Nicky Wire had some rather unflattering things to say about V Festival headlining band Snow Patrol that are kind of hard to argue with, but will be unlikely to stop Snow Patrol from responding, anyway.

 

Nicky of the Manic Street Preachers told the NME :

Snow Patrol is the biggest divide in Britain. They're probably the biggest band in Britain, but they're also the most hated. It's a weird dichotomy for them. They are utterly deplorable, there is something unredeemingly utterly shit about them, you just cannot put one's finger on.

 

It's a desperate form of music, the endless repeated lines, over and over, the same drab fucking little thing on and on and on. They're the great losers turned into the great winners, that's their redemption. I won't be watching them.
One has to wonder in what context he said this. So what can Snow Patrol use as a defense? All I can think of is, "yeah, well... we make more money than you, so stuff it." Because it's kind of hard to say Nicky is really wrong, isn't it?