![]() ![]() To say that the UK music press hyped them is an understatement. They were the next big thing, after the Stone Roses, which the NME and Melody Maker had obsessed about for seemingly forever their début album came in 1989, and here we were three years later and England’s music journalists couldn’t let them go. ![]() So, I knew all about the Manic Street Preachers. I was always disappointed that the music samplers that came with the magazines in the UK didn’t make it to Canada, but this was how I learned about British and Irish music, the music that didn’t get played on MuchMusic (Canada’s MTV), let alone the commercial alternative radio stations in Canada. ![]() In my early undergrad years, I used to go there to get the British music press, the NME and Melody Maker. There used to be this great newsstand on Bank Street in the Glebe neighbourhood of Ottawa. ![]()
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