Sarah Cracknell ft Nicky Wire - Nothing Left To Talk About

Sarah Cracknell (from Saint Etienne) has a new solo record - Red Kite - out very soon and asked Nicky Wire (that well known vocalist) to duet with her on her track Nothing Left To Talk About and despite the fact that Nicky is singing (!) it's a bloody beautiful track.

Let's face it, Bradfield, though we love him, is a blowsy, blustery, hit the back wall of the venue kind of singer in the same vein as Sir Tom and Dame Shirley, on this track he would have swamped Sarah's slightly dreamy, delicate, clear vocals. Nicky compliments her voice very well. Enjoy. Buy the album when it's out.

Swansong - The Holy Bible

Stuart Maconie presents the story of The Holy Bible - the last album to feature full contributions from Richey James Edwards. Richey is credited with design and guitar for the album. In reality he gave no musical contribution to the record yet wrote 75% of the lyrics and fashioned the record's core subject material - namely a thesis on prostitution, capital punishment, American globalization and the Holocaust.

The album 'The Holy Bible' was released on 30 August 1994. Richey disappeared from the Embassy Hotel, Bayswater, London, at approximately 7am on 1 February 1995 and was never seen again. He was officially pronounced 'presumed dead' on 23 November 2008.

Swansong features new contributions from Manic Street Preachers - James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire, plus Manic's biographer Simon Price, and Keith Cameron - contributing Editor of Mojo magazine.