As a professor of linguistics at Bangor university and an avid follower of all things North Walean in music. I think it's safe for me to point out that the original post was merely a jest to poke fun at the lacklustre of this forum in the previous days, and an attempt at solving the problem by bringing it to attention in a jovial manner.
As for the third post, which I was horrified to read contained wishes for the original poster to contract cancer. I am deeply shocked that any human being, no matter what background or behaviour would wish this on another human. The line must be drawn somewhere, a joke is okay when taken so far, but when such venomous remarks blow up straight away during light banter one must question the mind behind such a despicable outburst.
I once felt comfortable reading the reviews on this forum, they werent to some of my more conservative friends taste but I like to think that I approach life with my eyes wide open. The insight gained on the culture of such a beautifull area was worth a bit of filth trudging for the benefits far out weighed the negative, but after losing my dear Gladys last fall to throat cancer I am infuriated to read such puerile incendiary remarks tossed around with flippant abandon.
Due to this, I refuse to obtain anymore information on the culture of our locality from this page at this point until those that are responsible for such a callous remark are found and held responsible for their ill judged idea of a retort to harmless folly.
Well, I have 2 daughters and 3 sons and they listen to Paramore, my chemical romance and Tynchy Stryder, those people sell a lot of music, make a lot of money and are very happy with their lives. Listening to your music makes me think you are very sad unhappy individuals and due to your angry responses this only confirms this.
Surely playing really old music is just going to appeal to really old and boring people, in the words of a really popular and current group, why dont you "put a donk on it!!"
As for radio one, well thats what all the hip cool kids are listening to, and I know a few of the concepts are beyond me, I am 36 myself now, that is what all the popular music is being made. I am only trying to help you make money and go far with your music, telling me to contract cancer wherever it may be is really childish as I wouldnt wish that on anyone as I have lost people to cancer and it wasnt nice.
Listen to the top 40 every week and see what you could do to be like them and then maybe you may put North Wales on the map, till then keep creating your grandad songs and going nowhere except to a pub with a lad of drunk pipe smokers and "druggies" as your audience. They dont love you for who you are they love you cos they are on drugs, like "e'in it up".
Who died and made you an expert on the next big thing!!
Everyone on here is quite happy being part of an incestuous, dog bumming, overtly homosexual music scene , thankyou very much!!
Except Dave Cox...who is DEFINATELY straight.
Now kindly go away and develop a hideous, preferably terminal disease...arse cancer's quite good for six months of fecally incontinent agony and a slow death.
This forum is boring, like the men you are, the reason you have no music career, like the forum representing you, just like your lives, dull, boring and pointless.
gay, dog bumming men of middle age, lost your hair like your sense of cool. 4sticks your getting tarred with the old men tar brush hanging out on here, save your young ass unless you wanna be the next big failure.
Captain Sanitation and the Sardine of Joy
p.s listen to radio one not radio 4/old records to know whats gonna be the next big thing if you want to make it in the world of music, its not cassettes and flairs anymore men.
Re: Best Welsh Albums of the Decade « Result #6 on Dec 15, 2009, 11:00pm »
I've got Ed's 'Purple Violin Concerto' on mini-disc - fucking love that LP - see him Chester busking from time to time. Got Hypnotwister somewhere (in an attic no doubt),,,, I bought one of Mank's releases a few months ago (rather than wait for my freebie to arrive, or download it) - it came beautifully packaged, and can I find the fucker? Can I fuck (Am I swearing too much here Mr Security?) - and I've not got to play it... will make a (purple violin) concerted effort to find it....
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Re: Best Welsh Albums of the Decade « Result #7 on Dec 15, 2009, 10:37pm »
That's a blast from the past. Reminds me of being at university in the mid 90s. A goth lent me 'Hypnotwister' on cassette along with Ed Alleyne-Johnson's 'Ultraviolet'. Thanks for that Neil.
I just realised I forgot to mention anything by Mank!
Ben Powell is probably one of the most cruely ignored musicians in Wales. Partly because he consistently gives his music away for free, but mainly because he's just very good at what he does.
Re: Best Welsh Albums of the Decade « Result #8 on Dec 15, 2009, 10:24pm »
I was in a pub quiz the other night (as ya do) and the team we swapped sheets with to mark at the end (were called Duane Dibbley) started chatting with us. Turns out one of them was in Chester band of the early 90s The Money Spongers - he was flabbergasted that I knew bits and pieces about them, but more importantly we shared a love of Dr Phibes...
Re: Best Welsh Albums of the Decade « Result #9 on Dec 15, 2009, 10:14pm »
If people keep doing what theyre doing without delusions of grandeur, for the sheer love of it and inspire other people to do the same, Im sure something good will come of it, like it already has with the great bands and great music this coast has. Colwyn Bay was on the telly the other day, with Terry Jones of Monty fame, it looked very beautifull.
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Re: Best Welsh Albums of the Decade « Result #10 on Dec 15, 2009, 10:01pm »
I'd love to add some missing details, but most of the truly great albums from North Wales appear to be things that just 'never made it'. Does anyone remember Dr Phibes and the House of Wax Equations? They were very good indeed but the music industry failed to notice them. See also - David Wrench's 'Atomic World of Tomorrow' and Wendykurk's 'Soft Meat'. They deserved to be a lot bigger.
Problem is, most of the releases I could mention are now sadly deleted. You could probably find a shady dealer pushing battered copies on Amazon for £20, but few will spend that much on something they have never even heard.
The media in Wales are terrible at noticing good music happening in their own backyard. Sometimes it's that awful 'language issue' that the BBC have created through their own misguided political correctness, other times it's just amteurish journalism. Whatever the case there are tons of musicians who should have been a lot more successful.
Your good self and Neil Crud are quite possibly the only media figures who care about these bands, or at least the only people who actually do anything about it. It's a real shame.
Maybe in years to come, Neil's database will be discovered by some young scalliwag at NME and the North Wales music scene will become fashionable for a few years. I will probably be dead before that happens, but it's a nice thought.
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