Category: Music
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The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: album as artform
Compared to the recession in musical quality believed to exist in the nineties, the sixties were a time of great opportunities and therefore, competition. The main pop/rock artists at the time were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and The Beach Boys, and since originality was the main selling point, every artist was in…
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Acid House restrictions in Britain in the late 1980s / early 90s
Introduction While Censorship raged through America at the end of the last decade, restrictions of a different kind were being enforced here in Britain. Private parties were being raided by police, and it is believed that two hundred people were being arrested every weekend for nothing more than … dancing! One example of this was…
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NAR interview
Translated from Sothach! 81, June 1996 Over the past year, the fortunes of NAR have increased month by month. Last year they were voted Most Promising Band at the National Eisteddfod in Colwyn, and they’ve just finished recording at Fflach’s studios. The band from Lleyn have been very busy over the past few months, but…
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Vulpecula interview
Translated from Sothach! 74, October 1995 Something is happening in the North! there’s talk that an elephant called Jones has had a vision – a ‘well peculiar’ vision to be honest! A vision that includes a gang of incredibly talented young men, with a tendency to stand on stages for around half an hour and…
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Datsyn interview
Datsyn Interview Translated from Sothach! 71, June 1995 Super Furry Animals, the new darlings of the NME are performing tonight at Porthmadog Sports Club, and among the support bands are Datsyn, yet another band from North Wales. They’ve already been interviewed on Y Lein Hwyr and have performed a session for Nia Melville’s show on Radio Cymru,…
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dna interview
Translated from Sothach! Issue 70, May 1995 Something is happening deep in the dance scene in North Wales. The members of dna have decided to turn their backs on the Welsh Rock scene network in Lleyn, and look towards the nightclubs of Britain for their inspiration. To discover the links between spirituality and dance music, I was…
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Welsh traditional music
Note: the information in this article is accurate as of the time of writing in 1996. Welsh music seems to remain forgotten as a Celtic tradition while Irish, Scottish, Breton (and often Cornish) musics dominate the field of study in Celtic music. There are many reasons why Welsh music is different to that of other…
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The Welsh Rock Scene in the 1990s: an ethnographic study
Note 1: The information below was accurate at the time of writing in 1995. Note 2: For the purposes of this article, the Welsh Rock Scene constitutes Welsh-language pop, rock and folk music both in their- recorded forms and in Live performance, all of which aim for” a chart position in the independent Welsh Top…
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Rock music censorship in the 1980s
Introduction The contents of this page were accurate as of its writing in 1990… Popular music has always been considered controversial, from Elvis’ pelvis-swinging, the free love attitude of the late Sixties, to the outrageous onstage behaviour of the Sex Pistols in the early Eighties. The last few years have been no exception. For some,…