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Irish rockers are Snow good for Manics' Nicky
Manic Street Preachers star Nicky Wire has hit out at Irish crooners Snow Patrol, calling them "utterly deplorable".
Manic Street Preachers star Nicky Wire has hit out at Irish crooners Snow Patrol, calling them "utterly deplorable".
The Welsh Trio, who are playing Tennent's Vital in Belfast on Tuesday, took to the Channel 4 stage at the V Festival over the weekend but bassist Wire had no intentions in waving his lighter for Snow Patrol on the main stage.
"Snow Patrol is the biggest divide in Britain," the leopard print affiecando told NME. "They're probably the biggest band in Britain, but they're also the most hated.
"It's a weird dichotomy for them. They are utterly deplorable, there is something unredeemingly utterly shit about them, you just cannot put one's finger on.
"It's a desperate form of music, the endless repeated lines, over and over, the same drab fucking little thing on and on and on. They're the great losers turned into the great winners, that's their redemption. I won't be watching them."
Snow Patrol are just the latest victim of washed-up Wire's jibes. The Manics lyricist has also launched musical attacks on Coldplay, Kelly Jones, Beastie Boys, and even called Morrissey a "sad, old bitter man who just likes irritating people".
Three words Nicky - pot, kettle, black.
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Ah, the familiar rant of the old order spouting abuse toward the new toast of college rock. The Manics are dead and buried and all the thinly veiled attempts at publicity aren't going to change that. It's a bit like two Eircom League managers having a go at each other on NewsTalk to try and boost the gate of an upcoming match. Both bands were, at one point decent but are now incredibly not good. All the big-boy talk in the world won't bring back rock n roll.