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

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

Similar words include crag ( from the Welsh word craig, meaning " rock ") and avon ( from the Welsh word afon, meaning " river ").

** Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh rock drummer ( Super Furry Animals )

* 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.

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* Y Bandana, a Welsh alternative rock band.

* Bran ( Welsh rock group ), a Welsh prog rock group

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

Thornhill ( Welsh Draenen Pen-y-Graig draen thorn +-en one + pen top + ' y ' the + craig rock to ' graig ') is a northern suburb in the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales, south of Caerphilly.

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.

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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 ).

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

* 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.

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 ).

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.

More abrasive alternative acts such as Jarcrew, Mclusky and Future of the Left-all well-known within the independent music community and known as Welsh acts-have also received modest commercial success in the UK.

* January 7 – Welsh punk band Mclusky officially announce their disbanding via their website.

* Mclusky, Welsh rock band

Mclusky Do Dallas is the second album by three-piece Welsh band Mclusky, released in 2002 by Beggars offshoot Too Pure Records.

The Difference Between Me and You Is that I'm Not on Fire is the third and final album from Welsh indie rock band Mclusky.

In 1943 he wrote and recorded a fifteen minute talk entitled " Reminiscences of Childhood " for the Welsh BBC.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

Hen wlad fy nhadau was also one of the first Welsh-language songs recorded when Madge Breese sang it on 11 March 1899, for the Gramophone Company, as part of the first recording in the Welsh language.

In 1978 as part of their album, also called Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, Geraint Jarman a ' r Cynganeddwyr recorded a version of the Welsh national anthem using electric guitars, inspired by Jimi Hendrix's rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner.

In the year 473, the final entry in the Chronicle mentioning Hengist or Horsa, Hengist and Esc are recorded as having fought " the Welsh ", having taken " immense booty " and the Welsh having " fled from the English like fire ".

Perhaps the greatest diversity lies in hunting arrows, with varieties like broad-arrow, wolf-arrow, dog-arrow, Welsh arrow and Scottish arrow being recorded.

* First recorded Viking attack on the Welsh coast.

The first recorded attempt at racing greyhounds on a straight track was made beside the Welsh Harp reservoir, Hendon in 1876, but this experiment did not develop.

* The first recorded Welsh Eisteddfod is held by Rhys ap Gruffydd at Cardigan.

There was a battle between the Mercians and the Welsh at Hereford in 760, and Offa is recorded as campaigning against the Welsh in 778, 784 and 796 in the tenth-century Annales Cambriae.

The popular Welsh folk song Yma o Hyd, recorded by Dafydd Iwan in 1981, recalls Macsen Wledig and celebrates the continued survival of the Welsh people since his days.

The first recorded name of Aberavon was the French Norman ' Avene ' which is likely to be an interpretation of the Welsh ' a-bhan ' meaning ' from the heights ' meaning the hills of the Afan Valley, from whence flowed the River Afan.

No battles between the English and the Welsh are recorded during Athelstan's reign, but charters show Welsh kings attending his court, possibly coming with him on campaign.

The Welsh mythological texts of the Mabinogion were recorded between the 14th and 15th centuries in Middle Welsh.

A tale recorded by sixteenth century Welsh scholar Sion Dafydd Rhys claims that Gwalchmai destroyed three witches by trickery.

* Jan Morris ( born 1926 ), Welsh travel writer and historian, lived in Cranbury for several months in the 1950s whose impressions of the town are recorded in the book Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America.

Several campaigns of Coenwulf's against the Welsh are recorded, but only one conflict with Northumbria, in 801, though it is likely that Coenwulf continued to support the opponents of the Northumbrian king Eardwulf.

Geraint was the last recorded king of a unified Dumnonia, and was called King of the Welsh by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.