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Manic Street Preachers: ‘The band feels like something you can go into battle with against the world’
As they release their 15th album, the Manic Street Preachers are as fired up as ever. They talk about tech bros, stealing hotel shampoo and four decades of combining friendship with being in a band
He sits in front of a lightbulb mirror, applies glittery eyeshadow, black eyeliner, then stands to add a feather boa, a sailor cap, a jacket covered in badges and home-sewn patches. Four, now three working-class Welsh lads, friends since childhood – Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards, James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore – they formed an upstart band with shiny songs and glittering ambition, and their 1990s rolled out like a film. The three remaining members pulled off an exhilarating return with Everything Must Go and its anthemic single A Design For Life, and ended the 90s properly huge, shifting 5m albums and playing Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium on New Year’s Eve 1999.
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