- Born
- Birth nameNicholas Jones
- Nickname
- Shirley
- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Nicky Wire was born on January 20, 1969 in Tredegar, South Wales, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Sweet Sixteen (2002), Dirty Weekend (1993) and Renford Rejects (1998). He has been married to Rachel Jones since September 1993. They have two children.
- SpouseRachel Jones(September 1993 - present) (2 children)
- He is much taller than his bandmates
- Doing scissor kicks onstage
- Bassist/lyricist for band the Manic Street Preachers
- Has daughter with his wife Racheal who is named Clara and was born in 2002.
- His favorite songs are "Beetlebum" by Blur, "If I Can Dream" by Elvis Presley, "I Feel The Earth Move" by Carole King, "Sound & Vision" by David Bowie, "Bring On The Dancing Horses" by Echo & The Bunnymen, "Islands In The Stream" by Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton, "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" by The Smiths, "Wake Up Boo" by The Boo Radleys, "For What It's Worth" by The Cardigans and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" by The Rolling Stones. (Source: BBC Radio 2 "Tracks of My Years").
- His brother is Welsh poet and playwright Patrick Jones
- Has a son, called Stanley, born July 2007.
- I'm attracted by egotistical, megalomaniac, paranoid people. Radiohead are Kennedy, Manic Street Preachers are Nixon.
- [on "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"] A fucking complex song about the Spanish Civil War with a massive title - the longest title in pop history to get to No 1 until recently - and some lines in there which you would never hear in a No 1 record. And I think it must be the only pro-war song to be No 1.
- There's just so much fucking hate within this band that sometimes we just flop down at the end of the day and think, 'Why are we still like this?'
- [after mentioning that he was a vegetarian for three years as a teenager and lived off chips and Kit-Kats by the end because he didn't really like vegetables] [I like vegetables now] as long as they're fried. Fried broccoli. Boil it first, then fry the fuck out of it. Bit of Welsh salted butter. It's still good for you, though, isn't it?
- [on whether Richey Edwards changed with success] Oh, it fucked him. It didn't change him, it fucked him.
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