Manic jobs...

[starstruck]

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

slightly remembered Welsh band The Manics Streets Preachers sensationally split up after releasing one album, the cult classic "Generational Terrorists". 20 years later we thought we'd see what became of them after their 12 minutes of fame


James Dean Bradfield
after the split of the band Bradfield went on to a reasonably lucrative session musician career, performing guitar spots for acts as varied as Lenny Kravitz, The Beach Boys and the biggest, most celebrated band ever to hail from Wales, the Sterephonics.
Bradfield invested most of his income rather wisely in property, and he has several savory & pie shops in his portfolio, not to mention a hefty share in the "Bradders" wine bar. in regards of the latter, he frequently plays an acoustic set for the middle and upper class patrons the bar attracts, with the odd original song cropping up amongst a standard set of covers.
the substantial income he gets is rather handy, as he has, in his own words, "lost count" of the amount of children he currently pays child support for. the light of the band may have been brief, but James was always the ladies man and has not once disappointed any of the groupies who have remembered him rather fondly over the last few years.

Sean Moore
Moore was the first to depart the band, seeing them having no future other than, as he told Smash Hits at the time, "a fucking Guns and Roses cover band".
after brief stints as a taxi driver and bare knuckle boxer, Moore followed his passion for cinema right up to the level of chief assistant projectionist at a leading Cardiff cinema. he was dismissed in disgrace, however, for constantly shouting out "surprise" endings to films, which came to a head, so to speak, during the premiere of the film Se7en.
Moore is currently employed as the barrel man and infrequent glass collector at the Bradders wine bar.

Sir Nicholas Jones MP
Jones, formally known as "Nicky Wire", followed his love of politics to the highest level, gaining the biggest majority ever for a Conservative MP based in Wales.
Sir Jones' no-nonsense, somewhat to the right views come perhaps as no surprise to those who remember his musical days when he was known for making sexist and homophobic announcements to the band's selective audience. It was his pushing for "more, not less" limitations on the disabled and people of a homosexual persuasion - in particular in a bizarre rant to the House about how they should "have their toilets taken off them" - that many believe was a signifcant contribution to the fall of the Conservative government in 1997. Oddly, though, Sir Jones has retained his seat since a 1993 by-election, with his majority increasing election-on-election.
We tried to contact Sir Jones for a comment on his former band but he was apparently "busy with roadplanners and a massive map of the Glastonbury region".


Richard Edwards
Edwards, clearly the most talented and well balanced of the band, started off rather well with the demise of the band that he joined "for a bit of a laugh". He became Dean of Literature at the University of Aberystwyth in 1994, where he remained for some time despite approached from both Oxford and Cambridge to take a similar role there.
Unfortunately, in 1999 the wheels somewhat came off Edwards promising academic career when he embarked on a trip to Thailand to protest against the filming of an adaptation of the novel The Beach. Edwards had long claimed that the author, Mr Alex Garland, had stolen the idea from him, and a less than legal vendetta had been pursued by Edwards to this end. The exact nature of the protests that Mr Edwards made to the cast and crew are shrouded in secrecy, but it is known that they were of a level that the director, Mr Danny Boyle, pressed for Edwards to be listed on the sex offenders register, and the whole thing made Ewan McGregor quit in disgust.
the last known public appearance of Edwards was at a screening of Avatar at a cinema near the Bradders wine bar. he was arrested and released on bail after spotting the barrel man from Bradders in the cinema and trying to paint him blue, screaming "Smurf in space, Smurf in space". Edwards skipped bail and has not been seen since.