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14-07-2011, 09:53
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James doesn't strike me as the type though. More of a cigs and booze kinda guy, but that's just an impression I get.
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14-07-2011, 10:05
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All I've heard about is James, Nicky and Richey hitting the booze hard back in the day. Was Sean ever that much of a drinker? I dunno.
Course, with stuff like Drug Drug Druggy and Another Invented Disease they were quite aggressively anti-drugs but I wonder if they'd be all that anti-drugs without any personal experience of any? I suppose they'll have been seeing what it was doing to other bands at the time and the industry's always been pretty rife, but I don't know how far that's going to get you. Even the government doesn't tar all drugs with the same brush, there are different classes, some are addictive, others aren't, some can be fatal, other's far less likely to be, some you can retain self-control, others you can't etc. But no, I've never heard any rumours about any of them taking anything illegal, which I suppose is where people draw the line seeing as alcohol, nicotine and steroids are fine.
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14-07-2011, 10:08
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The election manicfesto
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The Manics singer invites TV viewers into his London Bachelor Pad Quote:
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14-07-2011, 20:43
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That last quote was the one that came to my mind.
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14-07-2011, 20:58
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I've never heard stories or rumors about any of them doing drugs. I've seen Richey's time in the Priory sometimes described as being for "drug and alcohol problems," but I figure drugs just got lumped in there with everything else.
Considering Crappergate started because Nicky said he didn't want to share a bathroom with people lighting up, I take it he's quite anti-drugs. He gave up drinking because it was making him sick, and you have all those stories from the early days of him puking after like one cocktail, so he's a delicate flower as it is heh.
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14-07-2011, 21:03
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James thoughts on the crappergate thing was that he didn't want to share a toilet with 'grubby musicians doing lines of coke', or words to that effect!
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14-07-2011, 21:30
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14-07-2011, 21:36
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I think Bathub's right and Richey smoked weed but I suppose it was more kind of experiment than addictive thing.
edit QUOTES!! From "In Their Own Words" 1998 edition, page 31 Nicky, 1996 Drugs are the biggest get-out clause in the world. Dope enhances your creativity? Bollocks! It destroys your brain cells. When we came to London it was 'hey, chill out, spliff out man'. But our calling-card was 'Anxiety is freedom'. (deets' disclaimer - dear Nicky, it's not a full Kierkegaard quote: 'Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom') Richey, 1992 I think we're going to have drug problems and end up living in a squat in south London. Nicky, 1996 On our first European tour I remember us going to Frankfurt and seeing the needles at the station and being so shocked. We had never had anything to do with that. (deets' disclaimer no2 - dear Nicky, thanks for sickening me Germany, but I'm really looking forward to my exchange during summer semester) Nicky, 1996 I could have never see the argument that Trainspotting glamorised heroin, 'cos I think that's incredibly seedy, but the very fact that handsomeactors are making loads of money doing a brilliant film is obviously glamorous. Drugs, for me, I just find them incredibly boring and I find the people that take them incredibly boring. (deets' disclaimer no. 3 - oh yes, Ewan McGregor is very handsome - except the toilet scene) Nicky, 1996 I must admit, in all my years in the industry, cocaine seems back with a vengeance. It hardly breeds reasoned behaviour, but it sometimes breeds good records... that's all folks, but would we really trust Wire A.D. 1996???
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Of course they did!
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14-07-2011, 23:16
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I don't think the band have ever had the chance to comment on those modern legal drugs like salvia divinorum?
They'd probably dismiss it and say they've answered this question in 96. Despite the legal "drugs" stuff emerging during the bands lifespan, not before or when growing up with Richey. Damn, and we'll never get the chance to ask them before or after a gig again! And no, I personally don't take divinorum. I hardly notice the difference. Last edited by Son of Stopped; 14-07-2011 at 23:19. Reason: Ah, everyone knows I tried to edit this now :(
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