Manics Street Preachers album banned!

Manic Street Preachers' new album Journal For Plague Lovers - which will be released next Monday (May 18) - has been banned by several British supermarkets due to its cover artwork.

The record, which is based on previously unused lyrics by guitarist Richard James Edwards who tragically went missing in 1995, features British artist Jenny Saville's 2005 painting, Stare, on the cover. Saville's painting Strategy (South Face/Front Face/North Face) was used as the cover for The Manics' 1994 album, The Holy Bible, which was the last album to feature Edwards before his disappearance.

"Supermarkets won't accept the album cover, which I am really startled at," bassist Nicky Wire told The Guardian. "You can have the Pussycat Dolls poledancing, but you can't have our album cover."

Tags: Manic Street Preachers

Posted by Dan at 09:38AM | May 15, 2009

manics

thats absolute bullshit.... i agree with nicky's comment, half the shit in the chart these days is based on sex in one way or the other, whether is visually or lyrically.

cant wait to get JFPL - the manics rule!

Posted by mark | May 15, 2009 11:50 AM | Reply to this

Well this fucking sucks.

Also, can you please please PLEASE use a different photo for the Manics. Their days with The Cardigans are over, song was shit anyhow

Posted by Titan50 | May 15, 2009 11:51 AM | Reply to this

These same supermarkets will stop selling the Sun, the Sport, Nuts, Zoo, FHM and Maxim then, I take it?

Posted by Dr. Hero van Wildebeest | May 15, 2009 12:32 PM | Reply to this

aload of Bollix

WTF is going on baning the album cause of the cover the artwork is fucking savage its a load of bollix the world is going fucking nuts its jus a album cover get over it

Manic Street Preachers Rock :)

Posted by David Doyle | May 15, 2009 12:57 PM | Reply to this

LOL

Pfft, who buys their rock albums in Supermarkets anyway?

Posted by Joel | May 15, 2009 1:06 PM | Reply to this

Maybe if they pose half naked it will be aloud ?*-)

Posted by Dunley | May 15, 2009 4:31 PM | Reply to this

AT LAST! A NEW PIC!

Thank you :)

Posted by Titan50 | May 15, 2009 5:03 PM | Reply to this

MSP Album.

That's absolute fucking bullshite!
Since when is that painting offensive??
And too right about PCD, they strut around in almost nothing, pole dancing, and that's acceptable and the Jenny Saville's painting isn't? I think not.

Posted by Lauren Rudd | May 15, 2009 5:24 PM | Reply to this

plain daft

Supermarkets always seem to be preaching double standards on what to stock on their shelves.

But to ban the Manics latest album whilst the pretty faces of Kelly Clarkson and the PCD are allowed to be stacked onto the shelves for the buying public is daft.

Posted by Philip K Ridiculous | May 16, 2009 5:22 PM | Reply to this

Not quite true...

It's NOT been banned at all...they've just had to use a plain slip-case for the cover. Which sucks, I agree...they can have computer gams with people being shot etc but not an oil painting of a child done in browns and reds? Ridiculous.

But no, it's not been actually banned...get it right K.

Posted by Twentiethcenturymarc | May 16, 2009 5:31 PM | Reply to this

artist study

omg
i done this artsist for my artsit study for my gcse art book and based my final piece on her work because i loved it so much : o
me and my art teacher were talking about how much we loved her work and the piece done for the album
shocking how its not suitable

Posted by hannah | May 17, 2009 2:12 PM | Reply to this