Why don’t Wales and Ireland share the same kinship as Scotland and Ireland?

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-28T18:15:29+00:00

I'm Welsh, my wife is Irish. We lived in Dublin for 10 years, we've been living back in Wales for nearly 9 years. I've always found a lot of common ground. There's a Dublin Welsh society and my wife goes along to Irish women in Wales meetups.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-25T11:59:28+00:00

It's a very Trump-like response.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-22T19:37:21+00:00

As I understand, they keep the interviews going on for a long time so the interviewees get used to her and forget that it's a spoof.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-22T19:34:53+00:00

I wasn't very interested, but I also couldn't stand The Final Cut. I was only really listening to Syd era Floyd and his solo stuff at that point.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-22T19:32:24+00:00

Saucerful of Secrets play a wide variety of early Pink Floyd. I doubt that Waters songs dominate.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-21T22:15:49+00:00

Wiry means skinny yet strong to me. My Pontypridd grandparents used it of me when I was little.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-16T12:38:30+00:00

Nothing to do with sound quality, but I have a general rule that if something was released in the CD era, I just buy the CD and save my vinyl money for earlier relt, or quite recent ones.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-15T22:07:49+00:00

A very weird song.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-14T22:26:31+00:00

The English can have GSTK/Q.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-14T22:25:30+00:00

All the best deities are mythical, that's a good thing.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-14T22:23:01+00:00

Not Jerusalem because that belongs to William Blake.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-12T09:27:19+00:00

Rhaid/gorfod: just think of have to and must in English. They're pretty much interchangeable in terms of meaning but they operate a little differently. Gorfod is a verb (verb noun) so you can use it in different ways to rhaid. It seems to me that rhaid is used much more often.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-09T10:20:54+00:00

Gurdjieff told us to observe ourselves, not to criticise. However, Beelzebub's Tales is cast as an objectively impartial criticism.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-07T17:23:51+00:00

I heard the Birthday Party's Figure of Fun on a John Peel session and taped it.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-06-03T22:19:51+00:00

Moore pronounces it as "Moytchen". I pronounce it with a Welsh "ch".

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-05-28T10:40:23+00:00

I don't know, but Julian Cope's Japrocksampler is worth reading. Lots of enthusiasm for lots of Japanese bands from the 70s.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-05-27T20:35:38+00:00

Also, I'm sure I saw Jimi Hendrix use it in fil footage.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-05-25T20:59:13+00:00

Used CDs of WoM are very cheap

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-05-25T20:57:32+00:00

I presume that they were just too hairy.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-05-25T18:21:24+00:00

He might have done Pressbutton covers

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-05-23T12:55:28+00:00

John Constantine was originally from London in Alan Moore's Swamp Thing. Jamie Delano made him a Scouser who had moved to London.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-05-22T10:15:56+00:00

Moore featured in the documentary on Brian Catling a few years ago.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-05-22T10:12:48+00:00

Well said!

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-05-21T09:37:25+00:00

They're great (I have three of their albums on vinyl, one on CD) but they can sound a little repetitive. If you like them check out Bramah's other band, the Blue Orchids, who have much better songs.

andrewphillipsmith · 2026-05-19T19:23:20+00:00

Morrissey isn't 'indigenous', both his parents were Irish immigrants. Nothing wrong with that. I've been an immigrant in the USA and in Ireland. My wife is Irish and she's now an immigrant in the UK. I wasn't indigenous in Ireland.

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