THE ALTERNATIVE WALES SOUNDTRACK #15

BANDICOOT

All-time favourite album:
Rhys: Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon
Billy: Pink Moon by Nick Drake
Kieran: Return to the 36 Chambers by Ol’ Dirty Bastard
Tom: If You’re Feeling Sinister by Belle and Sebastian

Favourite Welsh language album:
Rhys & Kieran: Mae’n Hawdd Pan Ti’n Ifanc by Mellt
Billy: Sbwriel Gwyn by Los Blancos 
Tom: Dyddiau Du, Dyddiau Gwyn, by Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog

Favourite record by a Welsh band/artist:
Kieran: Crab Day by Cate le Bon; 
Tom: Harpoon by King of Despair
Rhys: Fear by John Cale
Bill: Echo Park by Feeder

Favourite new Welsh band/artist:
The Bug Club & Papur Wal

3 dream festival headliners:
Tom Waits, Bowie, Miles Davis

An underrated band/artist:
Tom: Ectogram
Bill: Swedish Death Candy
Rhys: KEYS
Kieran: The Gun Club

A song that reminds you of a particular memory: 
Kieran: Mississippi by Bob Dylan — driving through snow to Wrexham in January.
Rhys: See no Evil by Television — driving back to Swansea after recording in Cardiff
Billy: Cecilia Ann by Pixies, going for a 20k run with Rhys
Tom: Son of Sam by Elliott Smith. Wandering around Swansea in a distracted haze.

Go to album when you’re down:
Rhys: Naturally by JJ Cale
Billy: Automatic for the People by REM
Tom: Sunset Mission by Bohren & der Club of Gore
Kieran: Reading, Writing & Arithmetic by The Sundays

Go to record to get you worked up:
Rhys: Neu! by Neu!
Billy: Kill ‘em All by Metallica
Kieran: Amber Mote in the Black Vault by Full of Hell
Tom: Peasant by Richard Dawson

A lyric that resonates with you:
Rhys & Kieran: ‘Yfed y tô o flaen y bar / Weithiau ma things yn mynd too far’ — Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, ‘Dyle Fi’.
Billy: ‘Where did you go to get that smile’ — Boy Azooga, ‘Jerry’.
Tom: ‘The moon ain’t romantic, it’s intimidating as hell’ — Tom Waits, ‘Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (in Lowell)’.

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