0:00:15 > 0:00:19Taking a band like us back to the place we grew up in has a bit more resonance
0:00:19 > 0:00:23because a lot of other bands are thrown together
0:00:23 > 0:00:27or they've come from different towns or cities countries even.
0:00:27 > 0:00:33Whereas, with us, we all grew up in and around Blackwood. The place,
0:00:33 > 0:00:37in effect, shaped us.
0:00:42 > 0:00:47In a career spanning three decades, ten hit albums and over six million record sales,
0:00:47 > 0:00:53the Manic Street Preaches are Wales's most legendary rock'n'roll ambassadors.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Controversy, tragedy, politics
0:00:55 > 0:01:00and pop fanaticism have all played a part in the Manics' phenomenal success.
0:01:00 > 0:01:06The band haven't performed in their home town for nearly 25 years until now.
0:01:06 > 0:01:12Invited by BBC Radio Two's In Concert to play the historic Miners' Institute,
0:01:12 > 0:01:16the mighty Manics took us back to Blackwood.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30January 2011 and the band arrive home in Blackwood
0:01:30 > 0:01:34for a manic day packed with interviews and photo shoots
0:01:34 > 0:01:38even finding time to give DJ Jo Whiley a whistle-stop tour of their old haunts.
0:01:38 > 0:01:44Going back to Blackwood and playing the Institute seems like a challenge.
0:01:44 > 0:01:49There is an element of seeing if you can reconnect to the past.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53There's emotional resonance there. There's definitely lots of nostalgia.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55The thing you feel most is a bit of fear, I think.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57There's bound to be someone there
0:01:57 > 0:02:00who I played football with who's going to shout
0:02:00 > 0:02:02"Shirley" my nickname, straight away.
0:02:02 > 0:02:08JAMES: And someone's going to shout out at least one of my 15 nicknames.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11- Radar!- Radar.- Crossfire!
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Crossfire, Joe 90.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16Terence McCann.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Tonight, they return to the place that earlier on today,
0:02:19 > 0:02:23Nicky Wire described as his inspirational home.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27Here, in Blackwood, it is the Manic Street Preachers!
0:02:27 > 0:02:28CHEERING
0:02:28 > 0:02:32- NICKY:- For me, the small gigs are the really scary ones.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34It's much easier to play the bliss
0:02:34 > 0:02:38of euphoria of mass communication at something like the Millennium
0:02:38 > 0:02:40when we've done that. That's much less nerve-racking
0:02:40 > 0:02:45than seeing 200 extremely hardcore fans in front of you.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Motorcycle Emptiness.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09# Culture sucks down words
0:03:09 > 0:03:14# Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles
0:03:22 > 0:03:25# Organise your safe tribal war
0:03:25 > 0:03:30# Hurt, maim, kill and enslave the ghetto
0:03:39 > 0:03:43# Each day living out a lie
0:03:43 > 0:03:46# Life sold cheaply forever
0:03:53 > 0:03:57# Under neon loneliness
0:03:57 > 0:04:01# Motorcycle emptiness
0:04:01 > 0:04:05# Under neon loneliness
0:04:05 > 0:04:10# Motorcycle emptiness
0:04:18 > 0:04:21# Life lies a slow suicide
0:04:21 > 0:04:26# Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths
0:04:34 > 0:04:38# From feudal serf to spender
0:04:38 > 0:04:43# This wonderful world of purchase power
0:04:50 > 0:04:54# Just like lungs sucking on air
0:04:54 > 0:04:59# Survival's natural as sorrow
0:05:05 > 0:05:09# Under neon loneliness
0:05:09 > 0:05:14# Motorcycle emptiness
0:05:14 > 0:05:17# Under neon loneliness
0:05:17 > 0:05:20# Motorcycle
0:05:37 > 0:05:42# All we want from you are the kicks you've
0:05:45 > 0:05:50# All we want from you are the kicks you've
0:05:54 > 0:05:59# All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
0:06:02 > 0:06:07# All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
0:06:07 > 0:06:13# You gi-i-i-ive
0:06:13 > 0:06:15# Under neon loneliness
0:06:15 > 0:06:20# Motorcycle emptiness
0:06:20 > 0:06:24# Under neon loneliness
0:06:24 > 0:06:27# Motorcycle
0:06:44 > 0:06:47# Drive away and it's the same
0:06:47 > 0:06:51# Everywhere death row
0:06:51 > 0:06:53# Everyone's a victim
0:07:01 > 0:07:03# Your joys are counterfeit
0:07:03 > 0:07:09# This happiness corrupt political shit
0:07:09 > 0:07:13# Living life like a comatose
0:07:13 > 0:07:17# Ego loaded and swallow
0:07:18 > 0:07:20# We swallow
0:07:22 > 0:07:26# Under neon loneliness
0:07:26 > 0:07:30# Motorcycle emptiness
0:07:30 > 0:07:34# Under neon loneliness
0:07:34 > 0:07:37# Motorcycle
0:07:39 > 0:07:43# Under neon loneliness
0:07:43 > 0:07:45# Motorcycle
0:07:47 > 0:07:51# Under neon loneliness
0:07:51 > 0:07:55# Everlasting nothingness. #
0:08:28 > 0:08:31CHEERING
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Hello, Blackwood.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44The Manic Street Preachers last gig in Blackwood, some 25 years ago,
0:08:44 > 0:08:47wasn't quite such an auspicious occasion.
0:08:47 > 0:08:53Last time we played there was in a little theatre supporting Funeral In Berlin.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56They were a top Blackwood goth band at the time.
0:08:56 > 0:09:01It turned into a stage invasion and riot.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05Some of the footage has appeared on YouTube over the last couple of weeks.
0:09:05 > 0:09:11You can see us dodging cans and people just wandering on stage
0:09:11 > 0:09:14and trying to deck us.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17We were scared witless and Shaun was on two drums like Bobby Gillespie
0:09:17 > 0:09:20and we did a brilliant version of Just Like Honey,
0:09:20 > 0:09:22God Save The Queen by the Pistols.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24I think we did Teenage Kicks.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26I had "I am sex" written on my chest.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30The nipples cut out of my jumper. Complete misplaced confidence.
0:09:30 > 0:09:36You can see our manager sitting behind the amps and people were chucking cans at the stage.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38He shakes them...
0:09:38 > 0:09:40To see if there's anything left.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43..to see if there's anything in there and he goes...
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Huh!
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Come on.
0:10:17 > 0:10:21# To feel forgiveness You gotta forgive
0:10:21 > 0:10:24# Do you see the stars or the darkness begin?
0:10:24 > 0:10:28# You fight your war I fought for my life
0:10:28 > 0:10:31# You pay your dues and I'll pay mine
0:10:31 > 0:10:33# It's not war
0:10:33 > 0:10:36# Just the end of love
0:10:37 > 0:10:40# Just like before
0:10:40 > 0:10:43# But it's never enough
0:10:43 > 0:10:47# Oh, it's never enough, oh
0:10:54 > 0:10:58# You fight your war I fight for my life
0:10:58 > 0:11:01# You pay your dues and I won't pay mine
0:11:01 > 0:11:05# To feel forgiveness you gotta forgive
0:11:05 > 0:11:08# It's lost on me I believe in revenge
0:11:08 > 0:11:11# It's not war
0:11:11 > 0:11:13# Just the end of love
0:11:15 > 0:11:18# You've got the looks
0:11:18 > 0:11:20# But I've got the stars
0:11:21 > 0:11:25# It's not war
0:11:25 > 0:11:27# Just the end of love
0:11:27 > 0:11:32# To feel some tenderness
0:11:32 > 0:11:35# Do you have to give up?
0:11:35 > 0:11:38# Why do you have to give up?
0:11:38 > 0:11:41# Do you have to give up?
0:12:11 > 0:12:14# It's not war
0:12:14 > 0:12:17# Just the end of love
0:12:17 > 0:12:21# Just like before
0:12:21 > 0:12:23# But it's never enough
0:12:24 > 0:12:28# It's not war
0:12:28 > 0:12:31# Just the end of love
0:12:31 > 0:12:35# You weathered the storm
0:12:35 > 0:12:38# But sheltered the loss
0:12:38 > 0:12:41# But sheltered the loss
0:12:41 > 0:12:45# But sheltered the loss. #
0:13:01 > 0:13:03CHEERING
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Thank you very much.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15As soon as I think about Blackwood when we were 16 or 17,
0:13:15 > 0:13:19I think about the places that we used to go and meet up.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22There was Louie's Cafe. There was the Square Cafe.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24That was our stamping ground.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26We used to roll round the place
0:13:26 > 0:13:29and perhaps sometimes challenge people to beat us up
0:13:29 > 0:13:31just by the way we were looking.
0:13:31 > 0:13:36If there's one song that epitomises our time walking round Blackwood
0:13:36 > 0:13:40in our tight white jeans and our leather jackets, it was Suicide Alley,
0:13:40 > 0:13:43which is our first ever single, which we printed ourselves,
0:13:43 > 0:13:47the photograph of which is quite close to the studio, in an alley
0:13:47 > 0:13:49on the opposite side,
0:13:49 > 0:13:54and we literally haven't played that song for 22, 24 years now.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56CHEERING
0:13:57 > 0:14:01# I'm going down to suicide alley
0:14:01 > 0:14:04# Cos the air I breathe
0:14:04 > 0:14:08# Tastes better down there Hey hey hey, yeah
0:14:08 > 0:14:14# I'm going down to suicide alley
0:14:14 > 0:14:18# Cos it seems as if As if it's the only place for me
0:14:19 > 0:14:20Come on!
0:14:31 > 0:14:34# And I'm going down to suicide alley
0:14:34 > 0:14:37# Where you can't get at me
0:14:37 > 0:14:40# And I'm going down to suicide alley
0:14:40 > 0:14:42# Where I can be what I want to be
0:14:58 > 0:15:02# I'm going down to suicide alley
0:15:02 > 0:15:05# Cos the air I breathe
0:15:05 > 0:15:09# Tastes better down there Yeah, hey, hey, hey
0:15:09 > 0:15:14# I'm going down to suicide alley
0:15:14 > 0:15:17# Cos it seems as if
0:15:17 > 0:15:19# As if it's the only place for me Wey hey
0:15:32 > 0:15:34# I'm going down to suicide alley
0:15:34 > 0:15:37# Where you can't get at me
0:15:37 > 0:15:39# And I'm going down to suicide alley
0:15:39 > 0:15:42# Where I can be what I want to be
0:15:55 > 0:15:58# You won't eat away at my mind
0:15:58 > 0:16:01# With your ideas of decency
0:16:01 > 0:16:03# I'll be in suicide alley
0:16:03 > 0:16:06# Being who and what I want to be
0:16:06 > 0:16:08# You won't eat away at my mind
0:16:08 > 0:16:12# With your ideas of decency
0:16:12 > 0:16:15# I'll be in suicide alley
0:16:15 > 0:16:17# Being who and what I want to be. #
0:16:19 > 0:16:20Two, three, four!
0:16:36 > 0:16:39CHEERING AND WHISTLING
0:16:42 > 0:16:45The band's Blackwood background has played a massive role
0:16:45 > 0:16:47in their music and identity,
0:16:47 > 0:16:50but in the early days the constraints of a small community
0:16:50 > 0:16:54left the young Manics with a love-hate attitude towards their hometown.
0:16:54 > 0:16:58Most bands start out trying to escape where they've come from.
0:16:58 > 0:16:59We were no different.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02At the start we were desperate to escape what we thought...
0:17:02 > 0:17:06was a cultural/industrial vacuum.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08But the obvious thing happened.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10As soon as you started touring,
0:17:10 > 0:17:12I was going back home all the time.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14I wanted to get back all the time.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17- Up until The Holy Bible, anyway. - I never left anyway.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21In typically Welsh fashion, all I did was move to Wattsville five miles down the road.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24I finally made it to Newport when I hit the peak time.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Again, in a typical Welsh way,
0:17:27 > 0:17:32- James and Sean would always say they were from Pontllanfraith anyway! - THEY LAUGH
0:17:32 > 0:17:36A mile's a long way in the valley.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Growing up in the '80s,
0:17:38 > 0:17:41the Manics had a long way to go to get hold of the music they were after.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Now, when an instant music fix is just a click of a mouse away,
0:17:44 > 0:17:49they feel nostalgia for the way they consumed music.
0:17:50 > 0:17:51Coming to Cardiff on the train,
0:17:51 > 0:17:55busking, literally to buy a Wimpy hamburger
0:17:55 > 0:17:57and then buy a 7" from Spillers,
0:17:57 > 0:17:59was just totally magical.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01The excitement of getting the NME every week
0:18:01 > 0:18:04and Melody Maker and Sounds.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08It's also a simple explanation as to why a lot of music we got so excited about,
0:18:08 > 0:18:11and why we coveted it so much when we finally got it.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14You'd gone through a mini battle to get it.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17You'd sent off a postal order, or you'd taken a bus journey,
0:18:17 > 0:18:18and you'd saved up.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21And by the time you got it, it just seemed so important.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25It seemed as if there was some kind of sacrifice involved in getting this music.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28By the time you put it on the turntable, the build-up was so gigantic
0:18:28 > 0:18:30that it meant something more.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32One, two, three, four...
0:18:48 > 0:18:51# Drinking
0:18:51 > 0:18:53# Water to stay thin
0:18:55 > 0:18:57# Or is it to purify
0:18:57 > 0:19:01# I love you all the same
0:19:04 > 0:19:06# But there's no
0:19:06 > 0:19:10# No real truce with my fury
0:19:10 > 0:19:13# You don't have to believe me
0:19:13 > 0:19:18# I love you all the same
0:19:18 > 0:19:20One, two, three, four
0:19:20 > 0:19:22# But you
0:19:22 > 0:19:28# Stole the sun from my heart
0:19:28 > 0:19:34# You stole the sun from my heart
0:19:34 > 0:19:36One two three four one two three four
0:19:36 > 0:19:38# You
0:19:38 > 0:19:42# Stole the sun from my heart
0:19:43 > 0:19:47# You stole the sun from
0:19:47 > 0:19:52# You stole the sun from
0:20:03 > 0:20:05# You have
0:20:06 > 0:20:08# Broken through my armour
0:20:10 > 0:20:13# And I don't have an answer I
0:20:13 > 0:20:17# I love you all the same
0:20:19 > 0:20:21# I paint
0:20:22 > 0:20:25# The things I want to see
0:20:26 > 0:20:29# But it don't come easy I
0:20:29 > 0:20:33# I love you all the same
0:20:35 > 0:20:41# But you stole the sun from my heart
0:20:43 > 0:20:49# You stole the sun from my heart
0:20:50 > 0:20:52# Whoa-oh-oh, you
0:20:53 > 0:20:57# Stole the sun from my heart
0:20:59 > 0:21:03# You stole the sun from
0:21:03 > 0:21:07# You stole the sun from
0:21:07 > 0:21:13# Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
0:21:19 > 0:21:20# I think I'm
0:21:22 > 0:21:24# I'm lost amongst the undergrowth
0:21:25 > 0:21:28# So much so I woke up I
0:21:28 > 0:21:32# I love you all the same. #
0:21:32 > 0:21:34One more time!
0:21:34 > 0:21:36# But you
0:21:37 > 0:21:40# Stole the sun from my heart
0:21:42 > 0:21:47# You stole the sun from my
0:21:49 > 0:21:52# Whoa-oh-oh, you
0:21:53 > 0:21:56# Stole the sun from my heart
0:21:58 > 0:22:02# You stole the sun from
0:22:02 > 0:22:06# You stole the sun from
0:22:18 > 0:22:20# I have
0:22:21 > 0:22:24# I've got to stop smiling
0:22:25 > 0:22:28# It gives the wrong impression I
0:22:28 > 0:22:31# I love you all the
0:22:31 > 0:22:34# Same. #
0:22:34 > 0:22:37CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:22:46 > 0:22:48The Manics have always been masters of imagery
0:22:48 > 0:22:51and the art of controversial TV performances.
0:22:51 > 0:22:55But at times, this has led some to question their genuineness.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58We weren't what you'd call a classically authentic band
0:22:58 > 0:23:01because it's all about ideas, you know.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04The fact that me and Richey didn't really care about the music,
0:23:04 > 0:23:07but we were obsessed with words and image
0:23:07 > 0:23:09and just the way we looked as a band.
0:23:09 > 0:23:14We were a very kind of odd marriage, the four of us.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17# I am an architect
0:23:17 > 0:23:19# They call me a butcher... #
0:23:19 > 0:23:24Intentionally or not, the bands ideas have frequently caused a stir
0:23:24 > 0:23:28often as a result of their blistering Top Of The Pops appearances.
0:23:28 > 0:23:35I remember when you first Tipp-Exed James across the front of it in the dressing room.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38There was some kind of notion of subversive power
0:23:38 > 0:23:42looking like a cross between a terrorist and a rapist, but subversive.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Or, kind of like, special forces.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47I didn't think about how it might really, really offend some people.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51I think it was one of the record amount of calls Top Of The Pops ever got.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55- It seems completely tame now. - It does.- Post Christina Aguilera.
0:23:55 > 0:24:01- It's not that horrendous. - Imagine what Lady Gaga could do with a balaclava.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03She could really rock it.
0:24:16 > 0:24:17Yeah!
0:24:19 > 0:24:22# Never ever wanted to be with you
0:24:22 > 0:24:25# The only thing you gave me was the boredom, I suffocated in you
0:24:26 > 0:24:28# Ooh-ooh-ooh
0:24:30 > 0:24:33# Adrift in cheap dreams don't stop this rain
0:24:33 > 0:24:37# Numbed out in piss towns just wanna dig their graves
0:24:38 > 0:24:40# Ooh-ooh-ooh
0:24:44 > 0:24:46# Motown, Motown junk
0:24:50 > 0:24:52# I laughed
0:24:52 > 0:24:57# 21 years of living and nothing means anything to me
0:24:58 > 0:25:00# Motown junk a lifetime of slavery
0:25:00 > 0:25:03# Songs of love echo underclass betrayal
0:25:03 > 0:25:06# Stops your heart beating for 168 seconds
0:25:06 > 0:25:08# Stops your brain thinking
0:25:09 > 0:25:12- # Motown junk - Junka, junka, junka
0:25:12 > 0:25:15- # Motown junk - Junka, junka, junka
0:25:15 > 0:25:16# Motown junk
0:25:33 > 0:25:35# I don't want cos I just get
0:25:35 > 0:25:38# All your slut heroes offer is a fear of the
0:25:41 > 0:25:42# Ooh-ooh
0:25:44 > 0:25:46# Past made useless cos I'm dying now
0:25:46 > 0:25:51# Communal tyranny a jail that bleeds our wrists
0:25:51 > 0:25:53# Ooh-ooh
0:25:57 > 0:26:00# Motown, Motown junk
0:26:03 > 0:26:05# I laughed
0:26:06 > 0:26:10# 21 years of living and nothing means anything to me
0:26:11 > 0:26:14# Motown junk a lifetime of slavery
0:26:14 > 0:26:16# Songs of love echo underclass betrayal
0:26:16 > 0:26:19# Stops your heart beating for 168 seconds
0:26:22 > 0:26:24# Motown junk
0:26:25 > 0:26:26# Motown junk
0:26:27 > 0:26:29# Motown junk
0:26:30 > 0:26:32# Motown, come on
0:26:53 > 0:26:55# Motown junk
0:26:56 > 0:26:58# Motown junk
0:26:59 > 0:27:00# Motown junk
0:27:02 > 0:27:05# Motown junk. #
0:27:06 > 0:27:09We come from Blackwood, South Wales.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13We're here to rock and roll!
0:27:13 > 0:27:16CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:27:18 > 0:27:22This is off Everything Must Go, this is called Enola/Alone.
0:27:41 > 0:27:48# The Statue of Liberty looks so solemn on the TV
0:27:48 > 0:27:51# 100% risk of stepping outside
0:27:51 > 0:27:54# Every second too precious to try
0:27:55 > 0:27:58# My heart aches for Enola
0:27:58 > 0:28:02# From my birth a relic a killer
0:28:02 > 0:28:05# But all I want to do is live
0:28:05 > 0:28:08# No matter how miserable it is
0:28:11 > 0:28:15# Please sing to me a song
0:28:19 > 0:28:22# Enola alone
0:28:25 > 0:28:29# Please take me on home
0:28:31 > 0:28:36# Enola alone
0:28:37 > 0:28:41# Whoa-oh-oh-oh
0:28:48 > 0:28:55# I walk in the grass and I feel some peace at last
0:28:55 > 0:29:01# I walk on the beach and for once I feel some ease
0:29:02 > 0:29:09# I'll take a picture of you to remember how good you looked
0:29:09 > 0:29:15# Like a memory it has disappeared Naked and lonely
0:29:18 > 0:29:22# Please sing to me a song
0:29:25 > 0:29:29# Enola alone
0:29:32 > 0:29:36# Please take me on home
0:29:40 > 0:29:43# Enola alone
0:29:44 > 0:29:48# Whoa-oh-oh-oh
0:30:07 > 0:30:11# Please sing to me a song
0:30:14 > 0:30:17# Enola alone
0:30:20 > 0:30:24# Please take me on home
0:30:28 > 0:30:31# Enola alone
0:30:33 > 0:30:37# Whoa-oh-oh-oh oh oh whoa
0:30:37 > 0:30:40# Whoa-oh whoa
0:30:40 > 0:30:42# Oh-oh
0:30:52 > 0:30:59# Safe European home. #
0:31:04 > 0:31:06CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:31:14 > 0:31:18In 1995, the band suffered a devastating personal and professional blow
0:31:18 > 0:31:23caused by the tragic disappearance of their friend and fellow band member Richey Edwards.
0:31:23 > 0:31:30Some 16 years later, it's clear that his presence is still very much missed.
0:31:30 > 0:31:35As you know, anyone who's seen us over the last 10-15 years, there's always a gap
0:31:35 > 0:31:38to our right side, which will never ever be replaced.
0:31:38 > 0:31:42- This song... - CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:31:42 > 0:31:44Em, this song is dedicated
0:31:44 > 0:31:49to the boy and the man who filled that space so exquisitely,
0:31:49 > 0:31:51so intelligently
0:31:51 > 0:31:53and so damn full of rock and roll.
0:31:53 > 0:31:57It is for the genius of Mr Richard Edwards.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:32:00 > 0:32:01Faster!
0:32:14 > 0:32:16# I am an architect
0:32:17 > 0:32:19# They call me a butcher
0:32:21 > 0:32:24# I am a pioneer
0:32:24 > 0:32:26# They call me primitive
0:32:27 > 0:32:29# I am purity
0:32:30 > 0:32:32# They call me perverted
0:32:34 > 0:32:37# Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave
0:32:40 > 0:32:45# I am idiot drug hive, the virgin The tattered and the torn
0:32:46 > 0:32:50# Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards
0:32:52 > 0:32:56# Self-disgust is self-obsession Honey
0:32:56 > 0:32:57# And I do as I please
0:32:59 > 0:33:02# A morality obedient
0:33:02 > 0:33:05# Only to the cleansed repented
0:33:05 > 0:33:10# I am stronger than Mensa
0:33:11 > 0:33:16# Miller and Mailer I spat out Plath and Pinter
0:33:22 > 0:33:27# I am all the things that you regret
0:33:27 > 0:33:32# A truth that washes That learned how to spell
0:33:44 > 0:33:47# The first time you see yourself
0:33:47 > 0:33:49# Naked you cry
0:33:51 > 0:33:53# Soft skin now acne
0:33:54 > 0:33:56# Foul breath, so broken
0:33:57 > 0:33:59# He loves me truly
0:34:00 > 0:34:02# This mute solitude I'm draining
0:34:04 > 0:34:05# I know I believe in nothing
0:34:05 > 0:34:07# But this is my nothing
0:34:10 > 0:34:15# Sleep can't hide the thoughts spinning through my mind
0:34:16 > 0:34:21# False mirrors are too clean Too many people awake
0:34:23 > 0:34:26# If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down
0:34:29 > 0:34:32# I've been too honest with myself I should have
0:34:32 > 0:34:35# Lied like everybody else
0:34:35 > 0:34:40# I am stronger than Mensa
0:34:41 > 0:34:46# Miller and Mailer I spat out Plath and Pinter
0:34:52 > 0:34:56# I am all the things that you regret
0:34:56 > 0:35:03# A truth that washes That learned how to spell
0:35:21 > 0:35:24# So damn easy to cave in
0:35:24 > 0:35:26# Man kills everything
0:35:27 > 0:35:30# So damn easy to cave in
0:35:30 > 0:35:33# Man kills everything
0:35:33 > 0:35:37# So damn easy to cave in
0:35:37 > 0:35:40# Man kills everything
0:35:40 > 0:35:43# So damn easy to cave in
0:35:43 > 0:35:47# Man kills everything. #
0:35:47 > 0:35:51CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:35:55 > 0:36:00Without Richey, it was unclear whether Manic Street Preachers would even carry on,
0:36:00 > 0:36:03but with the release of Everything Must Go in 1996
0:36:03 > 0:36:05came their greatest success.
0:36:05 > 0:36:08We had quite low expectations, obviously,
0:36:08 > 0:36:09after Richey's disappearance.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12The way we talked to each other was...
0:36:12 > 0:36:17you know, if we could do 100,000 albums on this and just kind of keep together
0:36:17 > 0:36:20and we made a great record, that'd be brilliant. We were...
0:36:20 > 0:36:23You know, but the fact then it went on to sell way over a million
0:36:23 > 0:36:24in the UK alone...
0:36:24 > 0:36:27The thing we were doing post Design For Life
0:36:27 > 0:36:30was the stages that we were supposed to be on et cetera, et cetera.
0:36:30 > 0:36:37Obviously that was post Richey going missing, so everything was a tiny bit bittersweet as well.
0:36:57 > 0:37:01# The future teaches you to be alone
0:37:01 > 0:37:04# The present to be afraid and cold
0:37:06 > 0:37:07# So if I can shoot rabbits
0:37:07 > 0:37:11# Then I can shoot fascists
0:37:16 > 0:37:20# Bullets for your brain today
0:37:20 > 0:37:23# But we'll forget it all again
0:37:24 > 0:37:26# Monuments put from pen to paper
0:37:26 > 0:37:31# Turns me into a gutless wonder
0:37:34 > 0:37:36# If you tolerate this
0:37:36 > 0:37:39# Then your children will be next
0:37:43 > 0:37:45# If you tolerate this
0:37:45 > 0:37:47# Then your children will be next
0:37:47 > 0:37:49# Will be next, will be next
0:37:49 > 0:37:52# Will be next
0:38:02 > 0:38:05# Gravity keeps my head down
0:38:06 > 0:38:08# Or is it maybe shame
0:38:10 > 0:38:15# At being so young and being so vain
0:38:20 > 0:38:24# Holes in your head today
0:38:24 > 0:38:27# But I'm a pacifist
0:38:29 > 0:38:31# I've walked Las Ramblas
0:38:31 > 0:38:34# But not with real intent
0:38:37 > 0:38:40# If you tolerate this
0:38:40 > 0:38:43# Then your children will be next
0:38:46 > 0:38:49# If you tolerate this
0:38:49 > 0:38:52# Then your children will be next
0:38:52 > 0:38:54# Will be next, will be next
0:38:54 > 0:38:56# Will be next
0:39:13 > 0:39:18# And on the street tonight an old man plays
0:39:21 > 0:39:28# With newspaper cuttings of his glory days
0:39:30 > 0:39:32# If you tolerate this
0:39:32 > 0:39:36# Then your children will be next
0:39:39 > 0:39:41# If you tolerate this
0:39:41 > 0:39:44# Then your children will be next
0:39:44 > 0:39:46# Will be next, will be next
0:39:46 > 0:39:48# Will be next
0:40:04 > 0:40:07# Ahhh, ahhh
0:40:07 > 0:40:09# Whoa... #
0:40:09 > 0:40:10Come on!
0:40:12 > 0:40:19# Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
0:40:21 > 0:40:27# Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
0:40:29 > 0:40:34# Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
0:40:34 > 0:40:37# Whoa. #
0:40:46 > 0:40:50APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:40:59 > 0:41:03I don't think I ever have a sense of, you know,
0:41:03 > 0:41:08where we sit in the landscape of pop or rock history and all that malarkey,
0:41:08 > 0:41:13because a band only ever truly understands itself if you can say you've influenced another band.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16If you've influenced another band that's had lots of success.
0:41:16 > 0:41:18I don't think we've ever influenced anybody.
0:41:18 > 0:41:21I think we're thee second best band ever, from Wales.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24# If you want it Here it is
0:41:24 > 0:41:26# Come and get it...#
0:41:26 > 0:41:29I think Badfinger are the greatest ever Welsh band.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33I'm pretty sure we're the second best.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35I'm not getting into that one.
0:41:46 > 0:41:52# We are not your sinners Our voices are for real
0:41:52 > 0:41:58# We realised and won't be mourned We gonna burn your deathmask uniforms
0:41:58 > 0:42:03# We won't die of devotion Understand we can never belong
0:42:03 > 0:42:06# Throw some acid into your face
0:42:11 > 0:42:17# You love us
0:42:17 > 0:42:19# You love us
0:42:19 > 0:42:22# You love us You love
0:42:22 > 0:42:28# You love us Oh, you love us
0:42:28 > 0:42:30# You love You love us
0:42:30 > 0:42:33# You love us You love
0:42:39 > 0:42:44# Till I see love in statues Your lessons drill inherited sin
0:42:44 > 0:42:47# Parliaments a fake life saver
0:42:47 > 0:42:50# You better wake up And smell the real flavour
0:42:50 > 0:42:56# You love us like a holocaust Same PR problem as EST
0:42:56 > 0:42:58# You love us like a holocaust
0:43:03 > 0:43:09# You love us
0:43:09 > 0:43:10# You love us
0:43:10 > 0:43:13# You love us You love
0:43:13 > 0:43:19# You love us Oh, you love us
0:43:19 > 0:43:22# You love You love us
0:43:22 > 0:43:24- # You love us - You're my guitar hero
0:43:48 > 0:43:54# You love us
0:43:54 > 0:43:56# You love us
0:43:56 > 0:43:58# You love us You love
0:43:58 > 0:44:03# You love us Oh, you love us
0:44:03 > 0:44:07# You love You love us
0:44:07 > 0:44:10# You love us You love
0:44:18 > 0:44:19# Fall into love! #
0:44:19 > 0:44:23APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:44:29 > 0:44:33Eh, today we've been going to all our old haunts,
0:44:33 > 0:44:37and some got knocked down, like Pizza House, which isn't there anymore.
0:44:37 > 0:44:41Dorothy's Caff, not there no more.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43Martin Luther Records, not there no more.
0:44:45 > 0:44:49So it feels a bit daft to say that the title of this next song is Postcards from a Young Man.
0:45:05 > 0:45:10# I don't believe in absolutes anymore
0:45:10 > 0:45:16# I'm quite prepared To admit I was wrong
0:45:16 > 0:45:21# This life It sucks your principles away
0:45:21 > 0:45:27# You have to fight against it Every single day
0:45:27 > 0:45:30# These are the postcards from a young man
0:45:32 > 0:45:36# They may never be written Or posted again
0:45:38 > 0:45:41# These are the postcards from a young man
0:45:43 > 0:45:47# They may never be written Or posted again
0:46:00 > 0:46:04# It is like so many other things
0:46:04 > 0:46:10# As distant as your former sins
0:46:10 > 0:46:15# So sad and lonely and so derelict
0:46:16 > 0:46:20# As the optimism that we once shared
0:46:21 > 0:46:25# These are the postcards from a young man
0:46:26 > 0:46:30# They may never be written Or posted again
0:46:32 > 0:46:36# These are the postcards from a young man
0:46:37 > 0:46:41# They may never be written Or posted again
0:46:54 > 0:46:58# I'll send you postcards Every single day
0:46:58 > 0:47:03# Just to prove I still exist
0:47:04 > 0:47:09# This world will not impose its will
0:47:09 > 0:47:12# I will not give up And I will not give in
0:47:12 > 0:47:14# And I will not give up!
0:47:27 > 0:47:30# These are the postcards from a young man
0:47:31 > 0:47:36# They may never bee written Or posted again
0:47:38 > 0:47:42# These are the postcards from a young man
0:47:42 > 0:47:46# They may never be written
0:47:59 > 0:48:05# I won't betray your confidence I won't pretend my way was lost
0:48:05 > 0:48:07# This world will not impose its will
0:48:07 > 0:48:10# I will not give up And I will not give in
0:48:10 > 0:48:12# This world will not impose its will
0:48:12 > 0:48:15# I will not give up And I will not give in. #
0:48:18 > 0:48:22APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:48:26 > 0:48:31Admitting that their music tends to alternate between the dark and more difficult sounds
0:48:31 > 0:48:34of albums such as The Holy Bible
0:48:34 > 0:48:37and the kind of anthemic songs that filled Postcards From A Young Man,
0:48:37 > 0:48:40what direction do Manic Street Preachers see themselves taking next?
0:48:40 > 0:48:44We know that the next record won't be anything like Postcards From A Young Man,
0:48:44 > 0:48:52and perhaps, deep down, we know that we'll never really, truly attempt to do a record like that again.
0:48:52 > 0:48:53Postcards From A Young Man.
0:48:53 > 0:48:58And we got to decide what we want to do or what direction falls upon us.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02I mean, yes, we've set ourselves our rules. You've got to get young fans,
0:49:02 > 0:49:03you've got to have mass communication.
0:49:03 > 0:49:07But we might have to make a record that doesn't...
0:49:07 > 0:49:11doesn't fulfil any of those rules, we might have to break our rules.
0:49:11 > 0:49:15Bit of a scary time to think about what the next record might be.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18It seems like we have to be more indulgent with ourselves.
0:49:18 > 0:49:23Whatever happens next will be different in many ways.
0:49:24 > 0:49:26Thinking about getting a new singer.
0:49:26 > 0:49:28LAUGHTER
0:49:29 > 0:49:30- You never know.- Never know.
0:49:33 > 0:49:39# The sky is falling in on you
0:49:40 > 0:49:44# Crushed any happiness you knew
0:49:44 > 0:49:48# The tree gave more to you than love
0:49:50 > 0:49:53# It's still there But, baby, you're gone
0:49:53 > 0:49:56# Remember you
0:49:56 > 0:50:01# Stretched out in the sun
0:50:03 > 0:50:06# All alone forever
0:50:06 > 0:50:10# Conclusions foregone
0:50:12 > 0:50:16# Will you find
0:50:16 > 0:50:20# Some kind of nothingness?
0:50:20 > 0:50:22# Some kind of nothingness
0:50:22 > 0:50:25# Still and lonely
0:50:25 > 0:50:31# Like an old school photograph
0:50:35 > 0:50:39# Laid yourself out under the stars
0:50:40 > 0:50:44# Some peace at last so don't be sad
0:50:44 > 0:50:49# A fitting end to your end
0:50:51 > 0:50:54# But, baby, death's our only friend
0:50:54 > 0:50:56# Remember you
0:50:56 > 0:51:01# Stretched out in the sun
0:51:04 > 0:51:06# All alone forever
0:51:06 > 0:51:10# Conclusions foregone
0:51:13 > 0:51:16# Will you find
0:51:16 > 0:51:21# Some kind of nothingness?
0:51:22 > 0:51:26# Still and lonely
0:51:26 > 0:51:30# Like an old school photograph
0:51:35 > 0:51:40# Your future glories, all empty of thoughts
0:51:41 > 0:51:45# There's beauty doing nothing at all
0:51:45 > 0:51:50# It's what you wanted It's what you got
0:51:51 > 0:51:54# Your final search for truth has stopped
0:51:59 > 0:52:03# Ah, ah, ah
0:52:03 > 0:52:06# Ah, ah, ah
0:52:08 > 0:52:13- # Ah, ah, ah - There's beauty doing nothing at all
0:52:13 > 0:52:18# Ah, ah, ah
0:52:18 > 0:52:20# Na-na, na-na-na, never stop
0:52:20 > 0:52:23# Na-na, na-na-na, never stop
0:52:23 > 0:52:24# Never stop
0:52:24 > 0:52:26# Never stop, never stop
0:52:26 > 0:52:28# Never!
0:52:29 > 0:52:31# Remember you
0:52:31 > 0:52:37# Stretched out in the sun
0:52:37 > 0:52:41# All alone forever
0:52:41 > 0:52:46# Conclusions foregone
0:52:48 > 0:52:50# Will you find
0:52:50 > 0:52:55# Some kind of nothingness?
0:52:58 > 0:53:00# Still and lonely
0:53:00 > 0:53:08- # Like an old...school photograph - Old school photograph. #
0:53:08 > 0:53:11CHEERING
0:53:14 > 0:53:18With this landmark gig set to go down in Manics folklore,
0:53:18 > 0:53:23James and Nicky shared some final reflections on their Blackwood roots.
0:53:23 > 0:53:26There are so many subliminal things that form you.
0:53:26 > 0:53:31The more and more you look back, whether it be the landscape whether it be a teacher, you know,
0:53:31 > 0:53:36whether it just be the place where you used to go and walk your dog all the time, or a shop,
0:53:36 > 0:53:38you know, we would just never have been the band
0:53:38 > 0:53:42we were without growing up there. It's as simple as that.
0:53:42 > 0:53:45I think if there is a South Wales definition of music,
0:53:45 > 0:53:48then it is A Design For Life.
0:53:48 > 0:53:54That song and that sound could only come from where we come from.
0:54:01 > 0:54:03# Libraries gave us power
0:54:06 > 0:54:10# Then work came and made us free
0:54:12 > 0:54:14# What price now
0:54:17 > 0:54:23# For a shallow piece of dignity?
0:54:27 > 0:54:30# I wish I had a bottle
0:54:32 > 0:54:37# Right here in my dirty face
0:54:38 > 0:54:40# To wear the scars
0:54:43 > 0:54:50# To show from where we all came
0:54:54 > 0:54:58# We don't talk about love
0:54:59 > 0:55:03# We only want to get drunk
0:55:05 > 0:55:10# And we are not allowed to spend
0:55:10 > 0:55:15# As we are told that this is the end
0:55:15 > 0:55:19# A design...for life
0:55:21 > 0:55:26# A design...for life
0:55:26 > 0:55:31# A design...for life
0:55:31 > 0:55:35- AUDIENCE:- # A design for life... #
0:55:35 > 0:55:40OK, this verse is yours. One, two, three, four...
0:55:40 > 0:55:42# ..I wish I had a bottle
0:55:44 > 0:55:48# Right here in my pretty face
0:55:50 > 0:55:52# To wear the scars
0:55:55 > 0:56:01# To show from where I came... #
0:56:01 > 0:56:02Yeah!
0:56:07 > 0:56:10# ..We don't talk about love
0:56:12 > 0:56:15# We only want to get drunk
0:56:18 > 0:56:22# And we are not allowed to spend
0:56:22 > 0:56:27# As we are told that this is the end
0:56:27 > 0:56:33# A design...for life
0:56:33 > 0:56:38# A design...for life
0:56:38 > 0:56:41# A design
0:56:41 > 0:56:43# For life
0:56:43 > 0:56:46# A design for life
0:56:46 > 0:56:47# The summer wind
0:56:47 > 0:56:51# Oh, it came blowin' in
0:56:51 > 0:56:55# From across the Severn Estuary
0:56:56 > 0:56:59# It lingered there
0:56:59 > 0:57:02# It gave hope to you and me, yeah
0:57:06 > 0:57:07# Yeah
0:57:13 > 0:57:17# We don't talk about love
0:57:19 > 0:57:22# We only want to get drunk
0:57:25 > 0:57:28# And we are not allowed to spend
0:57:28 > 0:57:33# As we are told that this is the end
0:57:33 > 0:57:39# A design...for life
0:57:39 > 0:57:42# A design...
0:57:44 > 0:57:50# A design...for life
0:57:50 > 0:57:53# A design for life
0:58:06 > 0:58:07CHEERING, APPLAUSE
0:58:07 > 0:58:11Good night from Mr Nicholas Allen Wire, good night from Sean Anthony Moore,
0:58:11 > 0:58:13good night from me,
0:58:13 > 0:58:16and most importantly, good night from Mr Richard James Edwards.
0:58:18 > 0:58:24- We are the Manic Street Preachers. May your gods be with you. Good night.- Be poor, be vigilant, behave.
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