Manic Street Preachers were once provincial PC lads, but give them a sniff of Bangkok's infamous Pat-Pong district and morality flies out of the window. Barbara Ellen experiences the whole sordid mess of hookers, go-go girls, booze and cuddly toys, not to mention Richey's continued self-mutilation.On our first evening in the boiling, stagnant sauna that is Bangkok in its hottest month, we join three of the Manics for a cruise down the River Chopraya. Having arrived a couple of days earlier to acclimatise, the band were hard at work this afternoon signing CDs, posters and T-shirts for a scrum of […]The post From the Vault – Siamese Animal Men: NME goes to Bangkok with Manic Street Preachers appeared first on NME.