When is Nicky's 2nd book due?

[everlasting]

It's been a few years since his poor photo album came out so I hope he's been writing stuff since then for an official Manics autobiography or something.

[hummingbird]

he's given up on it i think. Said he was finding it too hard in recent interviews

[wireobsessed]

Originally Posted by hummingbird

he's given up on it i think. Said he was finding it too hard in recent interviews

Can you remember wht interview? Its a shame, think it would be a good read if he was really honest about things, could really put a great personal account of things.

I thought he had a two book deal with F&F, surely this would mean he's not fulfilled his contract?

[Son of Stopped]

Originally Posted by Delta of Venus

Going to use one of my bi-annual posts on here to be a pedantic fucker and point out that I'm pretty sure it was 'The Unwritten Diaries'.

Fantastic! And that was Nicky and not Richey's left over stuff?

Originally Posted by wireobsessed

Can you remember wht interview? Its a shame, think it would be a good read if he was really honest about things, could really put a great personal account of things.

I thought he had a two book deal with F&F, surely this would mean he's not fulfilled his contract?

If they still made Select it could even be from 2001. (No idea when it folded) If only there was an archive of every interview they'd done in print we could search!
And if he hasn't fulfilled his contract, legal action could see it written faster than Pete Townshend's Bumper Book Of Child Abuse that he claimed to be working on when he got arrested over a decade ago and only came out a couple of years ago.

Unless Nicky paid all the money back? (That must have hurt!)

[Delta of Venus]

Originally Posted by Son of Stopped

Fantastic! And that was Nicky and not Richey's left over stuff?

Yes, I'm pretty sure there's an interview or quote somewhere about him calling his biog of the band 'The Unwritten Diaries'. Don't remember Richey's leftover stuff ever having a collective name as such, other than when they became Journal...

[nayo]

Originally Posted by wireobsessed

Can you remember wht interview? Its a shame, think it would be a good read if he was really honest about things, could really put a great personal account of things.

He'd mentioned it several times for recent years, I think the latest one was a radio interview. I can vaguely remember which interview it was though there are so many of them.

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by wireobsessed

Can you remember wht interview? Its a shame, think it would be a good read if he was really honest about things, could really put a great personal account of things.

I thought he had a two book deal with F&F, surely this would mean he's not fulfilled his contract?

not sure how contracts work but if he was given an advance he could easily have paid it back. Or the deadline might be fairly open.
I've heard him say it at least once but i think it was during an interview on you tube by someone who's name escapes me. He had long hair and a beard and they were sat in front of a fire place in a room above a pub? Nicky signs a record for him at the end.

The personal account was what was troubling him i think. Going back to dark places, that he could leave all that out but that's what people would expect him to write.

ooh just remembered. There was a radio interview aswell where he said he could write lyrics so easily but writing for anything else took him ages

[nayo]

Originally Posted by hummingbird

I've heard him say it at least once but i think it was during an interview on you tube by someone who's name escapes me. He had long hair and a beard and they were sat in front of a fire place in a room above a pub? Nicky signs a record for him at the end.

http://youtu.be/ZrlYW9mOGcc I think the interview that you're talking about is this..!

[MSPKYE]

Think it's been replaced by a Kevin Cummins photo collection in September as that's also out from Faber & Faber

The Manic Street Preachers untitled
http://amazon.co.uk/dp/0571312136

[Son of Stopped]

Wasn't there a project of his about diaries he'd written, but after teasing it he let it drop as the book contained thoughts that would turn everyone against him?
It's been ages since this was mentioned. I am thinking "The Forbidden Diaries" but that might not have been the title.
What has he got to lose now, eh?

[UEF]

Originally Posted by Son of Stopped

Wasn't there a project of his about diaries he'd written, but after teasing it he let it drop as the book contained thoughts that would turn everyone against him?
It's been ages since this was mentioned. I am thinking "The Forbidden Diaries" but that might not have been the title.
What has he got to lose now, eh?

I always thought I'd read in Everything that "The Forbidden Diaries" were the lyrics left behind by Richey, which later became JFPL.

And I suppose if you think about it - A Diary = A Journal!

[Son of Stopped]

Originally Posted by UEF

I always thought I'd read in Everything that "The Forbidden Diaries" were the lyrics left behind by Richey, which later became JFPL.

And I suppose if you think about it - A Diary = A Journal!

Ah right. Pretty sure I read Nicky had written something similar. Oh well. It was in an interview in Select magazine around 1998, so if anyone has that copy, they can check.
(And I liked the Family Guy picture!)

[Delta of Venus]

Going to use one of my bi-annual posts on here to be a pedantic fucker and point out that I'm pretty sure it was 'The Unwritten Diaries'.

[UEF]

[wireobsessed]

I bet he's got a very flexible arrangement over completion date and it might be something he eventually does if/when the band finish or have a very long break. I'd still love to read his point of view, recollections and side of things.

Hope it gets finished sometime.