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While in Cuba to play a live gig, The Manic Street Preachers are invited by President Fidel Castro to be guests of honour at the opening of a new state university, la Escuela de Instructores de Arte Manuel Domenech, at Santa Clara.Full article:
Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers) : It was like a return to the old days of Communism. We were carted around, with no one giving us any information about what was happening.
(Source : The Observer, March 18, 2001)
I thought that would happen anyway. I'm not naive enough to believe that they wouldn't use us to promote something for them. And let's face it, we're using them just as much. To think of it in terms of being used and abused ... it might have felt like that for a couple of minutes, but it just wasn't.
I think it's different to anywhere else I've ever been. It has a different spirit. And, for all the things we might disapprove of, Castro stands out as someone who's really tried to do something good.
The literacy rate here is higher than in the UK and the health service works. There are no homeless people. They have kind of jumped on (the Manics' pro-Cuba song) Baby Elian, but I don't think that was pre-planned. And to be honest, I wouldn't have wrote the song if I didn't feel strongly about it myself.
(Source : The Observer, March 18, 2001)
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(Source : The Observer, March 18, 2001)
I thought that would happen anyway. I'm not naive enough to believe that they wouldn't use us to promote something for them. And let's face it, we're using them just as much. To think of it in terms of being used and abused ... it might have felt like that for a couple of minutes, but it just wasn't.
I think it's different to anywhere else I've ever been. It has a different spirit. And, for all the things we might disapprove of, Castro stands out as someone who's really tried to do something good.
The literacy rate here is higher than in the UK and the health service works. There are no homeless people. They have kind of jumped on (the Manics' pro-Cuba song) Baby Elian, but I don't think that was pre-planned. And to be honest, I wouldn't have wrote the song if I didn't feel strongly about it myself.
(Source : The Observer, March 18, 2001)