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Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire has slammed Snow Patrol for being the "most hated" group in the country.

The musician will be taking to the stage at this weekend's V Festival on the Channel 4 stage, while the Scottish group will be playing just before the Foo Fighters on the main stage at the same event.

But Wire has insisted he doesn't want to go and see them play, telling NME: "Snow Patrol is the biggest divide in Britain. They're probably the biggest band in Britain, but they're also the most hated.

"It's a weird dichotomy for them. They are utterly deplorable, there is something unredeemingly utterly s**t about them, you just cannot put one's finger on.

"It's a desperate form of music, the endless repeated lines, over and over, the same drab f**king little thing on and on and on. They're the great losers turned into the great winners, that's their redemption. I won't be watching them."