look, if i can forgive the levellers for 'hello pig' i'm sure you can find it in your heart to enjoy the manics for just being bloody good guitar music.
(, Fri 22 Jun 2012, 10:59, archived)
To me they sound like they're trying too hard. Trying to sound 'epic', trying to sound 'clever'. And their 'manifesto' is of the most embarrassing things I've ever read. Richey Edwards was a fucking knob and all. When I started university I got a leaflet from NatWest with an article in it written by him, all about how he always did his essays on time. Rock and roll, you Welsh turd.
(, Fri 22 Jun 2012, 11:08, archived)
you never mastered the guitar, did you? you wrote a couple of songs when you were fourteen but due to your vast unpopularity you never quite formed a band. and the girl with the blonde hair and the debbie harry look slept with that guy from your maths class.
don't try and deny it.
(, Fri 22 Jun 2012, 11:19, archived)
And I was briefly in shoegaze 'legends' Revolver.
So NERR.
EDIT there's also a Siouxsie remix from a few years ago knocking about somewhere which I played on as well. So NERR.
(, Fri 22 Jun 2012, 11:28, archived)
next time i'm in that london let's get drunk and argue about minor esoteric bands that nobody has ever heard of.
(, Fri 22 Jun 2012, 11:37, archived)
(, Fri 22 Jun 2012, 11:50, archived)
if it's about chadwick being a fat alco i think i'm ahead of you here though.
(, Fri 22 Jun 2012, 11:58, archived)
they played a gig in Kingsworthy near where I am from, and they gave us a lift to their gig in their van, as they were pals with a mate of mine who lived 'on site'. My brother and I had to create a diversion in Oddbins whilst they nicked booze.
Between the entire band they got (IIRC) two cans of bitter and a litre of cider. Pathetic shoplifting, you 'new age renegades. I did however also get given a rather good demo tape which I still have somewhere.
THE END.
(, Fri 22 Jun 2012, 13:13, archived)