THE ALTERNATIVE WALES SOUNDTRACK #9

dai towler, comedian

All-time favourite album: 
Bob Marley - Exodus

Favourite Welsh language track: 
Gwilym - Catalunya

Favourite track by a Welsh band/artist: 
Captain Accident - Summer Day With You, beautiful Welsh reggae!

Favourite new Welsh band/artist: 
Captain Accident have been around a few years now but don't get anywhere near the recognition their music deserves. Gwilym, on the other hand, are a relatively new band from North Wales who make the most listenable music - even if, like me, your Welsh language skills are sbwriel!

Also, a special shout out to one of my best mates who's one to watch out for in 2021: Louise Bamford aka LouBams - she's got an incredible voice, Pembroke Dock's answer to Amy Winehouse!

Dream festival headliners: 
Bob Marley and the Wailers - before my time but they played at Ninian Park in '76 which would have been my dream gig. I saw the Wailers (only the guitarist Aston 'Family man' Barrett is still in the line up) in an ancient Roman amphitheatre in Croatia a couple of years ago… I cried my eyes out, it was like a spiritual awakening. Although, I love my drum n bass and there's nothing better than dancing your ass off to Brazil's DJ Marky!

An underrated band/artist: 
Captain Accident

A song that reminds you of a particular memory: 
'One Step Beyond' by Madness instantly takes me back to Cardiff City's first promotion to the Premier League - at the end of the game against Charlton at CCS there were fireworks going off around us as 20k people partied on the pitch, incredible!

Go to album when you’re down:
Bob Marley, the Best of. I know the best of albums are usually scoffed at but, for me, that best of album is one of a kind… Bob Marley provided the soundtrack to my childhood!

A song that gets you worked up: 
I use music to chill me out rather than work me up but I defy any Welshmen not to be fired up by Yma o Hyd or, of course, Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau - the best anthem in the world!

A lyric that resonates with you:
'One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain; Hit me with music' - Bob Marley's lyrics from Trenchtown Rock, sums up the human attachment to music - what a lyric!

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Thanks to Richard Samuel (@rich_dbno) for the interview