The Manic Street Preachers ' bassist, Nicky Wire, also recorded a track titled " Derek Jarman's Garden " as a b-side to his single " Break My Heart Slowly " ( 2006 ).

Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band that was formed in 1986 in Blackwood, Gwent and consists of James Dean Bradfield ( lead vocals and lead guitar ), Nicky Wire ( bass guitar and lyrics ) and Sean Moore ( drums and percussion ).

The video featured Nicky Wire in drag as Marilyn Monroe and contained visual references to the film Betty Blue and Aleister Crowley.

The title had previously been suggested as a working title for the album by Nicky Wire.

" However, Nicky Wire contradicted this in 2011 while doing promotion for their greatest hits compilation National Treasures.

The Lightning Seeds ' song " Waiting for Today to Happen ", from their fifth album, Dizzy Heights ( 1996 ), was written by Nicky Wire and Ian Broudie.

Furthermore, the track " Hireath " features a section called " Spoken Word ", in which Nicky Wire talks about Welsh identity.

James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire contributed an original song, " The Girl from Tiger Bay ", to Shirley Bassey's 2009 studio album, The Performance.

* Nicky Wire – bass guitar, piano, vocals, rhythm guitar

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On the 2011 final Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie BBC Radio Two show, Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire stated that he believed Slade's post-Reading material was very underrated.

* Richey Edwards and Nicky Wire of rock group Manic Street Preachers

* Nicky Wire, Manic Street Preachers bassist.

All lyrics were written by Nicky Wire ( real name Nicholas Jones ) and Richey Edwards.

* Nicky Wire – bass guitar

Other musicians to have used the flag, include Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers, who will often drape the Welsh flag over amps when playing live, and Cerys Matthews who has worn the image on her clothes, while classical singer Katherine Jenkins has taken the flag on stage during live performances.

* Nicky Wire – bass guitar, backing vocals

The sleeve was designed principally by Nicky Wire which contrasted greatly from the simple, graphically precise covers designed by Farrow Design, who have done the majority of design work for the band since 1996.

* Nicky Wire – bass guitar and backing vocals

The title of the greatest hits package had also been planned for several years previous, Nicky Wire first mentioned it in Everything-A Book About Manic Street Preachers, published in 1998.

James formed a close relationship with three friends: his cousin Sean Moore, who lived with James and his family throughout their childhood after his own parents ' divorce, and future bandmates Nicky Wire ( real name Nicholas Jones ) and Richey James Edwards.

Nicky Wire borrowed the title, " The Everlasting ", from a poem by his brother Patrick Jones, after spending some time trying to think of something similar to Blur's " The Universal " or Joy Division's " The Eternal ".

Category: Songs written by Nicky Wire

" If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next " is a song by the Manic Street Preachers, released as the first single from their fifth studio album, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, with lyrics written by Nicky Wire ( credited as Nick Jones ), and music written by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore.

Nicholas Allen Jones, known as Nicky Wire, is the lyricist, bassist and occasional vocalist with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers.

More often than not he was miming on the guitar during early live performances, but was, along with bassist Nicky Wire, principal lyricist.

Some of the lyrics are taken from the poem " Neon Loneliness " ( the first line of the chorus, " Under neon loneliness ," is a direct lift ) by Welsh poet Patrick Jones, the brother of MSP bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire.

During his solo tour, Manic's bassist Nicky Wire performed there.

Aside from Fier, the Palominos membership has been wildly elastic, with only bassist Bill Laswell and guitarist Nicky Skopelitis appearing on every album.

Their self-titled debut album was released on New York's Celluloid Records in 1983, and featured guest appearances by bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, percussionist David Moss, turntablist M. E.

Laswell retained the Material name and was calling upon a large group of musicians with, at its core, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, keyboardist Jeff Bova, percussionist Aiyb Dieng, former Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell and bassist Bootsy Collins, plus Jamaican reggae duo Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare ( Sly and Robbie ).

Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire remembers that it was the bands ' very independence that gave the scene coherence: " People were doing everything themselves-making their own records, doing the artwork, gluing the sleeves together, releasing them and sending them out, writing fanzines because the music press lost interest really quickly.

* Nicky Wire ( born 1969 ), Welsh lyricist, bassist and occasional vocalist

* Nicky Wire, lyricist, bassist and occasional vocalist with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers

The DVD version of the single features two new songs which are both sung entirely by the band's bassist, Nicky Wire.

In 1993, for stage performances and publicity shots, Manics bassist Nicky Wire wore bankrobber-mask-style eye makeup like Nicky Marotta does in the film.

The band's founder, Charlie Harper selected guitarist Nicky Garratt, bassist Paul Slack, and various drummers ( eventually Pete Davis became fairly stable ) under the initial name " U. K. Subversives ".

* May 16 – Nicky Chinn, English rock songwriter ( The Sweet, Suzi Quatro )

In these films they are joined by Nicky Tesco, founding member of the UK punk rock band The Members.

In late 1980s to mid 1990s several female rock singers popularly known as " Lady Rockers " were famous in Indonesia, such as Nicky Astria, Inka Christie, and Anggun that started her career in as a pop-rock singer in Indonesia before moving to France and pursue her international career.

* Nicky Hopkins, English rock pianist, 1944-94

* The Truth ( Australian band ), a Melbourne rock band from the mid-1990s with songwriter and drummer Nicky Bomba

* James Dean Bradfield, Richey James Edwards, Sean Moore and Nicky Wire all grew up in the town and attended Oakdale Comprehensive school nearby, forming the influential rock band Manic Street Preachers.

* Nicky Garratt, guitarist with punk rock band U. K. Subs

Smokie is an English rock band from Bradford, Yorkshire who found success at home as well as around the rest of the world after teaming up with Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn.

Hurley introduced the band to composers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman ( aka Chinnichap ), who also wrote songs for glam rock contemporaries Sweet, Mud and Suzi Quatro, as well as for Hot Chocolate.

" The Ballroom Blitz " ( on some releases " Ballroom Blitz ") is a song written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman and originally recorded by the British rock band Sweet ( then known as The Sweet ).