Nicky @ BBC Radio Wales Sat Aug 3rd 7pm

[Porco]

Episode is up on iPlayer for UK folks who missed it (like me). http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0380fng

[BloodFlowerBill]

Nicky thinks every album is their best....

[bachelorette]

Originally Posted by BloodFlowerBill

Nicky thinks every album is their best....

Until the next one comes along, by which time he'll slag it off as their worst!

[Marwood]

I was a bit surprised to hear Nicky saying that they're still really proud of PFAYM, but at the same time I was quite relieved that for once they haven't let fan reaction or commercial performance undermine their own point of view.

[hummingbird]

*and for the next single we'll be sort of moving into the eighties...*

[Marwood]

Originally Posted by hummingbird

*and for the next single we'll be sort of moving into the eighties...*

Oh! Misheard then. Good!

[hummingbird]

surprised i was right

[Futurologist]

*imagines Manics down a mine*

[hummingbird]

that is the spookiest thing. I'm playing Dermot's guitar lesson interview and James was talking about Miners' pudding fingers. Are you in my laptop ShugShug ?

[Futurologist]

I love that interview and the pudding fingers bit, it's on my mp3 player. I think I might have put it on here actually...

I'm everywhere. There is no escape from me...ever.

[Frozendiva]

Chickenman, is that you?????

[MSPKYE]

Originally Posted by Marwood

I was a bit surprised to hear Nicky saying that they're still really proud of PFAYM, but at the same time I was quite relieved that for once they haven't let fan reaction or commercial performance undermine their own point of view.

That's the thing, commercially it did do well! No 3 against The Script and Phil fuckface Collins is a good result really, don't think you can measure it against the singles' performances seeing as the single is pretty much a dying art for guitar bands. I'm not its biggest fan to say the least but there were positives in there; The Future Has Been Here 4Ever was one of Nicky's best ever vocals and lyrically they were at the top of their game. But I just never connected with the album at all.

[Marwood]

Originally Posted by MSPKYE

That's the thing, commercially it did do well! No 3 against The Script and Phil fuckface Collins is a good result really, don't think you can measure it against the singles' performances seeing as the single is pretty much a dying art for guitar bands. I'm not its biggest fan to say the least but there were positives in there; The Future Has Been Here 4Ever was one of Nicky's best ever vocals and lyrically they were at the top of their game. But I just never connected with the album at all.

Didn't it drop out of the charts pretty quickly though? I'm sure I remember reading that after a few months sales were lower than Lifeblood?

[Littlesue]

The albums since Lifeblood have all dropped out pretty quick, even the Greatest Hits thingy a couple of years back did'nt stop around that long.