9 Times Manic Street Preachers Proved They Were The Most Exciting Band On The Planet
5. They Wanted To Pave Paradise
Over the years, Manic Street Preachers have become legendary for their forthright and often caustic comments on just about every subject under the sun. Most of the time, these have been in magazine interviews, the subject of their ire far out of earshot. But in 1994, Nicky Wire managed to enrage an entire festival full of punters, many of which were right in front of his performing band.
Halfway through their Glastonbury set on the Other Stage, Wire told the crowd "I say build some more f***ing bypasses over this s***hole". He later tried to pass it off as a joke, but the crowd didnt see it that way, their stunned silence an eerie precursor of the storm his comments would soon whip up.