I get the feeling this is going to take forever to do, so check every month or something. I might do something really short and then put in a load of links or something.
Manic Street Preachers are a rock band. I could stop there but I'm figuring some of you will want more or you wouldn't have clicked the link.
Ooooookay. the manics started off as 4 childhood friends in a place called Blackwood in South Wales:
James Dean Bradfield(21/2/69), Sean Moore (30/7/70), Richey Edwards (22/12/67) and Nick Jones (20/1/69).
Like quite a lot of us, growin up they were obsessed with politics, literature and the general acquiring of knowledge.
In 1989, the messy, noisy manics signed to Heavenly records (also home to Saint Etienne), released singles and began mouthing off and making sublime and ridiculous statements in interviews. The things they said have been widely reported and repeated, but I thought I'd put a few of my favourites here....when I'm organised...