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Nicky Wire (20 Jan 1969 - )

Male Person - United Kingdom

 Also known as (2)

Releases (4)

Official

Album

  1. I Killed the Zeitgeist 11 Sep 2006
  2. Intimism 03 Jul 2023

Single

  1. Break My Heart Slowly 16 Sep 2006
  2. Contact Sheets 25 Apr 2023

Relationships (3)

Member Of

  1. Manic Street Preachers (1986) bass guitar

Siblings

  1. Patrick Jones

Children

  1. Clara Enola

Recordings by (30)

  1. Interview from Later… with Jools Holland (16/10/98) 2:16 (2005)
  2. I Killed the Zeitgeist 2:32 (07 Sep 2006)
  3. Break My Heart Slowly 3:36 (11 Sep 2006)
  4. Withdraw Retreat 2:47 (11 Sep 2006)
  5. Goodbye Suicide 2:28 (11 Sep 2006)
  6. The Shining Path 3:21 (11 Sep 2006)
  7. Bobby Untitled 3:24 (11 Sep 2006)
  8. You Will Always Be My Home 3:37 (11 Sep 2006)
  9. So Much for the Future 2:15 (11 Sep 2006)
  10. Stab Yr Heart 3:43 (11 Sep 2006)
  11. Kimino Rock 2:42 (11 Sep 2006)
  12. Sehnsucht 1:57 (11 Sep 2006)
  13. (Nicky Wire’s) Last 2:57 (11 Sep 2006)
  14. Everything Fades 6:27 (11 Sep 2006)
  15. Memory Bucket 3:19 (13 Sep 2006)
  16. Afterbloom 3:50 (13 Sep 2006)
  17. Derek Jarman’s Garden 3:19 (16 Sep 2006)
  18. Casual/Glam 2:42 (18 Sep 2006)
  19. Contact Sheets 3:08 (25 Apr 2023)
  20. Ballad of the Baby Blue 3:16 (03 Jul 2023)
  21. You Wear Your Broken Heart Like a Dress 2:15 (03 Jul 2023)
  22. Migraine No. 1 2:42 (03 Jul 2023)
  23. A Perfect Place to Grow 3:15 (03 Jul 2023)
  24. White Musk 2:38 (03 Jul 2023)
  25. Under California Skies 3:55 (03 Jul 2023)
  26. Keeper of the Flame 3:23 (03 Jul 2023)
  27. Tactical Retreat 3:25 (03 Jul 2023)
  28. Migraine No. 2 3:06 (03 Jul 2023)
  29. Saudade 2:40 (03 Jul 2023)
  30. As the Light Fades Away 3:30 (03 Jul 2023)

On Recordings (50)

Performer

  1. International Blue 3:52 Manic Street Preachers (08 Dec 2017)
  2. Distant Colours 3:29 Manic Street Preachers (16 Feb 2018)
  3. Dylan & Caitlin 3:53 Manic Street Preachers (09 Mar 2018)
  4. Liverpool Revisited 2:31 Manic Street Preachers (06 Apr 2018)
  5. A Song for the Sadness 4:20 Manic Street Preachers (13 Apr 2018)
  6. Vivian 4:15 Manic Street Preachers (13 Apr 2018)
  7. Sequels of Forgotten Wars 4:21 Manic Street Preachers (13 Apr 2018)
  8. In Eternity 4:16 Manic Street Preachers (13 Apr 2018)
  9. Broken Algorithms 3:52 Manic Street Preachers (13 Apr 2018)
  10. People Give In 3:55 Manic Street Preachers (13 Apr 2018)
  11. Hold Me Like a Heaven 4:18 Manic Street Preachers (13 Apr 2018)
  12. The Left Behind 3:09 Manic Street Preachers (13 Apr 2018)

Instruments

  1. Ready for Drowning 4:32 Manic Street Preachers (09 Sep 1998) bass guitar
  2. Be Natural 5:12 Manic Street Preachers (09 Sep 1998) bass guitar
  3. Tsunami 3:51 Manic Street Preachers (09 Sep 1998) bass guitar
  4. My Little Empire 4:09 Manic Street Preachers (09 Sep 1998) acoustic bass guitar
  5. I’m Not Working 5:51 Manic Street Preachers (09 Sep 1998) bass guitar
  6. You Stole the Sun From My Heart 4:20 Manic Street Preachers (09 Sep 1998) bass guitar
  7. Black Dog on My Shoulder 4:48 Manic Street Preachers (09 Sep 1998) acoustic bass guitar
  8. Nobody Loved You 4:44 Manic Street Preachers (09 Sep 1998) bass guitar
  9. You’re Tender and You’re Tired 4:37 Manic Street Preachers (09 Sep 1998) bass guitar
  10. The Everlasting 6:08 Manic Street Preachers (09 Sep 1998) bass guitar
  11. This Sullen Welsh Heart 4:13 Manic Street Preachers feat. Lucy Rose (13 Sep 2013) bass guitar
  12. 4 Lonely Roads 2:54 Manic Street Preachers feat. Cate Le Bon (13 Sep 2013) drums (drum set)
  13. A Design for Life (David Wrench remix) 4:29 Manic Street Preachers (13 May 2016) bass guitar
  14. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 4:23 Manic Street Preachers with Nina Persson (12 May 2017) electric bass guitar
  15. Practice Sessions 12:56 Manic Street Preachers (12 May 2017) electric bass guitar
  16. Rehearsals, Cardiff March 2007 21:11 Manic Street Preachers (12 May 2017) electric bass guitar
  17. Liverpool Revisited 2:31 Manic Street Preachers (06 Apr 2018) solo, guitar
  18. Orwellian 3:49 Manic Street Preachers (14 May 2021) bass
  19. The Secret He Had Missed 3:39 Manic Street Preachers feat. Julia Cumming (16 Jul 2021) bass
  20. Still Snowing in Sapporo 6:09 Manic Street Preachers (10 Sep 2021) bass
  21. My Drowning World 3:37 Manic Street Preachers (10 Sep 2021) bass

Vocals

  1. My Little Empire 4:09 Manic Street Preachers (09 Sep 1998)
  2. I Killed the Zeitgeist 2:32 Nicky Wire (07 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  3. You Will Always Be My Home 3:37 Nicky Wire (11 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  4. Stab Yr Heart 3:43 Nicky Wire (11 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  5. (Nicky Wire’s) Last 2:57 Nicky Wire (11 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  6. Kimino Rock 2:42 Nicky Wire (11 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  7. Sehnsucht 1:57 Nicky Wire (11 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  8. Break My Heart Slowly 3:36 Nicky Wire (11 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  9. The Shining Path 3:21 Nicky Wire (11 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  10. Everything Fades 6:27 Nicky Wire (11 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  11. So Much for the Future 2:15 Nicky Wire (11 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  12. Goodbye Suicide 2:28 Nicky Wire (11 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  13. Withdraw Retreat 2:47 Nicky Wire (11 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  14. Bobby Untitled 3:24 Nicky Wire (11 Sep 2006) lead vocals
  15. This Sullen Welsh Heart 4:13 Manic Street Preachers feat. Lucy Rose (13 Sep 2013) spoken vocals
  16. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 4:23 Manic Street Preachers with Nina Persson (12 May 2017) background vocals
  17. The Left Behind 3:09 Manic Street Preachers (13 Apr 2018) lead vocals

Credited as (2)

  1. Nicky Wire
  2. Sarah Cracknell feat. Nicky Wire

Works (257)

Wrote

  1. T.E. Lawrence on a Bike
  2. What Happened to the Blue Generation
  3. Judge Yr’self
  4. Horses Under Starlight
  5. Sepia
  6. Strip It Down
  7. The Sound of Detachment
  8. Caldey
  9. We Were Never Told
  10. My Drowning World
  11. These Dark Roads
  12. Together Stronger (C’mon Wales)
  13. Melancholyme
  14. Antisocialmanifesto
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Composed

  1. Ballad of the Baby Blue
  2. You Wear Your Broken Heart Like a Dress
  3. Migraine No. 1
All Works Results >>

Lyrics

  1. Bad Boys and Painkillers
  2. The Masses Against the Classes
  3. Montana/Autumn/78
  4. Black Holes for the Young
  5. Buildings for Dead People
  6. No Surface All Feeling
  7. We Her Majesty’s Prisoners
  8. Motown Junk
  9. Sorrow 16
  10. Send Away the Tigers
  11. Underdogs
  12. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
  13. Indian Summer
  14. The Second Great Depression
  15. Rendition
  16. Autumnsong
  17. I’m Just a Patsy
  18. Imperial Bodybags
  19. Winterlovers
  20. The Long Goodbye
  21. Morning Comrades
  22. 1404
  23. 1985
  24. Empty Souls
  25. A Song for Departure
  26. I Live to Fall Asleep
  27. To Repel Ghosts
  28. Emily
  29. Glasnost
  30. Always/Never
  31. Solitude Sometimes Is
  32. Fragments
  33. Cardiff Afterlife
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Links (9)

Other Databases

  1. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/nicky_wire

Last.Fm

  1. https://www.last.fm/music/Nicky+Wire

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/262734

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000868214

Imdb

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1013299/

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/84965932

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2446658

Bandcamp

  1. https://nickywire.bandcamp.com/

Picture

  1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicky_Wire_in_Budapest_in_2011.jpg