Ian McCulloch on new Manics album

[shickennbunny]

great. 2 washed up old bands = 1 bad current band.

[DivaDiana77]

I really detest Maniacs though. A few years back I lived in Wales and the local cinema used to play the whole of Everything Must Go in the interval at every film. You'd switch on Welsh TV and there was always documentaries about the Maniacs or the Stereophonics. I hated them as well until they changed their image, music and drummer. Catatonia were another pile of Welsh shite. The only band that I liked was the Super Furry Animals.

Now the Welsh sort of have Los Campesinos! Part twee, part punk, formed at a University in Wales, though none of the members is Welsh. Apparently they still live there. I don't think they'll be turning out a single in Welsh, though It's to their detriment on the local scene, apparently.

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

Now the Welsh sort of have Los Campesinos! Part twee, part punk, formed at a University in Wales, though none of the members is Welsh. Apparently they still live there. I don't think they'll be turning out a single in Welsh, though It's to their detriment on the local scene, apparently.

Most of the students that go to that uni are not Welsh anyway. The Welsh students have separate places where they reside away from the English scum and speak their lingo and get all teary eyed over the Welsh flag, leeks, sheep, rugby, hills, valleys, S4C TV, Joanna Page, Cerys Matthews, Tom Jones and the Manic Street Preachers. All rise.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3S7wgcRZHQ[/youtube]

[Crystal Days]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oOiKnZmNkM[/youtube]

[Dr Evil]

Mac collaborate with the All Saints? They were good-why would they want a drunken street tramp ruining their songs? Maybe they thought it was 80s Mac. They didn't know about my evil plan just after Evergreen. I came back from the future in my time machine and stole him for the year 3000-I'd been offered a lot of money-and replaced him with a clone. I'd hoped no-one would notice, but there turned out to be some deletions in the genetic material, and the clone is turning out non viable -and sometimes aggressive into the bargain. My computer model shows that some time during the HUH tour, trying to reach the high notes on "A Promise" he will decompose into his cellular constituents within a few minutes, leaving nothing but gloop on the stage. I expect the die-hards from the BOF will scramble for samples of the gloop, a bit like his cigarette butts. Should be a laugh though-even I might go.

[DivaDiana77]

Most of the students that go to that uni are not Welsh anyway. The Welsh students have separate places where they reside away from the English scum and speak their lingo and get all teary eyed over the Welsh flag, leeks, sheep, rugby, hills, valleys, S4C TV, Joanna Page, Cerys Matthews, Tom Jones and the Manic Street Preachers. All rise.

Sounds romantic. Damn foreigners in Cardiff. Do you tell them to go home if they don't like it there? I do that where I am.

[the ghost of guitarplayer]

I don't tell them as I am that English scum. Actually, Cardiff I believe is not that bad. Elsewhere there isn't really any animosity towards the English, just in some of the unversity towns some Welsh nationalists like to keep their distance from the English.

[black francis]

Mac collaborate with the All Saints? They were good-why would they want a drunken street tramp ruining their songs? Maybe they thought it was 80s Mac. They didn't know about my evil plan just after Evergreen. I came back from the future in my time machine and stole him for the year 3000-I'd been offered a lot of money-and replaced him with a clone. I'd hoped no-one would notice, but there turned out to be some deletions in the genetic material, and the clone is turning out non viable -and sometimes aggressive into the bargain. My computer model shows that some time during the HUH tour, trying to reach the high notes on "A Promise" he will decompose into his cellular constituents within a few minutes, leaving nothing but gloop on the stage. I expect the die-hards from the BOF will scramble for samples of the gloop, a bit like his cigarette butts. Should be a laugh though-even I might go.

Please let me use your time machine or this story never happened.

[dancing_horse]

never stop never stop never stop

[fat cherry]

number 3. beaten by phil collins & the script.

[Voodoo Billy]

Shame. A big number two would have done it justice.