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Nicky Wire

April 2018

  • The Manic Street Preachers in 2018

    Manic Street Preachers: ‘Jobs give us meaning – Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t understand that’

    Their new album is entitled Resistance Is Futile, but the Manic Street Preachers aren’t accepting things lying down. Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield share their thoughts on nostalgia, Francis Bacon and why they considered splitting up

December 2014

  • The Manic Street Preachers Perform Roundhouse

    Manic Street Preachers review – fire and brimstone revisited

    The Manics go back 20 years to revive the deathly beauty of The Holy Bible and the memory of their lost fourth member, writes Dorian Lynskey

June 2014

  • Preaching the Euro-message … Sean Moore, Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield with a projected artwor

    Manic Street Preachers: Eurostars find a new strasse

    John Harris: The Manic Street Preachers are going to Glastonbury with a new album, Futurology, that's full of European influences, from Russian avant-garde and Krautrock to early Simple Minds

September 2013

  • MANICS

    Manic Street Preachers – review

  • Nicky Wire of The Manic Street Preachers

    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Music Weekly podcast: the Manics in a glorious crisis – plus Pete Paphides

October 2012

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Old music
    Old music: Manic Street Preachers – Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)

    Who'd have thought the Manics' big chart breakthrough would be soft-rock cover of a 70s sitcom theme?

January 2012

  • Morrissey

    2012 the year ahead
    Reasons to be cheerful in 2012: Morrissey and Neil Young are spilling the beans

    Just when Alexis Petridis thought there could be no more good rock autobiographies, some of the biggest icons in music are willing to set the record straight

October 2011

  • Nicky Wire's polaroids

    Nicky Wire: 'An artist? I'm a Polaroid freak'

    For the best part of 20 years, Manic Street Preachers' mouthpiece Nicky Wire has been collecting photos of the controversial band. As the best of them are published in a book, he tells Gareth Grundy about the stories behind the shots

  • Manic Street Preachers in Tokyo

    A Manics Family Album - in pictures

    For the best part of 20 years, Manic Street Preachers' mouthpiece Nicky Wire has been taking and collecting polaroids of the controversial band. As the best of them are published in a book, he tells Gareth Grundy about the stories behind the shots

    • John Harris's national conversations
      John Harris's national conversations podcast: Nicky Wire

    • John Harris's national conversations
      Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers on the death of rock'n'roll - video interview

    • Exclusive Guardian Music event: Nicky Wire in conversation with Dorian Lynskey

March 2011

  • Nicky Wire

    Nicky Wire to make publishing debut

    Manic Street Preachers bassist signs two-book deal with Faber & Faber, beginning with Death of the Polaroid: A Manics Family Album due in November

February 2011

  • Mobile Libraries Offer Valuable Services To Rural Communities

    Music blog
    'If you tolerate this ...': Nicky Wire on library closures

    Libraries were my band's lifeline, writes Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers. We must fight for them

September 2010

  • Richey Edwards of Manic Street Preachers

    'If I had known Richey Edwards there's no way I could have written it'

    Tim Jonze: Ben Myers's fictionalised account of what happened to the Manic Street Preachers guitarist was always going to upset people, including the band's bassist, Nicky Wire. So why did he write it?

May 2009

  • Terry Hall, former lead singer of the Specials

    Music blog
    Terry Hall is not the only pop star with foot-in-mouth disease

    Dave Simpson: The Special is afflicted with a mystery illness that causes him to say the wrong things to the wrong audiences. But he's not alone: Eric Clapton, John Lydon and Nicky Wire are fellow sufferers

  • Welsh band the Manic Street Preachers pictured with missing member Richey Edwards

    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Music Weekly: Manic Street Preachers

    The Manics' Nicky Wire shares his memories of Richey Edwards with us, and we chat to electroclash artist Tiga

  • Welsh band the Manic Street Preachers pictured with missing member Richey Edwards

    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Music Weekly Extra podcast: Manic Street Preachers

    Tim Jonze speaks to Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers about using Richey Edwards's lyrics for the band's new album, Journal for Plague Lovers

February 2008

  • Wales

    Nicky Wire reflects on the musical tradition of his home country - Wales

August 2007

  • Is this it?

    When he's not mouthing off about today's rubbish pop stars the Manics' Nicky Wire is busy fighting his new enemy: dust. Thank God for Dyson.

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