who are you and what's your blog called?I'm Mikala Taylor and my site's called BackstageRider.Where are...
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As pop music hurtles headlong into crowd-pleasing mediocrity, audiences should cherish performers who take a stroppy and contrary standTen days ago a concert-goer at the ...
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From the blues to the Beatles, from the Who to Nirvana, the biggest acts in pop have been hugely shaped by gay culture. Why has that spirit now disappeared?Nicky Wire lau...
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Before Simple Minds went stadium rock, they made 'serious, dark music' that influenced the Manics and Primal Scream. Now they're returning to their rootsA couple of years...
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The sister of vanished Manic Street Preachers rocker Richey Edwards is backing a change in the U K law to allow families of missing persons to access their finances A new...
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One of the most authentic and important artists of modern Britain opens at the Hayward, while Donatello's awe-inspiring power of illusion is unleashed at the V&A – ...
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Nicky Wire is a huge fan of John Lydons lyrics The Manic Street Preachers bass player counts the lyrics of the Sex Pistols God Save the Queen as his favourite and loves t...
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Fighting off stiff competition from the likes of Anna Calvi and James Blake, Russell "Rustie" Whyte walked away with the Guardian first album award this week for his albu...
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'Horribly funny' Irish movie debut by John Michael McDonagh beats Submarine and Attack the BlockA debut film that became the most successful independently funded Irish mo...
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Rustie, the quiet man of maximalist dance music, produced a groundbreaking album that could only have been made in 2011If Russell "Rustie" Whyte was anything like his mus...
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Ever wanted to ask the ex-Oasis man something?We're going to be hooking up with 2012 Godlike Genius Noel Gallagher soon for a quizzing session – and we want your qu...
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