They were once one of the most politically charged, rebellious British bands around, and now the Manic Street Preachers are looking on today’s music scene in dismay thanks to a perceived lack of social commentary amongst their successors.
“I go to gigs and I barely hear a political or radical statement from any musician these days,” frontman James Dean Bradfield has told NME.
“It’s really weird that we’ve been through so many wars and economic crashes and we had the English riots a couple of years back and it barely seems to touch the surface of the musical canon. People seem almost baffled by how to channel that indelible tension into music.”
And Nicky Wire doesn’t believe it’s their duty anymore to be filling the void. “I just feel like I’d be almost a caricature of a mad wailing man with no fucker listening and no-one even caring if I carried on as before,” he added.
The Manics release their latest studio album ‘Futurology‘ on July 7th, swiftly following up last year’s excellent ‘Rewind The Film‘.
