Season 1: Do You Love Us? (Manic Street Preachers)The Big Mates are once again joined by music journalist, broadcaster, DJ, lecturer, and Manic biographer Simon Price to continue their discussion on Journal for Plague Lovers by Manic Street Preachers.Adam, Steve, Lucas, and Simon continue to go track-by-track on the Manics' ninth studio album. They explore the decision to finally use lyrics left by Richey Edwards and discuss the impact this has on the album and their career. They also find time to discuss kinetic sand, Billy Idol, and Giovanni Ribisi. Does the second half of the album match the first? Will Lucas have a dramatic change of heart? But is this pants is telling? Find out on this episode of Do You Love Us?Catch up with everything Simon Price is doing here: http://www.simonprice.dj/And follow him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/simon_price01You can now wear your fandom on your (literal) sleeve!Do You Love Us? now has a RedBubble shop with lots of cool and stupid designs. You can get the designs on basically any product you like, from t-shirts and mugs, to bath mats and jigsaws, via clocks and phone cases! Head to https://doyouloveus.redbubble.comIf you'd like a different way to donate to usYou can do so at https://ko-fi.com/whatismusicAny donations very gratefully received and go towards our running costs!Join the conversation on:Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatismusicpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatismusicpodE-mail: whatismusicpod@gmail.comhttp://whatismusic.buzzsprout.com/Support the show