Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield believes his former bandmate Richey Edwards – who went missing in February 1995 and was officially presumed dead in 2008 – would have been ‘disgusted’ by modern bands.
“If Richey was around now he would have absolutely slayed people,” Bradfield tells Wales Online. “In terms of how branded everything is, how branded bands are, he would have been disgusted by it. He would have been so completely angry about some things it would be like having an assassin in the band.”
Manic Street Preachers’ new album ‘Rewind The Film‘ is due later this month, the eighth studio release from the band since Edwards’ disappearance, and is set to be quickly followed by another full length LP early next year.
“It would have been the perfect time for him to have been a musician, a lyricist and a quote machine,” Bradfield continues. “You wish he was still around so we could just set Richey loose on them.”
