Larissa Wodtke Libri

Class and gender in Britpop and after, and why 'chav' is a feminist issue.

Women write about their experiences of loving music that doesn't love them back - a feminist 'guilty pleasures'.

Manic Street Preachers were and remain one of the most interesting, significant, and best-loved bands of the past thirty years. Their third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work, and one of the most compelling and challenging records of the nineties.