THE ALTERNATIVE WALES SOUNDTRACK #22
billy webb (goldie lookin’ chain)
All-time favourite album:
Screamadelica by Primal Scream. Just an amazing album, loved it since I was a child, my brother had it taped on cassette. An amazing moment in time captured on record. I must have bought this album about half a dozen times over the years.
Favourite Welsh language album:
Mas - Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 is a fairly recent album I listen to a lot. As a dysgwr, it's accessible lyrically as well as sounding great. Really good to hear the Welsh language over a different style of music.
Favourite record by a Welsh band/artist:
The Hunt for Meaning - MC Mabon. A complete mash up of an album that I always go back to. Just paints a picture of Wales for me. No fire without a fire within! I love that Gruff Meredith stood for election in Newport West a few years ago. Check out his manifesto, he should have got more votes.
Favourite new Welsh band/artist:
'Boyo' (@BOYOWORLD) check out his new one, 'Raw Pap' Fresh for 2021. Alternatively Robert Frederik - vibes from the Newport tribe.
3 dream festival headliners:
Surgeon's headlining, supported by Top Buzz in the main room whilst Boards of Canada are in the chill out room. I can't settle in either room and spent most of the time talking to a couple from Ramsgate. That's the dream.
An underrated band/artist:
Task Force - don't really get talked about outside of the UK hip hop scene, where they are rightfully loved, but they should be known by a wider audience.
A song that reminds you of a particular memory:
I'll give you two for the price of one - Six Foot Seven Woman by Foster and Allen and Catch Me If You Can by Brendan Shine are the soundtrack to my childhood. I'd like to share these with you too so that you too can enjoy these masterpieces.
Go to album when you’re down:
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Just listen to it and you realise music is the greatest thing on earth.
Go to record to get you worked up:
Young Fathers are my probably my favourite around at the moment. Plenty of tunes to get you worked up. Maybe their DEAD or White Men Are Black Men Too albums. Or one song would be Pon Mi Nozzle by Cutty Ranks. In fact loads of Cutty Ranks.
A lyric that resonates with you:
Best to end with something light so..... 'Death is a junction in the road that leads nowhere to nothing forever. It's over your body in the ground but ideas need no vessel. Don't decay but refine and echo and echo and echo...' Ciao Feltrenelli - Neon Neon
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