{"id":2020409,"date":"2026-06-30T11:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2020409"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:09:51","slug":"the-anchoress-tells-us-about-celebratory-queer-anthem-single-throw-over-your-man-featuring-manic-street-preachers-james-dean-bradfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2020409","title":{"rendered":"The Anchoress tells us about \u201ccelebratory queer anthem\u201d single \u2018Throw Over Your Man\u2019 featuring Manic Street Preachers\u2019 James Dean Bradfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/the-anchoress@2000&#215;1270.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-2749694\" class=\"post-2749694 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>News<\/span><i class=\"tdb-bread-sep td-icon-right\"><\/i><span>Music News<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_72 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_72\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">The Anchoress tells us about \u201ccelebratory queer anthem\u201d single \u2018Throw Over Your Man\u2019 featuring Manic Street Preachers\u2019 James Dean Bradfield<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_73 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_73\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Catherine Anne Davies tells us about how the \u201caccidental duet\u201d came about, and how Manics \u201cgenuinely changed the course of my life\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_75 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_75\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Liberty Dunworth<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-06-30T12:09:51+01:00\">30th June 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- .\/block --><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_77\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_78  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_80  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span8\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_81 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure>\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"442\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/the-anchoress@2000x1270-696x442.jpg\" alt=\"The Anchoress, 2026. CREDIT: Press\" title=\"the-anchoress@2000x1270\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">The Anchoress, 2026. CREDIT: Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_83 article-content-row vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The Anchoress has spoken to <em>NME<\/em> about her literary-inspired single \u2018Throw Over Your Man\u2019, which sees her rejoin forces with Manic Street Preachers\u2018 James Dean Bradfield.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: The Anchoress returns with \u2018I Had a Baby Not A Lobotomy\u2019: \u201cAn anthem for anyone ever written off for daring to procreate\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The song is the latest to be released from Catherine Anne Davies\u2019 forthcoming album \u2018As We Once Were\u2019, which is set for release on August 7 and available for pre-order here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Inspired by the letters between the two literary giants Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville West, the single is a queer rock anthem that captures that dizzying feeling of becoming infatuated with someone for the first time. It sees Davies continue her long-running series of collaborations with Bradfield, following them touring together often and working together on the 2018 Manics album \u2018Resistance Is Futile\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The single is] born out of my life-long passion for Woolf\u2019s written work but also because of the profound awakening it provided for me as a queer teenager still figuring out how to be in the world,\u201d said Davies, who has a PhD in literature and queer theory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese letters were signposts from the past for an imagined future for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also shared that Manic Street Preachers were the band who \u201cfirst taught me how to incorporate the literary world into rock n roll\u201d, and therefore knew Bradfield would \u201cinstinctively \u2018get\u2019 what I was trying to do here\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The song also comes with a music video directed by JJ Eringa, however during filming The Anchoress broke her arm, bringing progress on the video to a halt while she had surgery and a metal plate inserted into her wrist.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>NME<\/em> about the new single, Davies told us that she saw it as her \u201ccelebratory queer anthem of sorts\u201d and instantly knew that she wanted it to be \u201craucous and pulsating, to conjure that intoxicating feeling of being drawn into someone\u2019s orbit for the first time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe title is a direct quote from a Woolf letter to Vita from 1927. She says: \u2018Look here Vita \u2014 throw over your man, and we\u2019ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I\u2019ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads.\u2019 It\u2019s a dinner invitation. But a rather debauched one\u2026,\u201d The Anchoress added.<\/p>\n<p>The artist\u2019s love of Woolf was born in her adolescence, as it provided a \u201cprofound awakening it provided for me as a queer teenager still figuring out how to be in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cReading those letters as a teenager, I felt a thread of kinship across the century. Here were people who had lived and felt the things I was feeling. They had given voice to the unspoken. These letters were signposts from the past for an imagined future for myself,\u201d Davies told <em>NME<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years I\u2019ve wanted to write a song inspired by the letters between Woolf and Vita and I\u2019ve never leaned quite so heavily into source material before. I think that a lot of people think that as a songwriter you just vomit your heart out onto the page but when you\u2019re working with source material and you want to render the emotional core of that original text authentically, it\u2019s quite a different process in terms of the songwriting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3940069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3940069\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3940069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/anchoress-as-we-once-were.jpg\" alt=\"The Anchoress returns with &apos;As We Once Were&apos;. Credit: Press\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3940069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Anchoress returns with \u2018As We Once Were\u2019. Credit: Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As for the collaboration with Bradfield, The Anchoress explained that she also loved the Manics since her teenage years and explained that their music \u201cshaped how I thought about what a song could do\u201d and gave her \u201ca template\u201d to use in her own songwriting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI originally asked James if he might just add some guitar to the track,\u201d she said, adding that the band let her use their Door To The River studio for the recording process too. \u201cThen James also did a little bit of surprise singing on the chorus\u2026 \u2018just in case you might want it,\u2019 he said, as if you might not want that incredible voice on your record! So it became an accidental duet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t my original intention. To be honest I would have felt a bit cheeky asking him to duet again after the last album [where he sang on \u2018The Exchange\u2019]. But it was serendipitous, and I think it adds that grit and edge the track needs alongside all that female energy. James balances it out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never not a huge privilege to listen back to his incredible talent on the guitar too. I spent many happy hours diving into all the solo takes and wondering what my 12-year-old self, an enormous Manics fan, would think to see what \u2018just another day in the studio\u2019 looked like for the adult me producing my own record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continuing to share her long-running love of Manic Street Preachers, Davies went on to say that they \u201cgenuinely changed the course of my life\u201d, and without them, she is \u201cnot sure I\u2019d have done my A Levels, let alone ended up at university\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir music functioned as a kind of self-directed education for me,\u201d the singer added, referencing their 1994 third album \u2018The Holy Bible\u2019 as a major source of inspiration.<br \/>\n\u201cThere was also something deeply personal about the band for me. They were Welsh, as my family is, and the Manics gave me a sense of belonging that my immediate world wasn\u2019t providing. So when they got in touch after my debut came out, it was fairly surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3954145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3954145\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3954145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/manic-street-preachers-anchoress@2000x1270.jpg\" alt=\"The Anchoress joins the Manic Street Preachers on stage in 2024\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3954145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Anchoress joins the Manic Street Preachers on stage in 2024. CREDIT: Gus Stewart\/Redferns\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re genuinely warm, generous people. During some very dark periods in my life they\u2019ve shown up in ways I\u2019ll always be grateful for,\u201d The Anchoress added. \u201cNicky [Wire] and James in particular seem to have an uncanny instinct for exactly when to pick up the phone. The fact that I\u2019ve now toured with them, sung on their records, and have James on mine \u2014 none of that would have seemed remotely possible to the kid I was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for it to happen on a song soaked in literary and queer history of all things \u2014 it really does feel like it\u2019s come full circle in the best possible way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As well as Bradfield, the song also features a \u201cqueer choir\u201d, as The Anchoress wanted to have \u201cother queer women\u2019s voices on the track, to capture the authentic emotion of the song\u2019s lyrics\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The choir features composer and producer Bishi, producer and mixer Rookes, and musical director Vicky Falconer Pritchard and \u201call came together in this very conceptually authentic way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe song ends in this orgiastic call and response between \u201cVita\u201d and \u201cVirginia\u201d that I hard panned dynamically bouncing back and forth between your ears to the song\u2019s climax,\u201d Davies shared. \u201cYou can listen to it just as a rock track and enjoy it for what it is, but all of those layers are there if you want to dig into them too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the incident where she broke her arm during filming, Davies explained that she \u201cfell backwards in a really awkward way\u201d and \u201ccompletely snapped\u201d her arm about an hour into the first shoot, and had to put things on hold for a month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to halt filming for a month while I had surgery and a metal plate inserted into my wrist, which as you can imagine, is incredibly scary for a musician,\u201d she told <em>NME<\/em>. \u201cWe just completed the rest of the video (while I am still in plaster) with the help of some clever camera angles, lots of draped fabric, and buckets of ingenuity.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaLjo9isz6x\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As well as working together on 2021\u2019s song \u2018The Exchange\u2019 from The Anchoress\u2019s second album \u2018The Art of Losing\u2019, Bradfield also recorded guitars for song \u2018Show Your Face\u2019 which featured on that same album.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023 The Anchoress covered the band\u2019s classic 1994 song \u2018This Is Yesterday; too, and she has played live with them many times over the years, coming out as a supporting act, as a special guest, and also being a part of their touring group as a multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist.<\/p>\n<p>The Anchoress first announced her first album since 2021\u2019s acclaimed \u2018The Art Of Losing\u2018 earlier this spring, when she dropped the synth-led new single \u2018I Had a Baby Not A Lobotomy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>NME<\/em> about the inspiration behind the new material, Davies said: \u201cSo much of this record was born out of the early years of my daughter\u2019s life, and I really wanted to collect together and call out all of the clich\u00e9s, stereotypes and dumb shit that people say to women who\u2019ve had babies that I had encountered myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started a note in my iPhone, just writing down each thing I heard pop out of people\u2019s mouths: from the assumption that I would no longer be touring, to the assertion that I would no doubt \u2018mellow out\u2019 and have some kind of personality transplant,\u201d she added. \u201cQuite the contrary: motherhood radicalised me. 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data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/saves-the-day@2000x1270-400x254.jpg\" data-img-retina-url=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/saves-the-day@2000x1270-800x508.jpg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n                    Music News<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">Saves The Day announce \u2018Stay What You Are\u2019 25th anniversary UK tour<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>                    <span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span>                <\/article>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The Anchoress has spoken to <em>NME<\/em> about her literary-inspired single \u2018Throw Over Your Man\u2019, which sees her rejoin forces with Manic Street Preachers\u2018 James Dean Bradfield.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: The Anchoress returns with \u2018I Had a Baby Not A Lobotomy\u2019: \u201cAn anthem for anyone ever written off for daring to procreate\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The song is the latest to be released from Catherine Anne Davies\u2019 forthcoming album \u2018As We Once Were\u2019, which is set for release on August 7 and available for pre-order here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Inspired by the letters between the two literary giants Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville West, the single is a queer rock anthem that captures that dizzying feeling of becoming infatuated with someone for the first time. It sees Davies continue her long-running series of collaborations with Bradfield, following them touring together often and working together on the 2018 Manics album \u2018Resistance Is Futile\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The single is] born out of my life-long passion for Woolf\u2019s written work but also because of the profound awakening it provided for me as a queer teenager still figuring out how to be in the world,\u201d said Davies, who has a PhD in literature and queer theory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese letters were signposts from the past for an imagined future for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also shared that Manic Street Preachers were the band who \u201cfirst taught me how to incorporate the literary world into rock n roll\u201d, and therefore knew Bradfield would \u201cinstinctively \u2018get\u2019 what I was trying to do here\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The song also comes with a music video directed by JJ Eringa, however during filming The Anchoress broke her arm, bringing progress on the video to a halt while she had surgery and a metal plate inserted into her wrist.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>NME<\/em> about the new single, Davies told us that she saw it as her \u201ccelebratory queer anthem of sorts\u201d and instantly knew that she wanted it to be \u201craucous and pulsating, to conjure that intoxicating feeling of being drawn into someone\u2019s orbit for the first time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe title is a direct quote from a Woolf letter to Vita from 1927. She says: \u2018Look here Vita \u2014 throw over your man, and we\u2019ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I\u2019ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads.\u2019 It\u2019s a dinner invitation. But a rather debauched one\u2026,\u201d The Anchoress added.<\/p>\n<p>The artist\u2019s love of Woolf was born in her adolescence, as it provided a \u201cprofound awakening it provided for me as a queer teenager still figuring out how to be in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cReading those letters as a teenager, I felt a thread of kinship across the century. Here were people who had lived and felt the things I was feeling. They had given voice to the unspoken. These letters were signposts from the past for an imagined future for myself,\u201d Davies told <em>NME<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years I\u2019ve wanted to write a song inspired by the letters between Woolf and Vita and I\u2019ve never leaned quite so heavily into source material before. I think that a lot of people think that as a songwriter you just vomit your heart out onto the page but when you\u2019re working with source material and you want to render the emotional core of that original text authentically, it\u2019s quite a different process in terms of the songwriting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3940069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3940069\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3940069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/anchoress-as-we-once-were.jpg\" alt=\"The Anchoress returns with &apos;As We Once Were&apos;. Credit: Press\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3940069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Anchoress returns with \u2018As We Once Were\u2019. Credit: Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As for the collaboration with Bradfield, The Anchoress explained that she also loved the Manics since her teenage years and explained that their music \u201cshaped how I thought about what a song could do\u201d and gave her \u201ca template\u201d to use in her own songwriting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI originally asked James if he might just add some guitar to the track,\u201d she said, adding that the band let her use their Door To The River studio for the recording process too. \u201cThen James also did a little bit of surprise singing on the chorus\u2026 \u2018just in case you might want it,\u2019 he said, as if you might not want that incredible voice on your record! So it became an accidental duet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t my original intention. To be honest I would have felt a bit cheeky asking him to duet again after the last album [where he sang on \u2018The Exchange\u2019]. But it was serendipitous, and I think it adds that grit and edge the track needs alongside all that female energy. James balances it out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never not a huge privilege to listen back to his incredible talent on the guitar too. I spent many happy hours diving into all the solo takes and wondering what my 12-year-old self, an enormous Manics fan, would think to see what \u2018just another day in the studio\u2019 looked like for the adult me producing my own record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continuing to share her long-running love of Manic Street Preachers, Davies went on to say that they \u201cgenuinely changed the course of my life\u201d, and without them, she is \u201cnot sure I\u2019d have done my A Levels, let alone ended up at university\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir music functioned as a kind of self-directed education for me,\u201d the singer added, referencing their 1994 third album \u2018The Holy Bible\u2019 as a major source of inspiration.<br \/>\n\u201cThere was also something deeply personal about the band for me. They were Welsh, as my family is, and the Manics gave me a sense of belonging that my immediate world wasn\u2019t providing. So when they got in touch after my debut came out, it was fairly surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3954145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3954145\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3954145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/manic-street-preachers-anchoress@2000x1270.jpg\" alt=\"The Anchoress joins the Manic Street Preachers on stage in 2024\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3954145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Anchoress joins the Manic Street Preachers on stage in 2024. CREDIT: Gus Stewart\/Redferns\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re genuinely warm, generous people. During some very dark periods in my life they\u2019ve shown up in ways I\u2019ll always be grateful for,\u201d The Anchoress added. \u201cNicky [Wire] and James in particular seem to have an uncanny instinct for exactly when to pick up the phone. The fact that I\u2019ve now toured with them, sung on their records, and have James on mine \u2014 none of that would have seemed remotely possible to the kid I was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for it to happen on a song soaked in literary and queer history of all things \u2014 it really does feel like it\u2019s come full circle in the best possible way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As well as Bradfield, the song also features a \u201cqueer choir\u201d, as The Anchoress wanted to have \u201cother queer women\u2019s voices on the track, to capture the authentic emotion of the song\u2019s lyrics\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The choir features composer and producer Bishi, producer and mixer Rookes, and musical director Vicky Falconer Pritchard and \u201call came together in this very conceptually authentic way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe song ends in this orgiastic call and response between \u201cVita\u201d and \u201cVirginia\u201d that I hard panned dynamically bouncing back and forth between your ears to the song\u2019s climax,\u201d Davies shared. \u201cYou can listen to it just as a rock track and enjoy it for what it is, but all of those layers are there if you want to dig into them too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the incident where she broke her arm during filming, Davies explained that she \u201cfell backwards in a really awkward way\u201d and \u201ccompletely snapped\u201d her arm about an hour into the first shoot, and had to put things on hold for a month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to halt filming for a month while I had surgery and a metal plate inserted into my wrist, which as you can imagine, is incredibly scary for a musician,\u201d she told <em>NME<\/em>. \u201cWe just completed the rest of the video (while I am still in plaster) with the help of some clever camera angles, lots of draped fabric, and buckets of ingenuity.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaLjo9isz6x\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As well as working together on 2021\u2019s song \u2018The Exchange\u2019 from The Anchoress\u2019s second album \u2018The Art of Losing\u2019, Bradfield also recorded guitars for song \u2018Show Your Face\u2019 which featured on that same album.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023 The Anchoress covered the band\u2019s classic 1994 song \u2018This Is Yesterday; too, and she has played live with them many times over the years, coming out as a supporting act, as a special guest, and also being a part of their touring group as a multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist.<\/p>\n<p>The Anchoress first announced her first album since 2021\u2019s acclaimed \u2018The Art Of Losing\u2018 earlier this spring, when she dropped the synth-led new single \u2018I Had a Baby Not A Lobotomy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>NME<\/em> about the inspiration behind the new material, Davies said: \u201cSo much of this record was born out of the early years of my daughter\u2019s life, and I really wanted to collect together and call out all of the clich\u00e9s, stereotypes and dumb shit that people say to women who\u2019ve had babies that I had encountered myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started a note in my iPhone, just writing down each thing I heard pop out of people\u2019s mouths: from the assumption that I would no longer be touring, to the assertion that I would no doubt \u2018mellow out\u2019 and have some kind of personality transplant,\u201d she added. \u201cQuite the contrary: motherhood radicalised me. And I know I\u2019m not alone in this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New album \u2018As We Once Were\u2019 arrives on Friday August 7, and the artist will be playing an album launch show at London\u2019s 100 Club on Saturday August 22. Tickets are on sale now and you can find any remaining ones here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-anchoress-tells-us-about-celebratory-queer-anthem-single-throw-over-your-man-featuring-manic-street-preachers-james-dean-bradfield-3954139&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/the-anchoress@2000&#215;1270.jpg&#8221;] NewsMusic News The Anchoress tells us about \u201ccelebratory queer anthem\u201d single \u2018Throw Over Your Man\u2019 featuring Manic Street Preachers\u2019 James Dean Bradfield Catherine Anne Davies tells us about how the \u201caccidental duet\u201d came about, and how Manics \u201cgenuinely changed the course of my life\u201d By Liberty Dunworth 30th June 2026 The Anchoress, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,78],"class_list":["post-2020409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nme-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2020409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}