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Manic Street Preachers - Scanned by Betheriel

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JDB in denim jacket + brown combat trousers

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interzone magazine #109, july 1996.

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You Love Us, Reading Festival 1992

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📸: Valerie Phillips

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Reading Mishima

It looks like these photos were taken at the same time

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📸: Tom Sheehan

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James Dean Bradfield - Summer Wind (Acoustic)

How dare you?

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A wave from Nicky and a smile from Richey, Japan 1992.

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“Me and Richey were in a nightclub in Portugal once - we asked if there was somewhere late that we could drink, and the promoter of this gig took us to a nightclub in Portel I think? It looked like there was going to be a bit of a fight, between some of our crew, myself, and some other guys who were in the nightclub - some amateur fucking gangster hoods or something you know? And Richey kind of defused it, by doing the Moonwalk in front of them. He was pissed, and he just started doing the Moonwalk in front of the table, and that was quite funny - definitely! So that’s kind of strange, because they almost sort of looked at him as if, “He’s either really hard, or he’s just completely bonkers, and we don’t want to find out.” I suppose they started seeing some of the marks on his arm as well, and were a bit apprehensive! And also, I suppose there was the time when we were doing the demos for Gold Against The Soul, in a studio called House In The Woods in Surrey. Richey was at the breakfast table, and he’d been drinking all night long - he was sweating and he was just shivering at the table, trying to eat his breakfast, and I had to carry him back to bed kind of thing. He had his pyjamas on and he had his slippers on, and you know, he looked like, I’ve said this many times before, that he was more like the character out of Ever Decreasing Circles than people would realise - Richard Briers you know? There was something very homely about him sometimes (eyes and face glowing). And, as I was carrying him to bed, because he was so ill, he was like (adopting a fragile whisper), “I think I’ve drunk too much orange juice.” I was like, “No Richey, it was the vodka in the orange juice!” So, he was perhaps a bit more humorous, and strangely, just kind of a bit more off-beat than we were sometimes I suppose?”

— Nicky Wire (via richey-edwards)

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From Generation Terrorist magazine, Thailand 1994