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'''Before Richey disappeared, Nicky Wire tried to quit the Manic Street Preachers, intending a quieter life. Ironically, he now has that life ''and'' the band. He also has an album-worth of unheard lyrics about Richey, revels in new depths to his Welsh identity and is never happier than when he's cleaning up dog hairs. ''This'' is the story of the new Manics album...'''
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'''It's Domestic Manic, Domestic Manic and Pub-Resident Crippling-Self-Doubt Manic! Q spends five months with the Manic Street Preachers to find pop's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists on the cusp of - gulp! - a lasting career in music. "We're always nervous.' they tell Stuart Maconie.'''
 
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Three years ago, someone decided to leave the Manic Street Preachers. Tired of the corrosive grind of touring and a particularly spartan chain of European hotels, he surmised that his role within the group could only continue at the rather extortionate cost of his own sanity - and so that was that.  
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Unlike Zoe, Chris, Noel, Jayne Middlemiss's microlight instructor (probably) and the other Mt. Rushmore faces of thrusting New Britain, the Manic Street Preachers still await an invite to Number 10 for Twiglets and glad-handing. Old Labour; Old Manics?
 
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"We were touring ‘The Holy Bible’ in Europe with Suede," recalls Nicky Wire, "and it was probably the worst time I’ve ever experienced in my life. In some respects it was worse than when Richey actually disappeared, because he was on the verge of madness.[[How Green Is My Valley - Select, November 1998| '''(more...)]]'''
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"I don't think we're Old Labour," muses bassist Nicky Wire. "More Classic Labour. The outspoken sexiness of Bevan, Skinner and Livingstone. We're more John Prescott dm Peter Mandelson. Libraries gave us power.. not the Internet." Drummer Sean Moore reckons the Manic Street Preachers are "still a bit too clever for some people".[[Everything Must Grow Up - Q Magazine, October 1998| '''(more...)]]'''

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Everything Must Grow Up - Q Magazine, October 1998


It's Domestic Manic, Domestic Manic and Pub-Resident Crippling-Self-Doubt Manic! Q spends five months with the Manic Street Preachers to find pop's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists on the cusp of - gulp! - a lasting career in music. "We're always nervous.' they tell Stuart Maconie.

Unlike Zoe, Chris, Noel, Jayne Middlemiss's microlight instructor (probably) and the other Mt. Rushmore faces of thrusting New Britain, the Manic Street Preachers still await an invite to Number 10 for Twiglets and glad-handing. Old Labour; Old Manics?

"I don't think we're Old Labour," muses bassist Nicky Wire. "More Classic Labour. The outspoken sexiness of Bevan, Skinner and Livingstone. We're more John Prescott dm Peter Mandelson. Libraries gave us power.. not the Internet." Drummer Sean Moore reckons the Manic Street Preachers are "still a bit too clever for some people". (more...)