[UNLOCKED] Owen Hatherley on the Manic Street Preachers

Owen Hatherley returns to discuss his New Left Review article on
the Welsh guitar band, the Manic Street Preachers. We talked about
the particular appeal the group seemed to hold for working class
kids from non-metropolitan backgrounds in the 1990s, and about the
forbearance and occasional embarrassment that is the lot of fans
who've followed their work in the subsequent decades. We also
talked about why such an avowedly left wing and politicised group
have shown such little regard for contemporary left movements such
as the Corbyn moment in the UK. Show notes: Music: Owen's
acceptable Manics playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/53GV8dNKLZlo72Wp3GOdy5?si=e25a5413ece248ed&pt=8393e6591814e26432a7fd35670b2d43
Alex's reluctant Manics playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55IG8eV1kVH3kwAfEo9Z2y?si=ee8bcba703fc437a&pt=9a1779265389af95dcd44445656ef4c8
Videos: Faster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0f9qUheits Faster
TOTP performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5PI7k_ZiQ0 You
Love Us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgKXBJ2LZKo A Design for
Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfEoVxy7VDQ Enjoyably angry
Design for Life TV performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbdsc-YxGB4 4st 7lb acoustic MTV
performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXrzttSPlc0 Motorcycle
Emptiness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavcjNniIvk The Love of
Richard Nixon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_G_R_1gMfc Jackie
Collins Existential Question Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYvbtSTamRc Further Reading: Owen's
New Left Review article
https://newleftreview.es/sidecar/posts/mislaid-plans Everything (A
Book about Manic Street Preachers) by Simon Price
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780753501399/Everything-Book-Manic-Street-Preachers-0753501392/plp
Triptych: Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible
by: Daniel Lukes, Larissa Wodtke, Rhian E Jones
https://repeaterbooks.com/product/triptych-three-studies-of-manic-street-preachers-the-holy-bible/