Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield has taken aim at the current crop of new bands, whose main contribution to the world is ‘songs for insurance ads’.
“Mark E Smith created his own language,” Bradfield tells The Scotsman. “Shaun Ryder created his own language. Simple Minds were working-class lads who had no right to sound like an ambitious, experimental, krautrock-loving Scottish dream. These guys all had pure, vivid imagination and they transformed themselves.”
“When I look at bands now I see lots of checked shirts, wedge haircuts, guitars worn high, steals from calypso music and, hey-ho, we get songs for insurance ads.”
The Manics released their latest studio album ‘Rewind The Film‘ earlier this month. Have a read of Live4ever’s glowing verdict right here.
The LP is due to be succeeded in the first part of 2014 with another brand new album recorded during the same sessions which resulted in ‘Rewind The Film’.