Nicky Wire (Nicholas Jones, born 1969), member of the Manic Street Preachers
Wire follows the Welsh rugby union team and Newport Gwent Dragons.
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He missed the band's appearance on Top of the Pops to promote Roses in the Hospital because of the honeymoon and was replaced on the day by a Manics roadie wearing a Minnie Mouse mask.
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On Christmas Day 2005, the Manics posted a solo track by Wire called "I Killed the Zeitgeist", available to download free for one day.
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His début solo album, entitled I Killed the Zeitgeist was released on 25 September, with a single — "Break My Heart Slowly" — released on 18 September.
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"Manorbier" is the title of an instrumental track on the album Rewind the Film by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, whose bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire often holidays in nearby Tenby.
Some of the lyrics are taken from the poem "Neon Loneliness" (the first line of the chorus, "Under neon loneliness", is a direct lift) by Welsh poet Patrick Jones, the brother of Manics bass guitarist and lyricist Nicky Wire.
Released on 22 June 1990, through the Damaged Goods label, it was the first to feature the four-piece line-up of James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore.
A CD Tongues for a Stammering Time, with spoken word in collaboration with many musicians including Nicky Wire, James Dean Bradfield, Billy Bragg, Amy Wadge, Martyn Joseph and others, was released on Anhrefn Records in May 2009.