Have the Manics 'waved goodbye'?
| 09:33 UK time, Thursday, 1 September 2011
Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire has told NME that their last album, Postcards From A Young Man, was a "wave goodbye".
"It's genuinely, for the three of us, one of our favourite records. There's just something... there's a sense of us giving it all we've got, and I think we've got to wave our goodbye a bit.
"I think this greatest hits [National Treasures] is completing the end of the second great cycle of Manic Street Preachers. Hopefully there'll be a third, but we've got a big job to take on to do that."
"[Their O2 singles concert] is going to be an immense project, production-wise: screens, videos, you name it, you know, it'll be a completely unique thing. And we'll never do it again... it's really, kind of, finishing up."
Jarrad Owens of is a long-time Manics fan. He said:
"I don't think many people realise that they're the last band of their generation who haven't split up. The only bands who I can think of that come close are Oasis and Blur, both of which have split.
"In the last four years the band have have a second wind of commercial success, riding on three consistently successful albums, an abundance of sell-out gigs and huge media interest. It seems an odd time to decide on a split, particularly with such a loyal and dedicated fan base.
"I knew that their record contract was coming to an end, but I thought with the ownership of their very own studio they might start to go down the DIY route.
"I had a horrible gut feeling that this could be the end of the Manics when Nicky described Postcards From A Young Man as "our last shot at mass communication". However, maybe we can take some comfort in the band's track record of statements, notably promising to sell 16 million copies of Generation Terrorists before splitting up back in 1992."
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Comment number 1.
At 2nd Sep 2011, TheGoon wrote:The day the Manics officially split will be a sad day for me as a fan. I've followed them religiously since the early 1990's and "From Despair to Where" was my first single by them. I think PFAYM was a good album, flawed by 2-3 tracks (Hazelton Avenue, It's Not War, Some Kind Of Nothingness) but it definately turned out like they planned it. Great reviews, great gigs and an album of pure joy and great melodies. That campaign may have been their last shot at communication but this can only mean, along with the fact they've only just purchased their own studio in 2009, that the band will come back with an LP of experimental, non-commercial music and the rest will be good for them. I believe we'll get another solo effort from James and maybe Nicky and perhaps we'll even get some kind of album of outtakes and rarities in the break?. The notion of the band splitting has been with them since Lifeblood which did very little business, is generally disliked by the majority of fans of Foreverdismayed.org.uk but the band still managed to come back with 3 great albums following that. Personally, I'd love the band to look back on Know Your Enemy and make an album as beautifully messy as that was. I have faith in the Manics and I don't think they're drowning, just waving.We'll see them again.
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