Waffle (Free subscription) | yesterday
I never liked Coldplay that much. I’ve never been a fan of semi-depressed-looking gloomy fellows and music to match (Travis, Manic Street Preachers, and so on). Which is a big part in why I was stunned when a particular iTunes ad got my attention this May. That song was Viva la Vida, the title track [...]
Daily Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
NAOMI CAMPBELL's representative has dismissed reports she's to wed her billionaire lover in a secret December (08) ceremony in Russia.
Harpymarx (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
In the summer of 1991, I attended a gig in Brighton where a fledgling young band had previously courted controversy at an Oxbridge ball. They gained notoriety and their picture was slapped on the front of the NME, with the catchy play-on headline, “Punt’s Not Dead”! The band from Blackwood, South Wales….The Manic Street Preachers [...]
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
A Thai festival due to be headlined by MANIC STREET PREACHERS has been cancelled - less than 24 hours before it was due to take place.
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Due to airport seizure, 'Bangkok 100 Rock Festival 2008' where Manic Street Preachers and Hoobastank were planned to play has been canceled.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
A Thai festival due to be headlined by MANIC STREET PREACHERS has been cancelled - less than 24 hours before it was due to take place. The Welsh rockers were expected to ...
Torontoist (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Australia! It's a big country, and to be terrifically unfair and dismissive we'll be honest and say until recently it hadn't given us very much. Off the top of our head, we thank it for inspiring an enjoyable episode of The Simpsons , a couple of 2000 AD stories ( Oz and Song of the Surfer ), and, uh… That all changed recently, because we've been watching Summer Heights High on HBO. It's superb and...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
They're celibate, saintly and say they are not in it for the money - but thanks to their vocal talent, a band of brothers is set for superstardom. The Priests are real-life, understated clergymen.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Richey Edwards officially "died" this week, but there has been a hollow ring to the obituaries that newspapers have finally been able to print.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
When Manic Street Preachers' lyricist Richey Edwards disappeared from his room at the Embassy Hotel in London's Bayswater district on the night of 1 February 1995, he set in motion one of rock 'n' roll's most enduring mysteries. He had been due to fly with the band's guitarist and singer James Dean Bradfield to America the following day for promotional duties, and like the Joy Division frontman Ian...
icWales (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
FOR the past 13 years friends, family and fans have clung to the faint hope that Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards is alive. But earlier this week that hope was extinguished when the talented songwriter, who was a pivotal piece of the band’s success, was declared as presumed dead.
kimbofo (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Some 13 years after he went missing, farewell Richey Edwards.
Gwent Gazette (icWales) (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
A ROW has broken out over Llanhilleth Institute’s decision to allow a controversial poet to read his mater ial this week.
Rick Eyre now (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Richey EdwardsTroubled guitarist with the Manic Street Preachers, he disappeared in 1995Garth CartwrightWednesday November 26 2008The disappearance in 1995 of the Welsh rock musician Richey Edwards, then aged 27, became a major British media event and, in the years that followed, supposed sightings of (or messages from) Edwards, akin to those of Elvis Presley in the US, lent a bizarre aspect to his...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
IT IS possible that another obituary will have to be written about this miner’s son of delicate temperament, who carried his considerable talent on a gossamer thread.
