We've missed a trick or else used random Manics thoughts for something else but Victorious!

https://www.nme.com/news/music/manic...ine-up-2619634

They are playing a Victorious Festival and don't know exact date so not starting date in your thread.

(old, stock) photo and mention here today:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/...this-is-europe

"cool just because they were British" lol.

Wow -- an appearance in the Washington Post! It's about "Quarantine (In My Place Of)", naturally.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...week-one-song/

Sounds delightfully random. I'm being shouted at to subscribe tho so I can't see what's said. Summary? :)

Oh sorry about that! It just says "Amid the covid-19 pandemic, Americans turn to social distancing" and then links to the Quarantine (In My Place Of) video on youtube. :lol:

Aaah cool ..forgot all about that song ! :)

https://www.kerrang.com/features/the...v-theme-tunes/

Suicide is painless gets a mention which is nice. Personally think they should delete the original from existence and just make it a manics song. Original is way too jolly

https://www.nme.com/news/heavenly-re...mpression=true

new book by Heavenly records for their 30th anniversary , illustrated, featuring the manics, gwenno and errr others :)

Erm... Because Lockdowns are painless
They delay recording process
And it's not even our choice but what a complete shower of shit!

https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/man...aK0FUA6U84AcTk

Nicky referenced but not interviewed in a feature of Best Live Album (doesn't even go there)
Not sure what number but he's championing Whitesnake
https://www.loudersound.com/features...ve-albums-ever

Hi! Remember I posted that link to a vote on THE GREATEST 21st CENTURY SONGS OF ALL TIME etc?
And INWJTEOL was the sole fucking option?
Well thanks to those who voted.
https://www.loudersound.com/features...ntury-so-far/3
It beat JUST BE-CAUSE JUST. BE-CAUAAAHAUSE so that's something.
No idea what's number one. Just linking. Plus, Just Because... Was a better song than that imo.
That's what we get for having limited options. I mean, fucking anything from JFPL or even KYE would have wiped the floor.
Oh and EIE didn't make it to their BEST ALBUMS OF 2020 OF ALL TIME etc

Edit: Ah JFPL that came out of that halcyon year of... 2006.
Work Experience Kid's revenge?

Number 1 rock song is the darkness I believe in a thing called love.

Yeah bullshit :lol:

Number 6 is Rush -caravan. Did they pick the right song or is that one of their worst singles as well ? It's not war best rock song ? Oh thats a giggle ...:D

And in at number three ALTER BRIDGE with their 2007 hit "Blackbird"!
Well, who wasn't all about Alter Bridge in 2007? Apart from everyone on the planet! 😄

Best. Band. EVAAAAAAAA

Ah, I felt shit about mocking Alter Bridge. So here's "Blackbird". Looked at the video and thought "under eight minutes...". At least I gave it until 1.12 before skipping along to see where it went. If you want to like Nickelback but just wish they were edgier. Well aren't you in luck? https://youtu.be/yz_j7nVCJJ0

Have no idea who they are. I was jesting. If they in that list they must be shit 😊

Didn't mean to be as sarcastic as I came across. But damn! JFPL released in 2006! How hard is it to look at a simple Wiki page? (Not you hummingbird, just the write up)

I thought jfpl was released 2008 and podcast was wrong. oops.

Found That Soul is in NME's list of '20 Indie Anthems from 2001 That Still Slap'

https://www.nme.com/features/20-indi...-white-stripes

I think someone is stretching the definition of an indie so thin that even an electron microscope struggle to detect it.

McFly seem to associate James Dean Bradfield with slagging them off. Journalist doesn't confirm.
I don't remember hearing him go on or mention McFly?

https://www.nme.com/music-interviews...-juice-2867013

11 https://www.gigwise.com/features/339...QnEOl61BXPzooc

11 underated songs on Gigwise! Posted today! And posted without reading first

Repeat makes an appearance in an anti-Royalist feature.
https://www.nme.com/features/best-an...achers-2897623

"Manic Street Preachers go Abba... In masks" is the advertising line for new Mojo magazine. Edited by Paul Weller.
No idea how many pages. But I'll take an in the studio half page, come to think.of it.
https://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/...er-edits-mojo/

Ooh thanks for the heads up. Haven't picked up a music magazine in ages

Edit - better off in the Album 14 thread probably.

Was the mask leopard print? :)

Thanks for the summary ...very intriguing ..likely won't sound anything like described !

Not posting the Sean Tweets (Thanks LA Ex!) but this was the article Sean took exception to.

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/20...mpression=true

You know the gif with the white rabbit pulling a face and the word "huh?" underneath? That's my reaction on reading that :lol:

I'm failing to understand his point too, that last paragraph is nonsensical to me. Even though the choice of title is meant to reference the fact the word is overused by all sides for things they don't like.
Anyway, what tweets are people referring to? I see nothing on sean's twitter feed.

I think as he replied to someone else's tweets rather than put out his own original one it doesn't show up on his twitter feed, but you should be able to find his replies in here:

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1395662755307401220

Ah thanks, i was looking at poole's twitter feed. I've seen some nasty twitter threads in my time but that one is a polite sit down for tea and crumpets in comparison.
Again though, isn't the song also saying that orwell's nineteen eighty-four should be taken as a warning and not a suggestion? It's a muddled mess of an article.

It was a slight exaggeration on my behalf to describe Sean's interactions as a fight, but it's still nice to see the band (especially the 'quiet' man of the group) caring enough to answer back to criticism.

If only twitter had been around in the mid nineties for Nicky to use!

Gavin Fitzjohn has a solo album coming out

https://nation.cymru/culture/the-mus...h-debut-album/

I agree with Sean in that I don't understand Poole's point neither....to me the song is pointing out that we live in a time of Newspeak which we do in many ways....some irony maybe in the fact that Poole who writes about language has missed the meaning here but then maybe...as with so many these days...they miss someone else's point in their blind eagerness to make their own.....

Nicky's feature on why he loves Rush's "A Farewell To Kings" THROUGH THE VOIIIID TO BE DESTROYYYYED OR IS THERE SOMETHING oh sorry, Pavlovian response

https://www.loudersound.com/features...ist-nicky-wire

James in August 2021's Total Guitar (out now)

Nicky Wire interview with Mojo this month. Not the article, just the advert for the magazine https://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/...1-david-bowie/
The front cover even mentions thirty years!

Nicky Wire Absolute Radio interview where he mentions Pete Pre: Libertines wrote to NME saying the band can't be the same..
https://www.nme.com/news/music/nicky...earance-300631
I can also revive the NME Cock-Up's thread as they spell him in the quote.. RICHIE!

:lol::evil::o:(:hmmm:

Maybe transcription from Absolute staff member got emailed? They even spelt his name correctly at the start as well!
Universe: Hire me as a waged copyrighter. Thank you.

Pete definitely had an interesting time pre-Libertines. There's a hilarious clip of him somewhere from a news show where he's one of the first people queuing up to buy Be Here Now and a subsequent interview with him praising Noel and Liam.