Patrick Jones (born 1965) is an Welsh poet, playwright and filmmaker. His work is often in collaboration with the rock band Manic Street Preachers; his brother, Nicky Wire, is their bassist. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Tredegar is a town in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, traditional county of Monmouthshire, lying on the Sirhowy River in southern Wales, United Kingdom. ... Gwent as a preserved county since 2003. ... This article is about the country. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... Filmmaking is the act of making a movie using a film recording medium. ... Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was an English poet and soldier, regarded by many as the leading poet of the First World War. ... 1 Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, where Ted Hughes was born. ... Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. ... Idris Davies 1905-1953 was a Welsh poet, writing in English. ... Sarah Kane (February 3, 1971 – February 20, 1999) was an English playwright. ... Jimmy McGovern (born 1949 in Liverpool, England, UK) is a British television scriptwriter, known for his powerful and thought-provoking dramas often based around hard-hitting social issues or controversial real-life events. ... Derek Jarman Derek Jarman (January 31, 1942 – February 19, 1994) was an English film director, stage designer, artist, and writer. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the country. ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... A film being made in Warsaw, Bracka street Filmmaking is the process of making a film. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... This articles trivia section has too much trivia. ...

Biography

Born in Tredegar in 1965, Patrick Jones was educated at Oakdale Comprehensive, Cross Keys College, and then at the University of Wales, Swansea from 1983-1987. He was awarded BA (Hons) in Sociology and American Literature. Jones has been employed in youth work, nursing aid, as a Literacy Officer and a Lecturer. He has lived much of his life in Blackwood in Gwent, but has also lived in Herne Bay, Swansea, in Germany and spent four years in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The University of Wales, Swansea was founded in 1920 as University College, Swansea, the fourth college of the University of Wales, following the report of the Haldane Commission into University Education in Wales. ... Blackwood is a small town in Caerphilly, Wales. ... Gwent is the area of south-easternmost Wales, bordering on the Welsh Marches of southwest England. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ...

Jones set up the Blackwood Young Writers Group based at the Blackwood Miners Institute in 1993. He currently teaches Adult Literacy at Blackwood Community College and the Ebbw Vale Institute in Gwent. Jones is also active in setting up various reading and writing workshops throughout Wales from schools to youth centres. He has also served as the Creative Literacy Worker for the Cynon Project and in 1988 was writer in residence at Swansea College.

Jones has made various television and radio appearances. He participated in a week-long intensive writing masterclass with Arnold Wesker at Hay on Wye Literature Festival in 1997. Jones participated in the 1998 Dysfluency Tour and the 1998 and 1999 Manic Street Preacher conventions. He also appeared in BBC Two's Manics documentary 'From There To Here', part of the 'Close Up' series. In April 1999, he staged a Kosovo benefit at Blackwood Miner's Institute involving Max Boyce, James Dean Bradfield and other artists. Later that year he read from and discussed sections of his play 'Everything Must Go' at Marxism '99. 1999 also saw him performing his poem 'The Guerilla Tapestry' at the opening of the Welsh Assembly 'Voices Of A Nation' concert. In 2004, he returned to the Hay On Wye Festival for a discussion with James Dean Bradfield on music, politics and writing. Second-hand bookshop at Hay-on-Wye Hay-on-Wye (Welsh: or Y Gelli), often described as the town of books, is a market town in Powys, Wales. ... Max Boyce, MBE (born 7 September 1945) is a Welsh comedian and singer, who came to national fame during the mid-1970s as a result of the phenomenal success of the Welsh rugby team of that period. ... James Dean Bradfield is the lead guitarist and vocalist for the famous Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers. ... The National Assembly for Wales (or NAW) (Welsh: Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru) was established in 1998, following a 1997 referendum in which a small majority of voters (but not the electorate) voted in favour of the Labour Governments plans for devolution. ...

Jones has worked with St. David's Foundation Hospice Care, The Samaritans, Hope and Aid Direct and Learning through Growth in the Cynon Valley. Recently, he completed the Beneath The Radar poetry reading tour in Wales and Ireland. Has been involved in many protests including Save St David's Woods, Stop the War, and Justice for Fathers. For the ethnic group of this name, see Samaritan. ... Categories: UK geography stubs ...

Fuse

Fuse (2001)

Fuse (2001) was published by Parthian Books. It includes a foreword by Nicky Wire called 'The Words are Coming'; selected poetry from The Guerilla Tapestry (1995), The Protest of Discipline (1996) and Mute Communion (1997); many new poems; a short essay by theatre director Phil Clark, who refers to Jones as 'A Ranter For The 21st Century'; and, the transcripts of the two plays Everything Must Go (1999) and Unprotected Sex (1999). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

Other Publications

1. • The Guerilla Tapestry (1995)
   • The Protest Of Discipline (1996)
   • Detritus (1997)
   • Mute Communion (1997)
   • Against (2003)

Plays

1. • Everything Must Go (1999)
   • Unprotected Sex (1999)
   • The War Is Dead Long Live The War (2003)
   • Bridges (2006)
   • Sing To Me (2006)
   • Meat (forthcoming)
   • The Patricide Elegies (forthcoming)

Commemoration and Amnesia

Commemoration and Amnesia (1999)

Commemoration and Amnesia (1999) was released by Big Noise Recordings. All words are by Patrick Jones. The music was written and performed by various artists, especially for this album, as indicated below. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

1. Their Life On Their Heads (feat. Manchild)
2. Commemoration and Amnesia (feat. James Dean Bradfield)
3. Philosophy (Father) (feat. Pink Assassin)
4. Cypress Tree (feat. Perfidia)
5. The Guerilla Tapestry (feat. James Dean Bradfield)
6. The Dead Bloom (feat. Gruff Rhys)
7. Interface, Interface (treatment by Cian Ciaran)
8. Democratis (feat. Thighpaulsandra)
9. Scalpel & Heart (feat. Ashley Cooke)
10. The Eloquence In The Screaming (feat. John Lawrence)
11. Autonomy (feat. Curveside)
12. Hireath (feat. Paul Jones)
    • Ich Dien (A Welsh Trilogy)
    • Spoken Word (Nick Jones)
    • Myfanwy (performed by Cor Meibion Morlais)
13. Cymria Nux Vomica (feat. Darren Broom)
14. And What Are You Wales? (feat. Topper)
15. The Last Night On Earth (feat. Derrero)
16. Temazepam & Petroleum (feat. Pink Assassin)
17. A Necessity For Liberty (feat. Thighpaulsandra)
18. Poem Of Modernity (feat. Greg Haver)
19. Candle Failure (feat. Gina Tindall)
20. This Terrible Honesty (feat. Derrero)
21. So Much Cleaner (feat. Pink Assassin)
22. In Aeternum (feat. The Pull)

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Short Films

1. • Pictures Of The Gone World (1999)
   • The Absence (2004)
   • Nutters (2007)

Music Videos

All music videos are for Manic Street Preachers, using 'Crash Editing' facilties.

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Quotes/Soundbites

Manic Street Preachers have quoted Patrick Jones, or featured soundbites of him reading his poetry, in a number of their songs.

1. • "Under neon loneliness / everlasting nothingness."

From the poem 'Neon Loneliness'. Features in the chorus to the single 'Motorcycle Emptiness' from the album 'Generation Terrorists' (1992). Motorcycle Emptiness was a single by the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers released on June 1, 1992. ... Generation Terrorists is the debut album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers released on February 10 1992. ...

1. • "Between the billboard masturbation across highway of metallic isolation there lies the deafening screaming of the millions wiping out the diseased pages of apathy that bleed our eloquence with words of amnesia..."

From the poem 'The Eloquence of Screaming'. Jones can be heard speaking these lines at the beginning of the single 'Loves Sweet Exile' from the album 'Generation Terrorists' (1992). Loves Sweet Exile was released by the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers on October 29 1992 and was the second single to be released from the Generation Terrorists February 10, 1992 album. ... Generation Terrorists is the debut album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers released on February 10 1992. ...

1. • "There is eloquence in screaming."

From the poem 'The Eloquence In The Screaming'. Quoted in the CD booklet of the album 'Generation Terrorists' (1992), alongside the song 'Tennessee'. Generation Terrorists is the debut album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers released on February 10 1992. ...

1. • "So mighty so hegemonic so hating so desecrating / So there so nowhere so hurting we fall between indifference / Rejection and the whole fucking wall we fall."

From the poem 'Torying'. Jones can be heard speaking these lines at the start of the song 'Crucifix Kiss' on the album 'Generation Terrorists' (1992) Generation Terrorists is the debut album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers released on February 10 1992. ...

1. • "Once upon a time when work work meant something once upon a time a dignity a meaning a beginning a middle and an end and you cared about what the next man did or thought not not now each to own and own..."

These lines are from the poem 'Everything Must Go'. This title was inspired by a picture of Patrick Jones took of his young son in front of a shop window on which the sales-slogan 'everything must go!' was written. The poem in turn became the basis for a play by Jones. Manic Street Preachers then named their fourth album 'Everything Must Go' (1996). (It's working title had been 'Sounds In The Grass'). Everything Must Go is the fourth album by the Manic Street Preachers. ...

1. • "Strung out eyes as cold as worship / Two minutes silence in a century of screams / Tiny massive hands, emphatic lonely soul / Skin against skin and blood against blood..."

From the song 'Fragments' on the album 'Lifeblood' (2004). Jones co-wrote the lyrics with his brother Nicky Wire. Lifeblood is the Manic Street Preachers seventh studio album. ...

External links

• Official Patrick Jones Website
• MySpace Page
• Official Manic Street Preachers Website
• Parthian Books Website
• Crash Editing Website