NME how he was “deeply honoured” that the band had made such a fitting new rendition. “When the book was originally going to come out, there was this idea of doing launch parties,” Turner told NME. “I asked James [Dean Bradfield, frontman] to play a couple of acoustic songs for us at The Social, but that’s all gone out of the window this year so I asked him to do an acoustic version of ‘Spectators’ that we could use on the radio or something. “He gave it a go and called back and said, ‘I’ve done it with the band, but I want a female voice on it – how do you feel about me getting Gwenno?’ He hadn’t connected the idea that it was an artist from the label 30 years ago with an artist on the label now. He sent it back and I was just like, ‘Are you fucking serious?’ The Manics are a band I approached as a fan long before I ever worked with them.”