{"id":97715,"date":"2023-04-26T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/26\/manic-street-preachers-nicky-wire-shares-new-solo-track-contact-sheets\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T10:40:16","slug":"manic-street-preachers-nicky-wire-shares-new-solo-monitor-contact-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/26\/manic-street-preachers-nicky-wire-shares-new-solo-monitor-contact-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Manic Street Preachers&#8217; Nicky Wire shares new solo monitor &#8216;Contact Sheets&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/manic-street-preachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manic Street Preachers<\/a>\u2018 bassist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nicky-wire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicky Wire<\/a> has shared a new solo track \u2018Contact Sheets\u2019. Check it out under.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-interviews\/manic-street-preachers-ultra-vivid-lament-nicky-wire-james-dean-bradfield-3020202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manic Street Preachers: \u201cWe talked ourselves through oblivion\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bassist, lyricist and polaroid artist of the Welsh rock veterans launched his solo debut \u2018I Killed The Zeitgeist\u2019, and followers have been anticipating information of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/manics-nicky-wire-is-working-on-modern-electronic-soothsaying-solo-material-2730199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">modern, electronic, soothsaying\u201d follow-up document<\/a> for some years now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s done,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/manic-street-preachers-know-your-enemy-20-year-reissue-nicky-wire-solo-album-3041708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wire advised <em>NME<\/em> in 2021<\/a>. \u201cWhatever, I might bury it in a fucking pond somewhere, I might burn it, I might do it mail order, I might do it on Bandcamp. It\u2019s very fucking fragile. It\u2019s got some very off-kilter modern jazz and some C-86 indie vibes to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: There\u2019s some \u2018Bitches Brew\u2019-era Miles Davis in there, some obscure trumpet-led, and a few songs that simply sound like The Shop Assistants. It options Gav [Fitzjohn] on the trumpet. Sean [Moore, drums and trumpet] refuses to play. He says his lip has gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, Wire has shared the primary taster of recent materials on Bandcamp \u2013 with \u2018Contact Sheets\u2019 delivering on his promise of hazy C-86-inspred sounds, with lyrics sometimes nostalgic and elegiac.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=3091405763\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickywire.bandcamp.com\/track\/contact-sheets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Sheets by Nicky Wire<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CreCSUCttPD\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Manics frontman James Dean Bradfield beforehand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/manics-nicky-wire-is-working-on-modern-electronic-soothsaying-solo-material-2730199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed that Wire had been recording his new LP<\/a> whereas the singer was at work on his personal earlier solo album, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/james-dean-bradfield-even-in-exile-review-2724582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Even In Exile<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d have our studio one day, he\u2019d have it the next, he asked me to play a guitar solo on one of his tracks, and yeah \u2013 his stuff is sounding great,\u201d Bradfield advised <em>NME<\/em>. \u201cThere was one song on there that was fucking amazing but hard to describe. It was very modern, very electronic, and very soothsaying and prophetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/manic-street-preachers-on-their-expansive-new-album-and-james-dean-bradfields-electric-new-solo-record-2624306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This got here after Wire teased to <em>NME<\/em> <\/a>that he\u2019d be releasing his personal materials by way of fan request solely. \u201cAll I\u2019ve got to do is get 500 CDs made, print off a lot of polaroids and hand-make them all,\u201d he mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"y-S8ACSuMeM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Manic Street Preachers interview: On &#039;Resistance Is Futile&#039;, surival, and what their future holds\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y-S8ACSuMeM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Manics have not too long ago been posting pictures to social media of the band at work on the follow-up to 2021\u2019s acclaimed \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/manic-street-preachers-the-ultra-vivid-lament-review-3035938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Ultra Vivid Lament<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the band will probably be embarking on a handful of UK dates this summer time. Check them out under and <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net\/c\/2862475\/431519\/7559?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.co.uk%2Fmanic-street-preachers-tickets%2Fartist%2F741429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see tickets and particulars right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JUNE<\/strong><br \/><strong>15 \u2013 Bath, Forum<\/strong><br \/><strong>18 \u2013 Isle Of Wight Festival<\/strong><br \/><strong>21-25 \u2013 Glastonbury Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '2300206660218433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Manic Street Preachers\u2018 bassist Nicky Wire has shared a new solo track \u2018Contact Sheets\u2019. Check it out under. READ MORE:\u00a0Manic Street Preachers: \u201cWe talked ourselves through oblivion\u201d The bassist, lyricist and polaroid artist of the Welsh rock veterans launched his solo debut \u2018I Killed The Zeitgeist\u2019, and followers have been anticipating information of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-97715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}