Manic Street Preachers

You may have heard of this lot so i’ll keep it short, I first heard about the Manics via a bloke called Lol Prior who had got a copy of their first single via the NME small ad’s, I sent off for a copy and got a really nice letter from James with it, the single was ‘Suicide Alley’ which they had released themselves with a bit of help from a local studio. The single was great, really refreshing at a time when even the mention of the word PUNK was treated with total derision, they were young, punk and very exciting, they mentioned that they had a gig at a pub in Great Portland street called the Horse and Groom...

You may have heard of this lot so i’ll keep it short, I first heard about the Manics via a bloke called Lol Prior who had got a copy of their first single via the NME small ad’s, I sent off for a copy and got a really nice letter from James with it, the single was ‘Suicide Alley’ which they had released themselves with a bit of help from a local studio. The single was great, really refreshing at a time when even the mention of the word PUNK was treated with total derision, they were young, punk and very exciting, they mentioned that they had a gig at a pub in Great Portland street called the Horse and Groom...