The Bard of Ely- You're A Liar, Nicky Wire (200?)

I came across this when reading about The Bard of Ely on Anthony Brockway's excellent Babylon Wales blog. Steve Andrews  (the first man to grow a pineapple in Wales) has a dig at the food and booze prices at a Manics gig- the resultant record was banned by a leading Cardiff record store (taking the piss out of superannuated sixth form socialists The Manics in Cardiff is a bit like trying to sell cartoons of the Prophet at Mecca). All good fun.

	Bard of Ely - You're a Liar, Nicky Wire
	Found at Genius MP3 Music Search Engine

Green-bearded ageing hippie (in his own words).

Nicholas Allen Jones.

Indie Top 20 Volume 12 (1991)

1. Happen To Die - The Charlatans
2. Pulling My Fingers Off - The Wendys
3. Lemon Afternoon - The Dylans
4. Chlorine Dream - Spirea X
5. Spaceman 3 - Big City - Spaceman 3
6. Nothing Can Stop Us - Saint Etienne
7. Fountain Of Youth - Candyland
8. Get Better - New Fast Automatic Daffodils
9. Don't Fear The Reaper - The Bridewell Taxis
10. Ten Little Girls - Curve
11. Counting Backwards - Throwing Muses
12. Fortune Teller - Buffalo Tom
13. You Love Us - Manic Street Preachers
14. She's My Friend - Catherine Wheel
15. Jack - Moose
16. Nadine - Levitation
17. Last Train To Trancentral - The KLF

Help- A Charity Project for the Children of Bosnia (1995)

The nineties passed me by in a haze. I have vague memories of drunkenly watching the nightmare of the wars in the former Yugoslavia on Newsnight . I knew I was living through a period of significant change, but it just wasn't sinking in. For example I have no recollection whatsoever of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The moon could have gone out and I wouldn't have noticed.
This record stirs some memories of watching Trainspotting on video and taking increasing amounts of alcohol fuelled sick leave.
I think that the original had no tracklisting because it was hurriedly  recorded and  released?
Anyway, I found this in a charity shop this week. No idea what happened to my original copy. I probably left it in that strange and inhospitable country- the past.

Richey Interview…

Wales on Sunday- 17.05.09:
A LOST tape giving a stunning insight into the mind of lost Manic Street Preacher Richey Edwards has been unearthed –
Read a transcript of the interview here…

Manic Street Preachers- You Love Us 7" (1991)

In my humble opinion the Manic's best track. When I first saw them perform this on TV I wasn't quite sure what to make of it- too much Clash? too much Dolls? and that Iggy Pop ending?
Well, they proved that it's cool to be clever, even if they got just a little too earnest at times, but this is just a great rock record.

Line up:
James Dean Bradfield- vocals, guitar
Richey Edwards- guitar
Nicky Wire- bass
Sean Moore- drums

Manic Street Preachers-You Love Us-Heavenly Version- (1991)

A bit of a teaser here...I'll be posting an mp3 of the Heavenly version of You Love Us later in the week.

Manic Street Preachers -The Masses Against the Classes (1999)

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
William Ewart Gladstone.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
Albert Camus.

The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.
Noam Chomsky.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
Aneurin Bevan

Line up:
James Dean Bradfield- vocals, guitar
Nicky Wire- bass
Sean Moore- drums