Bad News Barrett has said that he would still like the Manic Street Preachers to play him on stage at a live event.

Speaking to Digital Spy before he lost his Intercontinental Championship in a ladder match at WrestleMania 31, the Superstar said he still hoped the collaboration would come together.



"I would love it! 'Little Baby Nothing' as I walk down the aisle, or something like that. That would be fantastic," Barrett said.

"I'd love to have that happen. I know we tried to do it a couple of years ago, but they were in the middle of recording two albums [2013's Rewind The Film and 2014's Futurology] and about to go on a world tour so we couldn't quite fit it in.

"Hopefully at some point in the future for sure I'd like that to happen."

Of whether he would see the band playing The Holy Bible at Cardiff Castle this summer, Barrett said: "I would love to. I know they've got a show coming up in LA someone was telling me.

"I've probably got more chance of making one of the ones out here. My schedule's so insane I'm not sure if I'll be able to, but if I can I will."



The WWE Superstar is a big fan of the Welsh group and has a "Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair" tattoo, quoting from the band's 1992 single 'Little Baby Nothing'.

Manics frontman James Dean Bradfield told Q magazine in 2012: "Let's just put this out there - if you're listening Wade Barrett we will do your f**king theme tune - just get in touch.

"That would be the ultimate Situationist, bizarrist spectacle wouldn't it? Us being played over the airwaves in some Enormodome in front of 20,000 mad Yanks in Colorado somewhere..."

Barrett responded on Twitter: "That last link was JDB from The Manic Street Preachers offering to record my theme song. Mind: Blown."



Soon after that exchange three years ago, Barrett told DS: "I've been into the Manics 10 or 15 years. I got into them in the middle of Britpop and worked backwards from there.

"I'm a huge fan of their music. I think they're great musicians, and lyrically I think they're the best band I've ever heard. They're a very intellectual band and the subjects they write about I think are great."

He added: "They did an interview last week where they were asked about my tattoo, 'Have you heard of Wade Barrett from the WWE?' and they said, 'Yeah, we love his tattoo, we'd actually love to write his theme music'.

"So hopefully, fingers crossed, over the next weeks and months we can get something working on that."

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Barrett said: "I've let the guys in the WWE in the musical department know about it and they're going to get in touch with the Manics. So fingers crossed we'll get some new theme music in soon."

A year later, Manic Street Preachers bass player and lyricist Nicky Wire told DS that the hook-up was still a possibility.

"Now this could be a way of being young again!" Wire said.

"He has got in touch and we are thinking of it. James would love to let loose on a real f**king metal, really '80s metal riff.

"His tattoos are amazing, he's a proper hardcore fan. Which is very odd, when he gets on stage in those skimpy little pants."

He continued: "I suppose it's quite fitting. I think it might happen actually. I think when we get a bit of downtime James would like to do it.

"It's the genius of being in the band - Arthur Scargill, Kylie Minogue and Wade Barrett. That's our demographic."

Barrett's current theme music is 'Rebel Son' by CFO$ & Jim Johnston. He has previously entered to 'Just Don't Care Anymore' by American Fangs.

When he was part of The Nexus he used 'We Are One' by 12 Stones, and in The Corre he walked on to 'End of Days' by Jim Johnston.

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