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Nicholas Allen Jones, known as Nicky Wire, is a Welsh musician and songwriter, best known as lyricist, bassist and secondary vocalist of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers.
Wire in 2011
Wire with Manics frontman, James Dean Bradfield in 2005
Nicky Wire on the Manics' "Past, Present and Future" tour
Manic Street Preachers
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Manic Street Preachers, also known simply as the Manics, are a Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood, Caerphilly, in 1986. The band consists of Nicky Wire and cousins James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore. They form a key part of the 1990s Welsh Cool Cymru cultural movement.
Manic Street Preachers in 2010. From left to right: James Dean Bradfield, touring member Wayne Murray, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore; the open microphone on the far right is a traditional memorial to former member Richey Edwards, who disappeared in 1995.
Manic's James Dean Bradfield in Chicago circa 1992
Edwards performing in Japan in 1991
The "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" poster