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Andy Wilko

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Ear tuned to the roar Springsteen, post-punk and anything with a pedal steel Y Wal Goch 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cymru, LFC, SF Giants Siaradwr newydd - diolch am eich amynedd

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#5debutalbums8084
A Golden Age
1. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
2. Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
3. Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
4. Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
5. Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles

25.10.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great idea! Here's mine:
1. Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings
2. The Coral - The Coral
3. Laura Cantrell - Not the Tremblin Kind
4. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
5. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

03.10.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My top 3:
1. Ice Hockey Hair
2. Hello Sunshine
3. Demons
Missing:
Piccolo Snare

01.07.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#5albums70sfinal
No surprises or new discoveries - I know every groove of these records better than the lines on my own face
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream
3. The Clash - London Calling
4. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
5. The Undertones

02.05.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Melin Melyn on stage at District, Liverpool

Melin Melyn on stage at District, Liverpool

Melin Melyn in Liverpool last night, what a show, go see them

01.05.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tapestry was better than Never Mind the Bollocks...just #5albums70s5

1. The Clash - London Calling
2. The Undertones
3. The Jam - All Mod Cons
4. Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park
5. Carole King - Tapestry

11.04.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

certainly is!

24.03.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I love #5albums. Is Tapestry better than Never Mind the Bollocks? Yes...no...yes...don't know...aaargh #5albums70s5

24.03.2025 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Richard
#5albums70s4
1. The Scream - Siouxsie and the Banshees
2. Rolling Stones - Some Girls
3. Culture - Two Sevens Clash
4. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents

21.03.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Album cover of The Scream by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Album cover of The Scream by Siouxsie and the Banshees

#5albums70s4 #nowplaying
The Scream - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Between the ages of 15 and 25 I thought this was the greatest album ever made. I still do, a bit.

21.03.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
local press article about a Clash gig with headline Punk Rock Hits Town

local press article about a Clash gig with headline Punk Rock Hits Town

Went yesterday, loved it. This 1977 press clipping from a local paper is πŸ”₯

02.03.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Went to Mick Jones' Rock n Roll Public Library in that London. Mick's personal collection of, well, everything. Check out that original track list of London Calling #theclash.

02.03.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Cymru football fans

Cymru football fans

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!

Ffoto clasurol gan Matt Chedgzoy.

01.03.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sticking (with great difficulty) to 1 album per artist #5albums70s3:
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
3. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
4. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby's Meets Rockers Uptown
5. Velvet Underground - Loaded

28.02.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Deeside is Welsh folk music.

26.02.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was the first song that made me go yes, that's about me, that's about where I'm from. I'd never been to the Hammersmith Palais or Wardour Street but I'd seen Mersey lights in the distance.

26.02.2025 08:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mersey lights shine in the distance, same as they did for us then...

25.02.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.

20.02.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone Following the lives of four young people trying to survive the Israel-Hamas war as they hope for a ceasefire - a vivid and unflinching view of life in a warzone.

Essential. Heartbreaking. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

17.02.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ABBA & SLF - nice, me too. Barbed Wire Love could have been on Arrival.

08.02.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Top three was easy, after that it all gets a bit...70's #5albums70s2
1. Gram Parsons - GP
2. Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
3. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
4. Bob Dylan - Street Legal
5. ABBA - Arrival

08.02.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Mellt - Ceisio (Official Video)
YouTube video by Mellt Mellt - Ceisio (Official Video)

One of my highlights of 2024 was seeing the brilliant Mellt at Boia Festival in Tyddewi #dyddmiwsigcymru
youtu.be/5OiYJzsFa00?...

07.02.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yes πŸ™Œ

28.01.2025 07:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dysgwch Gymraeg / Learn Welsh
You knows it #cymraeg

24.01.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nunez!

18.01.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

JD & GP - nice

17.01.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Noswaith dda pawb / Evening all #5albums70s1
1. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge of Town
3. Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
4. The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
5. Joni Mitchell - Blue

17.01.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

one of my favourites live

17.01.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Ffa Coffi Pawb! 30 mlynedd ers chwalu, dilynwn siwrne'r band o'r gogledd - o sin gerddoriaeth danddaearol Cymru'r 80au a'r 90au - i'r Super Furry Animals. Following the journey of Welsh band Ff...

Mae hyn mor wych / This is so great. The story of how Cool Cymru of the 90's came out of the underground Cymraeg scene of the 80's.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

14.01.2025 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are coming to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?"

Dim problem o gwbl
#aryffin #s4c

06.01.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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