I think ultimately FD Manics fans are only a small fraction of the general Manics public.
I didn't see many teenage girls in Manchester, but then it probably was very dark. As far as I remember, the nutty letters used to be written in either red or green ink. I remember editorials quipping about this during the Richey Manic phase. That glorious wave before the editorials realised it was actually Manic Richey. They don't bother with CD singles now. That's how I used to reason when the band failed to keep on charting. But I think a lot of people "Suddenly got better and left the Manics behind as the old me!". Well I was wrong about (Although I enjoyed the magazine reviews) "No Manifesto" making the band trend. Let's hope the American and THB20JPN shows bring more new people to the band. As gracie at least shows, they are still coming! |
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I do know there are about nine or ten girls on tumblr who're pretty hardcore 'manixfans'. I didn't get involved because I'm really insecure and petty because they're all gorgeous. :lol: There's deffo fans still coming!! I feel like I'm the youngest here to be honest, but yeah. I've noticed my little cousin (twelve years old from a conservative, christian fundamentalist household) is pretty intelligent, outcast and lost in literature and 'the abyss' as she calls it, (Yes. She's a Richey girl. Here we go!!!) and she's enjoying GT and gets all the references now in THB. She constantly rants and raves about politics and consumerism, so the Manics manifesto (lol) is getting through. I think the issue now with attracting new, younger fans is that the boys are, inevitably getting older. Young bands attract young fans. But the cool new fans who see past that are epic....we just have to wait ;). Big cousins have a mental amount of influence!! LOL. No doubt you'll all see Maddie here in the future...it's just a matter of time until she becomes one of us :lol: :lol: |
Random thought: why was there ever an (ill-fated) tour of Thailand at all? What was the commercial logic of the group performing there?
Did Thailand ever account for a significant number of sales of GATS and GT? Were the badn especially popular? It's something I've never understood. |
I always understood it that they were a pretty big deal in thiland at thr time.
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I really hate 4st 7lbs. Only Manics song I hate with a passion. Really gets to me and gets me embarrassed when people mention it. Once my mam listened to it (it's hard not to when there's two Manics fans in the house) and she started bring up shit about my issues that should have been buried a long time ago. I find the interpretation of all ED suffers very annoying too. Not denying it's a good song with many good lyrics but yeah. Had to rant a bit. I also feel like the self injury themes make people who don't know me think that I'm some sort of CoR, maybe that's just my paranoia/anxiety talking.
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In he last NME interview with Richey they mention rehearsing "Penny Royalty" by Nirvana and "Public Image" By PIL. I know they have done Penny Royalty but did Public Image ever get played? Was it one of those covers that bands play once and realise nobody knows it then never played it again? Anybody ever here it?
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I may have mentioned this before, but the old version of tenasea just kicks ass!
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i sometimes look into appreciation or tumblr or other websites and smile of all those pictures circulating that i've digged out from official websites/scanned/found other way for all those years in the past.
ah those were times, first checking books/magazines for photo credits, then going through whole website in search of one or two pics. And all because on my first meetup Nicky said he hadn't remembered the pic I've given him to sign and asked me where it was taken! Just to find some data on that! Well, it turned out he was too drunk that day to remember anything from that photosession *giggles* |
I often listen to tracks on YouTube and just now accidentally entered 'Manic Street Preachers' - i.e. without any song title - only to find Underdogs is recommended as the 'most popular' Manics track on YouTube!
(The next three are more logical: Tolerate, Motorcyle Emptiness, Design For Life.) Why would this be? |
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Or because it was the one of the first thing they put on youtube? |
Read the new Richey article. It really fucking hurts my heart :(
Also, the fact that he's overlooked because he's not the missing person the media would favour makes me want to cry. |
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I guess it's more of a question but this is probably the best place to query this, cause I kinda fell off the loop for a fair while and I'm not really up to date on what's been happening in Manicsland. Have we gotten any more recordings of the National Treasures Live gig since the Futurology bonus disc?
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