The Official Oh My God I Heard The Manics In AMERICA Thread

[Alive2000]

A friend of mine who ended up being one of the directors at our college radio station would routinely play them during his hour at the helm.

Was always wonderful when he'd play "Archives of Pain" one week, and "Autumnsong" the next week. He REALLY tried to turn people onto SATT.

[tomd2103]

I lived in the USA for six years and up until last year had never heard the Manics played at all. Last year, however, I heard them played in the most surreal environment possible. I was in a Wendys in Greensboro, North Carolina and the usual generic music was being played. Just after I had sat down to eat my meal, however, The Everlasting came on. I had to listen closely to make sure I wasn't hearing things, but to my complete astonishment a Wendys in North Carolina (in 2009) was playing The Everlasting!!

[tuckedaway]

Haha, similar experience to the above... I heard The Everlasting on the overhead at a mall in New York state last fall. Definitely thought I was imagining it for a second and giggled to myself when I realized it was actually playing.
Pretty sure that's the only time I've heard them in public though!

[MDWill]

I made sure to play them a bunch at the bar last night... Past that, I have my copy of Gran Turismo 2 somewhere around here...

[beautyfindsrefuge]

I heard The Everlasting at a train station! I was alone and I had no one to shout at, so I just looked around wide-eyed. No one else seemed interested.

[ForeverDelayed.com]

RXP 101.9 in New York played you stole the sun from my heart.

last year

but to be fair they also did the acoustic session with james. that was great.

[ForeverDelayed.com]

Originally Posted by lemonade

i'm on holiday in america atm and every time someone sees my 'useless generation' tattoo it leads into a conversation about the manics which ends up being likes this ...'wales? where's that? near ireland?' 'the manic who? manic peaches? crazy preachers?' etc etc BUT THEN one of our hosts friends had PCP on his ipod!! amazing.

i'm dying!

[pcp]

Originally Posted by beautyfindsrefuge

I heard The Everlasting at a train station! I was alone and I had no one to shout at, so I just looked around wide-eyed. No one else seemed interested.

And hopefully no one was on fire? Sorry couldn't resist .
I heard the Everlasting at Big Lots about a month ago. It was so odd!

[MDWill]

Originally Posted by pcp

And hopefully no one was on fire? Sorry couldn't resist .
I heard the Everlasting at Big Lots about a month ago. It was so odd!

At a big lots?! Whaaaaaaaaaa?! That's just... Incredibly random ha ha

[lilienation]

I heard The Everlasting in a Whataburger last year.

[Manicben]

Burger places continue to play The Everlasting

It was an Arbys for me in Palm Coast, Florida.

[exopotamie]

note to self: eat at more burger places, hear manics more

[MDWill]

Originally Posted by exopotamie

note to self: eat at more burger places, hear manics more

Seriously! I think the closest I've come to hearing the Manics on the radio was when we saw Matt Pinfield outside the Bowery Ballroom last year and he was talking about Reading '92... Fucker. "Oh, I saw them when Richey was still with them!"

Damn you, Pinfield. DAMN YOU.

...Not that I'd have been old enough to understand any of it.

[ForeverDelayed.com]

yeah i was 8 in 92. and the only "reading" i knew was the one i had to do for school.

but pinfield - that's one badass. he is an encyclopedia.

[lilienation]

My Everlasting-in-Whataburger experience was made even funnier by the fact that I had just been out with this guy I was talking to for the first time, and we stopped there on the way home. So he had known me for like three days before being exposed to "Oh... my... god. Is this... HOLY SHIT. THEY'RE PLAYING A FUCKING MANIC STREET PREACHERS SONG OMG DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT A FUCKING HISTORIC OCCASION THIS IS OMG THIS IS SO CRAZY. SHIIIIIT. MANIC STREET PREACHERS."

He was unimpressed, but he was a dickface anyway so whatev