The suite which includes a Scottish pipe band, Irish and Welsh harpists, Galician gaitas, Irish uilleann pipes, the bombardes of Brittany, two vocal soloists and a narrator is set against a background of a classical orchestra and a large choir.

Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals have a song on the 1997 album " Radiator " called " Chupacabras ".

Mabon ap Modron is a prominent figure from Welsh literature and mythology, the son of Modron and a member of Arthur's war band.

* February 1 – Lyricist / guitarist Richey Edwards of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers goes missing from a hotel in Bayswater, London on the eve of a planned tour of the United States.

The band consisted of Cerys Matthews on vocals, Mark Roberts on guitar, Paul Jones on bass ( both now members of Y Ffyrc, and former members of Sherbet Antlers and Y Cyrff ), Owen Powell ( who is a judge on ' Wawffactor ' – akin to a Welsh X Factor ) on guitar, and Aled Richards ( who now drums for Amy Wadge ) on drums.

Paper Scissors Stone was the fourth and final album by Welsh band Catatonia.

* Y Bandana, a Welsh alternative rock band.

Welsh rock band Mclusky recorded the song " 1956 and All That " for their third album The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire.

Others who acknowledge Norman's influence on their career or music include American drummer Hilly Michaels, who recorded with Norman and Randy Stonehill in 1970 ; Grammy Award-winning recording artist and rapper TobyMac, who described Norman as " socially relevant, spiritually significant and passionate about challenging his generation to new heights of love ", considered Norman his " greatest lyrical influence "; Mark Salomon, the lead singer of Christian metal band Stavesacre and thrash metal band The Crucified, who reveals that it was Norman's concert performance that connected him to Christian music ; and Welsh singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph.

Welsh band Mclusky references the title of the movie in their 2003 song, " Undress for Success ".

It rises two storeys high and has an internal balcony that, through an unbroken band of windows, gives views to Cardiff docks, one source of Bute's wealth, the Bristol Channel, and the Welsh hills and valleys.

* Robin Hawkins, lead singer and bassist of Welsh rock band ' The Automatic '.

* Welsh punk band Four Letter Word, formed in 1991, named themselves after the phrase.

Bunford's first band was the Welsh language school band, Edrych am Jiwlia which was formed in Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Cardiff.

Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band that was formed in 1986 in Blackwood, Gwent and consists of James Dean Bradfield ( lead vocals and lead guitar ), Nicky Wire ( bass guitar and lyrics ) and Sean Moore ( drums and percussion ).

John Davies Cale, OBE ( born 9 March 1942 ) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground.

Though lacking the pessimistic lyrical content of their contemporaries, Welsh heavy metal band Budgie would also produce heavy songs which were amongst the loudest of their day, stylistically influencing various doom metal acts.

Roddy Radiation fronted and worked with several bands including The Tearjerkers ( a band that he had begun in the last months of The Specials ), The Bonediggers, The Raiders and Three Men & Black which included of Jean-Jacques Burnel ( The Stranglers ), Jake Burns ( Stiff Little Fingers ), Pauline Black ( The Selecter ), Bruce Foxton ( The Jam ), Dave Wakeling ( The Beat, General Public ) and Nick Welsh ( Skaville UK ).

In 1991, Lamacq was unwittingly involved in one of the most infamous events in British rock music of recent times during a post-gig interview at the Norwich Arts Centre with Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers for the NME.

John Cale, Welsh musician and founder of American rock band The Velvet Underground, recorded a song " Hedda Gabler " in 1976, included originally on the 1977 EP Animal Justice ( now a bonus track on the CD of the album Sabotage ).

* Calimero is the name and subject of a Welsh language song by the band Super Furry Animals

Class War's skull logo was copied from the logo of the Welsh punk band the Soldier Dolls.

In late 2001 / 2002, Welsh returned to the Boston music scene by temporarily joining Nate Albert's ( guitarist for The Mighty Mighty Bosstones ) band, The Kickovers.

* 1948 – Terry Williams, Welsh rock drummer ( Love Sculpture, Man and Dire Straits )

Furthermore a 1960 episode of Danger Man, " View from the Villa ", had exteriors filmed in Portmeirion, a Welsh resort village that struck McGoohan as a good location for future projects.

It first opened on 31 July 1902 and runs on a daily basis from late March to late October taking visitors to the summit of The Great Orme, climbing a mile of track to the summit complex at a height of 679 ft ( 207 ) m. There are panoramic views of the Welsh mountains and as far as the Isle of Man, Blackpool and the Lake District.

The only release during this period was a single, " The Big Man and the Scream Team Meet the Barmy Army Uptown ", a collaboration with Irvine Welsh and On-U Sound, which caused controversy due to offensive lyrics about Glasgow Rangers FC and their fan base.

It is also possible that the tradition of an " apple " island among the British was influenced by Irish legends concerning the otherworld island home of Manannán mac Lir and Lugh, Emain Ablach ( also the Old Irish poetic name for the Isle of Man ), where Ablach means " Having Apple Trees " – derived from Old Irish aball (" apple ")— and is similar to the Middle Welsh name Afallach, which was used to replace the name Avalon in medieval Welsh translations of French and Latin Arthurian tales ).

In 1974 Cippolina guested with Quicksilver-idolizing Welsh progressive rock group Man, playing with them at their 1974 Winterland concerts and guesting with them on a subsequent UK tour, which resulted in the 1975 live album Maximum Darkness.

The Bruce brothers agreed, on condition that they would support Edward as King of Ireland, as the brothers envisaged themselves as separate rulers of Scotland and Ireland, while Robert would regain Man and Edward possibly making an attack on Wales, with Welsh support.

" Scotch Corner ," by the Welsh band Man, on the album Rhinos, Winos, and Lunatics is about an encounter there.

The first Danger Man series includes four episodes which use footage filmed in the Welsh resort of Portmeirion, which later became the primary shooting location of The Prisoner.

British literature refers to literature associated with the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands: English literature ; Welsh literature ( Welsh-language literature and Welsh literature in English ); Scottish literature ; Literature of Northern Ireland, etc.

* Man ( band ), a Welsh progressive rock group

* Man ( Man album ), an album by Welsh progressive rock group Man

In the non-traditional arena, many Welsh musicians have been present in popular rock and pop, either as individuals, ( e. g. Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Dave Edmunds, Shakin ' Stevens ), individuals in groups ( e. g. John Cale of The Velvet Underground, Green Gartside of Scritti Politti, Julian Cope of Teardrop Explodes and Andy Scott of Sweet, Roger Glover of Deep Purple and Rainbow ), or as bands formed in Wales ( e. g. Amen Corner, The Alarm, Man, Budgie, Badfinger, Tigertailz, Young Marble Giants ), but not until the 1990s did Welsh bands begin to be seen as a particular grouping.

* Man Gwyn ( Songs about the early Welsh emigration to Patagonia and North America ) ( 2007 )

He has also collaborated with Welsh group Super Furry Animals on their album Fuzzy Logic and on their singles The Man Don't Give a Fuck and Ice Hockey Hair.

See John Cale's autobiography What's Welsh For Zen as well as his song " The Man Who Couldn't Afford To Orgy ", from the album " Fear " ( 1974 ).

Major-General Harrison was ordered to Lancashire in April to watch the north Welsh, earl of Derby on the Isle of Man and Border Royalists, and military precautions were taken in various parts of England.

* The Man in the Shed ( 2012 ), a novel by Lloyd Jones ( Welsh writer )

* Meic Stephens, ' The Third Man: Robert Herring and Life and Letters To-day < nowiki >'</ nowiki >, Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays, 1997, pp. 157-69