Cobain Jones

If you’re the first musician that Manic Street Preachers singer James Dean Bradfield is producing outside of the band for nearly 20 years, you must be a special talent.


Meet Cobain Jones, a firebrand singer-songwriter more electrifying than so many interchangeable troubadour peers of his generation.


Although recorded at the Manics’ studio in Newport with Bradfield, Cobain’s anthemic, widescreen EP Realistic Dreams is wholly the work of the 21-year-old from Stalybridge in Greater Manchester.


'Realistic Dreams' was inspired by Cobain’s mistrust of the beauty ideals portrayed by social media and “15 years of Kardashian bullshit,” as he explains: “Kylie Jenner has teams of beauticians and the best cosmetic surgeon in the world. Getting lip fillers from some guy in Ashton-under-Lyne isn’t the same and doesn’t do anyone any favours. People are naturally beautiful.”


Cobain Jones was always a name to remember. He was destined to be a musician. One listen to the fire in his songs and it’s clear that destiny is set for the biggest stage.