*Gulp* Yet, more joy.
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perfectactor "MANIC Street Preacher Nicky Wire has quit his working-class Valleys
terrace home for a plush mansion called "Kingsmore" in a Tory
strongland.
The Welsh band's bass player - whose songs include Masses against
the Classes and Socialist Serenade - has moved into a large six-
bedroom home with his wife Rachel and four-month old baby girl Clara.
Nicky, 33, boasts about his working class roots and stayed living in
his modest former miner's cottage in the Valleys village of
Wattsville, near Risca, as the band shot to fame.
He even wrote a song called Wattsville Blues about the village - but
has now bought the £500,000 luxury home in a Conservative suburb of
nearby Newport.
Nicky, who has just released the band's greatest hits album Forever
Delayed, left his old house for every middle-class family's dream
home. It has top-security electric gates and tall hedges of the tree-
lined roads of posh Allt-yr-yn in Britain's newest city of Newport .
Local kids have dubbed the house "Manic Mansion" and spend hours
hanging round to get a glimpse of their hero.
But Nicky now spends quiet evenings in and walks his dog on the
neighbouring green - a far cry from the wild nights of partying he
enjoyed after the Manics' early hits."
terrace home for a plush mansion called "Kingsmore" in a Tory
strongland.
The Welsh band's bass player - whose songs include Masses against
the Classes and Socialist Serenade - has moved into a large six-
bedroom home with his wife Rachel and four-month old baby girl Clara.
Nicky, 33, boasts about his working class roots and stayed living in
his modest former miner's cottage in the Valleys village of
Wattsville, near Risca, as the band shot to fame.
He even wrote a song called Wattsville Blues about the village - but
has now bought the £500,000 luxury home in a Conservative suburb of
nearby Newport.
Nicky, who has just released the band's greatest hits album Forever
Delayed, left his old house for every middle-class family's dream
home. It has top-security electric gates and tall hedges of the tree-
lined roads of posh Allt-yr-yn in Britain's newest city of Newport .
Local kids have dubbed the house "Manic Mansion" and spend hours
hanging round to get a glimpse of their hero.
But Nicky now spends quiet evenings in and walks his dog on the
neighbouring green - a far cry from the wild nights of partying he
enjoyed after the Manics' early hits."
