Wonder what his bandmate James Dean Bradfield has to say about this. James has been a Queen fan forever Manics’ Nicky Wire: ‘I tried to persuade James Dean Bradfield to join Queen’
"The band cite Queen, Guns N’ Roses, ELO, Dennis Wilson and Fleetwood Mac as key influences on this album. To that we might add Phil Spector, XTC and even Elton John. Freddie Mercury’s spirit is certainly evident in the stacked harmonies and lavish string arrangements of the exhilarating single (It’s Not War) Just The End of Love and Postcards From A Young Man itself, the latter a swaggering powerhouse waltz in the mould of A Design For Life." Source
Also back in 1992 it was very uncool to be rooting for this as young musicians wanted to distant themselves from the established dinosaur bands.
I always thought that Nicky Wire and Stuart Cable should start a band and call it Sparks but then Stuart Cable died and there is already a band called Sparks so I don't think that anymore.
That is all.
As you were.
"I'm glad he died" was a pretty irresponsible thing to say even if you're trying to be outrageous. I get them not liking the whole rock dinosaur thing (despite their music, from the start, sounding like the rock dinosaur thing....), but Nicky Wire always takes things too far to be honest.
I remember him being pretty touchy about people saying anything about Richey when Richey went missing. He probably still is. I think it's a shame about Richey on a human level, but have the Manics actually contributed to music in a meaningful way? I mean by that - was their impact on music such that things would be different all round had they not existed as a band? Probably not.
By the way David Bowie was not a confirmed atheist, but nor was he a christian.
He said he believed in a force, but wouldn't call it 'God'. Although Bowie changed his mind about stuff like that probably every other interview.
Nicky Wire also famously said that he wished Michael Stipe would go the same way as Freddie. He's just and excitable boyo in all honesty massively overshadowed in the brains and talent stakes by his bandmate.
I really do like some of their songs, my parents were big fans (and probably still are). My mum has always expressed her disappointment that she couldn't get tickets to a concert at Hereford Leisure Centre at their peak of their fame in the mid-90s. The venue probably couldn't have holded more than a several hundred or thousand.
I really do wish famous bands still came to my home county now! The nearest places are Birmingham and Cardiff both sixty and seventy miles away respectively from where I live.
There's no doubt that MSP have some good songs, and are as technically equipped as any band, but yeah, James and Sean were the talent and Nicky and Richey were the image.
Bowie was in to all sorts of weird shit. Whatever he called it, it wasn't atheism, but it wasn't exactly theism either.
They were the second gig I saw in 1993 on the Gold Against The Soul tour. Got them to sign the setlist. Really really nice guys. I loved GT when it came out but was too young to really get all the Clash references etc. Part of my decisive 1992 that got me out of the Queen / Bowie rut I was in for the first chunk of my life.
I read an interview with NIcky Wire a few years ago where he said he had alot of Queen on his ipod and was a big admirer of John Deacon.
He's always been a big welsh twat anyway. Nicky, not John.
I remember that they said they wanted to be as big as Queen early on. For a brief moment towards the end of the 90s it looked like they might do it too.
Everything Must Go and This Is My Truth were two of the biggest albums of the 90s, it's just a shame their huge success came after Richey's disapperance.
I once went to see the Manics in concert with a chick who wanted to see them. I wasn’t really bothered about seeing them but she was hot and could get great quality coke.
So off we go to the gig and six songs in she turns to me and says she doesn’t recognise any of the songs! Turns out she thought we were seeing “that other welsh band” the Stereophonics lol. We left immediatly and went back to the hotel to finish off the blow and party, which was much more enjoyable than watching those welsh wankers.
Mark_Glasgow wrote:
I once went to see the Manics in concert with a chick who wanted to see them. I wasn’t really bothered about seeing them but she was hot and could get great quality coke.
So off we go to the gig and six songs in she turns to me and says she doesn’t recognise any of the songs! Turns out she thought we were seeing “that other welsh band” the Stereophonics lol. We left immediatly and went back to the hotel to finish off the blow and party, which was much more enjoyable than watching those welsh wankers.
That might just be the first heartwarming story of this festive season.
Mark_Glasgow wrote:
I once went to see the Manics in concert with a chick who wanted to see them. I wasn’t really bothered about seeing them but she was hot and could get great quality coke.
So off we go to the gig and six songs in she turns to me and says she doesn’t recognise any of the songs! Turns out she thought we were seeing “that other welsh band” the Stereophonics lol. We left immediatly and went back to the hotel to finish off the blow and party, which was much more enjoyable than watching those welsh wankers.
Stereophonics boooooo
You missed out bro. Manics are great.