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I was over on the other side of Swansea Bay and could see the clouds building over Aberafan and inland towards The Valleys. Well done.
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It's like winter here, I've put a cardigan on.
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Room temperature Fondue
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I'll take that as a No (or very unlikely). As a postscript, the version of 'Partir' that was on Transmarine through Radio Khartoum is still a favourite.
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Of course, the real question is whether Mike Alway really did keep cold porridge in a drawer of his desk to snack on (as claimed by Matthew Jones of The Hepburns, who contributed to Mark Goodall's book on El)
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A Cherry Red alumni I think?
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She went to Birmingham to do Interior Design and met a VW enthusiast from Tamworth...
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Which leads me to the chorus of Panic by The Smiths...
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Re: Sweet Gene Vincent - it's 1983, Dyfed College of Art. Disco at The Boars Head in town, I like Mandy Morris and this starts as the last song. She asks me to dance the last song with her, unfortunately I know what's coming and that it won't go the way I wish it would and it never did.
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All too often these days I think of the first line of Plaistow Patricia.
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Wales Online gonna Wales Online…
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Penblwydd Hapus
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The Black Mountain is better. Local bias…
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Yep, the British myth relies on us “seeing it through” during the blitz.
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I’d rank that as one of the great book covers, some of Pelham’s covers for JG Ballard are excellent as well.
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So good they have control of their songs again after so many years
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They were due to play in Cardiff April 2020 so that never happened (would have been the same night some mates were due to play support to Electric Six but I would have chosen to see De La Soul)
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You lucky so and so. Enjoy!
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@brianhinault.bsky.social heads up!
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Rachel Roberts, magnificent.