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How could you describe Manic Street Preachers?

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Assorted Nicky and Richey quotations from various music magazines.

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How could you describe Manic Street Preachers?

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Snow Patrol is the biggest divide in Britain. They’re probably the biggest band in Britain, but they’re also the most hated. It’s a weird dichotomy for them. They are utterly deplorable, there is something unredeemingly utterly shit about them, you just cannot put one’s finger on.  It’s a desperate form of music, the endless repeated lines, over and over, the same drab fucking little thing on and on and on. They’re the great losers turned into the great winners, that’s their redemption. I won’t be watching them.

Nicky Wire to NME.com, 19 August 2007 [x]

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We like to threaten people sexually. Especially males.

Nicky Wire 1993 (via tabletsizedbrains)

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If You Tolerate This…Nicky Wire’s “Irrational Hates List” Wire’s head is continually bombarded by “irrational hates”. “My endless spite,” he notes, merrily. “Hate is a strong word? Not in Manics-world. I’ve reached the point where I hate the world more than I hate myself. Progress!” 1. Weedily dressed men. “Men in their 50s who wear fucking jumpers and brogues. Awful. It’s anathema to me.” 2. Contemporaries who accept OBEs/MBEs. “Baffling, on every level. Damon [Albarn], Polly Harvey, Armando Iannucci, people I admire, with a brain, our age. Why? It’s such a shit club to be a member of, full of rogues and despicables. I’d rather stab my eyeballs out with a sharp pencil than ever bow before the Royal Family.” 3. Lying actors. “Actors in awful franchises, Avengers, X-Men, who have the gall to go on Graham Norton and say, ‘The only reason I did this is because of the script.’ Conning us! That’s why Richard Burton and Michael Caine were so great, ‘I’m just doing it for the fucking money.’ Tell the truth!” 4. Variations on household taps. “From simple hot and cold to this… cornucopia. It’s the one thing where diversity hasn’t worked.” 5. Films about explorers. “People who had to fucking eat their own leg cos they’ve been stupid enough to climb a mountain without any purpose whatsoever. They just can’t cope with reality. It’s pointless. Like my own existence.” 6. Happy poetry. “Worthless. Poetry can still be full of love but it has to come from a place of deep sorrow.” 7. The cash-free society. “When some wanker pays for the bill in Wagamama on their iPhone and it doesn’t work, I have offered to pay with cash. Just out of spite.”

The End Is Nigh, Q Magazine, April 2018

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“These Arable Men (And Women)” guide to Glastonbury 1994, NME, 25 June 1994

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The first festival we all went to when we were kids was WOMAD with Siouxsie and The Housemartins.  We were so clean!  We stank of soap!  Typical students thinking that wearing a black t-shirt made us weird.  When we got there, we couldn't believe what was happening.  There were naked people on each other's shoulders, selling drugs, shouting, 'Recommended by Ian Botham!', and we thought: 'Dearie me, what's all this?'

James Dean Bradfield to the Melody Maker, regarding Glastonbury, 1994

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“Everything Must Glasto”, Melody Maker, 3 July 1999

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“Canvas Opinions”, Richey Edwards interviewed at Glastonbury, NME 25 June 1994

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I been through some of my old NMEs and Makers the other day and I’ve got some beau stuff for you in the queue of the Manics being very angry about Glastonbury

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No, we've had it with this bollocks.  You're being deliberately contrary.  Basically, you pretend to hate anything labelled indie. "We're not pretending," says Nicky, "We do hate it." Why?  What's the big deal? "There is no big deal, that's the point," says Nicky.

Melody Maker, December 21/28, 1991

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The f***ing Levellers?  We've done loads of dates with bands like The Levellers, where the whole audience completely despises us, and we've gone onstage and been obscenely arrogant.  And rightly so.  They can't understand any band who has pretension, who thinks of rock 'n' roll as power, who wants to dress up.  You can tell they're middle-class poseurs because they wanna dress down like scummy people.  The working-class tradition has always been to want to be clean and dress up.  All my dad's friends want to do when they come home from the pit, or whatever, is have a wash, have a shave, dress up and go out.  The last thing we ever wanted to do was wear rags.  You could go to any Levellers concert and stand in the middle and shout 'Jeremy!' and 75 per cent of the audience would turn around.  The Levellers, I can't f***ing believe it.

Richey Edwards on The Levellers, Melody Maker, December 21/28, 1991

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Exhausted, we sink back into the upholstery, both of us trying to conjure some ingenious riposte.  But Richie and Nicky are way ahead of us.  They've tasted blood, and Nicky can smell some more. "So, er, what do you think the Brightest Hope's gonna be?" he asks, with affected innocence. Dunno. "Oh come on." Dunno, honestly.  Curve, maybe The Levellers. "The Levellers?" asks Richie, with appalled amusement. Maybe.

Melody Maker, December 21/28, 1991