THE ALTERNATIVE WALES SOUNDTRACK #6

sarah mccreadie, poet and writer

All-time favourite album:
Taylor Swift - 1989. This is perfect pop music. Out of the Woods is a huge banger in particular. Taylor Swift is just the best, I think she’s one of the great storytellers in music.

Favourite Welsh language album:
Adwaith - Melyn

Favourite album by a Welsh band/artist:
Anything from David Alexander because he was my grandad’s favourite, he’d always play his albums in the car.

Favourite new Welsh band/artist:
Adwaith! They’re class girls and the music is sick.

Dream festival headliners:
Simon & Garfunkel, Taylor Swift and Billie Holiday

An underrated band/artist:
Girls Aloud. We should treasure them. Listen to Sound of the Underground - it’s got this surf-rock guitar like something from a Tarantino movie, it’s got drum and bass, it’s so good! I lose it when it comes on at Dirty Pop in Clwb.

A song that reminds you of a particular memory:
Don Henley - Boys of the Summer. It was back when I was living in America, it came on the car radio on a hot day in Missouri and me and my friend Olivia yelled every lyric of it together.

Go to album when you’re down:
Kanye West - Late Registration. Kanye’s early albums have had so much influence on me. The song Gone makes me proper happy.

An album that gets you worked up:
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner. This made my brain explode when I was a kid.

A lyric that resonates with you:
“All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme” from Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet.

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