Generation Terrorists

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Official Albums Chart Top 100 | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com . Retrieved 23 March 2022. a b Trendell, Andrew (12 March 2020). "Manic Street Preachers on their "expansive" new album and James Dean Bradfield's "electric" new solo record". NME . Retrieved 26 June 2020. Manic Street Preachers to headline a night at Eden Sessions". eFestivals.co.uk. 10 June 2016 . Retrieved 29 April 2017. With Nirvana breaking through, barriers have gone down,” said Richey. “It’s not so much down to your haircut as your songs. When we were teenagers we’d be playing the same records as all the hardcore metal fans, but because we looked different they all thought we’d be into Joy Division.” This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 20 Year Collector's Editions". Manic Street Preachers. 22 October 2018 . Retrieved 27 June 2020.

a b c "Manic Street Preachers – BRITs Profile". brits.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012 . Retrieved 6 December 2012.In December 2014, the band toured The Holy Bible, playing it in full for the very first time, to coincide with its 20th anniversary reissue. [89] After the tour in the UK, the Manics took The Holy Bible tour to North America, in April 2015, they played in Washington DC, Toronto, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. [90] They also played in the Cardiff Castle on 5 June 2015 with 10,000 fans attending the gig, it was broadcast nationwide by BBC Two Wales. [91] In the NME Awards 2015, the album won "Reissue of the Year". [92] Savage, Mark (22 October 2012). "Muse, Pulp and Blur win Q Awards". bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 4 January 2013. As the drummer, he had a steep learning curve ahead: after spending a whole week trying to get a hi-hat sound on the song Crucifix Kiss, they realised that recording the band live wasn't going to work. The Disappearance of Richey Edwards: What Happened?". UniEel.com. 7 January 2018. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019 . Retrieved 29 June 2018. I can only think of two other proper bands where it's the same: Rush and The Who," says James. "I had a tiny bit of a complex about it at the start – but only if there was something in a lyric and I had to ask what it was. But I got over it because it became the most beautiful homework in the world. And it became a part of my process where I would never be able to write music unless I had the lyrics in front of me. thought, 'If I'm not writing the lyrics then I have to show them as much respect as possible'."

James Dean Bradfield Announces New Solo Album 'Even in Exile' ". Manic Street Preachers. 2 July 2020 . Retrieved 2 July 2020. Manic Street Preachers announce 'Everything Must Go' 20th anniversary stadium gig in Swansea". NME. 9 November 2015 . Retrieved 29 April 2017. Edwards assumed responsibility for the cover; among ideas he had were using Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, [21] a Jesus figure inside a container of urine; [22] the Bert Stern Marilyn Monroe photographs; a sandpaper sleeve that would scratch the album itself as well as anything else that it was shelved by (similar to Mémoires by Asger Jorn and Guy Debord); [23] as well as several other famous religious paintings; but these suggestions were either declined or found too expensive. [21]Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists (20th Anniversary Edition) | the Line of Best Fit". Archived from the original on 6 January 2016 . Retrieved 8 February 2016. Manics: 'New single 'International Blue' is the new 'Motorcycle Emptiness". Nme.com. 8 December 2017 . Retrieved 16 April 2018. Madrid. The 'Military' Practice of the Rebels. If you tolerate this your children will be next. (Art.IWM PST 8661)". Iwm.org.uk. 22 February 1999 . Retrieved 29 April 2017. We felt like we were living in a vacuum," says James. "Everything that we'd been told was great about where we were from had been destroyed economically, culturally. So you start looking for other things, in this barren wasteland of the 80s, and music was the obvious choice. Because, number one, it seemed completely alien to the surroundings you'd grown up in.