where do the manic street preachers come from
Manic Street Preachers Manic Street Preachers formed in 1986 at Oakdale Comprehensive School, Blackwood, South Wales.[8] During this time, Bradfield, alongside the classically trained Sean Moore, primarily wrote the music while Wire focused on the lyrics. The origin of the band's name remains unclear, but the most often-told story relates that Bradfield, while busking one day in Cardiff, got into an altercation with someone (sometimes said to be a homeless man)[8] who asked him "What are you, boyo, some kind of manic street preacher?"[2]