I enjoyed this introduction to Welsh pop and rock music on Radio 4 recently. Tebot Peuce, Edward H Dafis, Catatonia, etc. It's mostly outside my knowledge though I'd heard of most of the talking heads (Dafydd Iwan, Caryl Parry Jones, Meic Stevens, etc). I remember seeing Disc a Dawn sometimes as a kid, a sort of Welsh Top of the Pops. Heather Jones would be on there with the weirdest looking backing band. They even had a boy from Cwmbran on there once, Steve Beck. He used to dress like a rockstar (one glove, high heeled boots, make up) even in Croesy! I saw him once and called him a name and he chased me. Check out the link here.
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Cwl Cymru
There was an article in the Times the other day with the above headline. Eleri has cut out the headline and put it on our fridge along with others we have there such as 'You boys will be the death of me' and 'Rhodri answers bullies'. I didn't get round to reading it but I think the point was that Wales is now cool because of Gavin and Stacey, Duffy, Joe Calzaghe, the Grand Slam, etc. I remember playing the game as a boy - Richard Burton, Tom Jones, David Broome, the Grand Slam, etc. Two problems with this really1. Wales is always cool
2. It's this sort of thing that could well niggle the English. For every Duffy and Calzaghe there are at least 10 English equivalents and so although Wales undoubtedly outpunches its weight per capita it's not really helpful in the end.
Nevertheless if you like lists of famous Welsh people go here for example. Under Welsh inventors, for example, you get these five interesting men
William Frost
William Frost
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