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(70 views)I'm really looking forward to the new album. I'm sure it will be brilliant with Richey's lyrics being used as well. It will be a fine tribute to him.
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(71 views)Manic Street Preachers to release Richey Edwards-written album 
Manic Street Preachers, Big Gig, O2 Arena, February 28, 2008. Pic: PA Photo
The new album is set to be released next Spring
Manic Street Preachers are set to release an album featuring lyrics written by missing member
Richey Edwards.
The Welsh trio told
NME.COM that they had recorded nine songs with producer
Steve Albini for the album, tentatively titled
'Journal For Plague Lovers', which they plan to release in spring 2009.
The album will only feature lyrics written by
Edwards, which his bandmates kept following his disappearance in 1995.
"We've had these lyrics for 14 years and we all felt compelled that this was the right time to do it," bassist
Nicky Wire told
NME.COM. "It's a follow-up to [1994 album]
'The Holy Bible' in a lot of ways.
"There's a small amount of editing involved, because some of them [
Edwards-written passages] are prose and they needed to be made into lyrics, but they're all
Richey's."
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Officials in Wales mistakenly erected a road sign that read "I am not in the office at the moment" in Welsh after a translation mix-up.
The sign originally said in English, "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only," but when Swansea Council officials sent it to be translated, they received an automated e-mail written in Welsh that read: "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated."
Unaware of the actual meaning of the e-mail, officials had the sign printed and put up near a supermarket, only realising their mistake when Welsh speakers pointed it out.
All road signs in Wales are required to be written in English and Welsh.
"Our attention was drawn to the mistranslation of a sign at the junction of Clase Road and Pant-y-Blawd Road," a Swansea Council spokesman said, "We took it down as soon as we were made aware of it and a correct sign will be installed as soon as possible."
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(124 views)here's the latest from Phil, yes he does get worse
A man is stolling past a lunatic asylum when he hears a loud chanting, "Thirteen, thirteen, thirteen!" goes the noise from within the mental hospital's grounds.
The man's curiosity gets the better of him and he searches for a hole in the security fence. Before long he finds a small crack, so he leans forwards to peer in, instantly, someone pokes him in the eye.
As he staggers back in agony, the chanting continues "Fourteen, fourteen, fourteen!"
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(95 views)the latest email from Phil-the-mentalist
The Top 20 Things I'd Do If I Ever Become An Evil Overlord
1. My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear Plexiglas visors, not face concealing ones.
2. My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.
3. My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell in my dungeon.
4. Shooting is not too good for my enemies.
5. The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragon of Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit box. The same applies to the object which is my one weakness.
6. I will not gloat over my enemies predicament before killing them.
7. When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?" I'll say, "No." and shoot him. No, on second thought, I'll shoot him and then say "No."
8. After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks' time during which the final phase of my plan will be carried out.
9. I will not include a self-destruct mechanism unless absolutely necessary. If it is necessary, it will not be a large red button labelled, "Danger: Don Not Push". The big red button marked "Do Not Push" will instead trigger a spray of bullets on anyone stupid enough to disregard it. Similarly, the ON/OFF switch will clearly not be labelled as such.
10. I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum - a small hotel room well outside my border will work just as well.
11. I will be secure in my superiority. Therefore, I will feel no need to prove it by leaving clues in the form of riddles or leaving my weaker enemies alive to show they pose no threat.
12. One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.
13. All slain enemies will be cremated, or at least several round of ammunition emptied into them, not left for dead at the bottom of the cliff. The announcement of their deaths, as well as any accompanying celebration, will be deferred until after the aforementioned disposal.
14. The hero is not entitled to a last kiss, a last cigarette, or any other form of last request.
15. I will never employ any device with a digital count-down. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable. I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation.
16. I will never utter the sentence "But before I kill you, there's just one thing I want to know."
17. When I employ people as advisors, I will occasionally listen to their advice.
18. I will not have a son. Although his laughably under-planned attempt to usurp power would easily fail, it would prove a fatal distraction at a crucial point in time.
19. I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was evil, but one look at the hero's rugged countenance and she'd betray her own father.
20. Despite its proven stress-relieving effect, I will not indulge in maniacal laughter. When so occupied, it's too easy to miss unexpected developments that a more attentive individual could adjust to accordingly.
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(152 views)Manic Street Preachers finally played their first concert in Poland (21.06.2008 Poland, Poznań, Allegro Event).
I've been there and I must say they were amazing! Great gig! Thanks Manics for coming and hope to see you in Poland again.
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(253 views)I have a standing tciket for the above.
Who else is going? I am going alone and would be happy to meet up with any VIPS going to the same gig.
Let me know and we can make arrangments to meet up
Kaz xx
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(417 views)Which version of the umbrella song is best? I love the manics version - they may have covered it very soon after the Reanna version but do we care?
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(178 views)Hello,
Have you seen Manic Street Preachers videos? There were some videos - Zoo session, V-Festival session ... I liked it ... I just want to play one of them and now I can't find them ...
Is it temporary?
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