A Manic Body Politic

An independent web project focusing on Manic Street Preachers' album The Holy Bible. New essays and research. Words: Yusef Sayed. Contact: [email protected]

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Coming Soon.

[A Manic Body Politic @227Lears]

Listen, above all, to this masterpiece. If you enjoy reading about such things, I devoted years of research and writing to it, which you can find here, https://t.co/iFLyoixLwf https://t.co/hEOcmCVZII

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‘The Holy Bible’ turns 31 today. Released on 30th August 1994, the Manics’ third studio album remains one of their most intense and uncompromising statements.

Do you own it on vinyl, CD or even cassette? Got any rare pressings, promos or memorabilia from the era? Share your collections below.

[Manic Street Preachers @Manics]

‘The Holy Bible’ turns 31 today. Released on 30th August 1994, the Manics’ third studio album remains one of their most intense and uncompromising statements.

Do you own it on vinyl, CD or even cassette? Got any rare pressings, promos or memorabilia from the era? Share your collections below.

[A Manic Body Politic @227Lears]

@KeithCameron2 @WhiteRabbitBks @Manics Fantastic news, Keith. Looking forward to reading this, I have long admired your writing, especially on @Manics

[Cardiff Music History | Hanes Miwsig Caerdydd @CardiffMH]

30 years ago today

Manic Street Preachers at Cardiff University, 4th February 1994

@Manics @cardiffunilib #caerdydd #cymru #cardiff #wales #cardiffmusichistory

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Temperature wise one of the hottest gigs we ever played🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

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🎙️| BBC Radio 4 Extra repeat Manics Street Preachers' Mastertapes episodes on the making of The Holy Bible tonight and tomorrow (24-25/07/23) at 9pm

#ManicStreetPreachers | @Manics

https://t.co/cHNPcpfsfK

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Pure intelligence and musical force. Never sounds anything less than urgent and brilliant. I wrote to the BBC to see if they could help uncover/publish any logs of the 25,000 complaints. Never got anywhere sadly. What upset this caused across the nation... https://t.co/hkXy5VHRyX

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The Holy Bible's double-A side single ‘Faster/P.C.P’ turns 29 today. This TOTP performance from ’94 received a record number of complaints and was named one of the show's most memorable moments by The Guardian.

Watch the whole performance at: https://t.co/l8ilolSl2e

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A fan of Nirvana and In Utero in particular, Richey Edwards later included Charles Peterson's picture of Kurt and Everett in one of his collages, on the wall of his flat. Nicky Wire commented on this in 2009. Did they realise there was an unexpected @manics link?

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Never noticed this before, has anyone else? When Kurt Cobain was wheeled on to the stage for Nirvana's historic Reading '92 set, he was pushed by journalist Everett True wearing the @manics festival t-shirt. (📸 via Dazed Digital, Getty Images, reddit @MSPpedia)

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@JeSuisGourde @ManicSleep And there was stuff that wasn't used for the album/singles

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@JeSuisGourde @ManicSleep There's no Faster design in there. Just a couple of stills from the video. The pages I've sent are almost everything. The other side of the foldout just contains the original lyric book.

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@ManicSleep @JeSuisGourde

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@ManicSleep @JeSuisGourde None of the lyric drafts, just video stills, some details from single designs - e.g. the TSB logo and misc photos from Thailand and Richey photo shoots. The 20th box is far superior for background documentation.

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Thank you to all who visited https://t.co/iFLyoiyjlN this year, a site devoted to @Manics The Holy Bible. I added 2 essays on This Is Yesterday + Richey Edwards' post-THB lyrics. Welcoming new readers, I hope that appreciation for this masterpiece will ever be renewed. On to 2023

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📆 [19/12/1994]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers played the first of 3 dates at London Astoria, the last before Richey Edwards' disappearance.

#ManicStreetPreachers | @Manics

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📆 [07/11/1994]| On This Day Manic Street Preachers and Suede opened their first co-headline tour in Frankfurt 🇩🇪

#ManicStreetPreachers | @Manics | @suedeHQ

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Excellent work by @seastarsoup https://t.co/PTVKohUFRU

[J @seastarsoup]

New #Manics translation up!
Requested by @JeSuisGourde and I had been working on it for a while too. Richey's last interview. Everyone probably knows it, but all versions online seem to be incomplete. Here's a fully complete version.

⭐️ Read here: https://t.co/5GiIxpv88z