[UNLOCKED] Owen Hatherley on the Manic Street Preachers
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Politics Theory Other
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🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following interview is an episode of PTO Extra. If you'd like to get access to all of the show's |
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| 0:40.3 | The Hello and welcome to another episode of PTO Extra. |
| 1:04.4 | So today's show is that rare thing, an episode that falls under the category of the lesser spotted titular other. |
| 1:11.3 | I spoke to fellow geriatric millennial Owen Hatterley |
| 1:14.1 | about his recent article on the Welsh guitar band, The Manic Street Preachers, |
| 1:18.6 | that appeared on the blog of the New Left Review. |
| 1:21.1 | We talked about the particular appeal the group seemed to hold |
| 1:23.7 | for working class and lower middle class kids from non-metropolitan backgrounds in the 1990s, |
| 1:29.4 | and about the forbearance and occasional embarrassment that is the lot of fans who followed their |
| 1:34.2 | work in the subsequent decades. We also talked about why such an avowedly left-wing and politicised group |
| 1:40.0 | have shown such little regard for contemporary left movements, such as the Corbyn moment in the UK, |
| 1:45.6 | and we talked about why 1994's The Holy Bible remains their most enduring work. |
| 1:51.0 | If you'd like to listen to some of the tracks discussed, do check out the two playlists from |
| 1:55.0 | Owen and myself that are posted in the description of today's episode. |
| 1:59.2 | There you'll also find some links to some of the more |
| 2:01.1 | interesting video content made by or related to the group, as well as a couple of recommendations |
| 2:06.0 | for further reading. Owen Hatherley is the author of many books on aesthetics and politics, |
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