To me, this is about being a slightly disillusioned Nicky Wire circa 2000. Shaking hands with people (fans?), signing autographs, a vision that's slipped away, putting on make-up that makes his skin ache, forgetting his parts in front of a crowd...it's just a job he gets 'well-paid for' and it's about the machine that the Manics had become - 'it's not about us anymore'.
Then they released Know Your Enemy as a kind of f**k you to the Mondeo-man fans that they'd acculmulated between 1996 and 2000...
To me, this is about being a slightly disillusioned Nicky Wire circa 2000. Shaking hands with people (fans?), signing autographs, a vision that's slipped away, putting on make-up that makes his skin ache, forgetting his parts in front of a crowd...it's just a job he gets 'well-paid for' and it's about the machine that the Manics had become - 'it's not about us anymore'.
Then they released Know Your Enemy as a kind of f**k you to the Mondeo-man fans that they'd acculmulated between 1996 and 2000...