Tag: Welsh language
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RIP Howard Marks
Partly surprised he lasted this long given his lifestyle, but RIP Howard Marks! Obviously best known for his drug dealing then writing, and also inspiration and later work with Super Furry Animals who featured him on several of their covers, who saw him as a Welsh folk hero.
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DJ Charles IV’s Rainy Night Selection
This is partly an excuse to post 8 tracks I’m digging at the moment, but seriously my iPod – Charles IV – has selected podcasts and mixes before now, and somehow has an uncanny knack sometimes to group tunes together on shuffle. I don’t have time at the moment to capture them into a mix,…
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Gruff Rhys – American Interior
Can’t wait for this album to be released, all about his distant relative John Evans, a farmhand who went to America to look for an apparently mythical tribe of Welsh-speaking native Americans. Interesting how that’s not completely far-fetched, that Vikings and the Welsh seem to have headed off to the Americas, and the former definitely…
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The glamour of radio
Everyone thinks radio must be glamorous like this: but it’s actually closer to this: (that’s Pirate Radio Welsh style – first Plaid Cymru broadcasts 1959) with the quality of guests like this 😛 So glamorous! Pics via The Passion of Former Days blog.