BEAT POET'S MANIC STREET PREACHERS DRUM TRACKS ARE BACK!

Hello and I'm glad you've found your way to my Manics drum track site! The aim of this site is simple - to provide you with high quality drum tracks for the songs of the Manic Street Preachers. Please let me know if you have a request and check out my main homepage at willjonesdrums.co.uk for news about my band, Kids Love Lies!

It was the Manics who inspired me to take up the drums, shortly after I heard If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next for the first time in August 1998. In July 1999 I finally received my first drum kit and taught myself to play by learning as many Manics songs as I could.

In 2005 I started this site during a break between bands and it was quickly sought out by guitarists and singers who required authentic live drum tracks for their Manics covers. Towards the end of the year I was unable to continue updating the site with new recordings and it fell dormant until the Autumn of 2009, when during another between-bands break I decided to go back and re-record many of the songs.

	- BE SURE TO SEND ME REQUESTS FOR NEW RECORDINGS, DON'T BE AFRAID! - LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF MY TRACKS IN THE GUESTBOOK! - MISS THE PREVIOUS SITE AND THE OLD RECORDINGS? CLICK ON THE 'ARCHIVE' LINK! - VIDEOS ARE NOW UP! - HAVE A LOOK AT THE OTHER ARTISTS I'VE PLAYED WITH IN THE 'MY BANDS' SECTION!
- THE DAY I GOT MY FIRST DRUM KIT WAS THE DAY I PLAYED THE DRUMS FOR THE FIRST TIME. - I HAVE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE PLAYED NEARLY A HUNDRED GIGS IN BOTH THE UK AND EUROPE. - I MET SEAN MOORE IN 2002 AND TOLD HIM WHAT AN INSPIRATION HE HAS BEEN. - IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN THE DRUMS!

Some of the recordings offered here are exact replications and others contain a few improvisations - either Sean's live improvisations or my own, made in places where I felt he could have added a bit more to the track. In the process of recording the songs, I record exclusively to a click (also known as a metronome), which keeps the songs in perfect time. I am able to work out the exact tempo at which each song was recorded originally by the Manics. The clicks are important to my recordings as there are passages in some of the songs which don't feature the drums at all, so I have provided the clicks to help keep you in time.

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